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Is Pot, okay?
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What he said! :thumbs:
DrJamesAch
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Is this a serious question?
"Qeneh" has always been a reed. There is an entirely different Hebrew word for what you are talking about. This isn't the word for cannibas, weed, or marijuana. The reeds were made into smelling oils that anointed priests, not for smoking it. Read verse 25 of the same chapter, the context tells you what it was used for.
One can drink wine moderately in context with the Biblical usage of it, but to be drunk and a drunkard is clearly sinful. However, you can't take a "sip" of a marijuana plant and not get "intoxicated".
Too many people use the "medicinal" excuse for smoking it or ingesting it. Since Joe Glaucoma needs it for his eyes, that makes it OK for you all to become fire breathing pot smokers?
אלוהים יעזור להם
"Qeneh" has always been a reed. There is an entirely different Hebrew word for what you are talking about. This isn't the word for cannibas, weed, or marijuana. The reeds were made into smelling oils that anointed priests, not for smoking it. Read verse 25 of the same chapter, the context tells you what it was used for.
One can drink wine moderately in context with the Biblical usage of it, but to be drunk and a drunkard is clearly sinful. However, you can't take a "sip" of a marijuana plant and not get "intoxicated".
Too many people use the "medicinal" excuse for smoking it or ingesting it. Since Joe Glaucoma needs it for his eyes, that makes it OK for you all to become fire breathing pot smokers?
אלוהים יעזור להם
Hyperbole rules the day. Nobody has condoned the recreational use of any drug.
saturneptune
New Member
Thank you for this clarification.
By the way I was just in Israel last year. Enjoyed sitting on the beach in Tel Aviv among a lot of other things.
saturneptune
New Member
But it is so much fun watching the lights blink and hearing the bells rings after smoking pot and playing a pinball machine. LOL
Seriously, I agree with you on this subject. The discussion even existing is amazing. As someone said above, there is no smoking pot in moderation.
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Gregory Perry Sr.
Active Member
Another suggestion...
If they wanna see lights blink and bells ring they could go stand in the middle of the Atlanta beltway on a friday night. That would be just about as SMART.
Bro.Greg:saint:
But it is so much fun watching the lights blink and hearing the bells rings after smoking pot and playing a pinball machine. LOL
Seriously, I agree with you on this subject. The discussion even existing is amazing. As someone said above, there is no smoking pot in moderation.
If they wanna see lights blink and bells ring they could go stand in the middle of the Atlanta beltway on a friday night. That would be just about as SMART.
Bro.Greg:saint:
Gregory Perry Sr.
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saturneptune
New Member
I had never seen that before, but an excellent depiction. Marijuana is always depitced as being at the low end of the recreation drugs for danger and addiction. When I as at the age that most try such substances, the years were probably 69-72. During that era, the heavier drugs among others were heroine, LSD, and cocaine. Drugs like meth, crack, and who knows what else had to my knowledge not even been "discovered."
The purpose of all of these drugs is to produce a mind altering effect. The difference is all a matter of degree. Arguments that we use for alcohol, such as moderation, a sip of wine with a meal, a beer after cutting a yard (which I might add would only honestly apply after cutting with a push mower) do not apply. There is no time lag to produce the desired effect with drugs.
Even with marijuana, with a few puffs, the effect is immediate. It can come in any form depending on the situation one finds at the time. For example, if one found a place to park a car to smoke in a remote location, the ability to drive is immediately impared. If one was driving a car with a clutch, one might discover that upon starting the car and pushing on the clutch, that one perceives that their leg is melting into the clutch, but in reality, the car is going nowhere, and the engine is just being gunned. One might look at the dashboard at the glowing instrument panel and see who knows what. Flashing traffic lights become an entertainment. Not a good senario.
Another thing that has not been addressed is using perscription drugs for recreation. It all starts innocently enough, and if the person had followed the perscription order, it would have been fine. What really happens is the person finds the pills give a soothing or other effect, and wants more. As time goes on, it takes more, and before one knows it, they are hooked.
It is amazing, as someone said, that this thread even exists. This goes beyond the realm of being a Christian. These substances grab the soul of a person and lead a human being down a path that no one wants to travel.
convicted1
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Is pot okay?
To cook chicken in, yes!
To fry chicken, no!!
:smilewinkgrin:
To cook chicken in, yes!
To fry chicken, no!!
:smilewinkgrin:
saturneptune
New Member
In West Virginia, I thought the reason a pot was not needed for chickens is that the citizens of WV bite off the head and proceed to eat the entire chicken raw, feathers, beak and all. Well, one good thing about it, Baptist churches in WV do not need a kitchen for their "pot" lucks.
Cannabis as a Sacrament: Apply to Baptists today? What are we to do in Remembrance of Him?
Luke 22: KJB
18 For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
If its a bad law. MLK did.
thisnumbersdisconnected
New Member
Is Pot OK?
NO!
http://adcaps.wsu.edu/drugs101/marijuana-effects/
Proven. Indisputable. Fact.
I know some of you won't buy that, so proceed at your own peril.
NO!
http://adcaps.wsu.edu/drugs101/marijuana-effects/
Proven. Indisputable. Fact.
I know some of you won't buy that, so proceed at your own peril.
So we have potheads and drunks on the board. Great.
thisnumbersdisconnected
New Member
Careful who you're callin' a drunk!!
http://www.baptistboard.com/showthread.php?p=1999326#post1999326
:laugh: j/k
I used to be one myself. A drunk that is.
Just being objective here, alcohol abuse does the same thing, it destroys the mind and the body in the long term. I surely didn't mean to sound as if I condoned the recreational use of marijuana or any other drug in my last post, but the fact is prohibition of alcohol never worked, the war on drugs has definitely been unsuccessful, I can't help but think a major cause of ruin from drugs today is the legal ramifications of disobeying the prohibitions, just as in the early 20th century with alcohol, not to mention the violence from the 'gang warfare' that arose from both prohibitions.
And, just as they profited from the stupid U.S. prohibition on alcohol in the 20th century, Canadians are profiting from growing industrial hemp today.
It really is, STUPID.