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Re: Can A Person Be A Smoker & Still Be Saved
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Originally Posted by Michael Phelps
Miz, this is not like you.
You're avoiding the question.
Here's my question - do you feel that the edict to defile not the temple ONLY applies to smoking?
Or, do you feel that the same unhealthy habits that so many have mentioned on here, like overeating, fall into the same category - the one that will send you to hell?
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No, these verses, IMHO, apply to all unhealthy habits.
Taking the verses literally, which I tend to do, then I find fault even with myself.
Do we give ourselves a pass and say these verses don't really mean what they say? Do we gloss over them? What does defiling the temple, our bodies, mean? If they mean harming the body, then we are answerable to God for what we do to His temple. It's as simple as that and as hard as that.
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