I need help,
I've been saved for years and I've been in repentance. I've got a physical porn collection that I need to get rid of. It is some rare stuff from my younger years and I could make some money by selling on ebay, but I feel like I would just be spreading my lust and addiction to others for their money. Should I just destroy everything and cut my losses or should I sell? Is this holy conviction or am I just overthinking everything?
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This is a stupid question. Of course you shouldn't sell porn as a Christian. What kind of change of heart is this?
then pray for a change in my heart
Destroy the porn. You already know what is right in your heart, but a fleshy desire is preventing you from making a Godly decision.
amen
Burn it brah, make a bonfire and roast marshmallows
I cant burn it, guess i'll just shred it
Got any guns? Just trying to give you the most fun route
nope, just destroying everything by hand
Selling it would be sin, destroy everything.
also
I don't think that's how it works
how does it?
There's your problem.
If you are saved, you can do whatever you want and it won't take away your salvation (I presume you're protestant with that theology).
Selling porn is a grave sin, so you shouldn't even be thinking about this.
Destroy it, and reconsider your entire theology.
Woo!
Bonfire of the vanities at OP's house! [BYOR]
OP Here, I'm destroying everything FYI. Only reason it was even a question is because I could resale to collectors. Its a physical collection of DVDs, photobooks and artbooks that are pornographic. It's not even used for masturbatory purposes if that clears anything up for people.It's just been luggage boxed up in the closet.
wat?
Thanks, but I never said anything about my salvation being taken away. Everything is being destroyed.
lol, no fire, I am going with the shredding
@all, thanks guys
Good decision OP. I'm sure it was a tough call if the collection was valuable but what do those worldly gains compare to anything in God's Kingdom?
I can pretty much assure you that if you didn't discard that pr0n collection your salvation was gone until you repented.
So, for sake of a sum of money, you'd cause others to fall into sick perversions if not temptations?
This is what you would be doing.
Burn it.
Burn it all down.
Burn the whole world. May nothing remain.
Sorry, I may have gotten distracted
If catholics hate the bible, then why did we compile it?
The higher clergy, not the common Catholic
Are you implying people in Rome complied the bible?
If you were a junky finally getting clean, could you, with a clean conscience, hand your drug stash to friend deep in addiction?
The bible wasn't compiled
Well meme'd.
Well, to be honest…
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At least in my country, there are a lot of poor/old people that can't properly read.
¿Mexicano? Porque es el mismo caso aquí.
This study was based in the United States, though, there's a white majority of Catholics but Latinos follow.
Brazil, actually. The official stats say 90% of the population is literate, but in reality something like 60% of the people can properly read and understand a text.
The chart would be more meaningful if it grouped results further, such as by frequency of mass attendance.
And good on you, OP. You did the right thing.
It can be done, since that data is also available in the study. It would have to be manually though, but you get me.
Then how did the individual books come together if they weren't compiled?
People decided to start binding the scriptures together
No, people in Carthage from all over the Mediterranean.
Can you show me the earliest example of a complete bible found?
Can you also explain to me how and who decided what was meant to be included and why protestants removed the deuterocanonical books later on?
Carthage was a local council and did not include bishops from all over the empire
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Though we've found older manuscripts that clearly bound the books together and have become incomplete due to damage.
That's an errant way of looking at it that begs the question. It wasn't "decided" what was meant to be included, and nobody determined it. They simply took the scriptures which they already knew to be divine and placed them together. Why did everyone raise such a fuss over Marcion if there wasn't an established canon?
See, this is just dishonest. The reason the reformers rejected the apocrypha is the same reason you accept it. They rejected papal pretensions to determine what God has spoken. We could talk about why they are not canon for hours, however that would be a total waste of time since you don't care about any of the logic in it, all you care about is that Trent said it's in the bible, so you obey.
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toss it into muslim towns
So, by your logic, if you're driving and curse someone and end up dying in a car wreck, you've lost your salvation?
Read your bible.
But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be subject to the fire of hell.
(You) read your bible.
I don't think that follows, you're allowed to be angry over stuff where you should be legitimately angry, like at a driver who is about to take your life by his own stupidity and carelessness, although let's be honest, you probably had a hand in your own demise if it comes to that.
I'm pretty sure that in context, "you fool" was fairly severe language in Aramaic, especially to use over a trifling matter, but unfortunately we speak a language where even the worst swear words don't necessarily refer to an actual state of anger on the part of the utter-er.
The rule is to be reconciled, not to not get angry, Christ knew that we are only human.