What does the Bible say about the dangers of pornography?
Pornography arouses within people impure and unhealthy sexual desires and intensifies sexual temptation!
Because of the time and culture in which the Bible was written—no Internet, printed page, or video—pornography isn’t directly discussed in the Bible.
However, the parable of Israel’s unfaithfulness in Ezekiel 23:1–49 provides an interesting commentary on how images can seduce and corrupt.
Verse 14 describes a woman—who represents Jerusalem—who saw figures of men drawn on a wall.
As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them (v. 16).
Not only did these depictions stir up lust, but they also led her to seek out men with whom to have sex.
That is exactly what pornography does;
it arouses within people impure and unhealthy sexual desires and intensifies sexual temptation.
Pornographic images— and the idea of instant sexual pleasure—can dominate the way a person thinks about God’s gift of sex.
Here’s the bottom line:
Pornography takes something beautiful, which is meant to be shared intimately between two married people and twists it into something selfish and demeaning.
Furthermore, there are two other Biblical principles that can be applied to the issue of pornography:
(1) We should fill our minds only with true, noble, and pure thoughts (Php 4:8).
(2) No matter what sins we’ve committed in the past, we’re never too dirty to be forgiven and cleansed by God (1Co 6:9–11).
Ezekiel 23:14–16
14“But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans portrayed in red,
15 with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea.
16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
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What does the Bible say about the dangers of pornography?
