Is smoking a sin? What makes smoking sinful?

[kr15py]

Smoking is a sin towards your own body

[beelzebul]

Your body is a temple of God and anything that harms your body is a sin.
So, smoking is only a sin if it is harming your body.
There is nothing wrong with having a casual drink or a smoke, but when you do it obsessively is when it destroys the body, same goes with eating obsessively, that too can become a sin.

[JBMedia]

Everyone has their own views on smoking. However, I personally believe there's nothing wrong with it. It is the only "drug" that is natural. At the same time, abusing such a thing is still wrong. I don't believe it could be considered a sin because god himself made the plant. I myself don't smoke anymore, for personal reasons. But I definitely would say the feeling is like none other. You feel relieved and stress free at that point in time. People using it as a stress reliever though are sorely mistaken if they think it will take away their problems. Because at the end of the day, your problems are still amidst.

[alexey93]

I believe that smoking is a sin because God has made it to become his temple. Yet, you are there to destroy God’s creation. You don’t have the right to destroy his creation and I would like to add that you don’t have the right to pollute the air.

[Johnny5]

Originally Posted by Serenity

I don't see how smoking's a sin anymore than pigging out at McDonald's or not exercising- you're still abusing your body. I'm not a smoker by the way though I used to be.

Thank You! Every judgmental religious non-smoking person really needs to understand that. Shouldn't we be more concerned about gluttony?

[Padalda]

Well , I don't have habit of smoking and I don't think that smoking is a sin. It can adversely affect to our lungs and leads to asthma and cancer too.

The human body is not a temple. The church is.

Smoking has problems:
1. it can be addictive
2. it tends to weaken the body
3. it gets expensive (stewardship)
4. second hand smoke irritates non-smokers

The medical community changes its mind all of the time about what is good or harmful for human consumption. For the church to take their advice on what is therefore sinful is not a good tactic.

If you don't know that what you are doing is sinful then it may not be a sin. But these days almost every smoker knows that smoking is harmful to the body yet they go ahead and smoke. Knowing the right thing and doing the wrong thing is very sinful in my opinion.

Anything that kills is evil and anybody who supports evil is sinful. Smoking kills and smoking is sinful and if you smoke, you should stop before God puts you in hell for destroying the temple of God. Our bodies are the temple of God

Smoking is a sin because smoking like any other sin destroys your body both physically and psychologically. the reason why i added psychological destruction is that most people know smoking is a bad yet the continue to smoke which is worse than madness.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Anything that kills is evil and anybody who supports evil is sinful. Smoking kills and smoking is sinful and if you smoke, you should stop before God puts you in hell for destroying the temple of God. Our bodies are the temple of God

I agree. Any bad thing is evil and it is sinful to support evil which means smoking is sinful. ofcourse it is your body and you have the right to do whatever you like with it but before God your body is the temple of God and any thing that affects your body affects the temple of God and is therefore evil and sinful

[Doug]

What did Jesus say? It's not what goes into the body that is evil it is what comes out. I am sure he did not mean the round hole in the bottom end of the body but the big hole in the top of the body with the tongue in it.

[Anamela]

smoking is not sinful but the effect of smoking is what makes smoking sinful. The outcome of smoking such as cancer and other diseases make smoking sinful. If your body is the temple of God and you don't keep the temple clean it becomes sin

I need you to be open minded for me to answer that.
Keep that in mind when you read what I have to type:
In Islam it is sinful for a person to do anything that is harmful to that individual mentally & Physically (Ex: Alcohol, Cigarettes, Drugs, Tattoos, etc...)

[riddhisai]

no i don't think smoking is a sin it is for one safety they tell that don't get addicted to smoking .this only for ones safety.... so its not at all a sin u smoke at your own risk its not a sin or smoking is sinful

Smoking is not a sin. but it can lead to sinning. GOD don't want you bound by anything or to put anything before him... it becomes a sin if you put it before him..... just because 1 cor:6 say your body is the temple of GOD doesn't mean that your sinning. he said this to be a guideline to living a long health and holy life.... if smoking was a sin then anyone that smoked would be separated from GOD be cause sin separates us from him... but i know hundreds of people that smokes and there still hears from GOD.... If smoking was a sin they wouldn't be able to hear from GOD..... i do know that smoking shortens your life and your life is valuable to GOD but all in all he will still decide on when you die or not. so if you smoke don't put it before GOD because if you do it becomes a sin against the ten commandments (Thy shall have no other gods before me) anything you put before GOD is your god and is against his holy word.

[krashley]

In the bible it says not to hurt your temple.. So, yes, smoking is a sin. And, yes, just like being overweight from "pigging out at McDonald's."

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 - "Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body."