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  • The Bible actually tells us very little about Jesus' personal life and nothing about this aspect of it. However, as masturbation is a sin, Jesus would not have engaged in that activity. As for whether or not He had sex, that has been pretty well covered in another question (http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/14077). As for wet dreams, the bible is completely silent on that aspect of human biology. ************* Emmaengine wrote, “…where does it say in the bible that masturbation is a sin?” I can't cite a specific verse that specifically condemns masturbation. (The one that has often been cited by others is Genesis 38: 9 (http://tinyurl.com/yrklwy). However, when read in the full context, I don't know that it can be used as a blanket condemnation of the practice.) I would point out that Jesus did say, "Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." (Matthew 5: 27-28) As the lustful thought that Jesus warned against go along with masturbation, that activity would also be covered in this verse. So, masturbation really falls under the general condemnation of all sexual activity outside of marriage. ************* Farino wrote, “But that verse is about adultery, could a single person not masurbate over the thoughts of another single person?” Fornication is sex when the person is not married. The Bible also condemns this. So, buy following the same argument that Jesus makes in this verse about adultery, for an unmarried person to look on another to lust after them is to commit fornication in his heart. Thus we get back to the point about masturbation being a sin.
  • Jesus, according to the Bible, was in all rights a demi-god, a god born of a human. So Jesus would have had sexual urges and there's nothing to say that sex, masturbation nor wet dreams are sins. Jesus probably at some point in his life did what is intended of all sexually reproductive organisms on this planet - reproduce and want to reproduce. There are some that do not have the ability or/nor the desire true but they are the exception. Jesus was probably married to Mary Magdalene, after all does it not state in the Gospel according to Philip that Jesus loved her more than any other and that he used to kiss his companion on the lips? To believe that Jesus never wanted sex is not a act of faith but pure naiveity. To believe that a man that loved a woman never engaded in sexual conduct with her? To believe that a teenaged hormone pubescent boy would not have wet dreams nor masturbate? I mean come on! Unless he was a god and not human in any way there's no chance that he would not do as any other person would. Moreover, could you trust a man that didn't? Only a sinner saved by grace, was he not born of a human? If he was only devine then he could have only come from divine creatures, not mortals like Mary. Oh and when it comes to the Gospel according to Philip not being canonical scripture, ask yourself why it was omitted by the Council of Nicaea in AD 325? Could it possibly be that It painted a human picture of him, that the PEOPLE who composited the New Testament were flawed and did not include all scriptures? Why was the Gospel according to Judas not included or the Gospel according to Mary Magdalene? More importantly, if not the only thing of importance, surely Jesus would have kept his own thoughts and feelings recorded in his own journal. Why is there not a Gospel according to Jesus there? The Gospels in the New Testament put a very particular story across of Jesus' devinity by leaving in those that use metaphorical stories that are now considered literal truths and leaving out those Gospels that show Jesus as human. Gods don't die, Jesus did!

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