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1 | So would this be correct? | Bible general Archive 2 | umagumadog | 148911 | ||
Ok I can think of a list of any number of substances (outside of tobaco,alcohol,drugs) that have been altered by man that are able to destroy or distort that are used every day by man without a second thought as to their use. I asume that as you pointed out marajuana has benifical and detramentel uses. So does as an example the internet that we are using now it has the ability to be benifical such as in this forum but it also has the ability to be detramental such as someone who is addicted to porn on the internet or any other ways the internet can be used to destroy or distort. So am I also to asume that if something has benifical and detramentel uses it's ok to use it as long as the way it's used is not out of the will of god it's ok? Such as a bible printed on hemp paper would be an exceptable use of marajuana as would medicanal use such as doctors in some states and countries do now it would be ok but,if marajuana is used just to get high and no good benifit comes from its use it would be outside the will of God and should not be used or consumed in that manner? Please understand I am just asking honest questions that I have as a christian on my walk with god and am not trying to cause discension or argument but seeking wisdom from council as my bible instructed me. Where so ever two or more are gatherd in my name there shall I be also. | ||||||
2 | So would this be correct? | Bible general Archive 2 | JCrichton | 149014 | ||
"So am I also to asume that if something has benifical and detramentel uses it's ok to use it as long as the way it's used is not out of the will of god it's ok?" Hi! You have surmised correctly! (I do not know how familiar you are with the Holy Scripture... so if I make quick general references without quoting book, chapter and verse and you need them please reply under the same thread so I can provide them...) There was a time when a centurion came to Jesus asking to cure his servant... as Jesus gestured to accompany him the centurion told Him that he understood His position and that as he related it to himself he knew that Jesus did not have to be in the presence of his servant to cure him... Jesus commented that He had not found such faith in Israel! This man happened to be a guard representing the occupying force in Israel... yet, Jesus looks into his heart and not his physical appearance or his social identity... Jesus knew that this man happened to be a Roman officer but that his heart and mind was humble to God as witnessed by his actions and conviction! It is the same for all Christians--Jesus expects and demands that we separate ourselves from the wickedness of the world... He does not demand that we remove ourselves from the world... just the conduct of the world... I remember hearing/reading about an old lady (or was it two) who was selling prescription drugs in her neighborhood... clearly there's nothing wrong with prescription drugs--moraly... many people with chronic ailments take them on a regular basis... but it is one thing for my Mom to take her prescriptions and another for me to abuse them! It is one thing for an elderly person (or any other person on prescription drugs) to take his/her prescriptions and another to distribute or make them accessible to others who will abuse them! One action is clearly righteous while the other is clearly unrighteous... as Christians, we must distinguish one action from the other and act upon the one that pleases God! I am not knowledgeable about the paper industry (some have claimed that the manufacturing hemp paper would be totally beneficial--something to do with the plant's rate of growth and yield) but if hemp would be the only natural resource from which paper could be manufactured for the printing of Bibles and once processed the paper would not have the property of Marijuana, then, yes, there would be no problem with such production... Conversely, if the paper would retain the properties of Marijuana, then it would be improper and anti-Christian for us to produce Bibles under such conditions... Another example... there was a time in the US when currency coins and electrical wires were made with silver... people began to hoard th coins, melt them down and resell them at a higher than face value... houses and buildings were stripped of their electrical wires, which were sold/melted and sold... clearly there was nothing unrighteous about the coins or the wires; but it became apparent that the opportunity for hoarding the metal would cost the governement and society great distress as more and more people would exploit the opportunity for easy, though destructive, silver (money)... It is the same with God! Anything that would bring about our spiritual damnation--no matter how well intended--we, as Christians, must abstain from participating in or facilitating othes with access to such items... Though Scripture does not speak on many things by name, we know, by doctrine, that God expects and demands that we obey Him and abstain from doing or causing unrighteousness to be present/produced... Keep reading the Holy Scripture... don't look for clauses (ways to avoid doing or ways to be able to do) that seemingly circumvent God... look for deeper understand on what God has revealed! God Command us to avoid becoming inebriated--it could be any product or thing that clouds our free will... that which controls us becomes our master (drugs, sex, power, intelligence, money, physical appearance, skills, possessions, even our own body or our friends or families)... there is one mayor Commandment that covers all of the above: Love the Lord, God, above all things! God Bless! Angel |
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