Rev 21:8 medicine a sin?
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2014 1:06 pm
Because of what the translation have and the Greek is connected with how we got pharmacy it's a sin.
8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
Not sure where you see anything relating to medicine. Are you referring to "those who practice magic arts" or sorcerers? That's the greek word φαρμακεύς (pharmakeus).
http://biblehub.com/greek/5332.htmCognate: 5332 pharmakeús – a person using drug-based incantations or drugging religious enchantments; a pharmakeus-practitioner who "mixes up distorted religious potions" like a sorcerer-magician. They try to "work their magic" by performing pseudo "supernatural" stunts, weaving illusions about the Christian life to use "powerful" religious formulas ("incantations") that manipulate the Lord into granting more temporal gifts (especially "invincible health and wealth"). This has a "drugging" effect on the aspiring religious zealot, inducing them to think they have "special spiritual powers" (that do not operate in keeping with Scripture). See 5331 (pharmakeía).
See the difference between a sorcerer, and someone who uses medicine?