What does the Bible say about pornography?
The article Darkening Our Minds: The Problem of Pornography among Christians, (This article first appeared in Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 03 (2004). http://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal/). Because pornography has seduced a large number of Christians, it has impacted the church in three destructive ways:
1. creates a dependency that weakens the individual
2. causes a disruption of the union which weakens our marriages
3. results in a distortion in thinking that weakens the ability to relate and function.
Bondage to a sexual sin — a growing dependency on the sin, similar to dependency on a drug — often goes unrecognized because addiction to a behavior is a relatively new concept to many people.
During the single month of January 2002, 27.5 million Internet users visited pornographic Web sites.1 Americans spent an estimated $220 million on pornographic Web sites in 2001, according to a New York-based Internet research firm. (The same firm, Jupiter Media Metrix, noted that the $220 million figure was up from $148 million in 1999; Americans are expected to spend $320 million annually on porn sites by the year 2005.)2
In a national survey polling 1,031 adults, Zogby International and Focus on the Family found that 20 percent of the respondents had recently visited a pornographic site.3
· Are these attitudes and ideas congruent with a biblical worldview? Why or why not?
Yes the views in this article and ideas are congruent with a biblical worldview, Paul added that within the sanctity of a monogamous and permanent commitment, husband and wife are to attend to each other’s sexual needs (1 Cor. 7:4–5) and reserve their sexual energies for each other, thus preserving the uniqueness of their bond and avoiding moral transgressions (1 Cor. 7:2).
· What, if anything, do the attitudes and ideas presented by the media story reveal about our culture?
That this culture is in desperate need of God and the need repentance. Nations have fallen away from God and this world proves this statement to be true.
· Were any important details or facts omitted in order for you, as the audience, to really understand the situation being presented?
No not at all, I fully understood everything that the article stated.
· Do you detect any biases? If so, what are they?
No biases was in the article, it showed that the world is a fallen place, and had numerous scriptures to back their claims up.
“C. S. Lewis alluded to this self-idolatry when he described the world of sexual fantasy as being “a harem of imaginary brides. And this harem, once admitted, works against a man ever getting out and really uniting with a real woman. For the harem is always accessible, always subservient, calls for no sacrifices or adjustments, and can be endowed with erotic and psychological attributes which no real woman can rival. In the end, they become merely the medium through which he increasingly adores himself.”5
Bibliography
Dallas, Joe. http://www.equip.org/christian-articles/Darkening Our Minds: The Problem of Pornography amount Christians/ Article ID: JAF1273
The article Darkening Our Minds: The Problem of Pornography among Christians, (This article first appeared in Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 03 (2004). http://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal/). Because pornography has seduced a large number of Christians, it has impacted the church in three destructive ways:
1. creates a dependency that weakens the individual
2. causes a disruption of the union which weakens our marriages
3. results in a distortion in thinking that weakens the ability to relate and function.
Bondage to a sexual sin — a growing dependency on the sin, similar to dependency on a drug — often goes unrecognized because addiction to a behavior is a relatively new concept to many people.
During the single month of January 2002, 27.5 million Internet users visited pornographic Web sites.1 Americans spent an estimated $220 million on pornographic Web sites in 2001, according to a New York-based Internet research firm. (The same firm, Jupiter Media Metrix, noted that the $220 million figure was up from $148 million in 1999; Americans are expected to spend $320 million annually on porn sites by the year 2005.)2
In a national survey polling 1,031 adults, Zogby International and Focus on the Family found that 20 percent of the respondents had recently visited a pornographic site.3
· Are these attitudes and ideas congruent with a biblical worldview? Why or why not?
Yes the views in this article and ideas are congruent with a biblical worldview, Paul added that within the sanctity of a monogamous and permanent commitment, husband and wife are to attend to each other’s sexual needs (1 Cor. 7:4–5) and reserve their sexual energies for each other, thus preserving the uniqueness of their bond and avoiding moral transgressions (1 Cor. 7:2).
· What, if anything, do the attitudes and ideas presented by the media story reveal about our culture?
That this culture is in desperate need of God and the need repentance. Nations have fallen away from God and this world proves this statement to be true.
· Were any important details or facts omitted in order for you, as the audience, to really understand the situation being presented?
No not at all, I fully understood everything that the article stated.
· Do you detect any biases? If so, what are they?
No biases was in the article, it showed that the world is a fallen place, and had numerous scriptures to back their claims up.
“C. S. Lewis alluded to this self-idolatry when he described the world of sexual fantasy as being “a harem of imaginary brides. And this harem, once admitted, works against a man ever getting out and really uniting with a real woman. For the harem is always accessible, always subservient, calls for no sacrifices or adjustments, and can be endowed with erotic and psychological attributes which no real woman can rival. In the end, they become merely the medium through which he increasingly adores himself.”5
Bibliography
Dallas, Joe. http://www.equip.org/christian-articles/Darkening Our Minds: The Problem of Pornography amount Christians/ Article ID: JAF1273