Originally posted by King Kandy
A medicine is a drug... It's just a (Hopefully) perscribed and properly dosed one.
Drugs are not sinful (at least I never stated that they were). Here is what I wrote:
Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
Galatians 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 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.The word sorcery in verse 20 is the Greek word pharmakeia (fär-mä-kâ'-ä), it is defined as:
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) metaph. the deceptions and seductions of idolatry
So the word sorcery encompasses the use of drugs (in a negative vein as to be distinguished from medicinal purposes).
http://cf.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G5331&Version=kjv
Originally posted by PITT_HAPPENS
So what drugs are bad and which are not, most drugs are used for medical reasons.
Drugs not used strictly for medicinal purposes only are being used to get high, and thus are being used inappropriately. That makes the act sinful. Drugs are sinful if they are not used for their intended design and purpose. Drugs should never be used to get high. All narcotics and contraband are not only sinful, but they are illegal.
Originally posted by JesusIsAliveYou don't understand much about drugs do you; almost every narcotic is used for medical purposes and even in the hospital you are getting high, that is why they use them is that it helps to relieve pain.
Drugs not used strictly for medicinal purposes [B]only are being used to get high, and thus are being used inappropriately. That makes the act sinful. Drugs are sinful if they are not used for their intended design and purpose. Drugs should never be used to get high. All narcotics and contraband are not only sinful, but they are illegal. [/B]
Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
Drugs not used strictly for medicinal purposes [B]only are being used to get high, and thus are being used inappropriately. That makes the act sinful. Drugs are sinful if they are not used for their intended design and purpose. Drugs should never be used to get high. All narcotics and contraband are not only sinful, but they are illegal. [/B]
Originally posted by PITT_HAPPENS
You don't understand much about drugs do you; almost every narcotic is used for medical purposes and even in the hospital you are getting high, that is why they use them is that it helps to relieve pain.
The situation that you describe falls under the context of medicinal purposes which is in keeping with the intended design and purpose of the drug (just like I said). Hence, I have not erred nor contradicted myself.
Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
There is no such animal as true wine.
Here, straight from dictionary.com:
"1. the fermented juice of grapes, made in many varieties, such as red, white, sweet, dry, still, and sparkling, for use as a beverage, in cooking, in religious rites, etc., and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less.
2. a particular variety of such fermented grape juice: port and sherry wines.
3. the juice, fermented or unfermented, of various other fruits or plants, used as a beverage, sauce, etc.: gooseberry wine; currant wine.
4. a dark reddish color, as of red wines.
5. Pharmacology. vinum.
6. something that invigorates, cheers, or intoxicates like wine.
7. British. a. a social gathering at which wine is the major beverage.
b. a party, esp. one held by university students, for drinking wine.
8. Obsolete. intoxication due to the drinking of wine. "
Wine is fermented fruit, almost always grapes... Which gives is alchohal content.