Is smoking a sin?

[Robert Gwin]

I don't believe so , it's like the health laws, do it at your own risk

Thanks for the input sir

 

[Truman]

I went out for a walk yesterday. It was cool, so I wore my leather jacket for the first time since last Spring. I found in the pocket a cigarette pack with 2 smokes in it. I'd ran out of E-juice and bought my first pack until I could get to the Vape shop.
I smoked the first one and enjoyed it. Later in the day I smoked the second one and felt ill. I remembered why I vape.
I bought a bottle of E-juice a few months ago. At my present rate of consumption, it should last until next September. I'm using a fraction of what I used to, though I'm not making any effort to quit. I don't know why this is happening, it just is.
On Christ the solid Rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.

 

[MatthewG]

Cool Truman. I don’t smoke anymore and the last thing that was smoked was the Cbd little cartridges. However had to put it to rest and not just have no need to smoke. Some smoke some do. To judge over something like this is silly. Just like body modifications and facial piercings.

 

[BarneyFife]

I do not disagree with that, but we base it on 2 Cor 7:1. At any rate it is a lack of respect for God given life. Keep in mind, overeating is just as much a sin as well, in fact it is in print in the Bible

Is smoking a sin? Post #297

 

[robert derrick]

@Ziggy

I think of dear old C H Spurgeon, the Godly preacher, puffing away in the 19th century.

Whatever ppl think - and they are entitled to their thoughts and views - smoking didn't hinder a mighty ministry for God, the effects of which are still felt today.

If ppl can quit, then great, but a sense of proportion also is good.

Similar cultural stuff can give rise to reflection; some Fundamentalists seem to persist in saying it's not ladylike to smoke; but that's probably nonsense.

I suppose a bit like tattoos; some Fundamentalists seem to persist in saying that it's not ladylike to get tattoos, but again that's nonsense.

Like it was posted a while ago:

Pearl said: ↑


Same with smoking, really. I honestly think that if ppl can quit, then more power to them; but I just don't buy the 'not ladylike to smoke' thing.

Cultural preaching is hogwash.

Christians are supposed to be 'ladylike' but Christ-like.

Preaching 'personal perspective' doesn't' deserve attention.

 

[robert derrick]

There are people that give up chocolate because it is from the cocoa plant. Not me!

Part of this topic should be....should I do this?

When I was six I was on a Farmall tractor with a 95 year old fellow. He cut off a piece of "Days work" tobacco and gave me a piece and I have been chewing most of my life. He had chewed ever since he was young and still could out work most men.

I heard a story of a man that use to be on his father to stop smoking. It came between them and he would make him go outside and smoke when he came to visit. And after he died he said he told him so. He did technically die of a heart attack but he was nearly 100 years old.

People have a hard time believing me when I tell them that I have slapped the snot out of friends. Well this one of those times. I had a fiend in the Navy that would make his elderly parents go outside to smoke. Groton, Connecticut, I go over to his house and he has his parents out in the snow smoking. So I asked him, do you want me to slap the snot out of you now or later?

It was not that long ago that doctors were prescribing cigarettes instead of tranquilizers....the way physic medications are today I wonder what would be better.

What should we be talking about? Should we advise against mountain climbing and parachuting?
Should religion get into how we eat....pyramid or vegan?
What exercise program?
Breast feeding or bottle?
Wearing a helmet on a motorcycle?
Wearing safety belts?

Smoking and drinking are not for everybody.
How do you tell if you are not the kind of person that needs to be drinking?
How do you know if you are not the kind of person that needs to be smoking?
I told my kids that vaping was only considered safer because they did not know the harmful effects of vaping yet. Voila!
How much is too much?

Slap the snot out of...

Haven't heard that in while.

The real question is how much is too much snot slapping out of?

Good for you.

 

[farouk]

Cool Truman. I don’t smoke anymore and the last thing that was smoked was the Cbd little cartridges. However had to put it to rest and not just have no need to smoke. Some smoke some do. To judge over something like this is silly. Just like body modifications and facial piercings.

@MatthewG Some believers have studded noses, etc. (not to speak of a little ink also), and are Godly ppl. Same comment about some believers who may smoke a bit.

 

[farouk]

I have never smoked so you're wrong - tobacco is not fine with me. But obviously other people are fine with it and who are we to judge? I'm fine with caffeine but lots of people aren't. I'm fine with alcohol in small amounts but again lots of people aren't.

@Pearl The key is doing it all with moderation, if done at all, right?

(Even Spurgeon the preacher smoked.)

 

[MatthewG]

@MatthewG Some believers have studded noses, etc. (not to speak of a little ink also), and are Godly ppl. Same comment about some believers who may smoke a bit.

Yes but their are Christians who still hate as well.

There has to be an equal balance.

Take the Westboro Baptist for example.

 

[farouk]

I used to smoke 3 packs a day, now I smoke 1.

Where's @Ziggy, BTW? she is missed...

 

[Lambano]

My mother died of emphysema, my father-in-law of lung cancer. Both were heavy smokers. Mom had to tote around oxygen bottles the last five years of her life. I can’t give an unbiased answer.

If any of you out there are smokers, I encourage you with all my heart to quit.

 

[farouk]

My mother died of emphysema, my father-in-law of lung cancer. Both were heavy smokers. Mom had to tote around oxygen bottles the last five years of her life. I can’t give an unbiased answer.

@Lambano A sobering post; thank-you.

 

[Lambano]

If it’s not a sin, it’s still pretty (insert profane word that IS a sin) stupid.

There. I said it, and now I’m going to have to repent.

 

[JunChosen]

As I've posted in Post #179,

God declared in the Ten Commandments:
"Thou shalt not kill" (murder). Smoking is self murder!

Whether smoking by yourself or with others as per second hand smoke.

To God Be The Glory

 

[Robert Gwin]

My mother died of emphysema, my father-in-law of lung cancer. Both were heavy smokers. Mom had to tote around oxygen bottles the last five years of her life. I can’t give an unbiased answer.

If any of you out there are smokers, I encourage you with all my heart to quit.

Thanks Lambo

 

[farouk]

Hi @VictoryinJesus

I inhale and smoke fills my lungs.

How about 2 new year's resolutions?

1) Quit if you can, but...

2) Just be matter of fact about it; don't beat yourself up if you don't quite quit yet...

 

[TLHKAJ]

Whether smoking by yourself or with others as per second hand smoke.

I seriously doubt that smelling someone else's second hand smoke is a sin. You can't foresee or control that a lot of the time. I've never been a smoker, but I've been involuntarily subjected to other people's carelessness thousands upon thousands of times from infancy into recent adulthood. That wasn't my sin. People smoke in public, outside doorways to businesses or in a parking lot. Smoke travels. That's not the sin of the one who didn't choose to be subjected to it.

 

[robert derrick]

As I've posted in Post #179,

God declared in the Ten Commandments:
"Thou shalt not kill" (murder). Smoking is self murder!

Whether smoking by yourself or with others as per second hand smoke.

To God Be The Glory

The problem with making up law is that it is making up law.

Everything is clean of itself, but lust corrupts everything.

If someone smokes one cigarette, cigar, pipe of tobacco every day, they are no more 'self-murdering' than them who eat one steak, drinking one glass of wine, or partake of any other substance daily.

Not eating and drinking will self-murder us faster than smoking.

The problem with law making is self-righteousness and robbing the liberty of others.

Why should all mankind be forbidden an enjoyment, because others destroy themselves with gluttony, drunkenness, chain-smoking, fornication...

with others as per second hand smoke.

And of course the self-righteous lawmakers become the busybody crusaders destroying liberty of life for others: anti-smoking NAZIs who make laws destroying property rights and freedom to conduct one's business without despotism.

Zealots are pipsqueak self-righteous little busybodies, who have no life of their own, and so love to make themselves lords over others through 'activism'.

Peter placed busybodies in other peoples' affairs right alongside thieves and murderers.

At least with murderers we can defend ourselves with deadly force. But what do you do with a little busybody? It's not like their going to let you alone if you reject them, after all, their busybodies.

 

[Jay Ross]

No, but the reason why you smoke probably is.

 

[robert derrick]

No, but the reason why you smoke probably is.

You talkin to me?

Who says I smoke? Or drink alcohol? Or watch TV? Or go to sports events?

Why do people always got to make things personal, when they are posing to be teachers of the doctrine of God?

If I did smoke, it would be for the same reason for having sex with my spouse: I want to. I like it. I enjoy it. I like it, I love it, and I want more of it!

No one has to be a smoker to reject false law-making about smoking.

One thing is for sure, Scripture never condemns smoking, but Scripture sure has plenty of condemnation for false teachers who add their own commandments, traditions, and laws to the Word of God.

Children playing with fire is what many do, because they get on some crusade about something they don't personally like.

I'd rather be around a smoking sinner than an anti-smoking crusader.

Self-righteously preening pompous potentates are far more disgusting to my soul than any cigarette smoke to my flesh (which I do not like).