“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” ~ 1 Corinthians 6:19–20
Strong’s exhaustive concordance of the Bible, which lists every word in the Bible, lists the word “sorcery” as word #5332 and tells us that it is translated from the original Greek word “pharmakon.” It gives the definition as: a drug i.e. a spell-giving potion, a druggist, a poisoner.
Even in Webster’s 2nd Collegiate Dictionary, published in 1980, under the word “pharmaceutical.” The definition reads: “pharmaceutical” the practice of witchcraft or the use of poison.
- “Outside are dogs and druggists [pharmakos] and fornicators and murderers and idolaters and any who love and make a lie.” ~ Revelation 22:15
- “Manifest are the deeds of the flesh, such things are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, idolatry, use of drugs [pharmakeia], hostilities, contention, rivalry, wrath, intrigues, dissensions, sects, envyings, drunkenness, revelries, and things like these; which I have announced to you beforehand, just as I have said before, that they who practice such things shall not inherit Yahweh’s kingdom.” ~ Galatians 5:19-21
Further, “If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.” ~ 1 Corinthians 3:17
The very first place the word “medicine” is used in the Bible is in Proverbs 17:22 and it says, “A merry heart doeth good, like a medicine.” If medicine and drugs are the same thing, this would, at first glance, seem to reveal a contradiction in the Bible. This question is answered in the very next text listed in the concordance under medicine: Ezekial 47:12, “Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”
The Bible is telling us that medicine is good and it tells us where to obtain it: from the leaves or what we commonly call “herbs.”
- “Yet its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be left for salt. All kinds of trees providing food will grow along both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fresh fruit because the water comes from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for medicine.” ~ Ezekiel 47:11-12
- “It flowed down the center of the main street. On each side of the river grew a tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, with a fresh crop each month. The leaves were used for medicine to heal the nations.” ~ Revelation 22:2
- “Isaiah had said to Hezekiah’s servants, ‘Make an ointment from figs and spread it over the boil, and Hezekiah will recover.’” ~ Isaiah 38:21