Quote from ShoeshineBoy:
What good is it?!? I guess you're missing my point. Let me be more direct:
Low sexual activity - see my previous link - leads to low testosterone. Low testosterone leads to a host of bad symptoms and disorders for males including metabolic syndrome (Syndrome X), heart disease, depression, brain dysfunction, etc.
Here's a nice summary of why you should do everything you can to keep your testosterone up:
http://www.peaktestosterone.com/Symptoms.htm
I really think you should reconsider this very ugly side of gnosticism.
Besides, who wants stones in their prostate?!?
You are making sex out to be like food.
Very well then, let us say that it is better to have a regular and/or regulated sex existence than it is to "burn"...as Postle Paul might suggest.
Likewise, let us say it is better to have a regular and/or regulated food intake existence than to go hungry.
Don't forget. I was married and ate lot's of food before my resurrection.
Still, neither of these are necessary to those who are resurrected. The resurrected may eat food with his brothers, but he does not need it.
The questions is, can abstinence from food or sex help you resurrect?
Can going hungry teach you that you do not need food? If you are hungry, obviously, you have not yet learned you don't need food. So the answer is no.
On the other hand, if you stopped eating and discovered it has no adverse effect upon you, then perhaps you have finally learned that the Son of God needs nothing.
If you stop having sex and it bothers you, or adversely affects your health, then you have not yet learned it has no value. If you stop before you learn you do not need it, it will only teach you that you need sex. So this can backfire.
Therefore, behavior such as abstinence is not a learning tool...and also not a very good teaching tool. You must train your mind to the truth regardless of what your current behavior indicates is true.
When the mind resurrects to the truth, your freedom will be obvious.
While you think you need food, you are not "free". While you think you need sex, you are also not free.
The truth will set you free.
Meanwhile, behave as you think you must to assist the body until the mind that enlivens the body learns what it does and does not need. You may behave one way, while you are training your mind another way...a better way.
The fact is, the Son of God needs nothing. He is free.
An erection indicates you need something. But you need it only because you value it.
You can have an erection while you reevaluate it. It's behavior will be determined by your current value. When it has no value, and when nothing else in the world has any value except to set you free, your resurrection is nigh.
Jesus
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