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Vaping is bad for the lungs too.Hi Victory, sure wish you would try vaping. The day I started 17 years ago, this June, I've never once looked back. There is a learning curve, especially not that they have so many models.
@Apache1 thinking about you this morning while reading a passage in the Word. You didn’t respond several times to my comments earlier, so I’m thinking maybe I’ve been put on ignore. But still, this is the verse that made me think of some of your comments. Regarding why do we (you said innocent) be included under Adam and Eves interaction with the serpent? Why (must we all)be included under a choice a prideful fallen angel made that we were not even there (present) for. If I understood you correctly you suggested how stupid and unfair that is and a bully action of God. How Unfair it is to be included under as in Adam all die… asserting “I didn’t do anything wrong” to be punished for what some fallen angels vanity- trip, power-trip, long ago…action did. Wanted to share with you that in my opinion being included in the “all die” in Adam is such a hopeful thing in that “all” die.Oh do take your high and mighty act elsewhere
I get the hopelessness of “what is this all for?” And questioning “did it have to be this way.” Especially acknowledging some hard conversations with loved ones of news of I’m sick, or this happened, or this was lost …the bad news that comes often over and over of something painful that knocks you off your feet and on to your bottom. Personally I get stuck in the same “this sucks. What bad news is coming next? I don’t think I can stand hearing any more.” Because if I live to be as old as my mother who is ninety-two there is going to be news of death, and pain, and deterioration and loss and grief.Well look at it this way
God and Jesus are alone in the universe as no other beings have been created yet
Why would they decide to go ahead with Satan, the Fall, human history, and Jesus dying
Instead of doing something else entirely
And of course the most irritating thing about being on this planet, which is no matter what you do you just have to sleep and do it all again
You are ignoring the same as all die in Adam, all are made Alive unto God in Christ. Only seeing the all die in Adam. I’m trying to think of a comparison. This is a bad one but it is all I can think of. When I needed MS medication that would cost thousands a bottle to have…our supposed good insurance said they don’t pay for specialty medicine. Well I cried and cried so worried because there was no way I could pay for it then. I didn’t know it was all about money and greed, and the insurance company knew they would get out of paying.How is it shaking a fist at God to ask why he would decide to create Lucifer and have have Jesus die instead of doing something else entirely
Well, you're gonna have COPD anywayif you smoke which is irreversible (but can be slowed down).Vaping is bad for the lungs too.
"Breathing in the harmful chemicals from vaping products can cause irreversible (cannot be cured) lung damage, lung disease and, in some cases, death. Some chemicals in vaping products can also cause cardiovascular disease and biological changes that are associated with cancer development." - Canadian Lung Association
Jesus came to set us free from these things, as our bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost.
1 Corinthians 6
[19] What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
[20] For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Galatians 5
[17] For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
To show the magnitude of Love. To have another character die so another character could save him. Does it touch you when parents forgo their own desires and sacrifice for the love and betterment of their children. Or when a brother gives (donates) a kidney or some organ to his younger brother who will die without it. Or the biggest box-office movies of a hero that cares about the whole of all more than about himself. A friend is going on and on about this book called project Hail Mary. I haven’t read it but by the sample it is about an astronaut that has to save the world. Do you not ever pull for, Hope for … those risking it all to save the day? Do you not ever pull for or stand up shouting for Love to prevail and Triumph? Where does this longing come from to be inspired to Love… and for it to be Victorious?No I'm not ignoring that
I'm starting from before Adam was created.
It's like if you were a writer and decided to have a character die so another character could save him. Why would you decide to go that route
Well, you're gonna have COPD anywayif you smoke which is irreversible (but can be slowed down).
I love the Lord, and couldn't quit smoking I prayed and prayed. Then (and I think God gave this idea to me. Start out vaping at full e juice percent, then taper off the % of nicotine. I did that and over time, went to 0% nicotine, and thendid that for two days and thew my vape pen away. It's been like 5 + years, and over 10 since I smoked. My voice, which was rough, came back unrough with a few months after switching to vape.
Now I don't smoke or vape, and I believe God gave me that plan.
The good thing is God takes people where they are. Maybe some of us have more addictive personalities--we don't know what others are going through.
I don't want Apache or Victory to lose hope. God loves both of them, and maybe you can come up with a plan too.
(PS I used to go visit my son and daughterinlaw in Florida. Neither smoke, and we spent alot of time going to Disney World and Universal. When I went down to Florida, I used a patch--they work pretty good too. But I really enjoyed smoking, and went right back when I came back)
To show the magnitude of Love. To have another character die so another character could save him. Does it touch you when parents forgo their own desires and sacrifice for the love and betterment of their children. Or when a brother gives (donates) a kidney or some organ to his younger brother who will die without it. Or the biggest box-office movies of a hero that cares about the whole of all more than about himself. A friend is going on and on about this book called project Hail Mary. I haven’t read it but by the sample it is about an astronaut that has to save the world. Do you not ever pull for, Hope for … those risking it all to save the day? Do you not ever pull for or stand up shouting for Love to prevail and Triumph? Where does this longing come from to be inspired to Love… and for it to be Victorious?
I haven’t walked in your shoes so I don’t know what you are speaking of. I still don’t understand what you meant by spiritual attacks. I don’t know if you meant supernaturally attacked of demons you saw or heard. Or if you meant people stomping on you and beating you down over and over by their words and actions towards you. All I’m saying is I think you are saying it would have been better if God never brought us into another dying to save another. Because that is just plain stupid. That why didn’t he make it to where there is no need for one to die to save another. I don’t know. Only that one did die to save another …and for a sinner on top of that! Not for a good man, but for a sinner one died. To me that is a love without “until you perform and jump through hoops for me I won’t love you.”Yeah I don't understand that. I read about other Christians who smoke or used to and either God was fine with it or helped them quit while I got all sorts of attacks despite blah blah barking dog shut up Apache we are sick of your endless whining
I haven’t walked in your shoes so I don’t know what you are speaking of. I still don’t understand what you meant by spiritual attacks. I don’t know if you meant supernaturally attacked of demons you saw or heard. Or if you meant people stomping on you and beating you down over and over by their words and actions towards you. All I’m saying is I think you are saying it would have been better if God never brought us into another dying to save another. Because that is just plain stupid. That why didn’t he make it to where there is no need for one to die to save another. I don’t know. Only that one did die to save another …and for a sinner on top of that! Not for a good man, but for a sinner one died. To me that is a love without “until you perform and jump through hoops for me I won’t love you.”
I haven’t walked in your shoes so I don’t know what you are speaking of. I still don’t understand what you meant by spiritual attacks. I don’t know if you meant supernaturally attacked of demons you saw or heard. Or if you meant people stomping on you and beating you down over and over by their words and actions towards you. All I’m saying is I think you are saying it would have been better if God never brought us into another dying to save another. Because that is just plain stupid. That why didn’t he make it to where there is no need for one to die to save another. I don’t know. Only that one did die to save another …and for a sinner on top of that! Not for a good man, but for a sinner one died. To me that is a love without “until you perform and jump through hoops for me I won’t love you.”
No, that is not stupid--none of this is stupid. It is depression and a cry for why it is happening to him.Because that is just plain stupid.
Have to get off here. Who told you they are sick of your whining Apache? (Imo) Maybe you should whine a little louder then for deaf ears to hear. Sounds like you are crying out for something, for help “let us out please!” …odd you are not crying only let “me out please” ..but “let us out please”. Considering others being let out and not only yourself let out. I can relate to you saying what you hear back is “stop whining”. Because I cry a lot to be Loved and told “stop crying to be Loved” …maybe I’m insane but to me that doesn’t mean my crying to be loved is wrong but the being told to stop crying for it. To which I wonder if then I need to cry louder then so that someone might hear. Same with you “stop whining” is it wrong for you to whin, or whimper, or wail, or cry “let us out please!” …as if you are whining a door be opened and “let us out please!” Those telling you to shut it up, to hush it…in my opinion have turned hard-hearted to your whining, wail, cry and also to my cries to be loved. Proclaiming shut it up…your whining is deafening —piercing—to our ears. Whine Louder Apache, I think, …much like Moses in the OT and God commanding to Pharaoh “Let My People Go! Is your “Let me out please!” But I still think the cry is “Let me out please!” Of death…and unto Life. Where you receive back a “stop whining!”Apache we are sick of your endless whining