Should a Christian use cocaine?

Ah Stever, but a quiver holds only a few arrows just as my house could hold only so many children and my husband made his decision concerning a vasectomy. I submitted to his decision as commanded by God's Holy Bible.

The word multiply means to increase. I did with 4 children.


You're 6 pages behind on our debate which was moved because of use of graphic terms. We're going round in circles now... and wasting time.

Not to run off on the debate... but I must go to bed. I start my daycare day at 5:30 a.m. and have had a very full day and night at church.
Diane

 

If God had planned for you eight children, He would have also provided all the necessities they would have required. It all boils down to faith in God. Thy will be done Lord verses my will be done Lord.

Hey if after much prayer God told you guys to stop having children through this vasectomy, then your conscience is surely clear. You guys did ask the Lord about it and consult your spiritual leaders about it, right?

God Bless!

 

Cocaine is highly addictive. It doesn't matter if it's legal or not!!

We (christians} are supposed to have the mind of Christ. You can't possibly function as a child of God with a mind clouded by street drugs.

Peace,

Tam

 

As a former drug addict, I can tell you all that cocaine use/abuse is wrong. Biblically. Why?

Cocaine is highly addictive. I think all of you know this. Therefore, to use it at the risk of becoming addicted is to put yourself under the controll of a mind altering substance. We are told to put on the mind of Christ. We are told to be filled/controlled by the Holy Spirit. Just these two reminders should put to rest the question. But in case you still don't get it.
One person has pointed out the prohibition against sorceries. Mind control by anything other than God is sorcery. Whether it be by far Eastern Transcendental Meditation or by the use of drugs.

I am not clear why this is even a question. I have reason this thread, and I still don't get the question.
Could somebody help?

In His service;
Jim

BTW, I did not mean to echo Tam's post. I thought you all would appreciate the view from the other side of the fence, i.e. been there, done that.

 

BAC, why don't you show where it specifically says that birth control immoral. I think that you are being facitious, to be honest, with that comment!

 

Where is it legal to use cocaine?

 

Lessee. Shall I damage my brain or not. That's a no brainer!

 

Let's approach this from a more indirect angle. If I am a legislator in charge of writing the laws, for the benefit of my population, should I write laws against the recreational use of cocaine? Or if they already exist, would it be ok to repeal them?

 

2Ti 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Cocain certainly does not give you a 'sound mind' so right there, the 'spirit' of the drug is contrary to the Word.

Furthermore, we are redeemed from the curse of death and sin... why would you want to subject your body to disfunction (a form of physical death) or actual death?

Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Rom 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Rom 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Rom 6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
Rom 6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

1Cr 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid.

Hbr 2:15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

From Hebrews 2 we see the result of death in a person's life - it says the fear of death makes a person subject to bondage!

Pro 14:27 The fear of the LORD [is] a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

Cocain use makes one subjected to death (you become a slave not only in addiction, but your body is effected by the mind-altering substance).

We know that Jesus came to give life (and more abundant life) and to set the captives free!

 

According to Rom 14:23, if your having to ask--it is sin!

 

Use of any recreational drug for the purpose of instilling a bodily reaction (abuse), imo, is a sin. Cocaine, heroine, cannibus, alcohol, caffiene, tobacco, etc.

However, these can also be used in a manner which is not sinful. Novacane comes from cocaine. Cannibus is being shown to have beneficial effects with certain ailments. Alcoholic beverages add to food flavor, and in some cases, have beneficial health benefits. Caffiene and tobacco products can be used recreationally without being abused, though these are probably the two most abused substances in the US.

 

T2U, I would generally say that using a drug for a medical purpose is generally not a sin. The cocaine/novacaine reference is a good example. If you're using a something to get a "high" or to "change your perception", etc, is a sin, imo.

 

The situation in Columbia is not one that I would wish to live in. How come the country works with American DEA to get rid of the stuff?

 

Scripture says that we shoud not be drunk with wine, but with the Holy Spirit instead. Scripture also says that drunkenness is a sin, and defiles the templs of the Holy Spirit (which is our bodies). The context of these scriptural caveats is that altering our awareness by the abuse of foreign substances is wrong, because it interferes with the body and mind, and ultimately damages both. OTOH, using a drug for the purpose of healing the body is generally not a sin, as referenced by scripture that gives the advice of comsuming a bit of wine to remedy an ill stomach.