Is smoking marijuana a sin

[harmonicminor]

There are vast data that clearly reflect the hand of God in the assembly of the Bible, Harmonic. There's a lot of reading you obviously have not done to merit such dogmatism on your part. Shelbay provided this outstanding overview on another thread.

eh, i have done some reading but am no expert
did these people that wrote it speak to god directly?? theres plenty of things in the bible "torah" that could be interpreted as aliens posing as gods also.
I look around and see proof of the creator everyday and in everything that exists. This proof existed long before the torah was written and will last an eternity more while someday that book will be long forgotten.
I also see our Earth as a living being that has to cleanse itself every once in a while. We are destroying it every day more and more and becoming more modernized and building our factories and cities and making exticnt all kinds of species of life so mr moneybags can wipe his ass with gold every time he farts. well its about time for the Earth to cleanse

[LordSmaug]

Listen man, You should know that almost every single fucking day there isn't anything we can do from sinning. no matter how hard we try. That's why Christianity can't be based on works. We all miss the mark no matter how "goody goody" any one person tries to be. Everyone falls short of the glory of God and that's what christians accept. And any sin in the eyes of God is a hellworthy tresspass. That's what Jesus came and fixed. So that all we need to get into heaven is "Saving-Faith". Know you have saving faith and know you're getting into heaven regardless of your human sinful nature. In reality we're all equal to Jeffrey Dohmer. Most people would be too offended to examine this truth and accept it, we're fucked without jesus.

[smitty420]

no way is it a sin. Law does not equal right and wrong. Going 60 mph in a 35 mph speed limit is against the law, is it a sin?

[big smoke07]

Interesting, which head will they hang you by?

Classic.

[zero2104]

there is no doubt in my mind that it is not a sin,

y would god make these plants able to get u high and have a good time, if he didnt want u to use them in the first place

it would be a waste of god's work if we did not smoke his plants or eat his mushrooms

[InTheJungle]

the body is the temple of christ and that smoke puts tar on the lungs, but if thats true then being fats a sin too!

it is. gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins.

[2MC5]

if god did not whant us smoking it he would have never givin it to us

[beachguy in thongs]

Interesting, which head will they hang you by?

But...

Cannabis (like I said on another thread) contradicts itself, much like The Holy Bible.

Which fruit of our labor/The Earth will you hang yourself on?

[braddog10]

But...

Cannabis (like I said on another thread) contradicts itself, much like The Holy Bible.

Which fruit of our labor/The Earth will you hang yourself on?

Ok....What are they?....Oh, and evolution is solid? ....It has been decimated.

[Oneironaut]

No, it is not a sin. There is no such thing as sin. Sin is an archaic superstition based upon the idea of a cosmic father figure who tallies up all our niceness and naughtyness points and gives us reward or punishment accordingly. Basically, Santa Claus for adults.

It's time to get rid of sin and replace it with the idea of responsibility. There are only material actions and material consequences, and morality should be based on avoiding bad consequences and favoring good consequences as much as possible. Murder is not bad because there is something about the act of killing that offends some magical sky wizard; murder is bad because of the negative consequences it produces (loss of a human life). However if good consequences outweigh that (like shooting a fascist genocidal dictator) then murder could reasonably be justified.

We need to take responsibility for our own actions. The worst thing about Biblical morality and Jesus' teachings, I think, is this idea that we can do whatever bad things we want and it's okay as long as we get on our knees and beg for forgiveness (except for blaspheming the fucking Holy Spirit; Yahweh for some reason won't forgive you for that one sin). Basically, the whole idea of "justice" in Biblical morality is, when you have wronged someone, to make it up to God and not to the person you have wronged. If you steal your neighbor's car, for example, you have to beg Yahweh for forgiveness instead of give your neighbor's car back and make it up to him somehow.

Oh, and evolution is solid? ....It has been decimated.

Evolution has been decimated? Oh, I see, you're from the tiny part of the world where evolution is even an issue. Go look at the actual scientific community and see if it has been "decimated" as a viable theory to explain the body of evidence. You know, talk to some real biologists or paleontologists sometime.