To add to what's already been posted, drugs of any kind, including cannabis/weed/pot are
NOT promoted by Christ. Excerpt below from the
Website:-
WHY PEOPLE REALLY
TAKE DRUGS |
A few "pleasant" effects of some drugs:
ALCOHOL - makes most of us "happy", initially, and creates the
illusion of general friendship; others can be aggressive.
TOBACCO - calms nerves by relieving the craving
it has created.
VALIUMS - remove (numb) the pain and revulsion at the world that
we have created.
AMPHETAMINES - give us energy and intensity of thought.
CANNABIS - provokes short-term "peace of mind"; relaxation
and thought.
ECSTASY - provokes emotion that people think is joy and love.
L.S.D. - causes pleasure and a magnified appreciation of the awesome immensity of reality.
HEROIN - creates a "shield" or "bubble" that protects one from the "outside world vibes".
All the "pleasant" effects these drugs provoke are; in essence; things that
CANNOT be found in the world or system we live in today. Some people, at least, desperately
need to feel them. No-one goes around loving each other, we all walk around
WARY of each other. When some-one sees the Divine in us (the Being) and smiles in recognition, we think: "What do they want from me?"
The world or system in which we've been brought up has taught us
nothing in relation to these, our spiritual needs. Its only concern has been to teach us to want its products and to feed every want that we might have ("Self"-ish wants)* and ingrain the illegal hierarchy of the "System" deep within us. People who don't mind this "reality" are either
VERY STRONG human+Beings, or, I'm sorry to say, humans deeply lacking
IN ANY SPIRITUALITY WHATSOEVER.
*
so we join the "rat race" to buy the system's products and consume; consume; consume and waste, thereby destroying ourselves; the planet and its natural resources.
Looking at it from a "God's Eye" perspective - all these drugs are "freely" available to any of us, in order to
CANCEL the
NEED for
HIM (GOD). Drugs supply a very
bad imitation, with very bad side-effects, of all that we feel when in
DIRECT CONTACT with
HIM (Love, Joy, Etc...).
Let's make no mistake - Satan / the Opposer / Evil (whatever you prefer) directs drugs at the more spiritual people to soothe the feeling that "something's not right with the world today" and prevent them from finally (after the heart-ache, sorrow and depression)
DOING something about it (
BEGINNING TO CHANGE THE WORLD) the system. That we cannot do this ("it's impossible") and that he doesn't exist, are 2 of the 3
biggest lies that the father of lies (the Devil) has ever told us. It is because we have believed his lies that we are in such a mess. The
BIGGEST of these lies is that we are
ONLY human.
The "comedown" that you feel when the effects of these chemical / physical, poor substitutes wear off, comes about because you have not used your
WILL (your spirit or Being) to arrive at those feelings. You simply take the "quick and easy" human path which
ALWAYS lets you down (when the drug's effect wears out). The more spiritually sensitive a person is, the greater the high, but also the greater the "comedown".
If we begin to will our way towards these
BEAUTIFUL states of mind, it would then be a
CONSTANT CLIMB (a
PERSISTENT CONTINUAL RUSH) which will never reach its peak throughout
ALL of ETERNITY. Multiply the good "feelings" drugs give by
INFINITY and we begin to get an idea what
HEAVEN is all about...
What will give us the impetus (the kick start) to do this is the
TRUTH of
why we are here on this planet and why it is
so bad; why we don't just "feel good"
all the time, why
WE QUESTION in the first place (which is a very good question!) and knowing
THE PLAN.
It is up to every individual to look for the answers wherever you want to, or right here, but please bear this in mind - make
sure the ones you go to, provide you with the answers
YOU are looking for and don't just provide you with
THEIR OWN answers. If you believe the
LIE that for some questions there is no answer, then you will never receive them: "Let him who seeks, not cease (stop) seeking until he finds, and when he finds, he will be
TROUBLED (the Truth hurts...at first!), and when he has been troubled, he will
MARVEL and
REIGN over the
ALL (he will know)" - Christ, in "The Gospel of Thomas" (The Doubter).
In this evil world, people give drugs to people in order to "remove" their drug problem?!! People, your drug-dependency or usage is the result of a
CAUSE, a
SPIRITUAL and
NON-PHYSICAL cause. We aren't chemical-dependent, we are
LOVE-DEPENDENT. We have been conned into believing that, by using something physical, our Spirits / Beings / Souls (the real us); which are non-physical Light / Essence; will feel better. With every comedown you feel
WORSE and the next "high" is always
LOWER. The
only permanent solution is
to learn how to use your will-power, not only
so you "don't take drugs", including pharmaceutical ones, but primarily to water the vast
spiritual desert inside every one of us and fulfill the very reason for our existence.
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The positive grove that Abraham planted was obviously a
natural grove of trees.
The negative (unnatural, man-made) "groves" that the Israelites were
COMMANDED to destroy, were the temples/churches that were built with human hands (
Acts 7:48;
17:24), to engage in the
idolatrous worship of the non-existent "
queen of heaven" (
’ă-šê-rê-hem /
‘aš-tō-reṯ, etc.).
Asherah/Ashtoreth is known by many names. She is the
Roman goddess Diana, aka Inanna (Sumer),
Ishtar (Akkad & Babylon), Ashtoreth (
1 kings 11:5)/Astarte (Syria), Isis (Egypt) Aphrodite/Artemis (Greek). She was of
Babylonian origin.
Source:
http://goddessschool.com/projects/dianavan.html
Today,
Ishtar/Easter is worshiped in every "Christian" church, many of which have Easter egg hunts for the children before or after the Sun-day service. That is how "Christianity" incorporated the Babylonian practices of sun-worship on Sun-days and of idolatrous worship of the Babylonian "queen of heaven" Ishtar/Easter into their organized religion. What do eggs and bunny rabbits and Ishtar/Easter egg hunts have to do with the resurrection and crucifixion of Jesus?
This is why God
COMMANDED that the "groves" (churches/temples/mosques/synagogues, etc.) be destroyed. It's also why Christ plainly stated that only heathens and hypocrites go to such places,
to be seen by others (
Matt. 6:5-8).
It's also why we can be absolutely certain that the one instance of the Greek word "pasha", which is correctly translated as "PASSOVER" the other 28 times in the New Covenant/Testament, has been
WRONGLY translated in the KJV as "Easter" in
Acts 12:4.
Of course this error in
Acts 12:4 has been corrected in the
King of kings' Bible, where "pasha" appears as God's "Passover", instead of pagan Ishtar/Easter, exactly as it should be.