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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
I mean Just a pinch between the cheek n gum.
Or a big wad of it in your front bottom lip.
Red Man pouch in the back pocket, does Jesus care if you are dipping and spitting?
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That’s a tough question. It seems that the mother Church made decisions that were healthy ones concerning some issues. I have never been a drinker, smoker or dipper, so I could probably pretend to be sanctimonious (on these issues). I certainly don’t regret having never developed these habits.
However, the fact that I didn’t have these habits, didn’t grant me salvation. I was still a sinner. And I know people who struggled with these addictions. The struggle was real. Some were miraculously delivered from them on receiving the Holy Ghost. Others, for whatever reason, that I will not speculate about, were delivered from addiction years later.
My father told me that his father was addicted to smokeless tobacco, so severely that he went to bed with it in his mouth. It was before I came along, but he was such a clean neat person when I came to know him, that I could scarcely picture him in that condition. Smokeless is highly addictive to some people. And it does cause oral cancer and other serious health concerns.
However, it may be best not to condemn someone to hell for addiction. Sometimes we can condemn someone whom God needs a little time to work on.
Maybe.
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