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[3]: 36 [23] Suggestions included prayer, cutting off contact with homosexual friends, dating women, marriage, and scripture reading. [9] It called homosexuality a despicable, degraded, dread practice, and a perversion that would doom the world, but stated it was not totally the fault of family conditions and concluded it "CAN be cured ...
The oldest scriptures of Hinduism Rigveda (1500 BCE), mentions ritualistic consumption of a divine psychedelic known as soma. There are many theories about the recipe of Soma. Non-Indian researchers have proposed candidates including Amanita muscaria, Psilocybe cubensis, Peganum harmala and Ephedra sinica.
According to traditional Jewish enumeration, the Hebrew Bible is composed of 24 books which came into being over a span of almost a millennium. [1]: 17 The Bible's earliest texts reflect a Late Bronze Age civilization of the Ancient Near East, while its last text, usually thought to be the Book of Daniel, comes from a second century BCE Hellenistic period.
Jesus making wine from water in The Marriage at Cana, a 14th-century fresco from the Visoki Dečani monastery. Christian views on alcohol are varied. Throughout the first 1,800 years of Church history, Christians generally consumed alcoholic beverages as a common part of everyday life and used "the fruit of the vine" [1] in their central rite—the Eucharist or Lord's Supper.
In Deut 21:20 and Proverbs 23:21, it is זלל. [2] The Gesenius Entry [3] (lower left word) has indications of "squandering" and "profligacy" (waste).. In Matthew 11:19 and Luke 7:34, it is φαγος ("phagos" transliterated character for character), [4] The LSJ Entry [5] is tiny, and only refers to one external source, Zenobius Paroemiographus 1.73.
[17] LDS doctrine teaches that whatever leads in this world to enslavement, addiction, or forced behavior is ultimately instigated by Satan. God allows these conditions because of the agency he has given to man, but He expects men to overcome evil by doing good among the society in which they live.
Straight Talk: Overcoming Emotional Battles with the Power of God's Word. 2005. ISBN 0-446-57800-2. Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone. 2005. ISBN 0-446-57772-3. Meyer, Joyce (2006). Look Great, Feel Great: 12 Keys to Enjoying a Healthy Life Now. Warner Faith. ISBN 0-446-57946-7.
Buddhist scriptures talk a great deal about the general idea of attachment to sensual pleasures, but do not directly address the issue of substance addiction as it is understood in contemporary society. Jataka stories and certain rules governing lay and monastic behavior do discuss the use of alcohol and intoxicants.