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pharmakeia

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    Pharmakeia drugs or sorcery

    Hello. I’m told there are some Greek speakers here. Does anyone have insight about Revelation 9:21 which in most English translations is “sorcery” but when I look at a lexicon the word pharmakeia is the word is says is from the Greek. To an English speaker the word pharmakeia obviously seems...
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    Native Greek speakers please help

    I only speak English so I probably will make a fool of myself here over my Greek question but I can’t find a satisfactory answer anywhere. Revelation 9:21 talks of sorceries but when I use a Greek lexicon I find pharmakeia which to an English speaker I would have assumed to be related to...
  3. scryptic

    Life Doesn't feel like a Blessing

    I've had a good life and a bad life. I was raised in a loving home with 3 sisters and parents who are devoted to Christ. I remember a happy childhood at home. Around 2nd grade I gradually spent more and more time with new 'friends' that were from broken and lost families. I didn't see or...
  4. imperfection91

    How I stopped smoking cigarettes and marijuana

    It's been about ~9 months now; praise the Lord! [cold turkey] Being in LA, it's a common thing to find a dispensary on every corner; most of my acquaintances also being shop owners, weed is passed around as candy. cops rarely care... neither did I care But the Lord cared, and I'm glad he pulled...