(July 1, 2012 at 2:34 pm)Epimethean Wrote: "Sorcery" is a Latinate word which has to do with the casting of lots, as in fortune telling. For the love of all real sense, would you please stop trying to be a philologist.
Drich, are you talking about "pharmakia?" FFS. That word is a NT spin cycle which does mean drugs-even medicinal ones (hello, Jehovah's Witnesses). The true word for witchcraft in Greek is μαγεία, from which, hey presto, we get "magic." Sorcery is a very different word, whose roots are not tied directly to witchcraft.
So, you are to avoid medicine, but also avoid magic mushrooms. But it is OK to nosh on your god and sip his blood and believe in transubstantiation? In other words, you guys don't need drugs to trip.
Actually no, just because of people like you who take the greek out of context i turn to Hebrew the supports the NT Greek interpertation.
And he caused h5674 עבר `abar
his children h1121 בן ben
to pass through h5674 עבר `abar
the fire h784 אש 'esh
in the valley h1516 גיא gay'
of the son h1121 בן ben
of Hinnom: h2011 הנם Hinnom
also he observed times, h6049 ענן `anan
and used enchantments, h5172 נחש nachash
and used witchcraft, h3784 כשף kashaph
and dealt h6213 עשה `asah
with a familiar spirit, h178 אוב 'owb
and with wizards: h3049 ידעני yidd@`oniy
he wrought h6213 עשה `asah
much h7235 רבה rabah
evil h7451 רע ra`
in the sight h5869 עין `ayin
of the LORD, h3068 יהוה Yĕhovah
to provoke him to anger. h3707 כעס ka`ac
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm...KJV#conc/6
