Hello,

I am a Christian. I havn't been a Christian for many years, and I'm not really that old, I'm 22.


There is a lot I can say, and when someone asks me about my beliefs I am sometimes tempted to start typing a many paged discourse on my beliefs, but everything in it's proper place and time.

I am a Christian, and while I don't go to church I would love to have a family of believers to go to find fellowship and worship together. I havn't found anyone who I have found is compatible enough with what i believe to call a friend. How can two walk together, except they agree.

I'm not sure how everyone views fundamentalism or how they personally see it or define it, but I suppose I would be extremely fundamental except for my smoking marijauna.

I used to be a total pothead rocker and one of the biggest "potheads" in my neighborhood, but now I have a much different view. I see it now as a medicinal herb to be used in moderadtion, not something that by nature has anything to do with a spirit of rebellion or counterculture.

I like being sober much more, but I find that the suffering I go through emotionally, spiritually and physically can be so harsh sometimes that marijauna does a great deal to help me overcome these daily challanges and I see that as a gift of God and give him thanks. I wish I had a vaporizer really, because i see the act of smoking anything into my lungs as harmful. I know in moderation though, the harmful effects are practically nothing, and I hope to find a better way of ingestion soon. I also see the act of smoking as a form of ritual as something that I believe to be spiritually inatractive to say the least . Notwithstanding, incense is a different matter.

As was noted above the 1st Chapter of Genesis does iclude marijauna in God's delcaration that plants were originally given to us for food.

29Then God said, "Behold, (AK)I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;

30and (AL)to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so.

While marijauna is not smoked for food, it is defenitely consumed, and furthermore when eaten it's medical effects can indeed be felt as well. In fact it's first use as a medicine was through ingestion, and smoking marijauna only gained popular within the past few centuries as tobacco use became widespread.

The core of my faith is abiding in God's love and Him abiding in me by keeping his righteousness and commandments (john 15), most importantly loving God with all my heart mind soul and strength and loving my neighbor as I would want to be loved. I trust and obey my Father and Lord Jesus Christ. I work to be perfect, even as the Father is perfect (Matthew 5:47-48), and allowing his grace and power to work in me leading me into all truth, perfecting me in righteousness, and comforming me to the image of his beloved son.

I have a rare faith (not that being special is important to me), and I enjoy talking to others about my faith.