Quote Originally Posted by Hempstone
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.
I agree in everything that you have said, although you have somewhat strayed from my question. I know for a fact that as a follower of Christ we are to turn our backs on sin. Now of course this is impossible because we have a human nature within us caused by sin, but that is why he died for us. To clense us from these sins. All we have to do is repent and pray for help and he washes our slates clean. But we are not supposed to continue walking in our sin as if it was nothing, we are supposed to flee from it, of couse we'll slip every now and them, but you can't just have an attitude thinking "oh it's ok I can sin as much as I want because I will allways be forgived". It doesn't work like that. Now the way you make is sound, you don't really participate in the smoking of the herb. I was assuming you were an everyday smoker like the average person on these boards. Sorry for my mistake.
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