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Info Topical Survey of internet qoutes gathered from top 75 Bible related pages.
Info kjv@Note: Quotes are often from non-authoritative sources and should be considered for their thought provoking nature only.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Although the Bible does not address marijuana directly, it does discuss other mind-altering drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Actually, the word translated "sorcery" is the Greek word pharmakeia,^4 from which we get the English word "pharmacy." The primary meaning is "the use or the administering of drugs" (usually associated with sorcery or idolatry).
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ So, if one uses drugs or anything else to escape and get high, or is addicted to these substances, it is against the commands of scripture and inappropriate for Christian participation.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Likewise, we are not to allow things (e.g., drugs) to bring us under their control:
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Marijuana enthusiasts ("potheads") take comfort in the fact that, unlike most other illicit drugs, it is seemingly impossible to fatally overdose on weed by means of normal consumption (i.e.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ As for drug addiction, not all illicit drugs are physically addictive.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Any time spent kneeling before the god of drugs is time spent with your back
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ In this paper I will share different verses that make it crystal clear that the Lord is not pleased with those who choose to defile their bodies and minds by the use of alcohol and drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ God was able to use them because they did not defile their bodies or minds with alcohol or drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ And if you insist on rebelling against God and indulging in alcohol and drugs, God's Word calls you a drunkard and a fool.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ In this passage, the word sorcery implies "the use or administering of drugs," from the original translated Greek word pharmakeia, according to Strong's Concordance.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Not only is sorcery found in Galatians, but in a multitude of other verses as well, all implying the use of marijuana and other drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Whereas the lust of your flesh for drugs and alcohol is strong, I know your partnership with Christ will make you stronger to withstand the temptation and see you through to a full recovery.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Now, God could have made hallucinagenic drugs during the fall of many when he made thistles.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ So what im trying to say is that when God touches you FOR REAL you wont have to smoke weed, drink, smoke, or do drugs; in fact you wont want to anymore.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ For those who do need it for medicinal purposes there are less contraversal drugs that can do the same thing.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ I heard one preacher say that alcohol and drugs were given by God for the unregenerate man to find some form of peace.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ The Devil and his entities know that if you are turning to drugs to feel better, then they can influence you to turn even farther away from God.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Cannabis is not physically addictive like tobacco, alcohol, or many over-the-counter drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ There is a big difference in using drugs in a cure and then use them in a self mind-altering state.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ They claim that the funds made from growing drugs fund terrorists.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ There drugs dont even heal they just get you high and make the pain go away from a while..
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Much depends on your definition of drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ There is, however, no endorsement in the Bible to use drugs that have the potential to seriously damage the mind or body.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ But nearly all of them teach situation ethics: it's up to each person whether or not to use drugs, moderate use may be all right if you don't get addicted, etc.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ They do not teach kids to avoid drugs, not even illegal drugs!
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Obtaining drugs becomes the main function of life.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Hence, whether caused by alcohol or by other drugs, intoxication violates God's word.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Mind-altering drugs weaken the mind's ability to think clearly, distinguish right from wrong, and exercise will power.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Hardin Jones said regarding marijuana users: "They are easily induced into risky, impetuous and foolish behavior, such as acceptance of heroin, LSD, and other dangerous drugs, and homosexual experience, which are later regretted" - Russell, p.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Virtually all who became addicted to hard drugs started with marijuana, which distorted their judgment and put them into the drug scene" - "Marijuana Alert ...
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ The person who uses drugs generally starts because of peer pressure - he gives in to temptation from others.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ "90% of those using hard drugs such as heroin started with marijuana" - Voth.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ "Although marijuana serves as the major 'gateway drug' into the use of illegal drugs, the major gateway drugs into marijuana use are two legal drugs - tobacco and alcohol ...
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ If people do not use marijuana, they simply do not use other illicit substances.' [He reported:] Marijuana use is a precursor for those who go on to other drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ They are already using an illegal drug that drug weakens their judgment and inhibition, so they have removed the barriers against stronger drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ I'd been doing drugs for 3 years and I finally quit cold turkey a few months
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Drugs are a trap.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ This is true for all drugs we have discussed, when used for "recreational and social purposes." We earlier cited specific diseases, infections, and even permanent damage to the brain, heart, lungs, etc.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Drugs often lead to accidents or other dangerous or even violent behavior.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Finally, if a person moves on to the stronger drugs and becomes dependent, notice this description of withdrawal, by Henry L.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Yet this is exactly what happens when people abuse drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ When you buy drugs, you share in the dealers' sin and you support him financially when you should be rebuking them.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ People almost never begin using drugs alone.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Specifically, reformed drug addicts must completely abstain from drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ If your example encourages them to return to drugs, you share in the guilt.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ People need to realize that Jesus, not drugs, is the answer to their need.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ You do not need to escape reality by means of drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ You can avoid drugs and find your needs met in Jesus.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ A life of drugs is a life of despair, hopelessness, guilt, sorrow, and eventual death physically and eternally.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ If you have used drugs or even are addicted, you can be forgiven and change your habits.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ God condemns the merchandising and use of poisonous drugs along with murder and idolatry.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ it means the general illicit use of drugs (same application as today) and the use of drugs to cast spells etc.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Between these were the sorcerers, enchanters, and charmers who could cast spells and knew how to use herbs, potions, and drugs."
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Vine says, "In sorcery, the use of drugs, whether simple or potent, was generally accompanied by incantations and appeals to occult powers, with the provision of various charms, amulets, etc., professedly designed to keep the applicant or patient from the attention and power of demons, but actually to impress the applicant with the mysterious resources and powers of the sorcerer."
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Illicit drugs are condemned because its fruit is rotten.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Take a look at the people who use drugs and line them up with people who do not...
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Look at the lives of 5 people you know who use drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Bury your head in the sand and hope the feeling will disappear, try an artificial filler such as drugs, or stand on your own two feet and deal with things realistically.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ The Bible itself is the most valuable source of help in facing the problem of drugs in our lives.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Psychologically, drugs can cause us to lose all sense of control.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Peer group pressure, the desire for new experiences, the desire to out-perform ones associates - all these exert the most powerful influences on the user of marijuana to go on to stronger drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ It is a known fact that people who are supplying marijuana are usually suppliers of other drugs: amphetamines, LSD, heroin.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ The nature of this is uncertain, perhaps influenced by peer group pressure, perhaps an indication of personality instability in the person who would use marijuana, but it is probably related to the tendency of some young people to resort to the use of drugs to solve or escape their problems.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Since the use of drugs creates problems for the user, the use of drugs as a problem-solving technique greatly increases the likelihood of habitual use and of escalation.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Finally, the factor of negative value scales causes many young users of marijuana to go on up the ladder to other drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ It is common to hear a person in the drug scene boast about almost killing himself with an overdoes of drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ When a young person in using marijuana surrounds himself with people whose value judgements are warped to this degree, the chances are very great that these negative values will result in his moving up to heroin, amphetamines, or other drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ The importance of drugs in religion, like that of sexuality, is often overlooked by researchers who have been imprinted with our Christian influenced societies innate prejudice against these substances.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Despite the early marriage between shamanism and psycho-active plants that inspired the development of whole religions, naturally occurring botanicals like the psilocybin mushroom, Indian hemp, peyote cactus and similar substances have been condemned as devil's potions and drugs by most religious groups of our modern era.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ "Western Jews and Christians, who shun psycho-active drugs in their faith practices, are the exception, not the norm.".
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Drugs in general produce an euphoric and pseudo accelerated state of mind (this is why they are used).
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ They are drugs that depress the central nervous system (narcotics such as codeine, morphine, and alcohol); those that stimulate the central nervous system (such as cocaine and amphetamines); and those that produce hallucinations (such as LSD and Psilocybin).
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ No prophet of God ever used drugs to speak or listen to God in the Scriptures.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ No true disciple of Jesus uses drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ The use of drugs to put us into contact with the spirit world is something that God hates with a holy anger because it brings such deep spiritual damage to the souls He has entrusted to us.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Drugs that break the mind free from conscious control by the will, open the dimensional door to the occult world.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ It means "to make religious trips by the use of drugs." God says this will fool all the nations in the last days.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Drugs sap your strength, occupy your mind, consume your resources so that you cannot bless others with what you have, create a dependency, control, sap life from a person, and often kill.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Drugs do not edify (build you up and make you stronger or make you to be a blessing to your family or draw others to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ).
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ A third reason why drugs are a bad idea for a Christian is found in the command God has given to us to obey our government.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Instead of seeking a "high" or "buzz" from drugs, we as Christians should seek to be in love of Jesus Christ.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ If we spend our time pursuing a love for Jesus Christ, seeking to get to know Him through prayer, reading and memorizing the Bible, and doing what He tells us to do, we will find that our relationship with Him is far more powerful, enriching, and rewarding than any experience from drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Nevertheless, it refers to the use of drugs in the context of witchcraft, which is clearly condemned.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ I would say that we dare not conclude that "a little heroin or crack" is beneficial, other than the use of small doses of drugs like morphine for the control of severe pain.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Being drunk or high on drugs renders one incapable of being effective for God.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ There are other biblical truths that make it clear that the use of recreational and hallucinogenic drugs is harmful.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ We are to take care of our bodies so as to be able to serve God for many years, and drugs are physically debilitating.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Also, we are to steward the financial resources that God gives us, and using our money to buy such drugs is hardly good stewardship.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ In short, using drugs robs us of "the life that is truly life."
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ I even know people that won the victory and now they are off drugs and in church, serving God.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ Drugs are not an easy thing to get off of, but there is hope with God.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ We are to be controlled by the Holy Spirit not by the effects of drugs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ The Greek word `pharmakeia' has been used since 500 years before Jesus' time to refer to the buying and selling of drugs for both recreational and medical purposes, and also to refer to quacks selling `miracle cures' etc.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveyDrugs @ (2) Some Christians not only continue to support recreational alcohol abuse, but also attempt to argue that drugs are 'okay' too, based on two basic arguments: