can they drink until they are feeling no pain but think if you smoke cigarettes you will go to hell? That is what a Jehovah's Witness told me one time.
2007-06-02 05:09:16 · 6 answers · asked by Kaliko 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
JWs are cautioned against getting drunk (and quite right too). Drunkards will not inherit the Kingdom, so it says in the Bible. Yet I've seen more than a few JWs drink more than a few pints of beer and shots of Whisky etc. Many exercise moderation, I'm sure, but others don't. You're wrong about smoking cigarettes landing them in hell, though. They don't believe in hell! (To them it is simply the grave.) Everybody will end up in the grave, whether they smoke cigarettes or not! But their baptismal 'rules' preclude anyone being baptised if they smoke, and if they are baptised but are found smoking, they can be put out (which, to them, is equivalent to a death sentence should Armageddon come then). So they are saying you cannot be a Christian if you smoke cigarettes. I haven't come across that in my Bible, however.
2007-06-02 05:29:44 · answer #1 · answered by Annsan_In_Him 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The premise of this so-called "question" is false in at least three respects.
1. Jehovah's Witnesses understand that bible to teach that "hell" is not a place of punishment, but the common grave of mankind.
http://watchtower.org/e/20020715/article_02.htm
2. Jehovah's Witnesses understand the bible to forbid the abuse of alcohol.
http://watchtower.org/e/20051008/article_03.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20040922a/article_01.htm
3. While they do consider a smoking habit to constitute "serious sin", Jehovah's Witnesses currently teach that a baptized person who "might smoke a few cigarettes in a short period of time" has not necessarily committed a serious sin requiring a committee of elders to consider disfellowshipping (JWs see page 30 of The Watchtower 7/15/06).
http://watchtower.org/e/19961022/article_01.htm
2007-06-02 18:08:00 · answer #2 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That either was not a JW or that was not what you were told.
There is nothing wrong with moderate use of alcohol. It is drunkedness the Bible condems. The loss of self control.-Proverbs 23: 29-30.32; Galatians 5:19-21
With smoking, the principle is maintaining a clean body and mind.--2Cor. 7:1. We learned this decades ago, while doctors were still perscribing smoking for their patients.
2007-06-02 12:30:24 · answer #3 · answered by grnlow 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think you may have miss-understood.
We do not smoke because it defiles the body.
As to drinking, the scriptures say "do all to the glory of God."
Too much of anything is wrong.
Don't judge a religion by a person's actions. Question the wrong doer.
Do you see a congregation drunk?
And how often do you see dozens light up, coming out of a (Baptist church?) (EXAMPLE only)
2007-06-02 12:19:52 · answer #4 · answered by Wisdom 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
no a jw didn't say that, they don't believe in hell
if they did they where new and didn' have a full grasp of the bible
no they don't drink to the point of being drunk and they don't smoke
I am not one but i was and this much i know
2007-06-02 12:20:20 · answer #5 · answered by pestie58 the spider hunter 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Whoever told you this was probably lying.
2007-06-02 12:23:48 · answer #6 · answered by cclleeoo 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋