kristinusko ja kannabis

Papeilla on tapana saarnata ympäripyöreää asiaa jonka kukin tulkitsee kuten haluaa, eivätkä ota konkreettista kantaa maallisiin asioihin.

Kannabiksen käyttö on kuitenkin liittynyt erityisesti muinaisjuutalaisuuteen, juutalaisuuteen ja varhaiseen kristinuskoonkin, sekä vielä muinaisempiin sumerilaisiin ja egyptiläisiin uskontoihin joista muinaisjuutalaisuus ja muut sen alueen uskonnot ovat kehittyneet. Kannabista on käytetty suitsukkeen muodossa, alttarin läheisyyteen vain paksua ja vahvaa hashiksen savua.


In the temples of the ancient world, the main sacrifice was
the inhalation of incense. Incense is defined as the perfume or smoke from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to a deity. Bronze and gold incense burners were cast very early in history and their forms were often inspired by cosmological themes representing the harmonious nature of the universe.

The following piece was taken from "Licit and Illicit Drugs", page 31.

"In the Judaic world, the vapors from burnt spices and aromatic gums were considered part of the pleasurable act of worship. In proverbs (27:9) it is said that 'Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart.' Perfumes were widely used in Egyptian worship. Stone altars have been unearthed in Babylon and Palestine, which have been used for burning incense made of aromatic wood and spices.
While the casual readers today may interpret such practices as mere satisfaction of the desire for pleasant odors, this is almost certainly an error; in many or most cases, a psychoactive drug was being inhaled. In the islands of the Mediterranean 2,500 years ago and in Africa hundreds of years ago, for example leaves and flowers of a particular plant were often thrown upon bonfires and the smoke inhaled; the plant was marijuana." (Edward Preble and Gabriel V. Laurey, Plastic Cement: The Ten Cent Hallucinogen, International Journal of the Addictions, 2 (Fall 2967): 271-272.

"The earliest civilizations of Mesopotamia brewed intoxicating beer of barley more than 5,000 years ago; is it too much to assume that even earlier cultures experienced euphoria, accidentally or deliberately, through inhalation of the resinous smoke of Cannabis?" (Ritual Use of Cannabis Sativa L, p. 216.)

"It is said that the Assyrians used hemp (marijuana) as incense in the seventh or eighth century before Christ and called it 'Qunubu', a term apparently borrowed from an old East Iranian word 'Konaba', the same as the Scythian name 'cannabis'." (Plants of the Gods -- Origin of Hallucinogenic Use by Richard E. Schultes and Albert Hoffman)

"It is recorded that the Chinese Taoist recommended the addition of cannabis to their incense burners in the 1st century as a means of achieving immortality." (Marijuana, the First Twelve Thousand Years by Earnest Abel, page 5)

"There is a classic Greek term, cannabeizein, which means to smoke cannabis. Cannabeizein frequently took the form of inhaling vapors from an incense burner in which these resins were mixed with other resins, such as myrrh, balsam, frankincense, and perfumes." (Ritual Use of Cannabis Sativa L)

"Herodotus in the fifth century B.C. observed the Scythians throwing hemp on heated stone to create smoke and observed them inhaling this smoke. Although he does not identify them, Herodotus states that when they "have parties and sit around a fire, they throw some of it into the flames. As it burns, it smokes like incense, and the smell of it makes them drunk, just as wine does us. As more fruit is thrown on, they get more and more intoxicated until finally they jump up and start dancing and singing." (Herodotus, Histories 1.202.)


ISRAELITE USE OF INCENSE

It was said that Moses, at the direction of Almighty God, first brought in the use of incense in public worship, and that the other nations of antiquity copied the practice from him. It was however a practice that began with Adam. The "Book of Jubilees", an Apocryphal book, (the Apocrypha was considered canonical by the early church and is to this day by the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church) states that "on the day when Adam went forth from the Garden of Eden, he offered as a sweet savour an offering of frankincense, galbanum, and stacte, and spices, in the morning with the rising of the sun, from the day when he covered his shame." And of Enoch we read that "he burnt the incense of the sanctuary, even sweet spices, acceptable before the Lord, on the Mount."

Incense was assigned miraculous powers by the Israelites. It was burned in golden bowls or cauldrons placed on or beside the altar. It was also burned in hand-held censers. In the Blessing of Moses, a poem belonging to the Northern Kingdom of Israel, and written about 760 B.C., the sacrificial smoke is offered to the God of Israel.

Let them teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law; Let them offer sacrificial smoke to thy nostrils, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thy altar.

Throughout the Bible the ancient patriarchs were brought into communion with God through smoking incense and at Mt. Sinai God talked to Moses out of a bush that burned with fire (Exodus 3:1-12). After Moses brought the Israelite people out of Egypt he returned to Mt. Sinai at which time God made a covenant with Moses in which the Ten Commandments were revealed. Exodus 19:8 describes the conditions at the time of this covenant.

Exodus 19:8 "And Mount Sinai was altogether on smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

The Mysterious smoke mentioned in the covenant on Mt. Sinai
is also referred to as a cloud.

Exodus 24:15 "And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount. 16 And the glory of the Lord abode upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

Scriptures make it abundantly clear that the clouds and the
smoke are related to the burning of incense. Exodus 40:26
describes Moses burning incense, a cloud covering the tent of the congregation and the glory of the Lord filling the tabernacle. Leviticus 16:2-13 describes how God appeared in a cloud and refers to it as the clouds of incense. Numbers 16:17-19 describes how every man of the congregation had a censer full of burning incense and that the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the congregation.
Isaiah 6:4 describes how Ezekial saw God in a smoke-filled inner court. Numbers 11:25 describes how God was revealed to moses and the seventy elders in a cloud; that the spirit rested upon them and that they prophesied and ceased not.

The Book of Grass by Andrew and Vinkenoog includes a section on Ancient Scythia and Iran by Mircea Eliade, one of the foremost experts on the history of religions. On pages 11 and 12 is the following:

"On one document appears to indicate the existence of a Getic shamanism: It is Straho's account of the Myssian KAPNOBATAI, a name that has been translated, by analogy with Aristophanes' AEROBATES, as 'those who walk in clouds'; but it should be translated as 'those who walk in smoke'! Presumably the smoke is hemp smoke, a rudimentary means of ecstasy known to both the Tracians and the Scythians..."

This passage should be carefully noted. Biblical passages
make it abundantly clear that the ancient Isrealites also walked in clouds and in smoke. In fact it was in the clouds of smoke that God was revealed to the ancient Isrealites. The words "smoke" and "smoking" appear fifty times in the King James Version of the Bible and two separate times the Bible says of the Lord, "There went up a smoke out of his nostrils." II Samuel 22:9, Psalms 18:8.

There are numerous other places in the Bible that mention the burning of incense, the mysterious cloud, and smoke. This common thread is found throughout the Bible, including the New Testament.

St. Matthew 24:30 "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the Earth morn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory."

Revelations 1:7 "Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all the kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen."

Revelations 8:3 "And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer: and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the Angel's hand."

Revelations 15:8 "And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power."

näillä seuduilla kasvoi kannabis ja kasvaa edelleen..!

narkki kirjoitti:

näillä seuduilla kasvoi kannabis ja kasvaa edelleen..!

Ei kannabiksesta näy halluja sekopää.

don kirjoitti:

Ei kannabiksesta näy halluja sekopää.

Itseasiassa tähtäsin kirjoituksellani siihen, kuinka tietyt kasvit tuottavat halluja. Tarkoituksena ei ollut luoda kenellekään sellaista mielikuvaa, että kannabis niitä tuottaisi, vaikka alkuperäinen otsikko olikin kristinusko ja kannabis.

Poikkesin aiheesta, mutta halusin antaa oman näkemykseni siihen, miksi Raamatuun on kirjattu kaiken maailman tarinoita!

Mielelläni kuulisin perusteluja väitteelle, että pilven poltto on syntiä. Hamppuhan on puhtaasti luonnontuote, Jumala on siis halunnut, että tälläinen kasvi on olemassa. Raamatussa myös kehotetaan nauttimaan luonnontuotteista (tms).
Tosin, melkeimpä kaikki mitä täällä teemme on syntiä.
Raamatussa kehotetaan myös olemaan kohtuullisia ;D

haroldie kirjoitti:

Mielelläni kuulisin perusteluja väitteelle, että pilven poltto on syntiä. Hamppuhan on puhtaasti luonnontuote, Jumala on siis halunnut, että tälläinen kasvi on olemassa. Raamatussa myös kehotetaan nauttimaan luonnontuotteista (tms).
Tosin, melkeimpä kaikki mitä täällä teemme on syntiä.
Raamatussa kehotetaan myös olemaan kohtuullisia ;D

Samoin luoja on luonut maailmaan sellaisia asioita kuin pedofiilit, sarjamurhaajat ja Adolf Hitlerin. Jos perustellaan asian luonnollisuudella, niin tuolloinhan myös kokaiinin käytön voisi perustella Raamatulla.
Miksi pilvenpoltosta tulee minulle toisinaan huono omatunto? Miksi pilvenpoltto on syntiä (tai miksi se ei olisi)? Yhden perustelun syntisyydelle voisin ottaa vaikka laista. Vaikka laki onkin sidottu maalliseen elämäämme ja se on ihmisen tekemä ja sopima, silti Raamattu ja usko ei anna oikeutta hylätä maallisia lakeja. Myös uskova on sidottu lainsäädäntöön ja vaikka Luther pohti hyvin pitkään vanhurskauden ja lain suhdetta, hänkin korosti virkavallan kunnioitusta, koska ilman auktoriteettejä ei vähänkään sivistyneempi yhteiskunta toimisi.
Mutta onko pössyttely syntiä sen teon takia? Siihen en osaa vastata

Näätä Makko kirjoitti:

Samoin luoja on luonut maailmaan sellaisia asioita kuin pedofiilit, sarjamurhaajat ja Adolf Hitlerin. Jos perustellaan asian luonnollisuudella, niin tuolloinhan myös kokaiinin käytön voisi perustella Raamatulla.
Miksi pilvenpoltosta tulee minulle toisinaan huono omatunto? Miksi pilvenpoltto on syntiä (tai miksi se ei olisi)? Yhden perustelun syntisyydelle voisin ottaa vaikka laista. Vaikka laki onkin sidottu maalliseen elämäämme ja se on ihmisen tekemä ja sopima, silti Raamattu ja usko ei anna oikeutta hylätä maallisia lakeja. Myös uskova on sidottu lainsäädäntöön ja vaikka Luther pohti hyvin pitkään vanhurskauden ja lain suhdetta, hänkin korosti virkavallan kunnioitusta, koska ilman auktoriteettejä ei vähänkään sivistyneempi yhteiskunta toimisi.
Mutta onko pössyttely syntiä sen teon takia? Siihen en osaa vastata

Pedofiilit, sarjamurhaajat ja Adolf Hitlerhän (Hitler on muuten ennustettu jo vanhassa testamentissa) toimivat saatanan vaikutuksessa, luonto on asia erikseen. Paraatiisissa (josta Aatami ja Eeva karkotettiin) kasvoi myös hamppua.
Mun uskon mukaan voin toimia nyky-yhteiskunnan, babylonin kaupungin, lakikirjainta vastaan, jos tiedän toimivani oikean asian puolesta. Kaikella kunnioituksella, tietysti.