What Are Yoru Views on Drugs/Alcohol form a Spiritual or Religiosu Standpoint?

Question

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From a Religious or Spiritual Standpoint what are your views on Drugs/Alcohol?

Answer 1

I think that they are very good things when used appropriately. Alcohol is good sometimes when people are sick. Notice it is in most OTC liquid cough medicine. A glass of red wine here and there is healthy according to most doctors.

When you say "drugs" I am assuming you mean illegal drugs. I think that there again they all have their uses. Codene is found in opium, and I have found it to be a gentle and effective painkiller following wisdom teeth removal and a car accident. I think marijuana has its uses also. Sativa can work wonders for depression, and Indica will help any insomniac go to sleep.

I think that drugs should be used when necessary, but not solely for fun. Drug abuse damages one's spirit because it leads to dependancy, which leads to low self esteem. This doesn't mean I see anything wrong with getting a little tipsy or high. I don't see occasional recreational use as abuse.

Answer 2

People who don't know God are suffering. It is common that such people will abuse anything, in an attempt to try and get relief from the suffering. Jesus is there for these poor victims of a cruel world. This is not only drug or alcohol abuse, it is sexual obsessions/perversions, overeating etc.

I have listened to opinions from both sides of the wine or grape juice confusion. I had a fairly interesting thought, which I am not calling a truth but it seems logical. Perhaps those who also read in the Holy Spirit but hear it as grape juice, maybe God knows they are better off staying away from alcohol and He sends this message to their subconscious? It is true that God does not work the same in each of us.

Answer 3

Anything that can become an addiction is bad, goes to the serving two masters thing. You can't serve God if you're a slave to drugs or booze.

Drugs are never okay because they are pretty much always addictive and are usually done in order to avoid being responsible and deal with your problems for a while. Alcohol is okay if you don't get drunk. Naturally if you're prone to alcoholism you should avoid it altogether, but I think it's fine to have a drink every once in a while in moderation, like a glass of wine with dinner or a margarita at a Mexican restaurant. Jesus drank wine (do Baptists think the last supper was grape juice? Obviously drinking itself isn't a sin since Jesus was sinless...I've never understood that...), but he didn't get schnockered. I think that's a good example to follow.

If what you're doing is going to hurt you, your relationship with God, or your relationships with other people in your life (which illegal drugs pretty much always do and alcohol can do if you can't control yourself) then you should stay away from it.

Answer 4

I don't have a spiritual or religious standpoint, but I don't use drugs or alcohol because I only have one life to live and I want this body to last as long as possible. I also have no desire to alter the way my brian works, I like it the way it is.

Answer 5

Drugs and Alcohol destroy cells of the body.
Eph 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Eph 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Eph 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Eph 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Oba 1:16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, [so] shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.

I guess if a person can't be brave enough to face life this will be their hiding place. I pray always for the users of these substances.

Answer 6

As my feet slap down against the cold wet pavement, and my face drips rain from the storm, an unrelenting need to drink pushes me further. Exact final destination appears unknown , but it's inevitable that the evil inside will again return me to the source of my nightmare. No control, no will of my own, no power had I found that might evict this hell that had infected my body and mind. Self-identity, and all that was once me, had been buried under countless layers of drunkenness, so deep, that any calls for help were merely an echo inside my head.
This living liquid curse, cunning and without conscience, had been absorbed into a body which at one time eagerly welcomed it's unyielding influence. But now, as the onslaught of alcohol turned viciously against the world around me, it was only I being held responsible for it's drunken destruction carried out during my imprisonment.
Those intense fear ridden mornings, when I awoke to find yet another nightmare of alcohol's creation, devilishly constructed from it's own personality the night before. Whether it was the sight of dried blood crusted over both hands, or the unfamiliar surroundings of a place where I shouldn't have been, alcohol knew how to render me frozen with crippling insecurity. Too frightened to reason out a healthy answer as to what was happening to me, a deliberate terror of conscience always reached out and tightly gripped my soul. This devil, disguised and hidden behind my own recently drunken face, knew exactly where I'd run to for help. This was much more then an accident through drink. Alcohol's intent was to survive at all costs, to live and breath it's own existence using me as it's host of choice.
But, now, unaware of this developing transformation, all I wanted to do was calm the terror inside my head. There would be only one place, one exit, one chance to escape into a feeling of normality. Alcohol left nothing to chance, and as it waited patiently for me to return a bottle to my lips, I could almost hear a deep sullen laughter quicken my mobility. I desperately needed to lock myself away into the only security I knew, and to experience that precious freedom, I once again had to ingest my enslaver.
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Answer 7

to respond to your first question: no, I in no way make non secular calls for of persons. If i'm religiously incompatible with somebody (and that i do have diverse standards counting on no count if this individual is a skill acquaintance, chum, date, or long-time era companion), then I purely face actuality and end the affiliation. to respond to your final question concerning dad and mom: this hasn't been too a lot of a situation for me ever as a results of fact I moved out of my dad and mom' place some years in the past. I purely save that ingredient of my lifestyles private to them, and that they do no longer elevate their faith around me. We the two understand all right that we've opposing ideals, yet we don't enable it get to one yet another. yet starting to be up as a youngster, it became a relentless conflict. It became a source of on a regular basis argument. i became nevertheless compelled against my will to circulate by means of with their non secular practices even however i did no longer have faith in a observe of it. i assume I purely hung on and manged to attend it out till college. My dad and mom and that i've got come to an understand-how however. They understand they have been incorrect to rigidity their faith on me, and that i got here to realize that they had particular pressures interior the community and from kinfolk to be putting me interior the process the motions like they did.

Answer 8

Man made beer God made pot, you get to choose.
It is legal in Vancouver Canada. I smoke it as a way to relax when I pray, It is my religious right.
I don't drink hard liquor, or do any other drugs, just some good ol BC bud!
Rather see my kids smoke a joint than to get drunk and stupid.
It is awesome, You have to be 19 or older though, sorry...that's the law.

Answer 9

As Colemand from Trading Places said, Religion is good, especially taken in moderation.

Personally, religion in ALL forms is bad. Drinking and some drugs are good in moderation.

Answer 10

I don't really take a spiritual standpoint on such things. I might lean or fall over, but I certainly don't stand.....