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    Is Addiction the Sin of Idolatry, or is it a disease?

    Everything about that is beautiful Magenta.
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    Is Smoking Tobacco a Sin?

    Hahaha I get it...I guess those guys back then if they really liked what they were smoking they must have been "double jointed"!
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    Is Smoking Tobacco a Sin?

    Really? What were they smoking?
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    Is Addiction the Sin of Idolatry, or is it a disease?

    Sure I get it. But Gabor Mate mentions and refers to Jesus a lot actually, which is interesting.
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    Is Addiction the Sin of Idolatry, or is it a disease?

    Idol factories! That's a good one and sounds about right. Isn't an idol something you worship though? Like people idolise their kids sometimes? Or Elvis (or even Elvis guitar?) I am not sure if addiction fits into idols. Not sure. I don't think addicts worship what they take they just cant stop...
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    Is Addiction the Sin of Idolatry, or is it a disease?

    Yes I agree with you on the "which is worse effects" Crack or one cigarette, or course I know the effects of that and it probably one of the worse substance mind altering drugs on earth to hell. Nowhere near as bad as having one cigarette. But that's not my point. If you break the smallest law...
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    Is Addiction the Sin of Idolatry, or is it a disease?

    But you cant save or help sinners if you dont hang around with any of them or have nothing to do with them? Jesus sat and ate with sinners so why cant you? In fact Jesus only came for sinners not the righteous. If you are in a hospital bed ill, you cannot insist on a Christian surgeon. Or maybe...
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    Is Addiction the Sin of Idolatry, or is it a disease?

    I hope I understand you correctly, but say if I am wrong but here goes. Do you mean that like many years ago, before the pharmaceutical industry took off proper, people had a heart attack at say 60 just for example, and they didn't resuscitate them because that was their natural life span, for...
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    Is Addiction the Sin of Idolatry, or is it a disease?

    Well the SDAs say that even drinking coffee is wrong don't they? What is worse then? If a person has one cigarette, its a form of idolatry or the full blown crack addict and alcoholic? Surely to break one law is to break them all yes? Where do we stop then. Only "pure" water etc? I have an...
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    Is Addiction the Sin of Idolatry, or is it a disease?

    Yes I agree with everything you say. I think there are two types - ones that have trauma and ones that take a drug not knowing what the hell is going to happen to them when they quit. Some cant. Side effects horrific and not just for them either but from their families who just cant believe the...
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    Is Addiction the Sin of Idolatry, or is it a disease?

    Sorry Nayborbear. I didn't mean to make you sad. Its just there are too many "New Age" people promoting that Pharmacy means Sorcery or even worse and twisting the meaning. It can lead some to think the wrong way that's all. No offence meant and big hug. Just too many of my family gone to...
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    Is Addiction the Sin of Idolatry, or is it a disease?

    Fair enough. But people should understand. When you see very sick people who have a whole cabinet full of meds, its because they started off on one only. The ONE they take has SIDE effects, every doctor knows this (its isn't written on the back "may cause hell") and the reason I say this is...
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    Is Addiction the Sin of Idolatry, or is it a disease?

    Well if you needed a Christian Doctor in the UK you wouldn't find one easily. What would you do then if you lived here? Don't you think God leads these people to help you if you are in his hands? What next, Christian Pilots, Christian food companies, Christian cloth makers. Where would it end? I...
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    Is Addiction the Sin of Idolatry, or is it a disease?

    So you think, that "pharmaceo" or medication is "attempts" to get into the "sheep pen" by some other way that the "Sheep Gate" do you? So when my Dad was dying of cancer in dreadful pain so bad I couldn't witness, his doctor giving him pain relief from medication was doing that do you? Ever been...
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    Is Addiction the Sin of Idolatry, or is it a disease?

    Hey UWC, how are you doing? You left one book out of your recommendations which is a must read. Gabor Mate “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts” among other great books he wrote. Dr. Gabor Maté is a retired Hungarian Canadian based Physician, highly sought after for his expertise on a range of...
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    Hades / The Grave

    I wondered about this as well. But in “sleep” we don't know anything, so “a twinkle of an eye” can be a moment from sleep to awakening, whether it be 8 hours sleep or a thousand years. Although sometimes, here on earth when you sleep, you feel you have been asleep for “ages” when you wake up...
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    The Serious Thread

    It's hard not interrupting. It's also hard for me to listen too long to someone as well sometimes as I can't help “tuning out” If someone goes on too long I can even forget what they said in the first place because I just can't help losing interest. My husband used to go on too long...
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    Today’s Orthodox Churches vs. “The Way”

    And by the way, all I say is all in Love so we can work it out. I try and see it your way, you try to see it mine. We can then reason together my friend.
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    Today’s Orthodox Churches vs. “The Way”

    Hey Blik. I actually didn't say that. Working out your salvation from “fear and trembling” is the first conviction that we have sinned (because we realise that we cannot keep the Law and have been self righteous) and realising that there is only God's righteousness and forgiveness in Jesus...
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    Why is Jesus called the Son of God?

    I have wrestled with this as well. But because I had to explain it to my kids when they were young, I also had to do it in a way that wasn't "confusing". I now see God as the Power and Jesus as the Glory. Men on earth cannot relate to an unseen “power” without seeing the result of it. Like...