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The Explorer's Study Bible: Seeking God's Treasure and Living His Word List Price: $27.99 Sale Price: $14.96 Used From: $6.57

The Explorer's Study Bible takes kids on an adventure of a lifetime to find the treasure of God's message. A full New King James Version Study Bible just for kids. Incredible study helps include maps, keyword verses, interesting Bible facts, dictionary/concordance, and more-all designed to bring God's Word-its people, places, events, and message-into a kid's world! It's full of fascinating features that make the Bible fun to read and explore, entertaining to learn about, and easy to study and understand...

What does the Bible say about tobacco use?

I know tobacco wasn't discovered until the 16th or 17th Century when Spanish explorers brought it back to Europe from the Americas. Therefore, there is no mention of it in the Bible. But wouldn't smoking fall under "unclean spirits"? The Bible also says your body is a temple (I'm para-quoting), so wouldn't smoking be defiling your temple? The man who asked Jesus how to get to heaven was named Nicodemus too, and Jesus told him that he must be born again to see heaven. Nicodemus = nicotine. Therefore one must purge themselves of all filth and be made pure before they can see heaven.

Of course, the Bible doesn't mention tobacco directly, but neither does it mention guns directly, and that obviously doesn't mean that it is all right to murder someone with a gun because the Bible doesn't condemn guns.

The Bible does give general principles that apply to a lot of things. One is, "Therefore, since we have these promises, beloved ones, let us cleanse ourselves of every defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God’s fear." (2 Corinthians 7:1) The dictionary says that "defilement" means pollution, filth, etc. It is well known now how tobacco pollutes the body, causing many kinds of cancer. Chewing tobacco gets spit and is really nasty.

But even more important is the second part, "defilement ... of spirit..." Nicotene is an addictive drug, listed in drug reference books. And the Bible, in Revelation 21:8, where the Bible condemns "those practicing spiritism" ("sorcerers" in some Bibles), the original Greek word for "sorcerers" was "pharmakia", or, literally, "druggers", since these people apparently used drugs in what they did. So the Bible actually says that "druggers" will end up in the lake of fire, which, it says, means "the second death" with no hope of coming back.

So for two reasons, tobacco's being a "defilement of flesh and spirit," and its being a drug addiction, the Bible shows that anyone wanting everlasting life will need to avoid it.

Best regards,
Mike

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	The Mystery of the Ark of the Covenant (The Explorer Series)
	The fate of the lost ark of the Covenant is perhaps the greatest historical mystery of all time. The gold box built to carry the holy Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai, the powerful vessel God used to lay waste to entire cities and destroy armies...

	The Search For The Real Mt. Sinai Sale Price: $1.99

Illustrated Catholic Bible $29.95 Finally, a multimedia Catholic Bible for the entire family! Kids (of all ages) will love the pictures; students will search the Bible and click open the Catholic biblical encyclopedia; parents will enjoy sacred music and consider Church documents about Scripture study (all included in Welcome to the Catholic Church). Included in this disc are the complete Revised Standard Version--Catholic Edition; Hundreds of color illustrations by J. Tissot; Catholic Encyclopedic Dictionary of Biblical Terms; an illustrated Life of Christ; Church documents on Scripture; Liturgical music; Bible maps; illustrated summaries; 10,000 hyperlinks and powerful search capacity.' ' SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: 'Windows ??: Pentium 2+ processor or equivalent. 128MB RAM, Windows?? 98SE, ME, 2000, XP. CD-ROM drive. Internet Explorer 6 must be installed on system (does not need to be primary browser). Sound card and speakers are needed for audio.' Macintosh ??: OS X 10.3+. Sound card and speakers are needed for audio.

Inside the Bible $17.95 This book is a popular introduction to each of the 73 books of the Bible designed to help the reader grow in the knowledge and love of God's Word. The introduction to each book includes the time frame and author, the theme, a summary of the contents and some comments about the context in which it was written, the theology of the book, an outline, and a prayer taken from the book. Fr. Baker provides quick access to essential information the daily or occasional reader of sacred scripture should find helpful. The book may also be of help to more advanced students who wish to refresh their memory of a particular book of the Bible. By carefully reading Inside the Bible one can have a thumbnail summary of each book of the Bible at his fingertips. "Many Catholics revere the Bible without reading it. They find themselves paralyzed, not knowing where to start reading. Fr. Kenneth Baker comes to the rescue. In brief synopses of the 73 books he guides new readers through the threshold and shows them how they can move forward on their own. Inside the Bible will transform almost-readers into avid readers of the sacred text." "Karl Keating, Author, What Catholics Really Believe Fr. Kenneth Baker, S.J. , is the editor of Homiletic and Pastoral Review and author of the 3-volume series Fundamentals of Catholicism . '

The Bible and the Qur'an (Book on CD) $23.95 Read by Chris Knufke 'A Catholic missionary examines differences between the Bible and the Quran.

Catholic Study Bible $9.95 The 12th volume in this very popular study Bible series based on the Ignatius Bible, the Revised Standard Version edition. Each volume in the series contains numerous Bible study helps and tools that include insights from the Church Fathers, topical essays, word studies and charts, maps, study questions and a cross-reference section.'

Walking the Bible $24.95 This beautifully shot PBS special offers valuable insights into the roots of the Biblical narrative. Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, it presents one man's epic journey "by foot, jeep, rowboat and camel"through the stories of the first five books of the Bible. From crossing the Red Sea to climbing Mt. Sinai, to considering the burning bush, Bruce Feiler's inspiring odyssey will bring you back to the world of the major Biblical characters.