Can A Person Be A Smoker & Still Be Saved

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

You are absolutely right and thus common sense we shouldn't do it. But now we come full circle -360 if you will, and where back to all the other things that are also 'not good for you' like fried and fatty foods, soda, overeating, complete and utter lack of exercise, etc.
If someone on this thread can make the bold prediction that there will be "no smokers in heaven, nay, not one!", how can they make the exception for everything else? Aren't THEY the ones trying to find the loopholes that us "liberals" are always accused of doing?

I agree with you about foods, except that food is something we have to have in order to live, so I think it's a little harder to tell people what to eat, except to admonish them to make healthy choices and not to overeat.

The problem with that is, you're then dealing with ignorance, since many people don't have a clue about what makes up a healthy diet, or if they do, they don't know how to prepare it and bring it to the table for their families.

The Bible says gluttony is a sin, so that is as far as I'm willing to go on the issue of food. But a Christian walking around morbidly obese, addicted to food is no better witness than smoking or being addicted to any other substance.

I do wish preachers would address overeating and unhealthy eating habits, because it's obviously a problem. (within the church)