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Anonymous Coward User ID: 7849689 United States 02/10/2012 11:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | First off before anyone reads this! I am a christian and Jesus is my Savior! I am sorry if you don't share my beliefs and i don't mean to offend anybody! Just looking for an answer and if you are not a christian you can still read this and answer! Thank you everyone! Quoting: xxterrencexx 2481038 Is smoking marijuana a sin? First off let me tell you a little about myself! I am 22 years old and I love Jesus with all my heart, hes the reason i live and have the urge to continue to live! I am patiently waiting for his return to gather us up to be with him! Over the last 2 years of my life I made a complete U turn, basically I was clubbing 3-4 times a week, having pre-marital sex, getting smashed 3-4 times a week (goes along with the clubbing) you know basically the life that we are all told is the fun and cool life to live! I was born into the church and attended my whole life but never took it seriously at all, Just basically thought o well if this Jesus guy is real then ill just go to church once a week and be ok! I thought i was safe but was really living no better than anybody else and not being an example to others. I started smoking week at 19 years old and would say i smoke about 1-2 joints a day (usually at night cuz it relaxes me and i like to munch out lol) So basically to cut this story short, took a step back at my life and changed it! I started reading the bible for the first time in my life at 20 years old and it changed my life! I felt the spirit of god and it was the greatest feeling ever! I got baptized about 6 months ago and it was great, I always put it off because i was embarrassed of going to the front and getting baptized in front of a church attendance of around 500 people! So basically through this whole experience and even though i have been raised in the church my whole life and knew almost every story in the bible I found my newly found faith and Found Jesus my savior! I live my life to the best of my ability and have cut off basically everything in my life that was sinful! including the hardest thing Sex! Keep in mind i am in a 4 year relationship with my girlfriend and I wasn't living as a christian for about 3 of those years! so it was very hard to cut the sex out until marriage! It was hard but it felt wrong and i knew i was sinning intentionally! So to the question! I still smoke weed, i enjoy having a joint before bed and i dont feel like i am sinning when i am doing this at all! God created all things good and i see nothing wrong with marijuana! pretend the media never existed, and you never heard of marijuana before! If you were to see somebody roll up this plant and smoke it would you look at them and be like o my you sinner! how could you smoke that plant! I see nothing wrong with it as long as you use it properly, the bible states nothing is wrong with it and it doesn't affect my life negative at all! Nobody can give me a concrete answer and I am always left wondering and praying for god to let me know if this is a sin! please help! any fellow Christians out there with any thoughts on this? thank you!! By the looks of this post, you would think using a period instead of an exclamation point is a sin. |
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Tee User ID: 10488215 Canada 02/11/2012 01:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | First off before anyone reads this! I am a christian and Jesus is my Savior! I am sorry if you don't share my beliefs and i don't mean to offend anybody! Just looking for an answer and if you are not a christian you can still read this and answer! Thank you everyone! Quoting: xxterrencexx 2481038 Is smoking marijuana a sin? First off let me tell you a little about myself! I am 22 years old and I love Jesus with all my heart, hes the reason i live and have the urge to continue to live! I am patiently waiting for his return to gather us up to be with him! Over the last 2 years of my life I made a complete U turn, basically I was clubbing 3-4 times a week, having pre-marital sex, getting smashed 3-4 times a week (goes along with the clubbing) you know basically the life that we are all told is the fun and cool life to live! I was born into the church and attended my whole life but never took it seriously at all, Just basically thought o well if this Jesus guy is real then ill just go to church once a week and be ok! I thought i was safe but was really living no better than anybody else and not being an example to others. I started smoking week at 19 years old and would say i smoke about 1-2 joints a day (usually at night cuz it relaxes me and i like to munch out lol) So basically to cut this story short, took a step back at my life and changed it! I started reading the bible for the first time in my life at 20 years old and it changed my life! I felt the spirit of god and it was the greatest feeling ever! I got baptized about 6 months ago and it was great, I always put it off because i was embarrassed of going to the front and getting baptized in front of a church attendance of around 500 people! So basically through this whole experience and even though i have been raised in the church my whole life and knew almost every story in the bible I found my newly found faith and Found Jesus my savior! I live my life to the best of my ability and have cut off basically everything in my life that was sinful! including the hardest thing Sex! Keep in mind i am in a 4 year relationship with my girlfriend and I wasn't living as a christian for about 3 of those years! so it was very hard to cut the sex out until marriage! It was hard but it felt wrong and i knew i was sinning intentionally! So to the question! I still smoke weed, i enjoy having a joint before bed and i dont feel like i am sinning when i am doing this at all! God created all things good and i see nothing wrong with marijuana! pretend the media never existed, and you never heard of marijuana before! If you were to see somebody roll up this plant and smoke it would you look at them and be like o my you sinner! how could you smoke that plant! I see nothing wrong with it as long as you use it properly, the bible states nothing is wrong with it and it doesn't affect my life negative at all! Nobody can give me a concrete answer and I am always left wondering and praying for god to let me know if this is a sin! please help! any fellow Christians out there with any thoughts on this? thank you!! By the looks of this post, you would think using a period instead of an exclamation point is a sin. lol, its a habit I admit, txt message habit, Its because im so excited! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 206019 United States 02/28/2012 01:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's a sin to judge GOD. Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. Ezekiel 34:29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more. |
Guest User ID: 11819487 United States 03/03/2012 01:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If ur in the USA u should respect its laws if bot then just don't get drunk/high off of it. God isn't for drunkenness. Being high and drunk really aren't different. More importantly can u live without it. Is the drug the source of ur happiness and peace or God. In others words could u go a year without it and relay completely on God or would u go alittle crazy with out it always being in a bad mood. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 5769488 United States 03/03/2012 01:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | First off before anyone reads this! I am a christian and Jesus is my Savior! I am sorry if you don't share my beliefs and i don't mean to offend anybody! Just looking for an answer and if you are not a christian you can still read this and answer! Thank you everyone! Quoting: xxterrencexx 2481038 Is smoking marijuana a sin? First off let me tell you a little about myself! I am 22 years old and I love Jesus with all my heart, hes the reason i live and have the urge to continue to live! I am patiently waiting for his return to gather us up to be with him! Over the last 2 years of my life I made a complete U turn, basically I was clubbing 3-4 times a week, having pre-marital sex, getting smashed 3-4 times a week (goes along with the clubbing) you know basically the life that we are all told is the fun and cool life to live! I was born into the church and attended my whole life but never took it seriously at all, Just basically thought o well if this Jesus guy is real then ill just go to church once a week and be ok! I thought i was safe but was really living no better than anybody else and not being an example to others. I started smoking week at 19 years old and would say i smoke about 1-2 joints a day (usually at night cuz it relaxes me and i like to munch out lol) So basically to cut this story short, took a step back at my life and changed it! I started reading the bible for the first time in my life at 20 years old and it changed my life! I felt the spirit of god and it was the greatest feeling ever! I got baptized about 6 months ago and it was great, I always put it off because i was embarrassed of going to the front and getting baptized in front of a church attendance of around 500 people! So basically through this whole experience and even though i have been raised in the church my whole life and knew almost every story in the bible I found my newly found faith and Found Jesus my savior! I live my life to the best of my ability and have cut off basically everything in my life that was sinful! including the hardest thing Sex! Keep in mind i am in a 4 year relationship with my girlfriend and I wasn't living as a christian for about 3 of those years! so it was very hard to cut the sex out until marriage! It was hard but it felt wrong and i knew i was sinning intentionally! So to the question! I still smoke weed, i enjoy having a joint before bed and i dont feel like i am sinning when i am doing this at all! God created all things good and i see nothing wrong with marijuana! pretend the media never existed, and you never heard of marijuana before! If you were to see somebody roll up this plant and smoke it would you look at them and be like o my you sinner! how could you smoke that plant! I see nothing wrong with it as long as you use it properly, the bible states nothing is wrong with it and it doesn't affect my life negative at all! Nobody can give me a concrete answer and I am always left wondering and praying for god to let me know if this is a sin! please help! any fellow Christians out there with any thoughts on this? thank you!! When under the influence of a substance..remember in the new testament? Therefore let us no sleep, as do others - As the wicked world does; compare notes, Matthew 25:5. But let us watch - That is, for the coming of the Lord. Let us regard it as an event which is certainly to occur, and which may occur at any moment; notes, Matthew 25:13. And be sober - The word here used (νήφω nēphō) is rendered sober.... is cannabis a non-sober substance? ask the lord... |
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OrbitalTester User ID: 14132894 United States 04/10/2012 05:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I believe in God, Jesus, I go to church every Sunday im a Catholic. I smoke Marijuana everyday. It doesnt make me do sins, it doesnt make me a bad person. USE IT MAN! God gave us this plant, if it was a sin then looks like my priest is sinning all the time because he smokes cigarettes. Its all good man ;) |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 13927124 United States 04/10/2012 05:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well... God loved Noah and Noah got so trashed once his sons found him in the nude. Although I'm not sure why you still look to that book of fairy tales for answers. I bet their are tons of outdated things in there you don't follow either. Like stoning (no pun intended lol) people, killing little ones, killing relatives, being struck dead for pulling out. Not to mention all the family lovin' going on that's creepy as hell. The version you read is most likely not even the one written back then (aside from the difference in language). Also need to consider that this book was written by man. It didn't appear on some golden table cloth out in the desert sent my God himself. Early Christians and, of course, Catholics destroyed all of our planets history. Burning libraries(Library of Alexandria) and pulling over ancient statues. Who knows how many, MANY years they set us back. We may never learn of our true past, all because they never wanted us too. So yeah, I don't think he is worried about you smoking a plant. After all, Adam and Eve were only warned of one plant. It wasn't Ganja. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 13371761 United States 04/10/2012 05:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | quote:xxterrencexx 2481038:MV8xNjYyMTg5Xzk2MDJBRDVC] First off before anyone reads this! I am a christian and Jesus is my Savior! I am sorry if you don't share my beliefs and i don't mean to offend anybody! Just looking for an answer and if you are not a christian you can still read this and answer! Thank you everyone! Is smoking marijuana a sin? First off let me tell you a little about myself! I am 22 years old and I love Jesus with all my heart, hes the reason i live and have the urge to continue to live! I am patiently waiting for his return to gather us up to be with him! Over the last 2 years of my life I made a complete U turn, basically I was clubbing 3-4 times a week, having pre-marital sex, getting smashed 3-4 times a week (goes along with the clubbing) you know basically the life that we are all told is the fun and cool life to live! I was born into the church and attended my whole life but never took it seriously at all, Just basically thought o well if this Jesus guy is real then ill just go to church once a week and be ok! I thought i was safe but was really living no better than anybody else and not being an example to others. I started smoking week at 19 years old and would say i smoke about 1-2 joints a day (usually at night cuz it relaxes me and i like to munch out lol) So basically to cut this story short, took a step back at my life and changed it! I started reading the bible for the first time in my life at 20 years old and it changed my life! I felt the spirit of god and it was the greatest feeling ever! I got baptized about 6 months ago and it was great, I always put it off because i was embarrassed of going to the front and getting baptized in front of a church attendance of around 500 people! So basically through this whole experience and even though i have been raised in the church my whole life and knew almost every story in the bible I found my newly found faith and Found Jesus my savior! I live my life to the best of my ability and have cut off basically everything in my life that was sinful! including the hardest thing Sex! Keep in mind i am in a 4 year relationship with my girlfriend and I wasn't living as a christian for about 3 of those years! so it was very hard to cut the sex out until marriage! It was hard but it felt wrong and i knew i was sinning intentionally! So to the question! I still smoke weed, i enjoy having a joint before bed and i dont feel like i am sinning when i am doing this at all! God created all things good and i see nothing wrong with marijuana! pretend the media never existed, and you never heard of marijuana before! If you were to see somebody roll up this plant and smoke it would you look at them and be like o my you sinner! how could you smoke that plant! I see nothing wrong with it as long as you use it properly, the bible states nothing is wrong with it and it doesn't affect my life negative at all! Nobody can give me a concrete answer and I am always left wondering and praying for god to let me know if this is a sin! please help! any fellow Christians out there with any thoughts on this? thank you!! |
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In pain User ID: 12171125 United States 05/11/2012 05:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm confused. I had surgery 2 days ago. They gave me Percocet but I had already been taking it for a week for pain. Same rx. I tried to call for something stronger but the nurse was so resistant. My mother in law was over. I am on bed rest. Her son has become very abusive recently but she's stayed with me all day to help. He came home and blew up again- we think he may have intermittent explosive disorder. Needless to say I was in a lot of pain and now I was shaking. My mother in law pulled out a joint. I do not do drugs. I don't do them recreationally. I thought about it and thought that I hadn't slept in 4 days. I took 2 "pulls". I didn't sleep. I was all paranoid. I honestly don't know what to do. I am being harassed by husband and I wish I could just sleep. Maybe not be stressed or hurt by him at least while I recuperate. I do want permission. I am not looking to "have fun" I really don't want to open the door to the enemy if it makes me high. I don't want Gods anger. I want his blessings and his gifts. Please help. Btw husband not hitting me but violent in other ways. Excuse typos I'm on cracked iphone quote:Junie:MV8xNjYyMTg5XzI3NDY2MDAyXzJCMTFCMTU3] Here is my take: Smoking marijuana is a sin only because it is illegal. Breaking the law IS a sin, unless it conflicts with God's law. Which abstaining from drugs does NOT. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2536981 If it were legal, I don't believe it would be a sin. As long as it were used responsibly, and in moderation. Just like alcohol. G But the fact remains that for now, it is against the law. I agree with this^^ Also, I am totally for medical marijuana. I'm going on a limb to say if it used as a sleep aid, well whats better? The big Pharma chemical laden pills they perscribe? Or marijuana? I have never understood why the perscriptions they hand out are okay. Because a doctor gave them to you and they are destroying your body in some cases? Good grief...but some pot is bad? I know people that have it for chronic back pain, migranes, PSD, you name it. I know it can be abused and phony scrips handed out, but that's between you and the Lord. As for me, I would rather most people use weed if it kept them off some of the chemical compound poisons they put into people these days. Lastly, some people abuse food too, and it acts like a drug to their body. It destorys the temple much the same. All of us put something in our body thats bad, whether we do it intentionally or not. I'm not encouraging drugs, but I'm not excited about doctors ouching pills all the itme either. I always prefer the natural way when possible. Here is my take: Smoking marijuana is a sin only because it is illegal. Breaking the law IS a sin, unless it conflicts with God's law. Which abstaining from drugs does NOT. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2536981 If it were legal, I don't believe it would be a sin. As long as it were used responsibly, and in moderation. Just like alcohol. But the fact remains that for now, it is against the law. I agree with this^^ Also, I am totally for medical marijuana. I'm going on a limb to say if it used as a sleep aid, well whats better? The big Pharma chemical laden pills they perscribe? Or marijuana? I have never understood why the perscriptions they hand out are okay. Because a doctor gave them to you and they are destroying your body in some cases? Good grief...but some pot is bad? I know people that have it for chronic back pain, migranes, PSD, you name it. I know it can be abused and phony scrips handed out, but that's between you and the Lord. As for me, I would rather most people use weed if it kept them off some of the chemical compound poisons they put into people these days. Lastly, some people abuse food too, and it acts like a drug to their body. It destorys the temple much the same. All of us put something in our body thats bad, whether we do it intentionally or not. I'm not encouraging drugs, but I'm not excited about doctors ouching pills all the itme either. I always prefer the natural way when possible. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1432248 United States 05/11/2012 05:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here is my take: Smoking marijuana is a sin only because it is illegal. Breaking the law IS a sin, unless it conflicts with God's law. Which abstaining from drugs does NOT. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2536981 If it were legal, I don't believe it would be a sin. As long as it were used responsibly, and in moderation. Just like alcohol. But the fact remains that for now, it is against the law. jewish people were rounded up under law in Nazi Germany and murdered...if you followed that law that would be sin |
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bonsaiguy User ID: 1373124 United States 05/11/2012 06:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Man youre a disgrace to the rest of us stoners, get high enough to SEE PAST RELIGION next time? Being christian is for dumb old fucks who got indoctrinated by the system so hard the shit is physically impossible to get out of their heads.. but a motherfucking 22 year old completely brainwashed by religion, worshiping an idol and expressing his love for his lord jesus christ, you fucking disgust me and I'm only a couple of years older than you Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2458875 Well, at least he is NOT hiding behind an "anonymous coward" badge, now is he? But as far as smokiing weed, The body is the holy temple of the Lord, and should be respected as such, and God created everything there is so His hand is in it to begin with. Furthermore, God gave to Adam in the garden of Edan, ALL the plants, the herb bearing seed, etc.... except that of the "TREE" of good and evil, marijuana is not a tree, so.......Oh, and was wondering, what else do you do with that filthy, vile mouth of yours? hmmm |
In pain and can't sleep User ID: 12171125 United States 05/11/2012 07:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Could someone please reply to my earlier post today? I never take drugs but because of surgery as well as abusive husband I find I am unfurled. I am so alone here on bed rest. I told hubby we are separated as of today until he gets a psych eval. Meanwhile I can't sleep. At all. If I smoke what my mother in law left me, am I opening up the door tithe demonic??? Christian answers please. Stop arguin w each other for 1 second and help a little sister out. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 15785795 United States 05/11/2012 07:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | God Gave Us Cannabis Book of Genesis I have given you every herb bearing seed In the Holy Bible Book of Genesis: 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food. 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold, it was very good… |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 7976121 United States 05/11/2012 07:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think that you really know the answer to this question, but I will give you the short and long version. Quoting: aviatrix 1. Short version. Yes, smoking marijuana is a sin. The definition of "sin" is "missing the mark". Using any mild-altering substance (alcohol, pot, any other non-prescribed medication) is altering your brain chemistry and by definition "a sin". 2. Long version. Why is altering my brain chemistry missing the mark? Doing anything that harms your body is missing the mark. Your body is the temple of Christ. When did my body become the temple of Christ? Under the old testament, animals were sacrificed for mankind's "missing the mark or sin". People brought animals to the temple and the priest went into the "holy of holies" and sacrificed these animals to God so that mankind could be forgiven. (OLD TESTAMENT WAY) Under the new testament, Christ did away with the sacrifice process and BECAME our eternal sacrifice, for our past sins, our present sins and our future sins. So we went from having animal sacrifice to Christ being our eternal sacrifice. (that is why he had to die on the cross). Now, since we don't sacrifice animals anymore, Christ also did away with the idea that we had to go to the holy of holies temples and pray through a priest. With Christ, our body now BECOMES the temple and Christ lives IN us. So because Christ is now residing IN us -- we have to keep the temple as clean as possible. Christ also did away with the idea that we have to pray through priests -- now we have a direct line from our prayer directly to God through Christ -- not through priests. So -- the reason you cannot smoke pot, smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, or anything else detrimental to your health is because your body, once you accept Christ as your savior, now becomes a holy temple and should not be defiled. Having said all that -- I think you already knew this answer but you wanted to see it in print. Here is your sign. In love. 100% wrong. The bible clearly states that God gave us every seed bearing plant for food. Plenty of people use pot in food and still receive the mind altering chemicals. The bible says nothing about smoking it being wrong, thus by the bible's own words it is okay. Either way, Jesus will forgive you. Since the mind altering part happens whether you smoke it or eat it I can't see God having a problem with people smoking it. They will die when he is ready for them to, if the smoke harms your body and ends up killing you somehow it was God's will. |
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Anonymous User ID: 18836475 United States 06/29/2012 09:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm sorry if I offend anybody.I used to smoke pot I am 20 I thought it wasn't bad but felt the holy spirit letting me know I was doing wrong I also used to dip snuff.I overcame both by the grace of god anything that alters your mind is a sin period. |
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Kirk User ID: 10818676 United States 06/29/2012 09:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here is my take: Smoking marijuana is a sin only because it is illegal. Breaking the law IS a sin, unless it conflicts with God's law. Which abstaining from drugs does NOT. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2536981 If it were legal, I don't believe it would be a sin. As long as it were used responsibly, and in moderation. Just like alcohol. But the fact remains that for now, it is against the law. Turning Jws into the SS was the law. Would you honor that too? You wouldnt want to sin would you? Government is a body largely ungoverned. |
chem User ID: 17689029 United States 06/29/2012 09:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | not a sin it is medicine and one of the safest. our government is sinning letting us take prescription pills that kill. if it helps you then all is good imo. the problem is what government and laws have done to it which creates people to kill etc. so many people do it because its relaxing people dont want to be stressed out. or angry. we smoke and chill.make music draw relax focus. drive safer. have a better outlook. enhances life. if it dosent work like that for you and you have a bad experience its not for you. |
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