J
Can you imagine God smoking a cigarette? Or you lighting one up right in front of Him? Knowing that they are harmful to your body all the warnings on the packages. Horrible habit and probably a sin if you put smoking before God.
But we could put anything before God and it's still bad... Not sure if it is a sin but know it is bad for you.
I remember as a child the smoke hanging in the house so thick that I got headaches from it as both of my parents smoked and most of their friends did too so if there was a party I was in pain.... Smoking also ended the lives of my Mother at 42, Brother at 39 and Dad at 56. First two from massive heart attacks and Dad from lung cancer. Also an Uncle who had his lung burst from emphysema....
So I personally hate smoking unfortunately my sweet husband smokes and has for many years before he met and married me and I'm constantly worried about the end he will be facing some day. Heart attack, lung cancer, emphysema, COPD? Who knows but the thought a cigarette will end the life of someone I love so much again just breaks my heart to even think about it.
I'm sure part of my breathing problems now are from the second hand smoke I was around as a child and also as an adult with so many people smoking around me in work places and such.... The laws have only been in force for part of my life which make people smoke outside now.....
A sin? Maybe - a filthy, horrible, costly habit certainly.... taking lives of people we love.... heart breaking and devastating.
But we could put anything before God and it's still bad... Not sure if it is a sin but know it is bad for you.
I remember as a child the smoke hanging in the house so thick that I got headaches from it as both of my parents smoked and most of their friends did too so if there was a party I was in pain.... Smoking also ended the lives of my Mother at 42, Brother at 39 and Dad at 56. First two from massive heart attacks and Dad from lung cancer. Also an Uncle who had his lung burst from emphysema....
So I personally hate smoking unfortunately my sweet husband smokes and has for many years before he met and married me and I'm constantly worried about the end he will be facing some day. Heart attack, lung cancer, emphysema, COPD? Who knows but the thought a cigarette will end the life of someone I love so much again just breaks my heart to even think about it.
I'm sure part of my breathing problems now are from the second hand smoke I was around as a child and also as an adult with so many people smoking around me in work places and such.... The laws have only been in force for part of my life which make people smoke outside now.....
A sin? Maybe - a filthy, horrible, costly habit certainly.... taking lives of people we love.... heart breaking and devastating.
Anyways I still stand by what I said before "the wages of sins is death" it doesn't mean that if you get alchohol or smoke into your system that it's counted necessarily as outright sin but continual use of any potentially hazardous substance can lead to death,not any one bit typically(excluding very immediately harmful substances such as poorly made moon shine that can kill or cause blindness) it can be about the same as eating something "unhealthy" which as is told in many scriptures in the old testament that either way it's sin but "bondage to sin" is rather different that's when God gets "upset" or "intentional sin" after God helps a person(read on the Israelites they did this plenty) anything that can "trap" you into delaying servitude to God/Jesus is best to seriously consider "getting away from".
Smoking is nothing more than a "tool" for sin it's the "individual" that can "make it a sin" and "choose to make it a crutch" or "treat it as something that is not important".
For example often men after delivering a child would smoke a cigarette as a "calmer" but not "make it important to their life" anyone can do the same or if one is in this sin they can be free of it through Jesus or sometimes with "enough motivation".
My main point is still "you can stop" giving "tools of sin importance in your lives" sin is everywhere but when it comes to "material objects" one must remember "if you can make it or buy it then you can forsake it" because they have "no power on their own".