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Drugs & Medicines in the Bible: Are they Related to Witchcraft & Sorcery? — and What about Those Miracles?

28 January 2020 -28 January 2020 - by Ray Hermann, D.Min.

Unless you know what to look for, medicinal and recreational drug use in the Bible isn’t always evident, because they didn’t speak about drugs as we do today. They used plants and minerals for treatment and healing of ailments and pain, or to produce certain mental effects such as mood relaxers and hallucinogens. Since many …

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Categories Behavior, Culture, Traditions, Christian, Faith & Prayer, Herbal, Homeopathy, Judeo-Christian, Lifestyles, Mental Health, Miscellaneous, New Testament, Occult, Old Testament, Pagan, Paranormal & Supernatural, Pseudoscience, Righteousness, Satan & Demons, Sex, Sin, Spiritual Tags 1Peter 5:8, 2 Corinthians 12:7-9, additction and bible, christian drug treatment, Colossians 2:8, Dr Ray Hermann, drugs in bible, epigenetics, genesis 30:14-16, inherited sin, John 13:3, magic in bible, magic vs miracles, mandrake in bible, Mark 15:22-24, medicines in bible, miracles in bible, myrrh, narcotics in bible, nard, pharmakeia, sorcery in bible, trading mandrakes for sex, what we do alters DNA, witchcraft in bible 6 Comments

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