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To: Know your rights
Nothing there says we should imprison drinkers or pot smokers.

Romans 1:21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools."

The idea that strong drink and intoxicating substances are good for men is the wisdom of this world and is founded on premise that there is no accountability for one's life and that God does not exist or does not care about what one does. But the scriptures clearly says that he does exist "I AM THAT I AM", and that he does care "So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God." Romans 14:12

Having mentioned the accounting that will be required of all of us. I tell you that no one, on that day before God, will want to hear "You wasted your life through drunkenness and being stoned rather than being filled with the Holy Spirit which I created you to be. The Eternal Life and Love which I offered you as a free gift which I offered through giving my only Son to atone on the Cross, you spurned. I gave you food and drink, air to breathe and restrained much evil from you every day so that you might live and turn to me and Live, but you did not. Away from all food and drink, love and pleasure shall you go and serve me as incense upon the lake of fire you shall."

Having been one who has served the Gods of pleasure and vice, and suffered much from their ills, I tell you that being filled with love and the Holy Spirit beats anything you have ever known. Turn away from the dung heap of intoxication and talk to the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, tell him all your faults and call upon Him to save you from it and this whacked out world and hear His words to you "All that come to me, I will, in no wise, turn away"

28 posted on 11/03/2005 5:59:32 AM PST by sr4402
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To: sr4402
I agree with everything you say ... and none of it implies we should imprison drinkers or pot smokers.
29 posted on 11/03/2005 3:31:20 PM PST by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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To: sr4402

Let me rephrase what you have said in several posts: BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAHBLAH BLAH BLAHBLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAHBLAH BLAH BLAH

The only reason I'm doing this to you is to get your attention, knock you off your roll a bit, so you will pay attention when I say everything you have quoted from the Bible is negated by the fact that Jesus, his own self, made wine for wedding guests.
Read your Bible.


30 posted on 11/04/2005 12:46:48 PM PST by jjmcgo
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To: sr4402
I am assumning you would support legislation to prosecute those not sufficiently filled with the Holy Spirit? You confuse what is WRONG with what should be ILLEGAL. They are two separate things. Jesus himself stated that the law of God permitted divorce, something that God himself declared that he HATES. Why? Because the purpose of the law is not to bring about a righteous society. It is to place a restraint around evil. It is NOT to legislate in a morality which the Jews have already shown us cannot be done.

Is the law of God good? Absolutely. Is all law based in the morality ultimately to be derived from God and his law? Yes. Does that mean that the commands to individual Christians should be enshrined in civil code? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Let the law do what it is designed to do, which is restrain the unfettered madness of men. I don't think smoking pot is one of those things that should have been made "illegal" in the first place (By the way, I am not a pot smoker).

You misapply the law of God.

37 posted on 12/08/2005 3:46:04 PM PST by chronic_loser
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