More on the Tower of Babel - Day of Pentecost comparison:
Genesis 10-11 explained in Wiersbe's Chapter-by-Chapter Commentary
From Noah's three sons, God made a new beginning in human history. He set apart Shem to be His special channel of blessing, and it was through Shem that Abraham, the father of the Jewish nation, was born (11:10ff.)
Sin always separates man from God (chap.3); brother from brother (chap. 4); family from family (chap. 9); and now nation from nation.
Note the name of Nimrod (10:8-10). The phrase "mighty hunter" implies that he was a rebel against God and a tyrant against his fellowman. He founded two cities important in Bible history: Babylon and Nineveh.
Man seeks unity and notoriety, and he tries to accomplish these things by his own wisdom and strength. Lucifer wanted to be like God (Isa. 14.14), and man wanted to make a name for himself. But only God can make a person's name truly great (Gen.12:2, Josh. 3:7).
Babel means "confusion" and "God is not the author of confusion" (1 Cor. 14:33; see also James 3:16). Babylon will apppear often in the biblical record as the enemy of God's people. Whenever there is confusion, the spirit of Babylon - the world and the flesh - is at work. Ultimately, the whole "Babylonian system" will be destroyed (Rev. 17-18).
The confusion of tongues that began at Babel was reversed at Pentecost (Acts 2:7-8). A descendant of Ham, an Ethiopian, was saved in Acts 8; a descendant of Shem, Paul, was saved in Acts 9; and the gentile descendants of Japheth were saved in Acts 10. Unity is not worked up by man; it is sent down by God (Ps. 133; Eph. 4:1-6). As we share the gospel with others, we are helping to unite what sin has torn apart (Eph. 1:10-11). Christians are indeed the peacemakers of the world.
"Men are not in hell because God is angry with them; they are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light, which infinitely flows forth from God, as that man does to the light of the sun who puts out his own eyes." - William Law
Although if you want to get technical alcohol is a drug so if you drink and catch a buzz you do drugs, at least imo. Not to mention coffee and all the other caffeine based products.
Thats the arguement all the pot smoking Christians give to justify their pot smoking habit.
I have done lots of research on this and have a pretty good grasp on the effects of both mentally and they are different. Biblically also drinking beer or alchohol is not wrong, you just do not want to get drunken, meaning lose control of your mental facilities to the point you disgrace yourself and the things of God.
I don't consider smoking pot in a place where it is legal a sin. Do you Pletho?
is this because you dont think smoking pot is bad, and the only reason you dont do it because its against the law and Bible's command to follow the law of the land?
Thats the arguement all the pot smoking Christians give to justify their pot smoking habit.
I have done lots of research on this and have a pretty good grasp on the effects of both mentally and they are different. Biblically also drinking beer or alchohol is not wrong, you just do not want to get drunken, meaning lose control of your mental facilities to the point you disgrace yourself and the things of God.
If you have never smoked pot you really shouldn't comment on the difference between it and alcohol. Your not rightly dividing the drugs. Alcohol is a far more dangerous drug in my experience. Just in straight deadly overdoses alcohol owns pot hundreds of thousands of times over.
is this because you dont think smoking pot is bad, and the only reason you dont do it because its against the law and Bible's command to follow the law of the land?
Correct. I don't think smoking pot hurts others. And doesn't hurt oneself as much as they think it does. Everyone who i know who has smoked pot for years and years, are perfectly fine mentally. It is the ones who have to hide their addiction that end up with mental problems. (Paranoia)
But if you do smoke pot and it is against the law where you are smoking it, you are hurting your relationship with God. Plus you are going to have some paranoia since it is illegal.
Correct. I don't think smoking pot hurts others. And doesn't hurt oneself as much as they think it does. Everyone who i know who has smoked pot for years and years, are perfectly fine mentally. It is the ones who have to hide their addiction that end up with mental problems. (Paranoia)
so then why in the "sin" thread do you consider your smoking of cigs a sin?
I don't know if it is necessarily a sin. Forcing 2nd hand smoke on others is a sin. But i mainly put that down as an addiction. In OP i stated that the thread was for sins and addictions.
ALL MEN SIN, its part of their nature, even the best of the best sin.
The only one who did not was Jesus Christ, he had the ability to walk perfectly obedient to God by freewill and could have sinned but obeyed even in the most difficult situations.
In the bible sin is used and talked about in two major ways.
1. The sin-nature of all mankind, which is stained in their genetic code, its basically a corrupted genetic code that used to be perfectly coded, but when Adam and Eve screwed up something happened spiritually that caused the genetic code of man to become out of order, thats why men die.
2. Then the bible speaks of SINS, plural, which are manifestations of the sin-nature of man that all men manifest, some mroe than others.
