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  • Russelll gray - 1 year ago
    where is the Bible does it says to stay away from drugs. Pharmasuticals?
  • Giannis - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Dear Russell

    Galatians 5:19-21

    "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

    Idolatry, WITCHCRAFT, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

    Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."

    The ancient greek for "witchcraft"(sorcery) is "pharmakeia". "Pharmakon" in greek means "medicine", But in ancient times it meant "drug" (narcotics) and "poison" as well, since narcotics were made by natural chemicals (herbs) at that time, like medicine were made by herbs too. And since witchcraft was done using herbs as well, in ancient greek it was called "pharmakeia" (not in modern greek). It is not to be mixed up with todays english words like pharmaceuticals, pharmacy etc, which have to do with medicine only.

    The Bible doesn't deal specifically with narcotics since in ancient times they were not used by people extensively (probably only for divination, pagan prophesying), or not at all actually. But sorcery was something very common at that time. The Bible does not suggest to keep away from pharmaceuticals, medicine. Evangelist Luke was actually a physician himself.

    GBU
  • Luke - In Reply - 1 year ago
    It's called sorcery, sorceries, sorcerers (pharmikeia, pharmokon, pharmikos) Revelation 9:21, 18:23, 22:15
  • Lisanne - In Reply - 1 year ago
    "I think in those days they may not have used the term drugs or pharmaceuticals but maybe used the word "medicine" for the sick and terms like "sober" vs not sober for being in a state of mind altering substances."
  • Lisanne - In Reply - 1 year ago
    I think in those days they may not have used the term drugs or pharmaceuticals but maybe used the world "medicine" for the sick and terms like "sober" vs not sober for being in a state of mind altering substances.
  • Lisanne - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Try this;

    Link

    Back in those days, I don't think they referred to drugs as drugs but more like sober vs not.



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