MaxShimba
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- Apr 11, 2008
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He had been through this operation before, and the doctors had told him then the same thing they were telling him now: You have to quit smoking. This is what the Doctors said to one of my friend, and that left me with this question: Why Did God Create Tobacco?
With such vivid attestation and/or evidence of the medical dangers of smoking tobacco, we may sometimes wonder: Why did God create such a plant?
Is there a positive reason for God to have created a plant that causes so much death?
When God finished creating in Genesis 1, He stated that all He had made was "very good" (verse 31). Does this mean that it's okay to use the tobacco plant in the form of cigarettes, cigars, pipe smoking, chewing tobacco or snuff?
No, it doesn'tanymore than it's all right to eat poisonous plants, overeat, overdrink, or go to extremes with or misuse other parts of God's creation. In addition to the medical evidence showing that smoking, chewing or snorting tobacco is not good for us, biblical principles reveal that such use of tobacco is contrary to what God wants us to do.
So, is there any good to come from the tobacco plant?
Max Shimba
With such vivid attestation and/or evidence of the medical dangers of smoking tobacco, we may sometimes wonder: Why did God create such a plant?
Is there a positive reason for God to have created a plant that causes so much death?
When God finished creating in Genesis 1, He stated that all He had made was "very good" (verse 31). Does this mean that it's okay to use the tobacco plant in the form of cigarettes, cigars, pipe smoking, chewing tobacco or snuff?
No, it doesn'tanymore than it's all right to eat poisonous plants, overeat, overdrink, or go to extremes with or misuse other parts of God's creation. In addition to the medical evidence showing that smoking, chewing or snorting tobacco is not good for us, biblical principles reveal that such use of tobacco is contrary to what God wants us to do.
So, is there any good to come from the tobacco plant?
Max Shimba