TRUTH — the ONLY Exit from Porn

TRUTH — the ONLY Exit from Porn

 

Creation_of_Eve_by_William_BlakeVictory over sin is short-lived when God’s truth is traded for lies.

God’s Kingdom is founded on truth. Only submission to “the God of truth” brings spiritual redemption (Psalm 31:5). Deception led us into sin. Truth alone leads us out (John 8:32). If a lie gives you apparent relief, it will be only temporary. This is why so many fail to find freedom from pornography through strategies based on the lie of body shame.

The Creator of our bodies uses the truth of body acceptance to free people from the chains of porn.

But knowing the truth intellectually isn’t enough. Truth must be internalized. Traditional approaches to porn addiction focus on the external, trying to control what is seen. God wants to plant His “truth in the inward being,” teaching us His “wisdom in the secret heart” (Psalm 51:6, ESV), changing how we see.

The Undraped Body Is Not Perverted

When the God of truth spoke creation into existence, He deemed everything “very good” (Genesis 1:31), including naked male and female bodies. The sin of our first parents didn’t change the truth about that goodness. All parts of the human form are still “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14).

It was the heart—not our gender-specific anatomy—that became corrupt:

  • A sinfully perverted perception of the body usurped our Sovereign Maker’s evaluation.
  • Misled human reasoning replaced the truth of God with a lie.
  • What was pure in God’s creative reality became pornographic in the human imagination.

Debunking the Doctrine of Body Shame

If the Fall intrinsically distorted how humans perceive nakedness, cultural history would demonstrate this change universally. It doesn’t.ordinary nudity

Modern responses to nudity, in the context of art, healthcare, or cross-cultural experience, also fail to substantiate this popular religious doctrine. In such cases, the absence of automatic sexual arousal at the sight of the nude body disproves the inevitable lust predicted by this teaching.

Actually, these ordinary naked situations affirm the original goodness God saw in bare bodies. They prove that body shame is culturally learned, not humanly inherited. If it was inborn, all descendants of Adam would naturally have it. Since they don’t, this doctrine must be false.

Repenting of Cultural Idolatry

Allegiance to this dysfunctional cultural standard undermines God’s truth about our bodies. Under pressure to conform to false thinking in a fallen world, we must surrender our bodies to God (Romans 12:1, 2). The truth of body acceptance liberates us by the power of Him Who embodied Truth (John 14:6), God Incarnate (1 Timothy 3:16), the Word made flesh (John 1:14).

Our male and female bodies, just as God made them, play a central role in His creation plan. Let the truth about them displace all distorted images with His image. Make a radical departure from cultural falsehood into a life where the God of truth—and the truth of God—dispel all lies. This the way out of porn.

— Pastor David

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For more on this topic:
The Pornographic View of the Body and My View on Nudity.

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