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Originally Posted by Rico
Of course, there are differences, Sister, and I never said there weren't. I was merely trying to point out where the study of pharmacology came from. It was others who took it to mean that I was saying they were into witchcraft. I never once said they were.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmakos
That second link there makes for some interesting reading.
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I still don't know why the translators decided to use witchcraft in that passage. I struggled for a long time with that scripture because of it, but I don't worry about it anymore. If I have a headache I take some Excedrin and don't think twice about it. I had a lung infection two winters back that caused me to go to the emergency room. They gave me some anti-biotics for it and it cleared the infection right up in about a week. I'm not against medicine, but I am not foolish enough to think the study of medicines came from anywhere than where it did, which is medicine men and witch doctors.
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Ezekiel 47:12 "And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and
the leaf thereof for medicine."
terûphâh
ter-oo-faw'
From H7322 in the sense of its congener H7495; a remedy: - medicine.
Jeremiah 8:22 "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?"
"physician"
rapha, raphah
properly to mend (by stitching), that is, (figuratively) to cure: - cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, X thoroughly, make whole.
Exodus 22:18 "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
witch -
kâshaph
kaw-shaf'
A primitive root; properly to whisper a spell, that is, to inchant or practise magic: - sorcerer, (use) witch (-craft).
If a physician is no different than a "witch" or practictioner of witchcraft, e.g, pharmacist, then why does the Bible allow for physicians (Luke, the
beloved physician), but NOT for witches?
I would venture that the Bible does differentiate between legitimate, helpful, curative medicine, and the practicing of witchcraft, involving potions, spells, and the spirit world.
Both involve medicines, but one involves the spirit world and nefarious motives, the other does not.
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