Quote Originally Posted by Captain Hanks
Assuming that you are a Christian and go to church regularly sounding interested in the messages, how do you justify your pot smoking? I know how I justify it, just want to see how strong in your faith you are.
Actually, nowhere on any of my posts do I ever say that I smoke pot. Nowhere on any of my posts do I endorse smoking pot. I actually think it's not really something of interest for me to discuss, even on a cannabis forum. I have so many more important things to say. But you basically asked me how do I justify myself. Well, as you may know, A Christian does not believe that we justify ourselves. We are justified through our faith in Jesus Christ, in whom we have a relationship with the Living God of the Universe, the Great Creator in all of His names.

It isn't all about religion. It's about that direct connection with the Living God. It's about what's going on in our hearts. There are none righteous in the eyes of God but those who have been saved by Grace through Faith. I do not serve in idolatry to anything in God's creation. Rather, I worship the Creator, the Living God of the Universe, in spirit and in truth as I strive on my way toward increasing levels of purity and as I keep pressing into God. Although I realize I am not ultimately saved through my striving or any kind of mystical state of perfection and enlightenment but through Faith and surrender to God.

Many people think "I'll get my act together and then I'll come to God." Actually, that's impossible and if you think like that it may never happen. Instead we just come right like we are to God always and right now and forever just wherever we are and just as we are and He will accept us. The Holy Spirit will transform our lives and make us vessels of living light that shine for the whole world to see. God is Love and whoever lives in love lives in God and God in them. I am seeking the perfection of love in my life. The personification of the perfection of love is Jesus Christ and the spirit of Jesus lives in my heart and is growing and helping me to grow, spiritually.

I didn't talk about pot, but I think that I answered your question.