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Originally Posted by jediwill83
I agree with Aquila on this issue. If you're making a logical argument about smoking and say that it is harmful to the body therefore it is sinful, then you must examine all other things that harm the body and cause health issues and use that same argument to label those a sin as well.
Yes.... food can be a HUGE addiction.
I've struggled with food addiction for years.
Don't preach against smoking and make food your god.
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Sooo... You are okay with "addictions"?
You can justify smoking, women wearing men's apparel and vice versa if you like. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. I will not be brought under the "power" of anything. 1 Co 6:12
RWP
Paul is determined not to be a slave to anything harmless in itself. He will maintain his self-control.
Paul refused to be brought under the "power" of even "lawful" things yet some here would argue that ungodly things are okay because someone somewhere at sometime did it. This justification is based on them being a "good" person.
Yet, the Bible still says:
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Pro 14:12 KJV) There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
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Pro 16:25 KJV) There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
There is no such thing as a "good" man:
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Psa 14:1 KJV) To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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Psa 14:3 KJV) They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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Psa 53:3 KJV) Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
(Mar 10:18 KJV) And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
The very best man can do is "filthy" in the eyes of God.
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Isa 64:6 KJV) But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
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Rom 3:23 KJV) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Go ahead, ignore the word of God. If it "feels good" do it. Then, justify it by saying you are "following the spirit". No one can make anyone do anything.
I will "follow" (which means to chase it as if in a hunt) holiness without which no man may see the Lord (
Heb. 12:14).
Most "hunt" for the fringes rather than for holiness. They try to see how far away from holiness they can get rather than trying to chase holiness as of in the hunt for it. All the while justifying their carnality with "feelings" rather than the word of God and the timeless principles God has given us to live by.