is smoking a sin

[Quenton]

A great many people have asked this question,is smoking sin? Without judging this one way or another,one thing about smoking that we all know it is!! It is a bad witness. Can you think of Jesus talking to his disciples with a cig in his mouth?

And did we ever hear once in the Bible where any of the disciples did the same?? If you were invited to a meeting,about how to become rich,what would do to a man who came out to you,to talk to you in rags? Would you listen to this man?? LOL

I do not think any of us would,for to be something, we must first act like something. Smoking is a bad witness,now to some in a bar talking about Jesus,this may not sound to bad,I mean most smoke in bars,and Jesus would have no trouble going into one to preach his Word,but the preception of seeing a person smoking, talking about Jesus,does also not seem as if the person doing the talking has much knowledge of what he or she looks like talking about such a Holy God.

A Jesus who wants us to be free from our flesh, and from its desires. No I do not think many would take this person very seriously do you? To me, it is not that smoking is bad for you,although we do know it sure is not good for you either,but what appearence does one have speaking of Jesus smoking a cig? I think you get the point.blessing!

I guess another way of stating the question is...is the desires of our flesh a sin?

 

[RJ]

Yes smoking is a sin but, the act of smoking, should not be the focus, it should be the sin and what is it?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />
I personally think that smoking is a perfect example of sin and how we humans so often miss the point and, that is, that sin is so much more prevalent in the physical word than we can understand.
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Mostly, we want to focus on the “Dirty Dozen” or the “Nasty Five” and we completely miss the truth who God is and how we sin.
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Just like things such as fear, doubt, envy and the list goes on forever, smoking is a sin.
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The point is that sin is anything outside the absolute perfection of God.
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Thanks be to God and for what Jesus did for us on the cross.
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[Bredon]

Hi to all. Well in my opinion smoking is not a sin but it has lot of side effects and it is not good for health. it causes lot of diseases so we should avoid it.

 

[james g]

sin it his a lot of side effects and it is not good for health,it causes lot of diseases so we should avoid it too.

 

[RJ]

Hi to all. Well in my opinion smoking is not a sin but it has lot of side effects and it is not good for health. it causes lot of diseases so we should avoid it.

I think that there is infinitely so many ways for us to sin that we have no way of keeping up with them all. Thank God for Jesus Christ!

The way I look at it, our ultimate (eternal) status will be perfection, otherwise we could not be in the presence of God for all eternity. It is logical that a sin is anything outside of God's perfect existence. God does not smoke for obvious reasons and it is therefore a sin.

 

[Daniel_777]

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 - "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from GOD? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor GOD with your body."

With this in mind, think about whether or not what you're doing is glorifying GOD. This section of scripture is talking about sexual immorality in particular, but it can certainly by helpful in other areas.