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To: NobleFree; TheStickman
The word translated "witchcraft" or "sorcery' in the new testament is the greek word "pharmakeia" (transliterated). Are you claiming that "witchcraft" or "sorcery" is a mistranslation, and that it ought more properly be translated as "drug use"? If so: how did every Bible translator get it wrong, while you know the answer?

I gave you the greek word, in scripture, which was translated into the english words "witchcraft" or "sorcery". That word means:

pharmakeia
Thayer Definition:
1) the use or the administering of drugs
2) poisoning
3) sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it
4) metaphorically the deceptions and seductions of idolatry

Part of witchcraft has included the use of psychotropic drugs. Drugs which altered peoples perceptions of the world around them.

The bible says specifically that those who practice such things will NOT enter kingdom of God:

Gal 5:19  Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 
Gal 5:20  idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 
Gal 5:21  envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 

Sorcery..drug use...is ranked right up there with every other fleshly sin. Sins to be repented of. Here's a couple of links that tell about witchcraft and the relationship to drug use.

How Witches Use Weed in Their Craft

The Roots of Witchcraft

Witches Brew

36 posted on 09/01/2017 11:24:53 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC
1) the use or the administering of drugs

That definition is not restricted to recreational drugs. Are you claiming scripture prohibits the use of even medicinal drugs?

3) sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it

If this is the proper translation, as every bible translator has held, then the use of recreational drugs without sorcerous or magical context or intent is not prohibited.

37 posted on 09/01/2017 12:00:48 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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