Smoking

Nahum · #1 03-08-2007, 09:49 PM

Is smoking a sin?

SDG · #2 03-08-2007, 09:49 PM

weed, cigars, or cancer sticks???

Praxeas · #3 03-17-2007, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

weed, cigars, or cancer sticks???

Why aren't cigars cancer sticks too?

Praxeas · #4 03-17-2007, 02:49 PM

You all will have to answer yourself....Note the part in bold
1Co 6:8 But you yourselves wrong and cheat, and you do this to your brothers and sisters!
1Co 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,
1Co 6:10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.
1Co 6:11 Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
1Co 6:12 "All things are lawful for me" — but not everything is beneficial. "All things are lawful for me" — but I will not be controlled by anything.
1Co 6:13 "Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both." The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1Co 6:14 Now God indeed raised the Lord and he will raise us by his power.
1Co 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
1Co 6:16 Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."
1Co 6:17 But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him.
1Co 6:18 Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin a person commits is outside of the body" — but the immoral person sins against his own body.
1Co 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
1Co 6:20 For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

#5 03-17-2007, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Praxeas

1Co 6:12 "All things are lawful for me" — but not everything is beneficial. "All things are lawful for me" — but I will not be controlled by anything.

1Co 6:20 For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

This is important! Which is why when people preach against smoking cigarettes they need to also preach about other addictive substances like caffeine. How many people who vociferously attack smoking are quick to get that first cup of coffee in the morning or (in churches that do this) go get that cup of coffee in the fellowship hall after church?

Felicity · #6 03-08-2007, 09:52 PM

I always liked the smell of a pipe.

My observation has been that addictions suck the spiritual life out of people, regardless of what kind they are and cigarettes are one of the worst to get rid of. Harder than liquor and other kinds of drugs.