Why is God so great?

thats what I was sayin!! they all smoked it back then it doesnt make any sense!!

Originally posted by Spliffman
thats what I was sayin!! they all smoked it back then it doesnt make any sense!!

David composed a love Psalm about it and mentioned it.....beatious...

Originally posted by debbiejo
They used many other thing too like Mandrake. Love love potion..Yet deadly.

You just make things up.

Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
You just make things up.

I have a great link at home, but I am not at home now.....Good stuff in there.

Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
But a spliff isnt a synthetic drug, its a plant.

It doesn't matter. God has not given drugs to humanity for enjoyment. Just because people take the materials and resources that God created, modify them, misuse them, and abuse them does not mean that God condones or endorses their behavior or activity. God also put all of the preexistent materials for dynamite does that somehow imply that God desires for people to put it in their mouth and light it?

Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
You just make things up.

to be completely honest my man, drugs come from herbs, and back then, they used herbs for all kinds of things, they didn't know it was drugs, just something to get happy on, eh? 😉

so would they go to hell for that!??!

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
It doesn't matter. God has not given drugs to humanity for enjoyment. Just because people take the materials and resources that God created, modify them, misuse them, and abuse them does not mean that God condones or endorses their behavior or activity. God also put all of the preexistent materials for dynamite does that somehow imply that God desires for people to put it in their mouth and light it?

why does god desire to kill innocent people because of religion or die in such painful slow ways even if they live by the bible for him 🙁

I'm so confused and you seem to know all the answers to this!! tell me! please!!

Originally posted by inimalist
Where does the bible say that?

Drugs are listed as a "work of the flesh" i.e. a sin.

Originally posted by Spliffman
to be completely honest my man, drugs come from herbs, and back then, they used herbs for all kinds of things, they didn't know it was drugs, just something to get happy on, eh? 😉

so would they go to hell for that!??!

Originally posted by Spliffman
why does god desire to kill innocent people because of religion or die in such painful slow ways even if they live by the bible for him 🙁

I'm so confused and you seem to know all the answers to this!! tell me! please!!

Can you be more specific? Can you provide an instance?

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
Drugs are listed as a "work of the flesh" i.e. a sin.

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
Can you be more specific? Can you provide an instance?

well I've always wondered about holocaust for one...I just can't understand why god would want to allow such a thing!!

Originally posted by Spliffman
well I've always wondered about holocaust for one...I just can't understand why god would want to allow such a thing!!

I take issue with the semantics of your statement. God does not "want" anything evil to occur; however, God does permit evil because He honors our free wills. He has appointed a Day where He will judge each person's life accordingly.

but people give their love to god and yet he can't stop them from suffering painful deaths...?
it just seems like praying to god would be a waste to me if he can't help me if the time comes...I need to rethink my life it seems

Originally posted by Spliffman
but people give their love to god and yet he can't stop them from suffering painful deaths...?
it just seems like praying to god would be a waste to me if he can't help me if the time comes...I need to rethink my life it seems

The secret things belong to God...it is the glory of God to conceal a matter....For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

Basically our knowledge about why many things happen is limited. That is why faith is so important. We must not allow circumstances and situations to cause our faith in God to waver. We must keep our attention on God because if we focus on what is going on around us it will weaken our faith. Faith is strengthened by staying mindful of God's promises and speaking those promises so that we can hear them, and reading God's Word.

Originally posted by debbiejo
I'll have to find it when I get home. Mandrake is a very strong drug/herb to be used with caution. Yet it was used in the bible.

The Bible--similar to a history book--records the good and bad events of the human experience without justifying them.

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
Drugs are listed as a "work of the flesh" i.e. a sin.

can you give me the actual reference?

please?

Originally posted by inimalist
can you give me the actual reference?

please?

Standby.

Originally posted by inimalist
can you give me the actual reference?

please?

Galatians 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

The word sorcery in verse 20 is the Greek word pharmakeia (fär-mä-kâ'-ä), it is defined as:

1) the use or the administering of drugs

2) poisoning

3) sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it

4) metaph. the deceptions and seductions of idolatry

So the word sorcery encompasses the use of drugs (in a negative vein as to be distinguished from medicinal purposes).

http://cf.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G5331&Version=kjv

Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
God has not given drugs to humanity for enjoyment.

Jesus made wine, and alcohol is a drug.