smoking

[Guest RJD Servant]

Hi

My Grandfather use to say to us kid if God wanted you to smoke then he would have put a chimney on your Head.

Satan had just pride and he was thrown from heaven.

What do you think if it is SIN then God will look the other way and let you in?

Your playing and Eternal Deadly Game that you will not win against God.

Play with Sin and you will get Burned!!!!

When we in the Flesh lower the Standard of God and Sin we Lower the Life lived in Christ also and the Light of the Gospel become and little more Dim in the Eyes of the Worldly Souls of the men around us.

Were not to be of the world but in it not of it Different that someone would want what you have before you speak a word and Sin keeps that from happening. That is why the so called "Church" is Dead because sin raines with in it and God can no longer show up.

Until we truly repent of ALL our sins face the world around us in the Righteousness of God, and let the Light of the Gospel we LIVE shines forth upon the Shadows of the Souls around us we will not see revival. Read again one more time the Churches in Revalations because we are there again churches corrupted by sin assuming God will look the other way.

RJD Servant

Edited October 19, 2005 by RJD Servant

[Ovedya]

we are not to defile the temple physically or spritually.

God dwells, in the Holy of Holies----our heart/spirit/soul.

Right, which is why smoking doesn't defile unless it affects our inner man.

[apothanein kerdos]

we are not to defile the temple physically or spritually.

God dwells, in the Holy of Holies----our heart/spirit/soul.

Look at that passage again and tell me the context.

Likewise...am I to move out of the city? The pollution is actually worse than smoking (great irony: polluting and hurting the enviroment is actually a sin)...so should I leave? Shall I also stop eating modern food in cans that have preservatives? That harms my body as well.

Oh the joys of misapplied scriptures.

[Kabowd]

"..A French pastor related to me an experience which, though somewhat corny, helped him break out of his churchy shell and begin a significant ministry. He had set up a dinner appointment with an eye surgeon to discuss the possibility of surgery for his wife. After dinner they retired to the living room. The surgeon asked the pastor if he would like a cigar. He did so mostly out of politeness, anticipating a negative reply at so "worldy" an activity as smoking. The pastor's initial mental reaction was to say, "No, thank you. I don't smoke". However, he felt that he should resist this inclination and replied instead, "Yes, I will, thank you." As it turned out, the pastor's action broke a barrier with the surgeon and they ended up having a long discussion about the gospel. The surgeon was later converted and became very active in the local church..."

- Jon Zens from "Are We Eating With the Right People?", editor of Searching Together magazine, elder at Word of Life Church in Wisconsin

People need to understand that almost anything can become a vice. Can smoking be a sin? Yes, absolutely. But so can eating chocolate or drinking coffee. Likewise, those same things can become tools used for good to establish common ground with someone. Instead of jumping on some bandwagon and declaring something sin across the board, we should instead be encouraging one another to listen to the prompting of the Holy Spirit and let Him guide us in each and every situation. Do that, and you can't go wrong.

[Smalcald]

Smoking won't send you to hell it just makes you smell like you were already there.

[Giaour]

It's not what goes into a mans mouth that defiles him but what comes out of it.

[mrcorey]

Smoking won't send you to hell it just makes you smell like you were already there.

[apothanein kerdos]

So, go buy more cigarettes and smoke them all and end your life early, rationalizing that it's not a sin and then go and try your rationalizations on God when He asks you why your life ended so early and you could not be more of a use for Him, why you couldn't stick around to help your family and why you had to be a burden to others at the end of your life when emphysema took over your body. Keep on smoking and then when you want to light up in His presence, He'll give you the thumbs down. Oops, too late to quit then.

We are responsible for that which we have knowlede of. People today know that smoking kills. Granted some people seem to be able to smoke and still live long lives. That doesn't cut it as an excuse because the fact is the majority don't. As for eating junk etc, well, why not clean that up too? But some of us cannot afford the prices of organic foods so we just do the best we can to keep this temple of God in the best shape we can. We live in a terrible world and we are responsible to do what we can in it.

Ah yes, because God will go, "Oh my, you died already? I didn't plan that!"

Being a Christian should likewise be hazardous to your health...should i stop that as well? We all look at death as some horrible thing, and that one who dies early has an unfulfilled life. I say we have the wrong paradigm. THus smoking, if it ends a life early, does not necessitate that it is evil.

[SavedSinner]

So, go buy more cigarettes and smoke them all and end your life early, rationalizing that it's not a sin and then go and try your rationalizations on God when He asks you why your life ended so early and you could not be more of a use for Him, why you couldn't stick around to help your family and why you had to be a burden to others at the end of your life when emphysema took over your body. Keep on smoking and then when you want to light up in His presence, He'll give you the thumbs down. Oops, too late to quit then.

We are responsible for that which we have knowlede of. People today know that smoking kills. Granted some people seem to be able to smoke and still live long lives. That doesn't cut it as an excuse because the fact is the majority don't. As for eating junk etc, well, why not clean that up too? But some of us cannot afford the prices of organic foods so we just do the best we can to keep this temple of God in the best shape we can. We live in a terrible world and we are responsible to do what we can in it.

AMEN!!!

[Micah68]

I'd like to add a thought to those who think that they will be the ones to live until the ripe old age of 90 even though they smoke. Think of this: my husband's dad was a life time smoker. He was dying of emphysema and cancer when his house caught fire. His dear wife, my husband's mother, could not get him out of the house in time. It was a gruesome, horrible death and his family has to live the rest of their lives knowing that he died in that way. Next time you light up, think about it. Could that happen to you? I am not making this up.

I'm not trying to be nasty but the thought is: what's nastier, to shock a few folks into quitting or to justify their continuation of smoking?