Ia addiction a sin?...?

Question

Like, if someone is addicted to caffiene (it's a drug) and can't go a day without a few cups of coffee without withdrawls.

With so many church going people looking down on others for their addictions, I was just wondering if they had any (food for example) that would fit in the same category thereby exposing their hypocrisy

Answer 1

Something as simple as that is not so grave. However, when people say addiction is a disease, that does not exculpate the diseased person morally. If you feed the addiction, rather than trying to tame it, you are in moral error, "diseased" or not!

Answer 2

I used to be addicted to coffee also. I solved it by switching to Mountain Dew instead!!

But seriously...

Is it a sin? I'd don't know. But it sounds like you might be being told by God to quit doing it. Caffeine is bad for you. It is something you shouldn't be getting too much of. Drinking it is probably not a sin. But if God is telling you to stop or reduce and you don't, that would be a sin.


Switch to a 50/50 mixture of regular and decaf for a couple weeks. Then reduce to 75/25 decaf/regular for another couple. Finally go completely to the decaf. It will be good for you.

Answer 3

Depends on the addiction. You have people who are addicted to violence or theft which are sins to name only a couple. A caffeine or cigarette addiction is a personal thing - not a sin. A drug addiction is against the law and could be classed as a sin depending on how you look at it. Its down to personal judgement.

Answer 4

I don't believe in sin anymore. However, I used to look at sin as something that hurt your body. Ironically, though many fundamentalists - they are like a plague in my region - are addicted to caffeine or smoke - when they say that drinking is against the Bible - if we want to get technical it is drUNkenness that is un-Biblical ( but I don't really follow that either). Back to what I was saying - a sin should be anything that hurts your body. God loves you and doesn't want you to be in pain or suffer. See? Seems logical. If you are addicted to caffeine, try to ween yourself from it slowly. Reduce the amount of caffeine you take into your body and slowly remove it all together. Don't look at it as something negative, but something positive. See if it can work.

Answer 5

The Bible encourages self-control.
Galations 5:23
2 Peter 1:6
Addiction and self-control are opposites.
However, the word 'sin' is viewed as a heavy accusation.
It might be better to say the person has something to work on and what ever degree of progress they make, they should be commened.

Answer 6

With all the addictive substances and behaviors in the world I wonder why you would pick coffee (of all things) as an example. And I don't really believe in sin as perceived by christians.

Answer 7

Addiction primarily refers to harmful (awful lawful) things, not to coffee which both awakens and also improves the memory; Perhaps to remembrance things like saved(grace) + destroyed(lawed) in Jude 5 is not "the end" we're exhorted to endure unto of the Holy Bible, which is notably saved(only) by grace(only): "The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen".

The source of all addiction ("concupisence", also called "evil concupiscence") and of all sin is the law: Rom 4:15; 5:13;
http://www.godshew.org/Concupiscence.htm

Primarily "another law": the second of Mt 22:36-40 and Rom 8:2 law law, which notably has seven other names, like unto "seven other spirits" more wicked in Matthew as are the "seven spirits" in Revelation:
http://www.godshew.org/AnotherLaw.htm
http://www.godshew.org/TwainShew4.htm#Laws
http://www.godshew.org/Revelations9.htm
http://www.godshew.org/Allegory3.htm

Law = Sin, when connecting your biblical dots:
- whatsoever is "not of faith" is sin: Rom 14:23
- the law is "not of faith": Gal 3:12
http://www.godshew.org/BiblicalDots.htm

Law = Evil when connecting these verses:
Our Father, deliver us from "evil": Mt 6:13
We are delivered from the "law": Rom 7:6

Law = "both good and evil",
what we're to discern(avoid): Heb 5
http://www.godshew.org/Hebrews6.htm

Law is both natural and spiritual, but spiritual abuse:
http://www.godshew.org/HowbeitAfterward.htm
http://www.godshew.org/ShewBread9.htm#Expired
http://www.godshew.org/Insights.htm#Books

Either make the tree good(grace) "OR" corrupt(law).
For "both" ("contrary things") make an oxyMORON.
http://www.godshew.org/RevelatorySermons1.htm

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 8

Of course not. Some people are gentically disposed to certain addictions, others are not.

Did you know that some people can become physically addicted to orange juice? Sure can, and they also will suffer withdrawal.

Why are christians SO quick to talk about sin. There but for fortune go they, and no amount of prayer is going to change it.

Answer 9

I don't think so. But there is a sin called "gluttony" which basically means "too much of a good thing". The sin then, would be "gluttony" and not necessarily "addiction".

Answer 10

Some of these answers are worse tsins than being addicted to coffee...some of these zealots are more addicted to their religion than some meth-heads...don't sweat the small stuff man... just don't let the urge control you or how you treat people. if that happens you need to take action.