Anything a person is practicing that involved sinful activity must be ceased when they become a Christian. It may be one thing for a person to work as a clerk in a supermarket that sells alcoholic beverages, but to be a salesman in the employ of a liquor company and therefore in the position of promoting the sale of that which is sinful before God is wrong. Paul gives the principle in II Corinthians 6:14-17: “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers…” Again, Paul states in I Corinthians 10:21: “You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and the table of demons.” In II John 9-11 we are told that we cannot even bid God speed to a false teaching without participating in his evil deeds. Working for a liquor company would certainly be promoting evil.
Possibly related:
- I left the Lord and my spouse many years ago and lived a life of sin. I remarried about five years ago and have two children by my second marriage. I now realize how wrong I was and would like to come back to the Lord. What do I have to do?
- Homosexuality is not sinful because God made us homosexual just like He made some people heterosexual.
- Homosexuality is only condemned in the Bible when it is practiced by heterosexuals.