yes, smoking defiles our temple for God's Holy SPirit.
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---john on 5/10/08 |
If you are saved how can you speak life to the unsaved smoking breathe out uncertain death in the next breath.
Can a river run both polluted and pure water together without being it contaminated?. |
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---Carla5754 on 5/9/08 |
In answer to your question...I don't believe that smoking is a sin but truly if we love GOD and we love ourselves why would we want to infect our lungs with such toxins. The world and it's air are already filled with stuff why make it hard for yourself. The bible clearly states that our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit and so as the spirit dwells in us we should take care of our temples amen? kuule3944 |
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---kuulei on 5/9/08 |
Augie:It was your car you had every right to set the rules.He chose to walk instead, while lighting a cigarette His loss your Gain No sin.IMHO. The sin was his for being discourteous. |
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---Emcee on 5/8/08 |
Smoking is a sin, because our body is God's temple and we are required to take care of it, and also because it harms others. Second hand smoke, that i breathed in the 18 years i lived at home has ruined my health to the point i'm disabled. My dad died of cancer from smoking, and my grandfather's lungs collapsed and he had a 10% lung capacity as he slowly suffocated to death over a period of years b/c of smoking. There is no benefit to smoking whatsoever. |
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---Cassie on 5/8/08 |
StrongAxe:
Thanks for being supporting of my NOT allowing cigarette smoking in my car. I'm ALLERGIC to cigarette smoke. I think that that is a good enough reason to NOT allow cigarette smoking in my car.
Several people told me that I was very "rude" for acting the way that I did. Oh, Really? I told them that they can give that man, and his cigarette smoke, a ride home the next time. However, The man never came back to our church. Maybe he found a smoker-friendly church. |
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---Augie on 5/8/08 |
The only sin against the body is fornication according to the Bible. The bible does not mention much about addiction other than saying that we should avoid using too much wine. It does not mention smoking as it does over-eating(glutney). I suppose that if one has faith to smoke, that it wouldn't be a sin. |
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---jody on 5/8/08 |
Augie:
You were not obligated to take the man home. You volunteered. You are free to set the conditions on who rides in your car and how.
You were offering to do the man a favor. If he preferred smoking to getting a ride home, that's his choice, and his problem, NOT yours. |
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---StrongAxe on 5/8/08 |
Whatever does not proceed from faith is sin. Romans 14:23. It is not something for others to decide for you. Frying food in lard could just as easily be seen as sinful. God is merciful. Romans 11:32. |
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---SueQ7373 on 5/7/08 |
I consider smoking cigarettes to be a "nasty" habit that "isn't good" for anyone, and can be "very bad". Several of my relatives, and friends, have died from smoking. I just hated their dying the way that they did, but smoking was their own choice.
This "nasty" habit is a sin if you think that it is. Personally, I consider smoking to be a form of suicide. Slowly killing yourself. Self murder. Therefore, I think that smoking is a sin. Exodus 20:13
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---Augie on 5/7/08 |
I dislike cigarette smoke so much that I don't allow active smokers to ride in my car.
I was asked to give a visitor to my church a ride home. I agreed and the gentleman got in my car. He pulled out a cigarette and started to "light up". I immediately told him that I don't allow any smoking in my car. The guy looked at me and said that he would walk home. I could see him "lighting up" as he walked away.
Did I sin by not allowing poisonous cigarette smoke in my car? |
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---Augie on 5/7/08 |
There's no "definite" answer to this type of Question. The sin is not in the smoking ,per se,but in it's destructiveness to the body. Caffeine is also "addictive" . Do you put yourself in harm's way? Skydive? Downhill ski? Scuba dive? Hunting? Race(vehicles)? Sin? Maybe! |
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---1st_cliff on 5/7/08 |
Yes, as is over eating consuming too much alcohol, driving too fast for the road you are on etc. Anything that harms this body but which would have been preventable if we'd used common sense, obeyed man's laws and God's laws is a sin. |
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---RitaH on 5/7/08 |
Yes, anything that we are aware that doing it is self destruction of our life is sin,nicotine is well known to be very much harmful to our health, and our body is the temple of the holy sprit. |
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---Joshua_Munyandinda on 5/7/08 |
Absolutely, putting poison into your bloodstream is evil.
What's further the premature destruction of the lungs lowers our capacity to breathe the way God intended.
Then there's the chemical influence on the brain, not a big one, definitely not worth the cough and cancer risk. The question is how many times have you "had to" have a cig when you were supposed to be living the life?
Worst of all you make rich those who have no conscience who make money off of death. |
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---pharisee on 5/7/08 |
Smoking doesn't have any benefits, even if you can maintain your weight.
Through the blue haze, no nutrition, used as way to remain skinny, eventually smoking destroys you. That is a sin. |
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---lisa on 5/7/08 |
It's a slow to moderate poisoning of the body.
It will take your lungs, stomach cancer is common in smokers, throat and mouth cancer.
There are no benefits to the smoker or those who have to endure their habit. Secondhand smoke is dangerous to all around the smoker.
It is a selfish sin. A sin that leads to death of the smoker and 2nd hand smoke that takes the lives of those around them. |
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---lisa on 5/7/08 |
Smoking is highly addictive, like alcohol.
Smoking doesn't kill behind the wheel like alcohol does, but it is slow and painful death.
Most smokers believe that they can escape the dangers until they end up carrying that oxygen tank around like a second lung. Most smokers believe they are immune from the diseases and sickness that comes.
I worked with a woman who was a chain smoker. |
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---lisa on 5/7/08 |
She could barely sit still, was outside constantly for a "smoke".
She is now dying at the age of 47.
She used smoking to control her weight, smoking and drinking coffee like there was no tomorrow.
We couldn't go anywhere for lunch unless smoking was allowed. If I wanted her company, I had to sit through all the smoke being blown in my face like a mosquito sprayer. |
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---lisa on 5/7/08 |
I liked her, so I would endure it. She had to have those "smokes".
Afterwards, I had to immediately throw my clothes in the washer or take them to the cleaners. The smell of smoke was so strong on my clothes, they could stand up in the corner on their own. I had to wash or get them out of the house. |
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---lisa on 5/7/08 |
I liked her, so I was willing to accommodate her smoking knowing that one day it would overcome her. It has now.
I used to plead with her to no avail, she was so addicted to tobacco.
She would rather have a cigarette and maintain her size 4 than eat a decent meal. She would watch me eat and have smokes and coffee for lunch.
I think she was pretending to eat what I was having. Smokers who smoke to maintain weight tend to become anorexic as well. |
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---lisa on 5/7/08 |
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