My hope in this post is to share how my view of porn has changed as I got into this Q stuff. I hope your mind can be enlightened by this as mine has after thinking about this.
----Prior to following Q----
I generally thought of the makeup of the people in porn as follows:
- 80% consenting girls
- 10% manipulated girls
- 10% trafficked girls
I thought I would be able to recognize the latter 20% and would not get off on that. From an irreligious-morality perspective, that 80% of consenters is not morally wrong.
Being a Christian, I believed all of it was wrong, but it's a struggle--right??
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----After following Q----
After I got into this Q stuff, I realized how blind I was.
I found out about the degree of child sex trafficking. Jeffrey Epstein, his temple, and what they do underground. Manipulation. Realness of the battle between Good vs. Evil. Realness of spiritual war. Realness of God, Satan, and demons. Spirit cooking???
Then, I thought... What if the makeup of the people in porn is as follows:
- 10% consenting girls
- 60% manipulated girls
- 25% trafficked girls
- 5% demon-possessed girls
If this is true, then isn't the porn industry sick? Isn't it sick to get off from a manipulated/trafficked girl? Isn't it gross to think of jerking to a demon?
Consider the possibility that the girl was taken, brought up, and brain-washed to participate in Satanic rituals (like possibly what Isaac Kappy witnessed).
If this is the case, then upon virtually all moral standards--porn is wrong and sick!
Anyways, after this thought, my conclusion is that I'm done with entertaining the thought about looking upon porn. Why even 'think' to satisfy a feeling that wants something that is sick on all levels?
Hope this helps you and I do not mean to condemn any readers. Just sharing my personal journey. Go team!
I've found this past few months a lot of fellow brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus struggling with this as well as myself. I quit porn right before getting saved (no doubt by the Holy Ghost moving on me). But all those years of maturation coupled with it affects you. Not justifying it. Sex with your spouse is the only exception for Holy God honored sexual intimacy. But that porn much like manufactured drugs and excessive Alcohol, affects how the mind works and sometimes by severity can be partially permanent. Much like a thorn, I believe. Like Paul begged God to remove but Jesus responded with His grace was sufficient and that in weakness His power is made perfect. Anyways it's great to hear fellow Christians coming out and confessing the struggle associated with porn. I think the other issue is one of self control (I speak much in my own regard) and the other half being that people don't wanna marry anymore either. Marriage in the Bible is even mentioned as a gift to quell the sexual passions of a man or woman in a Holy manner through their spouse. But today's culture also doesn't want to accept that with marriage comes ownership of your spouses body as much as they own yours. They have a need; you are commanded to fulfill it. If you have a need; they are commanded to fulfill it. (Except for times of joint fasting). But sex is so throughly encouraged that Paul in the Spirit even told spouses not to fast from sex too long lest temptation befall them and they commit fornication and adultery. It's a grievous thing that the world has poisoned the youth from the joy of marriage with all the setbacks and made them out to be juice not worth the squeeze. God bless you, brother. I pray in Jesus name that you as well as myself and all Christians seek out not only self control/ but if we do desperately in our flesh desire sex that we also seek and pray for it to be fulfilled in a Holy place which is marriage between one man and one woman. Amen.
Well put, and I praise God with you for the freedom He has provided! When people fully understand the mysterious beauty God has intended for EVERY aspect of marriage, and how He intends for it to reflect the deep spiritual intimacy He wants to have with His beloved people (who He Himself calls His "bride"), every form of perversion or deviation from that holy reality becomes abhorrent. There may, sadly, still be some struggles--we are still slogging our way through a fallen world and have a real enemy seeking our destruction at every turn--but the purpose and the plan become crystal clear, and the way ahead becomes much, much easier.
As it's often said. It may be the harder road to walk but Who you gain at the end far outweighs what was lost. Jesus is worth that loss. We will struggle, yes. But I know His blood covers us that we may repent, dust ourselves off and try try again. The chastening is our evidence he still loves us. What would be a more fearful state is if we were no longer hearing His rebuke. God bless you in Jesus name, sibling. I look forward to sitting at the table with you in the kingdom of heaven with Jesus. Amen.
Amen! I look forward to that, too. ? What a glorious eternity awaits all of us who are sealed in Him!
I think in addition to this, God doesn’t ask us to follow Him in our own strength. What I mean by this is we can’t be perfect or “good”, only evil and all kinds of other things.
When we fully give up our sins and ask God to help us, that is when we are actually able to do anything and not be bound to sin. Reading the Bible and many other Christian activities increase the chances of this working. Be filled with the Holy Spirit and not just knowledge or rituals.
As I started pondering this Q stuff in relation to the Bible, I believe the Holy Spirit has been working in me in transforming my mind, thought pattern, desires, and perception of the world around me.
I agree! Realizing something is more wrong and sick is not a solution of itself. It is by surrendering to God's leading that we can overcome.
He HAS ?? Welcome to Heaven!!! ?
ABSOLUTELY agree. Thank you for highlighting this aspect of spiritual warfare.
Bringing marriage into this makes total sense and is insightful. Your observation about how people don't want to marry anymore and how that results in an inability to quell sexual passions in a Holy manner is interesting. I can see how it even applies to delaying marriage. Of course, I recognize there are other factors in play as to when it's prudent to seek marriage.
Thank you for sharing.
The Epistles in the Bible really do make marriage make more sense. The Holy Spirit really gave Paul those same insights to help counsel married Christians in the first church. Corinthians, Timothy, and I believe ephesians and romans all have great marriage counseling material in them. That's not even counting proverbs, and even Micah, as well as the 4 gospels themselves. The Bible really doesn't leave anything out that someone wants to know about how to walk with Jesus and grow in sanctification. Salvation sealed up in that Book and HOW to change our ways and turn from our sin and walk with the Spirit. In John Jesus said His Words ARE Spirit and they are Truth. If the Bible holds His words does that not make it the Spirit as well? One of my favorite verses is in John where Jesus literally says that His Word is Spirit. Gives a whole new meaning to the importance of the Bible in our lives. But you yourself have given a good insight. That is the insight of prudence. I've dated a lot of women. Many I ought not to have even fooled with. Much heartache I could have avoided. Parts of myself that I should have given for the first time and the only time.... with my wife. But I threw that blessing away. No doubt God can bless my marriage even though I've done that. (If I'm to marry). But it does speak volumes that though marriage is a wonderful place to explore sex in a God blessed manner (song of Solomon really details that... some of the stuff in there many people would be embarrassed to say in a crowd); often times we seek out the pleasure rather than the commitment first. This may sound rude but it really is as the Bible says.
1 Corinthians 6:15-20
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
So yes. You are right in that saying. Yes. We can marry and enjoy sex with our spouse and the Bible encourages it. But a level of prudence would spare us from marrying a deceitful spouse that isn't worth the heartache for some sex. Look at poor Sampson in the scriptures. That dude spent his whole life marrying women that would betray him. And yes God used every bit of it for a lesson to us. But one only needs to look at Delilah to see how a man can be brought down by his own spouse when she has other loyalties.
Prudence is a great way of saying it sibling. God bless you in Jesus name, amen
May God bless you and continue to lead you too! Thanks for these words of encouragement and more insight. Gotta re-read the Epistles!