where does the Bible say that using drugs is bad?

Answer 1

1Corinthians 6:19
"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"

Paul also writes in Galatians 5 about the "works of the flesh."
Included in the passage is the word "witchcraft." In the original Greek language of Paul's letters, the word is "pharmekia," from which we get our English word pharmacy, pharmaceuticals, i.e., drugs

The implication in the passage is that drugs provide a doorway for 'other' spirits to enter our lives, instead of the Holy Spirit.

Answer 2

The term "witchcraft" and "sorcery" in the Bible is the Greek word "Pharmakia." Pharmakia literally means "drugs", and appears five times in the New Testament: in Galatians 5:20, Revelation 9:21, 18:23, 21:8, and 22:15. We also get our English word "pharmacy" from the Greek word "Pharmakia".

It is always used in a context of offending a Holy God.

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

The Bible says that 'Your body is your temple'.
Simply: your body is a gift from God.

If God were to give you a house and you let it burn, fall to peices, or rot with mildew- it would show a great disrespect and ingratitude to the gift giver. Also, drugs take control of the mind until it is they that control you- not God. It is considered in most social circles more impressive to be a servant of the creator and ruler of the universe, rather than a handful of leaves.

Answer 4

What's wrong with you, can't you read? The Bible speaks of using drugs, and drugs themselves, right after it speaks of computers, automobiles, airplanes, baby diapers, morning-after pills, condoms, space travel, atomic bombs, how to cure cancer, the Internet, the Holocaust, women's rights, super highways, nuclear subs, open-heart surgery, canned foods, a time when kids who disobeyed mom and dad wouldn't be stoned to death, clear air, clean water, Paris, New York City, London, San Francisco, Chicago, North and South America, a time when you wouldn't sell your daughter into slavery, a time when bushes, jackasses, and snakes do not talk, a time when Earth is not flat and the sun doesn't revolve around it, a time when a man doesn't walk on water, and on and on and on. Look 'em up, dear heart. Learn!

Answer 5

In I Cor. 6:19-20, the Apostle Paul wrote to Christians, "'What know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have of God, and ye are not your own? For you were bought with a price: Therefore glorify God in you body, and in your spirit which are God's." Much modem evidence shows smoking and drugs to be a health hazard to the extent that each package of cigarettes must by law, bear this message, "Warning: the Surgeon General has determined that cigarette smoking is dangerous to you health." Obviously, something dangerous to the health cannot possibly enhance, or build up, the body. Smoking and drugs are contrary to healthy practices and acts to weaken or destroy the body which is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Christians do not own their own bodies, their bodies are Christ's, bought and paid for by his death. Christians are not free to use their bodies for pleasure and in any way they choose. They are to glorify God in their bodies and since smoking and drugs do not glorify God, smokers are in violation of this precept.

Answer 6

Ezek. about the bad drug
but Sir 38: 4-9 abut the medicines its good .

Answer 7

It goes along the same lines as getting drunk. Altering your mind with a substance to the point that you lose control of your thoughts and actions is a sin.

Answer 8

It doesn't. It says shoot-up, snort it, smoke it whatever you want. The bible doesn't say that it's bad to run your car with no oil in the engine either. Why don't you try that too?

Answer 9

Ask somebody when you care about an answer.

Answer 10

http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/cc11/christ.html