Jude 2

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8056028.stm
also
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5410476.stm

so, now that this is understood, should cola's be treated like tobacco or alcoholic beverages as some people believe, and be completely abstained from?

if not, for those that believe that alcohol and tobacco are absolutely sin for everyone, why should cola's be exempt from that paradigm?

RamboPreacher wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8056028.stm
also
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5410476.stm

so, now that this is understood, should cola's be treated like tobacco or alcoholic beverages as some people believe, and be completely abstained from?

if not, for those that believe that alcohol and tobacco are absolutely sin for everyone, why should cola's be exempt from that paradigm?

Gee Rambo, all you got to do is ressurect the advice given in the 13th annual assembly. November 1-6 1917 Harriman, Tennessee

Question: What about Coca-Cola and other cold drinks?

Answer: I hope none of our people are guilty of drinking such things, but if they are I hope they won't do it anymore. I wonder what next. It looks like the devil has many traps set for us, but he is not going to get us all.

I stopped drinking any soda's. It has been a week now. I have not drank any caffeine in a few years because of my heart but I am now trying to eat more healthy and I drink nothing but water and juices.

I am feeling better each day

Ah!!

Not looking good for me

Water and Milk only for over a month.

RamboPreacher wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8056028.stm
also
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5410476.stm

so, now that this is understood, should cola's be treated like tobacco or alcoholic beverages as some people believe, and be completely abstained from?

if not, for those that believe that alcohol and tobacco are absolutely sin for everyone, why should cola's be exempt from that paradigm?

the curious case of an Australian ostrich farmer who needed emergency care for lung paralysis after drinking 4-10 litres of cola a day.

Its all about moderation.

Paully_44 wrote:

RamboPreacher wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8056028.stm
also
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5410476.stm

so, now that this is understood, should cola's be treated like tobacco or alcoholic beverages as some people believe, and be completely abstained from?

if not, for those that believe that alcohol and tobacco are absolutely sin for everyone, why should cola's be exempt from that paradigm?

Its all about moderation.

so, are you making sin relative?!?!?! how dare you step on that slippery slope of heresy.

I can't claim total abstinence, but I can victoriously say that I have been set free from Diet Mountian Dew addiction. Seriously, I have all but quit drinking them and have gone to straight water or flavored water with no aspartame or Splenda.

I have cut myself down off of cokes tremendously, but I still have a long way to go!

wendy k

At least you didn't say "POP". *shudder*

MacUser wrote:At least you didn't say "POP". *shudder*

I knew what the article meant, POP.

Paully_44 wrote:

MacUser wrote:At least you didn't say "POP". *shudder*

I knew what the article meant, POP.

yea, I read the "accent" and understood that they were talking about pop.

How about caffeine free diet root beer? Is my soul in danger for drinking it?

Had to drink one today Having coke withdrawals

The forbidding of alcohol has little to do with health concerns. It has to do with intoxication or its ability to inhibit your ability to make rational and reasonable decisions. For this reason we abstain from all intoxicants (drugs or alcohol). Soft drinks don't fall into the category of intoxicant but in the category of food. Like all foods, moderation is the key. Too much pork is bad for you or too much salt or too much sugar or too much this or that. This report should make us aware too much caffeine or sugars are bad for us and therefore we should use great caution for health reasons. However, such a report has nothing to do with how we should view intoxicants.

Tobacco products are unnatural. In other words, tobacco products don't have any value to the upkeep of the body. You don't naturally crave nicotine like you do food or water. Smoking a cigarette is not eating or drinking something that happens to have something bad in it. It is the inhaling of something because of what it contains and soon because of the addiction to what it contains. The craving of nicotine is unnatural and therefore falls into the category of taking a drug for the purpose of taking a drug.

My response probably won't convince anyone but I do get a little concerned that most discussions I read here are to find ways to allow things once thought inappropriate. I don't find many discussions which lead us to laying aside weights and sins or the non-expedient. It's always about why people should be allowed to do this or that. Just an observation