Created But Not Made
I was at lunch last Monday (November 2nd) listening to some people sitting beside me. I got disturbed because they were talking about this certain person that we all know who is not only a pot head BUT also big into going to church. He is not apostolic.
They were talking about how this certain person smokes pot, does acid, and other things like that. Then someone spoke up and asked, “Isn’t he big into going to church?”
The original person talking answered, “Yes, he does, but he says ‘God created it, so why not use it and do it?’.”
Another person spoke up, who also does drugs, and said, “Exactly!”
My mind immediately started going 100mph thinking! Here is what I was thinking, and what I have to say to that.
The first thing that came to my mind was Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. In Genesis 2:9, the Bible says,
“And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”
God created the ground to make plants and trees which then produced fruit and food. Then in verses 16 and 17 of chapter 2 it says,
“And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest there of thou shalt surely die.”
You see, from the beginning of the human race, we’ve always had rules to obey and follow.
God created everything that was in the garden of Eden, but did he make everything for Adam and Eve to eat? Obviously from scripture the answer is no. God created the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but it wasn’t made to be eaten by the human race. Then what was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil created for? That’s a question I’ll leave open for pondering since I don’t know the answer (even though after talking with some people, I have something in my head of what I think it might have been made for, but it’s probably not the true answer since we’ll never know until heaven!).
Now back to my original thoughts. Since weed, pot, and drugs were created, does that give mankind the right to smoke, chew, or do anything of that sort with it? I feel the answer is no for three reasons.
One reason is because of the garden of Eden example. The second reason is because our body is God’s temple. Second Corinthians 6:19-20 says,
“19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
If our bodies are the temple for the Lord God to dwell in, then why would we want to destroy or alter our minds or modify our body to our liking by doing drugs? The third reason is because everything was created for a purpose.
So, here are some questions that I present to you. If God created it, then was it made to be used by mankind? Or did He create it for a different purpose? Did God put something in us so that we know what we can and cannot do of the things that are on this Earth?
God Bless,
Bradley Hilton