No harm?

"It is here where true wisdom will impel a man to avoid many things that may not be in the category of things definitely and palpably 'wrong'. Things even 'lawful' are to be declared by Paul in some cases 'not expedient'. How much more is it so with the many questionable things by which we are surrounded in this pleasure-loving and God-neglecting age--things in which it is customary to say 'there is no harm'. No harm? Is spiritual hurt no harm? Is carnal strengthening no harm? Is it no harm to have the power of Christ weakening within you? Is it no harm to have your affections revived for an evil world, shortly to be destroyed? Is it no harm to have your moral preceptions blunted, your enthusiasm for Christ allayed, your original contentment with the present wicked state of things increased, your spiritual man enervated and weakened, your eternal life endangered? It is doubtful if people, who say there is no harm in the pleasure-following of the present age, have truly ever realized what spiritual well-being is. We can only do this by daily intercourse with the holy oracles; these enable us to see 'harm' in many things, where the children of the flesh are necessarily blind. They do this by imparting to us a habit of thought and a system of sentiment which are incompatible with the whole atmosphere of worldly thought and pleasure. They, besides, tell us plainly that those who live in pleasure are dead while they live." {I Timothy 5:6}