Romans 5:12
When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam's sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. 

The good news? 

God forgives thieves, liars, alcoholics, addicts, adultery, or anyone that sincerely requests His forgiveness. Living differently is the key to continuing success. Large churches probably all include members that are "forgiven" of one or more of the above sins and some include forgiven of maybe worse sins.

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:15
Well then, since God's grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not!

Romans 6:2
Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?

What you must do is to live by the covenant of Jesus. Give up peer pressure. Live by the guidance of any that you can find that will give you advice to live for God's eternal gift of grace.

see also: http://www.revelife.com/765397788/the-reward-for-loving-god-and-loving-others/?=itemrelated&cref=relposts-34349430

 
 

Jake, you have two main problems here. First, is that I'm not sure you've really seen how God's forgiveness really works. If you did, you wouldn't be worried about whether or not He will forgive you. Jesus Christ lived a sinless life. This is why God's forgiveness will never fail you. Because God became a human being of flesh and blood and lived a perfect life, when He died, He was actually qualified to take your sins away. This is why John 1:29 refers to Jesus as the Lamb of God. He was the perfect sacrifice. Since He was a man, He could take your place, and since He was God, His death is eternally effective for everyone who believes into Him. This is the only requirement: that you believe Jesus Christ died for you. So 1 John 1:9 says that if you confess your sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive you. Why does it say that He is righteous to forgive you? Because He HAS to forgive you if you ask for forgiveness by confessing and claiming the blood He shed for you. If He did not forgive you that would be unrighteousness on His part because Jesus His son already payed the price. It's already been paid! Rejoice! Promising to God that you will stop doing something doesn't mean much to God. He will not forgive you because you promise to be a better person. There is nothing YOU could ever do to earn forgiveness. Rather, it is a gift because Jesus shed his blood for you.

@Visionary - A Fully human being leaves NO room for a god!

IF Story book jebus was a literal pre-existent god then it was NEVER a real human but a god dressed up to look like one!

i.e. IF Story book jebus =  100% a man, then there is NO room for a god!

100% human means EXACTLY that.

Fully, totally completely 100% human, means just that.

Nothing more, and nothing less!

100% Pure Orange juice is nothing but pure Orange juice.

The very definition of 100% fully human, excludes a god!

If there were something, anything about this Story book jebus that was non-human, it would immediately disqualify it as being 100%  human!

trinity remains in tatters!

John 3:16-18. We too soon forget the 17-18. Romans 8:1, We have a REAL friend. Matthew 18:22, if we, o mortal humans must forgive so much, Has Christ not set the example to forgive when we ask?  Keep short accounts with God my friend.  He is faithful even when we are not.

At the church I grew up in, the membership cards had a list of seven "rules" on the back. Along with profound statements like believing in Jesus Christ and remaining morally pure and attending church was "avoiding all tobacco products," for the purpose of maintaining a healthy body. Can you believe it? Someone thought it was important enough to put it as a requirement for church membership, and not just our church, but our understanding of GOD'S church. How dare they put that down in writing when scores and scores of obese members practically ate themselves to death with nothing more than admiration on how much one could tuck away at banquets and Sunday afternoon dinners? 

I agree with Pollypinks, this is not a salvation thing, this is a health thing. Having lived with a nicotine-addicted spouse for 29 years (thank you Chantix Prescription for finally ending that) I understand the heartache of the love-hate relationship with the substance.

I looked into your dilemma some more Jake.

First, congratulations on caring enough about holiness to consider that tobacco must go.

Now, as for how to keep to your commitment, realize that what you allow to roll around inside your mind is the real problem. 

Things that addicts do to be freed from their addictions are similar to what you may do:

1) make a list of all the reasons that you want to be freed from chew. Maybe these items are helpful:
I want to be healthy. I love healthy gums/teeth, and I don’t want them yellowed and injured. I don’t want to spend my money on tobacco. I can’t chew in some places like church (etc). I want to be able to go to a movie/mall/ballgame without thinking about tobacco. I don’t want it to continue to control me. Some people that I love and that I care about don’t like it, and they want me to quit. I want to set a good example for others. I only want God to control my life. I want to do only His will.
 
2) Pick a quit date and have a support network. There may be quit telephone support in your state or city or university. Tell your friends, family, and co-workers about your quit date, and let them help if you fail and when you quit, if you chew again, quit again as soon as you come to your senses. What you think is a powerful force.... keep up thinking that you want God to control your will, not tobacco. Get rid of all tobacco everywhere on the days before your  quit date. 
 
3) See your doctor and your dentist. Have them check your mouth and give you advice for quitting tobacco.
 
4) Investigate using the patch or other aid. Use other things to put in your mouth: nuts, sunflower seeds, sugarless gum, carrot sticks, beef jerky, cinnamon sticks, sugarless hard candy, etc.
 
5) Even before your quit date, change your habits. Deliberately choose not chew at times when you normally will.
 
6) Keep active. Avoid alcohol and other mind altering substances before and during your quit date and until all compulsive thoughts to chew tobacco are gone.
 
7) Be aware that your brain will fight against any suffering, supplying thoughts like that you should use tobacco to get through stress or a compulsive minute or two... these things won't last if you don't allow them. 
 
8) If ever you feel an urge for tobacco, breathe deeply, relax, and remind yourself that you quit for benefits that will be lasting not to give in to a complusive thought that may crop up once in a while.
 
9) Daily renew you commitment to living God's will and to being healthy. Thank God and your friends for helping you often.

I hope these ideas and supports in your life help you Jake!

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"Once you free the connection between the drug and God's love and acceptance, you may be surprised at how much freer you feel for quitting tobacco." @crrf - excellent point!  
 

@Visionary - Well hello there composer. I checked your site, you have no entries, so what exactly are you composing? 

Me Composer the ongoing successful Cult buster: You continue to lie!

I am a Registered Australian Composer & my Copyrite Registration Number = A.P.R.A. 165421875

I don't know what ' site ' you claimed to have checked about me but like your research in to biblical matters your efforts are pathetic at best!

You: I don't usually interact with trolls,

Me Composer the ongoing successful Cult buster: ME: "troll", fabulous adj. 1 incredible. 2 colloq. marvellous. 3 legendary. . . . . (Pocket Oxford Dictionary/POD)
ME: incredible adj. 2 colloq. amazing, extremely good. . . . . (Pocket Oxford Dictionary/POD)

As opposed to all proven Trolls like you -

"Troll", which is a five-letter word defined as referring to people (like you) who are asked questions by ' fabulous, incredible, amazing, marvellous, legendary and extremely good trolls like me ' that failed religions like yours e.g. trinitarianism, Mormon, Muslim, J.w's, etc. etc. cannot legitimately answer.

What so called xtianity teaches is easily proven absurd, illegitimate and unsustainable and plain WRONG! even in its fundamentals according to the very Story book bible benchmark appealed to for some credibility, fails there also.

Better luck next time!

You: but ah, allow me to educate you.

Me Composer the ongoing successful Cult buster: You continue to lie!

So far I have proved you are a liar and your so called research in error however in my benevolence as a 50 year successful Cult buster I extend you every opportunity to attempt to rectify your current fraudulent, dishonest, deceptive & Story book reject position!

You: I've read your comments here and I see now that your issue is a faulty understanding of the Bible. No wonder you have so many issues with God, after all you don't even know what you're talking about. 

Me Composer the ongoing successful Cult buster: You continue to lie!

ALL supernatural god(s) are the 100% fabrication by some humans and the total legitimate evidence to substantiate them remains a constant zero!

Your personal emotional appeals and your Cults propaganda is NO evidence whatsoever!

You: Firstly, your assumption about Genesis 3 is incorrect. Man was made just fine and was perfect at the time,

Me Composer the ongoing successful Cult buster: You continue to lie!

Nowhere does it state that man was made perfect!

At best it states ' very good ' (Gen. 1:31) e.g. ASV, KJV Story books

You: although as Romans 8:20 says, man was still subject to vanity. This is why Eve took the bait, because she desired to make herself "like God".

Me Composer the ongoing successful Cult buster: You continue to lie!

Story book Eve was NEVER commanded by Story book god ' not to partake of the tree forbidden ONLY to Story book Adam!

You are clueless and a dimwit!

You: Anyway, the tree of life wasn't merely a fruit you could eat to live forever, although it did contain that property as noted in Gen 3:22.

Me Composer the ongoing successful Cult buster: What else do you think it was and any evidence you can muster attached?

You: It doesn't even make sense that that was its only purpose.

Me Composer the ongoing successful Cult buster: The fact they were dependent on it from Day 1 and were later denied access to it to stop them from living forever/immortality is what I am concerned with. Your drivel about speculative ' other attributes ' is drivel as your point is already lost!

You: No the Tree of Life contained the very life of God Himself. Not only was this life everlasting, but it contained the attributes and very nature of God Himself (2 Peter 1:3-4). Had man eaten of that tree He would have contained God Himself within Him as life. Then He would have fulfilled His purpose, which was to express and represent God, bearing the very image of God Himself (Gen 1:26-27). 
Man fell there and didn't get to express God by becoming the same as God in life and in nature, but it doesn't matter now because Jesus came!

Me Composer the ongoing successful Cult buster: You continue to lie!

ALL CLAIMS OF JESUS DERIVE FROM HEARSAY ACCOUNTS

No one has the slightest physical evidence to support a historical Jesus; no artifacts, dwelling, works of carpentry, or self-written manuscripts. All claims about Jesus derive from writings of other people. There occurs no contemporary Roman record that shows Pontius Pilate executing a man named Jesus. Devastating to historians, there occurs not a single contemporary writing that mentions Jesus. All documents about Jesus came well after the life of the alleged Jesus from either: unknown authors, people who had never met an earthly Jesus, or from fraudulent, mythical or allegorical writings. Although one can argue that many of these writings come from fraud or interpolations, I will use the information and dates to show that even if these sources did not come from interpolations, they could still not serve as reliable evidence for a historical Jesus, simply because all sources about Jesus derive from hearsay accounts.

Hearsay means information derived from other people rather than on a witness' own knowledge.

Courts of law do not generally allow hearsay as testimony, and nor does honest modern scholarship. Hearsay does not provide good evidence, and therefore, we should dismiss it.

http://www.nobeliefs.com/exist.htm

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In the final analysis there is no evidence that the biblical character called "Jesus Christ" ever existed. As Nicholas Carter concludes in The Christ Myth: "No sculptures, no drawings, no markings in stone, nothing written in his own hand; and no letters, no commentaries, indeed no authentic documents written by his Jewish and Gentile contemporaries, Justice of Tiberius, Philo, Josephus, Seneca, Petronius Arbiter, Pliny the Elder, et al., to lend credence to his historicity." (Source: http://www.truthbeknown.com/pliny.htm)

Next:
Your so called "refutations" using Deuteronomy and Ezekiel are nothing more than you twisting the scriptures to your own destruction (2 Pet 3:16) to fit your own preconceived view. 
Deuteronomy 24:16: Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin (NIV) 

First, it says "put to death" This implies a judgement by other human beings. This means to be killed intentionally by others. That's not the same principle spoken of in Genesis 2 and 3.
 We die because sin lives in us as a principle and causes us to do bad things even if we don't want to. (Romans 7:7-24). Human beings are not sinners because they sin, as you think. Rather they sin because they are sinners. It is the law of sin and of death operating in every person (Romans 8:2). Because of this law, every single person who ever lived, with the exception of Jesus Christ, is guilty of sin (Romans 3:23). Eventually, and unfortunately, as our bodies have been corrupted, sin culminates in death.
You quoted Deut 24:16 but seem to have ignored the last part which says each is to die for his own sin. 
The same goes for Ezekiel 18:20:

Me Composer the ongoing successful Cult buster: You continue to lie!

The very fact you now concede & are forced to admit that ' each is to die for his own sin ' belies the Story book claim -  . . . . that Christ died  for   our   sins . . . . (1 Cor. 15:3) ASV Story book

In other words you duped & brainless TROLL, NO ONE in Story book land can die for the sins of another as each must die for their OWN sins! (Apparently? and the alleged ' substitionary/atoning role of Story book jebus is another so called xtian lie!, LOL!

You: Maybe if you took the time to really understand what the Bible says, it would change your mind, but at the very least, then you wouldn't be caught in situations like this where it's clear you don't know what you speak of. 

Me Composer the ongoing successful Cult buster: My Truths & Facts refute you every time!

Much much much much better luck should you wish to try your luck against me again!

Meanwhile like ALL so called and self-acclaimed xtians, you remain liars, frauds, deceivers and overall Story book jebus' rejects whilst I remain 100% vindicated!

YOU, your Cult, its imagined jebus, holy-spirit & their god & Story book remain as always 100% impotent against moi!

Your mentor & literal Saviour moi!

@eshunt - 

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