smoking

[Ovedya]

Smoking is not a sin.

[Scarletprayers]

Smoking is not a sin.

Why do you say this Ovedya?

[Gerioke]

Smoking is not a sin.

Slow suicide is not a sin?

[Ovedya]

Sin is specifically two things: 1) It is the fallen human nature which we inherited from Adam. It is that nature in our flesh which causes us to commit acts of sins, which are: 2) Offenses before God. These offenses are, by nature, specific things which offend God's holiness and righteousness.

The intentional inhilation of smoke does not offend God's righteousness or holiness as far as I can see.

I believe that smoking, like so many other things, can cause a person to sin, but I don't believe that smoking, in and of itself, is a sin.

Smoking is not a sin.

Slow suicide is not a sin?

Isn't suicide the act of intentionally killing oneself? I doubt that any smoker ever decided to pick up smoking thinking, "I'm going to use these to kill myself."

[Gerioke]

Sin is specifically two things: 1) It is the fallen human nature which we inherited from Adam. It is that nature in our flesh which causes us to commit acts of sins, which are: 2) Offenses before God. These offenses are, by nature, specific things which offend God's holiness and righteousness.

The intentional inhilation of smoke does not offend God's righteousness or holiness as far as I can see.

I believe that smoking, like so many other things, can cause a person to sin, but I don't believe that smoking, in and of itself, is a sin.

Smoking is not a sin.

Slow suicide is not a sin?

Isn't suicide the act of intentionally killing oneself? I doubt that any smoker ever decided to pick up smoking thinking, "I'm going to use these to kill myself."

Actually here was a time in my life when I was smoking 2 packs a day, hoping tha I would be dead by age 35. It didn't work. Now I have a wife and 2 beautiful kids, and with the way my life is going I'll probably croak before I get o see them grow up.

[Ovedya]

Sin is specifically two things: 1) It is the fallen human nature which we inherited from Adam. It is that nature in our flesh which causes us to commit acts of sins, which are: 2) Offenses before God. These offenses are, by nature, specific things which offend God's holiness and righteousness.

The intentional inhilation of smoke does not offend God's righteousness or holiness as far as I can see.

I believe that smoking, like so many other things, can cause a person to sin, but I don't believe that smoking, in and of itself, is a sin.

Smoking is not a sin.

Slow suicide is not a sin?

Isn't suicide the act of intentionally killing oneself? I doubt that any smoker ever decided to pick up smoking thinking, "I'm going to use these to kill myself."

Actually here was a time in my life when I was smoking 2 packs a day, hoping tha I would be dead by age 35. It didn't work. Now I have a wife and 2 beautiful kids, and with the way my life is going I'll probably croak before I get o see them grow up.

Obviously the Lord has preserved you for a greater purpose, bro.

[Scarletprayers]

Smoking is not a sin.

Do you also defend drinking of alcohol too? In spite of scores of scriptural admonishments against "Wine and strong drink"?

It is a known fact that smoking destroys the human body through cancers and emphesema.

Your body IS the temple of the Holy Spirit. Can you imagine what the Lord would think in Old Testament times if someone took a big blob of tar and carcinogens and threw it into the Holy of Holies?

Being drunk is a sin, I don't think Paul would have told Timothy to drink alittle wine for his stomach if drinking itself is a sin.

[Giaour]

Scripture does NOT tell us not to drink. It says not to be as the drunkard and winebibbard.

Jesus drank wine.

Jesus turned water into wine.

[Gerioke]

1 Cor 6:12 All things are permissable but not all things are profitable.

As a smoker, I can attest to this passage. Perhaps smoking is no more sinful than plucking out your eyes or severing your own hand. I would not recommend it though.

[Ovedya]

Do you also defend drinking of alcohol too? In spite of scores of scriptural admonishments against "Wine and strong drink"?

The Scriptures are abundantly clear on the matter of drinking alcohol. Alcohol is perfectly acceptable for believers, so long as it is not drunk to excess. We don;t need to go down that road again do we?

It is a known fact that smoking destroys the human body through cancers and emphesema.

Yet this was not a known fact 50 years ago, was it? Nor was it a known fact 100 years ago when perhaps as much as 3/4 of society smoked, chewed, or snuffed tobacco. So does that mean that smoking has sudenly become a sin by virtue of our knowledge? If that's so, then what about other things that cause cancer, like direct sunlight, for example?

Your body IS the temple of the Holy Spirit. Can you imagine what the Lord would think in Old Testament times if someone took a big blob of tar and carcinogens and threw it into the Holy of Holies?

I hear and read this remark often with subjects like this. It's largely a verse that's taken way out of context and applied to things that it was never intended to in the first place. If persons were really that serious about keeping their "temple clean" then they would quite eating all forms of junk food, foods with processed sugars, foods with synthetic food preservatives and colors, milks and cheeses containing bovine growth hormone, water with flouride (and toothpaste), meat, and all non-organic vegetables.

So then....Are you a vegan?

1 Cor 6:12 All things are permissable but not all things are profitable.

As a smoker, I can attest to this passage. Perhaps smoking is no more sinful than plucking out your eyes or severing your own hand. I would not recommend it though.

That's a very good point. It's obviously not profitable.

Which is why I quit too.