have a degenerative and progressive effect on the mind and morals of the user. One's goals become reduced to sexual gratification by whatever means. The user becomes dependent upon increasingly racy material to satisfy mental and physical demands. It Is Spiritually Deadening.
Pornography desensitizes and corrupts moral and spiritual values; pornography and spirituality cannot coexist:
"For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish" (Galatians 5:17).
Lust alienates from God.
"For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace" (Romans 8:6).
"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. . . . Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. . . . Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body" (1 Corinthians 6:9, 13, 18).
Lust must be avoided.
"Do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts" (Romans 6:12).
"Flee sexual immorality" (1 Corinthians 6:18).
Lust ends in spiritual death.
"For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live" (Romans 8:13).
"Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death" (James 1:15).
Helping Strategy
1. Commend the person for seeking help in matters beyond his or her control. Express your willingness to encourage and help as you can.
2. Because pornography is mainly a spiritual and moral problem, the inquirer must seek deliverance from personal sins and immoral sexual behaviors: