Why is weed a sin

[Jerrell]

Any addiction is sin, I will get back with the bilbe verse tommorrow. But if any person is truthful and really want to know Ask them, "Do you really believe God would approve of smoking weed?" ....some would say yes, but deep down i think they know its no. They just want an excuse.

 

[mike74]

The thing is the Bible is full of references to drinking and most dont go against it, they just take it as part of life. If you cant get up in the morning without thinking "cant wait for my first hit" then you are odviously sinning, because you are killing your seed with the worrys of the world.

 

[JCFantasy23]

Hmmm well, I wouldn't think it's a sin in general to do once in a blue mood. I think addiction is a sin. Smoking once does not harm the body and cause it to be a sin. Some people use it for medicinal purposes, like hot teas and throat sprays.

 

[Corin]

Any addiction is sin, I will get back with the bilbe verse tommorrow. But if any person is truthful and really want to know Ask them, "Do you really believe God would approve of smoking weed?" ....some would say yes, but deep down i think they know its no. They just want an excuse.

TOTALLY AGREE!
Ive seen that alot on here lately. People saying that certain things are okay just because they dont want to stop doing them.
You are sooo right. They just want an excuse so they will say anything to make themselves feel better.
The bible dosent work that way.

 

[Shiversblood]

Right now, there really isn't enough biblical evidence for me to be convinced either way on this issue. Every once in a while I will smoke it and get high, and other days I look back on it and wonder if I was sinning, because people tell me it is a sin. But other then just words from others, I am unable to convince myself that it is something to be avoided, and I just give in again and smoke it again. Even though I think I shouldn't sometimes.

 

[Corin]

Right now, there really isn't enough biblical evidence for me to be convinced either way on this issue. Every once in a while I will smoke it and get high, and other days I look back on it and wonder if I was sinning, because people tell me it is a sin. But other then just words from others, I am unable to convince myself that it is something to be avoided, and I just give in again and smoke it again. Even though I think I shouldn't sometimes.

I dont think you want to see the biblical evidence.

 

[Nadiine]

Right now, there really isn't enough biblical evidence for me to be convinced either way on this issue. Every once in a while I will smoke it and get high, and other days I look back on it and wonder if I was sinning, because people tell me it is a sin. But other then just words from others, I am unable to convince myself that it is something to be avoided, and I just give in again and smoke it again. Even though I think I shouldn't sometimes.

Here's a good [easy to read] page on it:
http://www.pharmakia.org/chapter4.php

Drugs are a doorway to Satan's territory and gives the enemy right to effectively influence & attack us. Putting our mind in an altered state is not of God and never was.

It's also illegal (at least for now) which means it's sin in the sense that you're breaking laws to use it (just for pleasure).
Jesus told us to obey the laws of the land, (Rom 13) this is breaking the laws and is sin.
(nevermind the stumbling issue of claiming to be of God while using illegal mind altering substances)....

It's of the occult. Here's an excerpt on this from a website that I think has some good information:
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NEW TESTAMENT SORCERY

PHARMAKIA –Use of medicine and drugs used not for medicinal purposes , used in spells and religious rituals and ceremonies or for ones own pleasure includes charms amulets appealing to occult powers.

In Gal.5:19-21 it gives a list of practices that are from the fallen nature of man that are condemned. One is called witchcraft (sorcery) this word in the Greek language is Pharmakia where we get our word Pharmacy.
These are things used to put people under an outside influence bringing them into an altered state. That is a state that is not natural to mind but prompted by a foreign substance. this is called sorcery and is just as forbidden as drunkenness caused by another foreign substance, alcohol.

After the fall of Adam and eve the ground was cursed by God it was no longer sustaining the state he created it in that he pronounced was good. There are plants that are medicinally good and others that are not. we should consider the bibles actual interpretation before using the bible to validate what it actually forbids

Rev.9:21, 18:23. MAGIA—magic wizardry or sorcery. an example of this is marijuana which can be used to alleviate side effects in cancer patients chemo therapy. There are numerous other drugs far more addictive then marijuana. yet it does have a medicinal use. but there are those who use it by smoking it for spiritual use and recreation and this is where it becomes pharmakia.

Another example would be Paul telling Timothy to take a little wine ( for medicine) for his stomachs ailments. But he also writes to Timothy, a leader in the Church should not be given to drinking wine. So he is making a distinction of a custom of drinking at dinner and recreation or pleasure vs. medicinal value.
This is not to promote the freedom we have to take drugs but to give the example that they have a medicinal use.
Almost all drugs are based on their original source of plants and herbs. We should always seek a better alternative and natural does not always mean better.
Often times we need to be reminded that spiritual warfare exists in our lives.

Ephesians 6.10-18). When God's people do not make knowledge of Him a priority, and His glory preeminent, given the fact of spiritual warfare, is it really surprising some are led astray by false practices and deceitful spirits or such deception that there are consequences.

The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. (1 Timothy 4:1, NIV) Be self controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. (1 Peter 5:8, NIV)
Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the Powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Ephesians :11-12, No one who has experienced severe pain, or pain of any type, enjoys it. But we should not go to broken cisterns which cannot satisfy.
When Saul Israel's king stopped hearing from the Lord he went to a witch. People will always go to the occult when they can’t hear from God. Its easier, but damage can be irreparable, certainly the consequences are eternal.
asier, but damage can be irreparable, certainly the consequences are
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I agree with that article. It's well known that drug use has commonly been used in the occult and there's a reason for it.

 

[Trelawrence]

I think this is the Scripture you're looking for:

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 in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

 

[icedtea]

Excellent, Nadiine.
With the holy spirit, there is no Need to 'get high'.

 

[Bridgit]

Why is smoking weed a sin?

Because it creates an addiction and because it destroys the body.

 

[Trelawrence]

Yep, I like the simplicity of that answer. In God, you won't have to.

Beats a theological battle any day.

 

[Bellicus]

Yep, I like the simplicity of that answer. In God, you won't have to.

Beats a theological battle any day.

The problem with that logic though, is that you don't need anything fun or enjoying in life, cause you have God. You can just put your self in a cave with food supplies for the rest of your life.

My best answer to the topic is that weed is no more sin then anything else, but biblically we should not break the law in the contry we live in. So I guess its OK for christians for example in Holland to smoke it if they want to, as long as they don't put it higher then God, or exchange it with God.

I was stoned when I accepted Jesus myself.

 

[Trelawrence]

The problem with that logic though, is that you don't need anything fun or enjoying in life, cause you have God. You can just put your self in a cave with food supplies for the rest of your life.

My best answer to the topic is that weed is no more sin then anything else, but biblically we should not break the law in the contry we live in. So I guess its OK for christians for example in Holland to smoke it if they want to, as long as they don't put it higher then God, or exchange it with God.

I was stoned when I accepted Jesus myself.

I was born in a society that allows for alcoholic consumption at relatively young ages. I cannot find anything wrong with your thinking... still, I believe that the decision to eschew "vices" comes from within based on prodding from above..

I don't know that I have the right to point at a weed smoker and shout "sinner!" (not that anyone has in this thread); I do think you could discuss intent, but again, I think that is one of those things that may be difficult to argue from a scriptural point without getting tangled up.

Consuming stuff that can hurt is definitely not a smart thing to do, and i think most of us will agree with that.

 

[Nadiine]

The problem with that logic though, is that you don't need anything fun or enjoying in life, cause you have God. You can just put your self in a cave with food supplies for the rest of your life.

My best answer to the topic is that weed is no more sin then anything else, but biblically we should not break the law in the contry we live in. So I guess its OK for christians for example in Holland to smoke it if they want to, as long as they don't put it higher then God, or exchange it with God.

I was stoned when I accepted Jesus myself.

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The bible says to be SOBERminded, and not drunk on wine.
Anything altering our minds is sin when we use it for mere pleasure.

It isn't sin just becuz it's against a civil law, pharmakia in scripture is called sinful. Opening our mind thru any anebriation opens us up spiritually and allows satan to work in that empty gap.
It also brings inhibition - we do things we normally would never do if we were sober.

That isn't to say that God cannot work or counter demonic activity, but it's still sin. There's a whole spiritual parameter to opening up yourself thru alcohol (spirits) & drugs and it's very serious.

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

I posted this somewhere else but I realized I would get alot more responses if it was in here. I posted it in somewhere else I found first.

Hello. I am talking to a guy who smokes weed etc. I told him that it was a sin. He shrugged and said um why. I said that God does not like it when people get high and smoke weed. He said how you know. I said the bible. He said the Bible never actually speaks about Marijuana itself. But I explained there was bible verses that said stuff that made you realize it was indeed a sin. He said he tell me a example then. I thought and thought and searched my mind, then I said, "Though shalt not be drunk with whine." he said he doesnt drink whine and thats not marijuanna.

So why is it a sin? What are the reasons and what are the bible verses. He is still awaiting my awnser and still smoking weed etc. I am having trouble trying to explain to him so I need help, and posts in here i can read and then repeat them to him.

Greetings. I first started on pot and hashish about a year after joining the service in '68 [I was 17 at the time I joined] and continued smoking it up to about 7 yrs ago along with being an alcholic to boot.

The day the Lord entered my life, I quit drinking and smoking pot and haven't touched either for over 5 yrs.

You cannot convince or force someone to quit smoking it no matter what you say to them, and especially younger people, as they just want to live in the "fast and loose lane" as I and my brother and sisters did when we were youths.

Bringing someone to the Lord is not easy but once we do, it is imperative to have them read the Bible and I always recommend the Gospel of John first, then the rest of the NT/NC then start on the OT/OC. That is how the Lord led me to read it and I am still awed by that book to this day. Guess that is about all I can say on it right now. Thoughts?

John 7:37 In yet the last day, the great, of the feast, stood the Jesus and cries-out, saying, "If-ever any-one may be thirsting, let him be coming toward Me and be drinking"; [Isaiah 43:19/Revelation 21:6]

Matthew 5:6 "Happy the ones-hungering and thirsting the righteousness, that they shall be being gorged ".

Reve 21:6 And He said to me:" it-has-become. I Am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end.
I, to the one thirsting, shall be giving out of the spring of the Water of the Life gratuitously". [John 7:37/Reve 22:17]

 

[Bellicus]

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The bible says to be SOBERminded, and not drunk on wine.
Anything altering our minds is sin when we use it for mere pleasure.

It isn't sin just becuz it's against a civil law, pharmakia in scripture is called sinful. Opening our mind thru any anebriation opens us up spiritually and allows satan to work in that empty gap.
It also brings inhibition - we do things we normally would never do if we were sober.

That isn't to say that God cannot work or counter demonic activity, but it's still sin. There's a whole spiritual parameter to opening up yourself thru alcohol (spirits) & drugs and it's very serious.

Well, that's your translation of it. And your adding to it by claiming there is demonic forces that automatically takes us away from God if we smoke a joint or get drunk. I got problems in my life, and sometimes i just want to drink some beers, sometimes i need a valium to function, sometimes i even smoke a joint and I don't get possessed by demons, God still is with me. I've had great times on this forum after having a six-pack of beer and looking in the bible for good quotes to use in the debates. Can't see what was sinful about it. And if cannabis would be legalized where I live, then I would probably have a joint instead. But it would not mean that I left God.

 

[timmynkaelynsmama]

I dont think its a sin at all. I dont do it. But I dont think its a sin. God did create everything, so he did create the marijuana plant.And I dont believe he would make a plant that had that effect if he thought it would be terrible for you to use it.

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

I dont think its a sin at all. I dont do it. But I dont think its a sin. God did create everything, so he did create the marijuana plant.And I dont believe he would make a plant that had that effect if he thought it would be terrible for you to use it.

I agree. The one thing about pot is, that a few tokes of some really potent weed is all ya need and the effects last for hours. What is dangerous is driving or working while on it. Don't know about being at school while on it as I never did it in school. I never touched the hard stuff like heroine or cocaine though I did shoot up speed often when in construction.

I know people that smoke weed and though they know they are breaking the law, they look at it as no different than drinking alchohol, and it does make ya feel good, though it can also make one paranoid.

 

[icedtea]

God did create everything, so he did create the marijuana plant.And I dont believe he would make a plant that had that effect if he thought it would be terrible for you to use it.

Oh my, easily debunked!
He also made the opium plant, and many poisonous ones. I know he didn't mean for us to use them either!

 

[Shiversblood]

The problem with that logic though, is that you don't need anything fun or enjoying in life, cause you have God. You can just put your self in a cave with food supplies for the rest of your life.

My best answer to the topic is that weed is no more sin then anything else, but biblically we should not break the law in the contry we live in. So I guess its OK for christians for example in Holland to smoke it if they want to, as long as they don't put it higher then God, or exchange it with God.

I was stoned when I accepted Jesus myself.

I tend to agree with this line of reasoning for the most part, for it is kinda simular to my view. Why should people in countries like the Netherlands not be able to smoke it every once in a while if it isn't illegal, It is not sinning by breaking the law. And for me, I feel as if Weed should not be illegal in the U.S at all, so that sometimes makes me think that I am not even sinning because it should be legal anyway. In my mind I am not breaking the law.