>>40611802
You're just creating your own rules. It makes sense that God wouldn't want you to defile yourself that way. Sex is exclusively reserved for the marriage bed. You're actually just emphasizing that human beings should never try to be wise in their own eyes.

Also, "good luck" to anyone who can masturbate and somehow not have sexual fantasies at the same time. Or otherwise sooner or later start watching pornography, or being sexually immoral in some other way. Please do not fool yourself.

>>40549889
The explanation is pretty much summed up in the quote that I shared. And it's also because humans have eternal souls, and you're sinning against an eternal God. That's why the separation from God and the punishment is eternal.

Dear friend, please spend actual time researching these topics. It pertains to your eternal destiny.

"Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever." (1 John 2:15-17, ESV)

>>22818736
We can see all around the world that there are countless people who do not know what is right.

The only real reason why the average Westerner has some sense of morality is because of Christianity, even if they're currently atheist. But with all of the wickedness that the West is plagued with nowadays, we can indeed see that people cannot think and act right on their own.

"There is a way that seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death."

(Proverbs 14:12, NKJV)