Porn Is A Consuming Deathtrap of Lies

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I must say that there are more than a few things that I am clueless about;)

As much as I wanted to believe otherwise, I have not ever seen it all although I try.

After reading comments around the internet within the aftermath of gospel composer, icon, and artist Kirk Franklin's appearance on Oprah yesterday about his continued recovery from a pornography addiction, I am now believing that there are more people either suffering, in recovery, or drowning within the lies of pornography of all ages worldwide.

I am not the one to have an answer to everything, but I do have a friend that does:  Christ Jesus.

Now I consider myself blessed more than ever to overcome an environment that probably fosters more trouble than ever clearly identified before:  being an only child.

Being an only child clearly provides both the opportunity of a crossroad experience to be, do, see, and have anything above and below your wildest dreams.

This blog entry is clearly one that I will to revisit and add to.

My escape hatch was and has been music and audio experiences versus the visual.  This leads me also to realize that people have different learning styles that I have been sharing a lot recently with students that I am tutoring.

I never had the exposure that many are now facing online and offline to porn.

Clearly the human body is a work of God as well as all things in heaven and earth, but to overindulge within anything is not good.

But for those that have the preferred visual style of learning, then pornography clearly is a temptation that would be hard to resist.

The other styles (although I may not use the exact, scientific terms) involve hands on, audio, and various combinations and permutations of these styles.

I also know that pornography has gotten many people fired, dismissed, and terminated within the internet era than ever before.

There is no department within any type of company or corporation or nonprofit that has exclusive domain or immunity to falling victim either.

There was another gentleman that appeared on yesterday's Oprah's broadcast as well that said that he was a manual laborer and visited pornographic websites on the days he was not working.  He did not use a computer while working and it appeared that he was tempted when his hands were relatively empty.  For some reason, I was thinking that he represents the typical partaker of porn.

But the offline partakers of porn magazines, VHS, and DVDs represent a harder to identify group to me.  This is where the secret lifestyle has tall bushes to hide behind.

Where does it all end?  What Scripture provides the best solution?  Is there a single pill or thought that will end it all?

Here is my belief and proposed solution.

For all Christians and believers, please remember the Scripture which is the First Commandment--Thy shall have no other gods before Me.

Pornography, alcohol, fornication, homosexuality, drugs, and anything else can be addressed with this Scripture.  Anything that attempts to become your god is a threat to you, your family, your lifestyle, and your destiny period.

You can forget about civil rights, free speech, rainbow emblems, and freedoms to marry anyone of any sex and anything else.  Break this commandment and the rest are dominoes ready to fall in your life.

I am tired (but not demotivated from my ministry, mission, and destiny) of seeing so many people of all faiths, creeds, and religious beliefs (or lack of) think that life is a game without any recourse or penalty boxes for what you do or fail to do.

Everything either gets reinforced positively or negatively and thank God there is mercy when we go astray.

Since porn is the issue on the table and for anyone suffering from it, remember to consider your preferred style of learning and increase your awareness to realize when you are most vulnerable.

Any marital aid could be a first base but it should not become the second, third, and home base or ending place of scoring.  The bed of holy matrimony is never defiled with mutual consent.

But pornography cannot be considered a final destination since it clearly provides the opportunity to eventually take the spouse out of the equation.

Staying on the road with pornography will provide the red carpet for experimenting with other individuals at some point in time.  There cannot be any other way and complete and total denial is required to believe otherwise.

I firmly believe that the reason pornography leads away from an exclusive relationship is because it starts with a nonexclusive third-party.   If the spouse was seeking to arouse a partner intentionally versus an third-party appearing within a magazine, video, webcam, e-mail, audio file, or website, then in most cases the classification as being pornographic would not apply.  Being forced against one's will or adult consent to arouse or entice would be pornographic however.

I humbly challenge anyone to express a logical or emotion opinion otherwise.  Please enlighten me if pornography provides any exclusive territory for a couple or how you believe that it can.

For those who are single and engaging within fornication (regardless of cohabitation, future plans or promises to marry, or getting the milk free from the cow as some put it), there is either an open or closed system that the lack of marriage cannot provide a secure, comfort zone to dwell within.

Although married people do commit adultery (and single people as well according to the words of Christ Jesus), fornication (sex outside of marriage) clearly does not increase the chances of an exclusive relationship.

Peace!