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    Can I Be a Christian if I Occasionally Smoke Cigarettes

    Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Smoking also increases risk for tuberculosis, certain eye diseases, and problems of the immune system, including rheumatoid...
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    Can I Be a Christian if I Occasionally Smoke Cigarettes

    I agree we likde Jesus are to avoid getting high. Smokes do not get one high. Good use of a general principle of Scripture Friend. I think smoking is a health issue to be approached by common sense and wisdom. Not to lay a guilt trip on fellow believers who suffer from the deases caused...
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    Can I Be a Christian if I Occasionally Smoke Cigarettes

    Let's not be leaglistic, we are under grace by faith. The text does not cover food, smoking, etc See Romans 14 for that. Context does matter. I respect your personal opion, but disagree. Also, I posted links to weed being used by Israalites too. I did exposed the poor interpretation claiming...
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    Can I Be a Christian if I Occasionally Smoke Cigarettes

    I don't think G-d leads us to over eat, fall off roofs or wear shoes.
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    Can I Be a Christian if I Occasionally Smoke Cigarettes

    Brother, friend, The defilment of your proof text is sexual sin, context matters. We agree that smoking anything is a health problem. Second Hand Smoke is harmful to others ( love your neighbor principle can apply on that). One needs to pray for wisdom and get treatment to stop smoking...
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    Can I Be a Christian if I Occasionally Smoke Cigarettes

    https://www.marijuanamoment.net/proof-of-marijuana-use-discovered-at-ancient-biblical-site-in-israel/ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5491d4d0e4b0ed6c3f86c538/t/54b69aa9e4b076c29fad1af4/1421253289077/bible.001.pdf https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-52847175
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    Can I Be a Christian if I Occasionally Smoke Cigarettes

    Bible verses related to Marijuana from the King James Version (KJV) by Relevance - Sort By Book Order Genesis 1:29 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed...
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    Can I Be a Christian if I Occasionally Smoke Cigarettes

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_cannabis The word 'gan-zi-gun-nu' is referenced from stone tablets (dating 700 BCE) that indicate a connection with eastern and near-eastern terms for the plant (gan-zi > ganja, gun-nu > qaneh). This substance was used for witchcraft and prescribed as...
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    Can I Be a Christian if I Occasionally Smoke Cigarettes

    2 Corinthians 6:14-7:5 Easy-to-Read Version We Are God’s Temple 14 You are not the same as those who don’t believe. So don’t join yourselves to them. Good and evil don’t belong together. Light and darkness cannot share the same room. 15 How can there be any unity between Christ and the...
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    Can I Be a Christian if I Occasionally Smoke Cigarettes

    I already showed that 1 Corinthians 6 has to do with sexual sin. There is no comand, not to smoke. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-52847175 The Greek historian Herodotos wrote that the Scythians vaporized cannabis seeds as part of their cultural rituals. He wrote that after a...
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    Can I Be a Christian if I Occasionally Smoke Cigarettes

    I do not smoke, never did. I do not think it is a sin. 1 Corinthians 6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations 1 Corinthians 10:23 All...
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    Pagan roots of Pizza

    Foods similar to flatbreads in other parts of the world include Chinese bing (a wheat flour-based Chinese food with a flattened or disk-like shape); the Indian paratha (in which fat is incorporated); the Central and South Asian naan (leavened) and roti (unleavened); the Sardinian carasau...
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    Pagan roots of Pizza

    Foods similar to pizza have been made since antiquity. Records of pizza-like foods can be found throughout ancient history. In the 6th century BC, Persian soldiers serving under Darius the Great baked flatbreads with cheese and dates on top of their battle shields.[5][6] In Ancient Greece...
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    When You Can't Pray or Hear God

    secret to prayer, both Jesus and Holy Spirit are intercessors and can pray too. Romans 8
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    When You Can't Pray or Hear God

    tell him rummors are for the ungodly.