1Corinthians 6:19-20 states: Or dont you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
The question is What do you think the above Bible verses have to say about
sugar:
Caffeine:
Body Peircing:
Porn:
Violent Video Games:
Spending six hours a day online:
Please help!! no inapropriate answers please--I respect God and i do not want anyone to be rude about him. So please help and thanks everyone!
2007-01-31 09:36:05 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
sugar: All things should be done in moderation. If you load your temple up with sugar, a fast acting energy booster that goes away quickly and is stored as fat, you are damaging the body God gave you.
Caffeine: Again, in moderation. Caffeine is a quick fix, very similar to sugar. It gets you "high and happy" quickly but then you crash. You could relate this to the "milk and meat" discussed in the Bible. If you feed your body sugar and caffeine "milk" instead of wholesome food "meat" you will not grow properly in your walk with the Lord.
Body Piercing: Early male Christians in the church actually pierced one earlobe to signify that they were "bond slaves" of Christ. The Hebrews were forbidden to pierce their flesh or tattoo their skin, mainly because that is what so many of the cultures around them were doing and God wanted them to be different, set apart. You answer this question the same as tattoo's, how does this action glorify the Lord? If we Christians are to be "salt and light" to the world, then how does piercing accomplish this? If it does not, then why do it?
Porn: It becomes more and more evident that pornography is an addiction just like alcohol and smoking. You are feeding your mind filth, and if your mind is full of garbage, (your temple is full of garbage) and there is no room left for the Words of Christ. Pornography objectives the human body and turns something that should be an act of love between husband and wife into a grotesque spectacle.
Violent Video Games: Similar to porn. If you fill your temple (body, mind, heart, and soul) with violence, that is what will come out of you. There are many verses in the Bible that talk about your eyes and what they see. Where your eyes look is where you go. If you allow your eyes to take in scenes of violence and gore, you become desensitized to it and that is not the heart of the Lord.
Spending six hours a day online: Well, depends on what you're doing online. Are you studying about your faith, fellowshipping with other believers, witnessing to the non-believer, or are you doing "worldly" things? Remember just as the temple was destroyed in Jerusalem in 70AD so too, will our temples be destroyed one day. You have a finite time to spend growing closer to the Lord in this life. It's best to prioritize your time and spend it wisely.
Hope this helped. God bless!
2007-01-31 16:39:37 · answer #1 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great to hear you're getting confirmed and that you seem to really want to do it. I'm training to be a priest in the Episcopal church in Oxford UK and I'm so glad that I got confirmed when I did.
All the parts of the question are basically about the same thing.
The christians in the church in Corinth (where the letter to the Corinthians was written) really struggled to understand what it meant to be a christian and to have God's Holy Spirit living inside of them.
They did lots of things that were not good for their physical bodies and said "what does it matter - God is only interested in our spirits as they are the only things that will go to heaven"
Paul - the guy who wrote to them is saying that it's not like this.
God has given his Holy Spirit (the spirit of God) to live inside their bodies... just like God promissed to dwell in the temple of the Jews before Jesus came. Can you imagine being able to go and visit God in his house? You wouldn't want to kick a football through the window of God's house would you?
Now because of what Jesus did for us in dying on the cross and rising again we can know God living even closer to us... closer than our skin... so if you become a Christian, our bodies are the temple of God - instead of God living with his people he now lives IN you.... "in" is the new "with" as my friend Louie Giglio says.
Just in the same way that you wouldn't want to kick a football through the window in God's house, if we really understood that God lives inside our physical bodies we wouldn't want to mess them up.
We wouldn't want to eat too much sugar or caffeine and we would want to take care of our bodies by taking excercise etc.
If we really grasped how amazing it is that God is so close to us, in our minds, we would be more careful about the sorts of things we put into our minds - like porn, violent video games and spending too much time online instead of building friendships and getting time out to think and be aware that God is close to us.
It sounds to me like you already get this type of stuff though - so just write out of what your heart is saying!
Hope this helps and that you have a wonderful confirmation.
If you want to find out more about this type of thing and how we can worship God more there's a great little book that's really easy to read with lots of stories and cool stuff
It's called "for the audience of one" by Mike Pilivachi
Blessings!
Grace x
2007-02-01 09:31:43 · answer #2 · answered by Grace 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋