Smoking for the Glory of God?
Isang proof text ng Yosi Apologetics Conference (YAC) pang depensa sa paghithit nila ng yosi ay Mt. 15:11-20. Talakayin natin.
Ang punto sa talatang ito eh food doesn’t make you clean or unclean, the waste product of any digested food or drink does not defile the man, does not make him a sinner, and so ceremonial washing at this point is irrelevant. Washing hands is a tradition invented by their elders, it’s not from the Law (of Moses), there is no such command in the Old Testament. Valid ba itong gamitin bilang justification sa pagyoyosi?
Ang pagyoyosi ba ay tinuturing natin na pagkain? No. So why bother comparing it with food? It’s not food. It provides no nourishment for the body. It’s even poisonous, a vice that kills but for a while serves to gratify only the flesh because of it’s addictive property.
So kung food yan pwede pa sana gamitin pang halintulad ang dalawa. Ang kaso, ang yosi maliban sa nakakasira na nga sa katawan na ginawa ng Dios at tinubos nya para sa mga banal na bagay, nagsisilbi pang gawa ng laman gina-gratify nito ang pita ng laman.
Smoking cigarettes therefore is a symptom of a much deeper heart issue, self-gratification for a poisonous worldly vice.
“But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.” (Rom. 13:14)
“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.” (Gal. 5:16 )
Now for sure ang mga Y.A.C. idadahilan dyan sa Romans 13 at Galatians 5 wala namang binabanggit na yosi. Well Romans 13 or Galatians 5 doesn’t even have to mention cigarette smoking to call believers to make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires, tama ba?
For example Rom 13:13 (ESV) says, “Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.”
Binanggit dyan ang mga sumusunod:
Orgies,
Drunkenness,
Sexual immorality,
Sensuality,
Quarreling, and
Jelousy.
Does that mean sa buong sanlibutan yan lang ang mga maitatawag na nagsasatisfy sa gratification of the flesh? No! Halimbawa lamang ang mga iyan, marami pang iba.
Another example sa Gal 5:19-24 (ESV) naman binanggit ang mas maraming mga halimbawa:
Sexual immorality (also in Rom. 13:13)
Impurity,
Sensuality, (repeated)
Idolatry,
Sorcery,
Enmity, (synonymous to quarreling in Rom. 13:13)
Strife,
Jealousy, (repeated)
Fits of anger,
Rivalries,
Dissensions,
Divisions,
Envy,
Drunkenness, (repeated)
Orgies, (repeated)
AND THINGS LIKE THESE.
Itsapwera ba dyan ang yosi? Bat sa pagkain nila ihinahambing ang yosi at hindi sa mga bagay o na naga-gratify sa pita ng laman?
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