Originally posted by FMFOk let me say it this way as I have to get to work.
You contend that your "guidelines" apply to smoking cigarettes; what about the coal mine ~ sewage ~ cooking ~ motorcycle examples I gave? How do the "guidelines" that apply to smoking cigarettes apply to them to your way of thinking?
God tells us many way to honor the gift of life. We are not to take it away from anyone including our own.
This is where knowing the basic laws in the bible and noticing all the principles that go with those laws, have to be taken into consideration first when deciding what to do when confronted with something like working in a coal mine which we all know is dangerous.
This scripture came to mind,
Proverbs 22:3Good News Translation (GNT)
3 Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but an unthinking person will walk right into it and regret it later.
No you will not find a scripture that speaks of a coal mine but with most informed people knowing the dangers of working there and the chances of you suffering one way or the other if ones does, perhaps one should consider a safer place to work and that would be showing respect for the life God gave them.
I'll do more research later when I'm off work.
Originally posted by galveston75The Bible does not speak of cigarettes either. The issue here is "defilement" and what is and is not "forbidden", in your opinion, by scripture. So, you say people avoiding or refusing to be coal miners "would be [perhaps] showing respect for the life God gave them". I hear what you say. But if it "defiles" the body, is the not-mentioned coal mining "forbidden in scripture" in the same way as the not-mentioned cigarette smoking is "forbidden in scripture", to your way of thinking?
No you will not find a scripture that speaks of a coal mine but with most informed people knowing the dangers of working there and the chances of you suffering one way or the other if ones does, perhaps one should consider a safer place to work and that would be showing respect for the life God gave them.
Originally posted by robbie carrobieThat's about what I expected from you, robbie.. false claims and childish prattle. You can't give what you don't have.
I have provided a line of argument, references, citations, a scripture and principles, you may make reference to those Randolf Gandolph and save your whining for the general forum.
Originally posted by robbie carrobieGoing to the gym means nothing, it's what you do in the gym that counts. I've seen plenty of people in the gym training with the intensity of a dry sifty fart. That gets you nowhere.
I have already been to the gym, infact i have been everyday since last Friday, suck that up fatboy.
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Originally posted by Proper Knobwe have a sign on our gym wall, doing the same thing over and over again with the same results is insane, i think its attributable to Einstein. I am doing rather excellently, consistency is the key.
Going to the gym means nothing, it's what you do in the gym that counts. I've seen plenty of people in the gym training with the intensity of a dry sifty fart. That gets you nowhere.
Originally posted by robbie carrobieIt's doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results that defines insanity.
we have a sign on our gym wall, doing the same thing over and over again with the same results is insane, i think its attributable to Einstein. I am doing rather excellently, consistency is the key.
In your case, little robbie, insanity is the only result possible.. and, yes, consistency is the key.
Originally posted by HandyAndysorry for not having a photographic memory Randolph, either way, I am awesome and you suck.
It's doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results that defines insanity.
In your case, little robbie, insanity is the only result possible.. and, yes, consistency is the key.