2006-10-17 12:23:02 · 11 answers · asked by I-C-U 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is a polluting of the temple of God.
However, the Holy Spirit can help extract you from that addiction.
2006-10-17 12:24:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Once a sinner always a sinner.
We are all sinners some saved by grace but all sinners
Just because God has focused on other areas of you life scrubbing them clean does not mean you will be denied the Holy Spirit until you are completely clean.
On this side of the cross we are all dirty in one way or another and have equal access to the goodness of God including the Holy Spirit. Expect God to address the smoking. Address it sooner of you can but grace is yours in the mean time and that includes full access to God and the Holy Spirit through Christ.
2006-10-17 13:09:49 · answer #2 · answered by mike g 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that anything that goes into the body that you know for a fact can kill you defiles the body. The same holds true with drink even more so, it can cause one to be more open to temptation. What is the difference in sucking smoke down your lungs or standing in the smoke of a BBQ and sucking it down your lungs? But how many time have you seen "smokers" move out of the BBQ smoke and keep sucking the cig. smoke into their lungs. By the way I was a 3 pack a day smoker a long, long time ago.
2016-03-28 13:32:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smoking is not a sin. It may be "defiling the temple" as some fundamentalists quote, but so is eating at McDonald's. Smoking is not a healthy activity, but I doubt the Holy Spirit really chooses to vacate your life over a few ounces of tobacco.
2006-10-17 12:54:36 · answer #4 · answered by Dave 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cigarettes are not good for you, like a lot of other things that we put in our bodies. However, that does not say that the Holy Spirit chooses not to be in you. We can quench, grieve.... the Holy Spirit, He does not leave us, but will convict you to do the right. In the long run cigarettes will hurt your body and God needs your body whole and healthy not sick and disease.
2006-10-17 12:47:26 · answer #5 · answered by charmaine f 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the Scriptures say that the only way to defile the temple of the Holy Spirit is to engage in sex with a pagan because "the two become one" and all other sins a person commits are outside the body, not that the Bible mentions smoking cigarettes since tobacco had yet to be brought back from America.
1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh." 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
2006-10-17 12:42:19 · answer #6 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spirit is translated from "PNEUMA" in Greek. That word means "breath." Safe to say, the breath of God wouldn't like it any more than your breath does. Medical studies have shown some changes in the lungs due to tobacco are almost immediate.
Consider this: Having any single person in the household that smokes makes it 8 TIMES more likely that a child living there will suffer Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease. It does not make any difference if they never smoke around the children.
With odds like that, please don't do it to your children.
2006-10-17 12:26:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has something they are dealing with it my be cursing, it may be talking about people behind their back, it may be drinking, it may be fornicating, it may be not reading the word. Because we become Christians it may take time to be delivered from some things. Everything is not going to leave at once.
2006-10-17 12:28:54 · answer #8 · answered by Ms. Blessed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't see why he'd want to be in any of us, if he is picking and choosing. We're all "dirty" in our own way. Why do we have to single out "sins" in this forum - smoking, homosexuality - ALL of us are screwed up, not just certain ones!!!
2006-10-17 12:27:54 · answer #9 · answered by Sinner & Saint 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's actually a good question seeing that I smoke and all.
I don't know.
2006-10-17 12:25:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋