why i advocate for cannabis as a christian..
firstly we must look at something that is often overlooked and or not cared about... in the christian church.. and it is in Genesis 1:31 and it is in Acts 10:11-15 now lets look at the older church stance that sticks out in my head as the argument... and im only going to leave a quote then explain why its wrong right there alone and that destroys all of the rest.. if it dont i have more that will indeed do that. "the devils weed" that would be the quote you might have heard in the church a lonnng time ago... okay.. for any christian out there... honestly biblically give me one example of anything that satan created... when he is the destroyer and the father of all lies... he wants to present himself as a angel of light and be like god... who can create? god is the creator... not satan.... and to back this up.... i will give you the verse of "genesis 1:31
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning--the sixth day."
everything he made was very good??? how is that when there is all this evil... we that is the choice we made to take on while in the garden... we had that choice to live by god and let him tell us what was good.... but instead.... we took it on ourselves to say is this good or bad..... so we messed up that day and everything changed... we said this was bad when it was good and this was good when it was bad... you want an example of us saying something is good when it is bad???? addiction and deaths related to prescription painkillers... now lets see what Acts 10:11-15 says... He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.
It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat."
"Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean." The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean."
wow that kinda takes the blows away the jewish mindset because of the fulfillment of the law that jesus did.... not only did he say to go and preach the gospel to all the world... but to all of what???? creation...
in other words... everything that god made is now good.... but we must be careful to practice these things in front of others that do not have that truth... pauls calls them those with a weak conscious.... he talked about this with his freedoms in christ... where he could eat meats sacrificed to other gods... and when someone who has seen him doing this and is new to the faith could see him doing the same thing and become embolden to do the same thing but later become convicted by this for his lack of knowledge and he said in this way i will never eat meats again... so the question is should we stop because of the lack of education of the fulfillment of the law that made everything clean that was created that once was not??? NO we do preach this so that the fulfillment of the law can be made full in the body of christ... this would be a good thing... none of you complain about eating pork do you???? (exactly thats the teaching of the fulfillment of the law.. (this is part of the gospel which in greek is translated into "the good news") and you eat this pork with good conscious now because of that...)
i also want to talk about edification... (ed·i·fi·ca·tion
the instruction or improvement of a person morally or intellectually.) where paul said "All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not." okay so yes we can do all things BUT does it edify me? does it make me better? well lets look at something else that is controversial in the church and what the bible say about this.. "1 Timothy 5:23 Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses." here paul was telling him even tho these other people drink to get drunk... you yourself should not.. because of your often and frequent stomach illness... so indeed it is then not a think of being a drunkard (alcoholic) it is then medicine... so there for it then does what??? it EDIFIES!!!! it makes you better... so with all this know i sum up why i support the medical and legalized use of cannabis according to what god has created and made clean to edify those who need this to help with illnesses by the word of god.... i dont have to go into all the reasons it can help people as many already know that..... if you do not... a little research on dravet syndrome in children and cancer patients from all walks of life and all cancers itself.... will be enough for you too see its effects.. and there is way more than this that it helps... im sure i will find someone to say something about this and i welcome any rebuttals...