@Patches,
Patches wrote:
This makes no difference. People choose to alter their consciousness with drugs. This is a sin and God would not be in favor of it. What would you be telling me next? That God gave us fingers to pull the trigger of a gun and kill someone?
The point is biologically these plants would have no effect on the human body without these receptors. If you want to claim god created humans then he did so by providing them with specific receptors for certain plants not all plants but specific ones to have a drug like effect on the body. Without these receptors nothing would happen if they were consumed, smoked, converted chemically and injected, nothing would happen.
Why would a god design humans with specific receptors that allow for a chemical response that induced drug like effects?
You can see this in other animals as well. Catnip for example. It has absolutely no direct impact on humans but on cats it gets them stimulated. Bees get drunk off the fermentation of fruit that has fallen off trees. The list goes on if you research the topic of animals and drugs in nature.
Same with mushrooms. Many are poisonous to humans but other animals are unaffected by what we consider to be toxic or poisonous. They can consume them with no harm or damage. Then on the flip side there are certain foods humans eat that other certain animals can not.
The over all point. If god is using drug use as a test clearly if he had any intellect he would know that no matter what warnings or commands he gave to attempt to suggest drug use is a sin, that there would always be a certain percentage of humans that would ignore any such statements.
But maybe that's gods weakness, statistical analysis? If you study the Bible its clear gid us unaware of such a concept. I can point out at least ten stories where if god had understood statistics he wouldn't have reacted as he did in them. Perhaps god needs to get high and chill out.