Is smoking a sin?

last SG · 2006-04-14T19:07:34+00:00

Hmm how did we come to know God? I don't think we actually came to know Him any more then He came to make Himself understood by us. It would be an unstateme...

BabyRS SG

If smoking is a sin... then I shall languish in the smoky depths of TobaccoLand with a sardonic smile on my face. Rolling Eyes

I am never disciplined enough to stop... and never motivated enough to, I guess Wink

The way I see it, however... *perks up with a chance to create an excuse* we have been informed over and over again through countless ways and mediums, that the effects of smoking are ALL negative - for health, for the environment, and for the people around us. I think that there's no telling when exactly is the time for us to go. We can die at any time, any place, and for whatever reason. We can exercise 24/7, watch what we eat, be a teetotaller and not smoke... yet whilst on our daily jog to keep fit, we get knocked down in a freak accident and d..i..e...

So we may have blemish-free lungs and a super-duper Energizer liver - and then the doctor diagnoses the frequent headaches to be a malignant tumour... Shocked

I've known so many people who lead examplary lifestyles and yet succumb to other things beyond their control.

So... I continue the vice. Silly, perhaps, to some - but it IS my life, and since I don't smoke around my family (my friends are smokers, too, so there.) I figured I will only immediately endanger my life.

As for how I started - 'twas (not so long ago) when youth was all about being rebellious, experiments, and being carefree with nary a care in the world.

If smoking is a sin, that makes me a unrepentant sinner. Neutral

Unidentified SG

If smoking is a sin , wouldn't the hell be overloaded ? Neutral

Raptured SG

These things are not unknown as you claimed. They are prevalent & fashionable now even famous. Rock music might be limited to this century but smoking, drinking alcohol, food offered to idols, homosexuality & gambling have been with us for a very very long time & very very famous even in Apostles' days in Israel!

That's why Paul blasted the homos, Peter advised not to be drunk with wine but be drunk with the Spirit. Jesus condemned idolaters & homosexuals etc in Revelations & He is coming back to burn them all up! Gambling is a form of coveting & Paul struggled with this sin of coveting himelf in Romans 7. Thank God He forgives!

So i still dont think what you said is correct. They are prevalent, very famous & known to the whole wide world!

Raptured SG

God forgives right? So those who have accepted the gift of salvation can never go to hell right even if they smoke? so i dont think hell will be overloaded.

BabyRS SG

The way I see it (and this is the on the basis of my own personal belief) - is that if there is Heaven / Hell - then it would be in an intangible realm and space. There are no units of measurement, in either of these places.

In H/H, time would ceast to exist - where there is just a perpetual state of being and nothingness... and perhaps a truly 'final' salvation and / or damnation. Perhaps this space that it occupies is very much like a 'void' - where everything and everyone is 'just as is'.

There's always room for one more in the Inn of Heaven or Hell. Shocked

NT2 SG

Smoking, like some other practices such as masturbation are not mentioned in the Bible. But their absence from the Scripture doesnt warrant them non-sins.

The Christian life is a personal relationship between God and Man bridged together throught the reconciling sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. Does smoking, an act that harms the body God created and given us glorifies God? If it does, by all means do it.

We are all given a conscience and by nature we all know what is pleasing to God and what is not. need i say more?

Wink

laurence82 SG

Faith by bible, or faith by church?

Martin Luther would have turned over in his grave

M©+square SG

Then refute me.

Quote and prove your point.

klydeer SG

Thank you MC for the well raised references. Yes, it would seem right that the best wine - is the best wine. Nothing diluted should come from the heart of Christ.

"Onios" suggested full bodied, old wine - and it appears to me that the men of those times are "good" drinkers (180 gallons) perhaps because wine is one of their staple diet (as wine was much easier to come by than drinking water).

The Bible didnt stipulate that the wedding guests finished up all 180 gallons - and perhaps it just signified that Jesus blessed overflowingly.

But the alcohlic content of even the best wine then, might not be as high as those of ours today - due to global warming - as some scientist believed.

casino_king SG

So what if it is a sin or not? So what? Nothing.

odi-o SG

I agree with Raptured that addiction to stuff other than God Himself is sin. Although it is not applicable to all.. but i personally felt that the need to lightup has overtook my time to pray/ talk to God. Slowly i no longer tell my daily stuff to God and seek His guidance and i relied on smoking to take my troubles away.. sadly.. as time passed.. i dont talk to God anymore..

Depending on how u see it... to me not putting God above all other addiction.. .. it's a sin. Not that He'll be angry with us..rather He'll be sad ba.. Crying or Very sad same for ma**bation, listening to rock music.. same for alcohol drinking

Raptured SG

Thanks for your comment. Sometimes we enjoy sin so much that we just leave God. i wonder if one loses his salvation then.

Raptured SG

i don't need to quote. You go see for yourself. No time to do research.

Chinese have chi he piao du. Gluttony, wine, prostitute, gambling. You also have the famous Liang Zhu story where there is homosexuality involved.

As for masturbation, you never masturbated before meh? Ancient artefacts have been unearthed which shows pornographic images. It was on the papers some time ago.

Raptured SG

It's important bcos if it's a sin, you can go to hell for that! Twisted Evil

M©+square SG

You always fall sick or got no time.

No problem. Laughing
I'm happy with my research and my views.

Raptured SG

It's ok if you are happy with your research & your views. This is a free market of ideas. I could prove my point if i want to. Or anyone can prove his point if he wants to. That's why so many conflicting views with as much validity & proof as each other.

M©+square SG

So how do you prove Smoking is a sin?

Raptured SG

How do you prove smoking is not a sin then?

If smoking not sin, will it harm your body? Sin is something you do which is out of the will of God for your body, mind, soul, spirit etc. God did not create people to smoke. I remember Ps Prince said in one of his sermons, if God created people to smoke, He would create a smoke chimney for a nose. Imagine your nose pointing upwards like a smoke stack. Razz

Icemoon SG

Are you related to Repented John 2? How come you all attend Ps Prince's sermons one? Too much of a coincidence bah. Rolling Eyes

vince69 SG

MC,
there is no direct reference in the bible that says smoking is a sin, in fact its not even directly mentioned at all.

But there is a ref that says our body is the temple of God.
so the question is, is smoking good or harmful to our body, and also those around us. since it is harmful to the body, then we should not be doing it.

conclude,
smoking is not a sin, by itself, it won't send anyone to hell, but it will most likely send that person to meet God earlier, or should I say, prematurely.

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