Can anyone give me the Biblical scriptures against recreational use of drugs ?

[QuestionQuest74]

Most Christians are against it and they say it’s witchcraft but is there any scripture behind it ?

 

[HTacianas]

Most Christians are against it and they say it’s witchcraft but is there any scripture behind it ?

The urban legend of drug use being a form of witchcraft comes from Rev 9:21. It condemns the use of drugs to cause hallucinations believed to be prophecies. The original word is pharmakeia, which is Greek for drugs. It's where get the term pharmacy from. The translators of the King James Version of the bible translated it as sorceries for whatever reason. That has caused people to confuse the two, in the end, believing drug use to be a form of witchcraft, or sorcery.

 

[NBB]

'Don't get drunk which brings dissolution but be filled with the Holy spirit.'
Drugs are worse than getting drunk.

 

[SavedByGrace3]

Most Christians are against it and they say it’s witchcraft but is there any scripture behind it ?

The connection comes from the Greek word translated witchcraft and sorcery.
Pharmacy

Robertson:
"With thy sorcery (en tēi pharmakiāi sou). En (instrumental use) and the locative case of pharmakia, old word (from pharmakeuō, to prepare drugs, from pharmakon, sorcery, Rev_9:21), in N.T. only here and Gal_5:20 for sorcery and magical arts."
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Vincent:
Witchcraft (φαρμακία)
Or sorcery. Elsewhere only Rev_18:23. From φάρμακον a drug. In lxx, see Exo_7:11; Wisd. 12:4; Isa_47:9. Comp. Act_19:19, περίεργα curious arts, note.

Galatians 5:20 KJV
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Revelation 18:23 KJV
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

 

[Diamond72]

Most Christians are against it and they say it’s witchcraft but is there any scripture behind it ?

Revelation 9:21 Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.
The words here we are dealing with are porneias and pharmakōn. We get our words pornography and Pharmacy from these Greek words. The rabbi teach that true sex is based on intimacy and not on porn. In the same way all drugs do not seem to be banned. I would be inclined to say the mid altering drugs would be banned.

I attended a church were it was common to tell people to quit taking their drugs and pray about it. Usually people ended up in the hospital when they followed this advise. If you pray and God heals you then the doctor will tell you to quit taking the drugs. Also one third of the people today would not be alive if it were not for the child vaccinations. If you go to third world nations where they do not vaccinate quite a few people die.

 

[ViaCrucis]

Most Christians are against it and they say it’s witchcraft but is there any scripture behind it ?

There isn't one, not really. The closest we get is the kinds of practical wisdom and instruction about not abusing or being taken captive by alcohol.

Instead, this comes down to common sense and practical wisdom. Don't put something in your body that harms you. There's no benefit to smoking crack cocaine.

On the other hand, is it wrong to drink tea or coffee which has caffeine, a stimulant, in it? No, but it would be highly unwise to ingest so much caffeine that it has a negative and harmful effect on your body.

Which means use your brain, consider the risks involved, and use wisdom to know what would be good or bad. There is no blanket rule or commandment from God here--it requires us to try to use wisdom and common sense and recognize that even if something might be lawful, it isn't necessarily profitable.

There's no commandment against eating nothing but candy. But should you? Of course not, that's really stupid and harmful. There's no commandment that says don't jump into crocodile infested waters, but should you?

-CryptoLutheran

 

[John G.]

1 Corinthians 3:16 reads: "“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? “If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are"
Your body - if indeed you are a Christian - is the temple of the Holy Spirit hence you do not abuse it with drugs, excessive alcohol or other harmful substances.

 

[65James]

Complete Jewish Bible
But as for the cowardly, the untrustworthy, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those involved with the occult and with drugs, idol worshippers, and all liars--their destiny is the lake burning with fire and sulfur, the second death.
Revelation 21:8

Outside are the homosexuals, those involved with the occult and with drugs, the sexually immoral, murderers, idol-worshippers, and everyone who loves and practice falsehoods.
Revelations 22:15

 

[com7fy8]

Can anyone give me the Biblical scriptures against recreational use of drugs ?

"I will not be brought under the power of any" > in 1 Corinthians 6:12.

So, God does not want us to be under the power of recreational drugs.

And God can do you good which is so better than what you can get into, by using a drug.

"Because Your lovingkindness is better than life,
My lips shall praise You."
(Psalm 63:3)

Plus, how much money can the drugs cost you? Possibly loving people will have us wanting to use our money to help needy people, instead.

And does recreational drug use help you to get into loving and caring for more and more people; or does it get you isolated by yourself or isolated with only certain people who want pleasure? We need to share with our brothers and sisters who are not isolating us for pleasure.

 

[Soulx3]

Most Christians are against it and they say it’s witchcraft but is there any scripture behind it ?

I wouldn't say it's witchcraft, but it can cause opportunity for sins to be committed. The Apostle Peter said, "Be sober-minded," or "be watchful," because the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. In Ephesians 5:18 we read a passage against drunkenness. Drunkenness, like drugs and other vices, puts us in a state that leads us to become inattentive to our surroundings, even ourselves, and we become more susceptible to becoming prey to satan's temptations, and are in a greater state of weakness to resist them. Even more so if our will to not commit sin is already weak, or non-existent. So, as we should live not to satisfy the flesh, but rather our soul, we should refrain from things, material and immaterial, that can prevent or remove the soul from a state of Grace.

 

[Soulx3]

Whoever loves the world and the things of the world is an enemy.

And Jesus says we are to love our enemies in an attempt to bring them back to God, because God will ask each of us what we did to try and help save a soul.

 

[Soulx3]

That was not the question.

Neither was your post an answer to the question, but I replied to you all the same.

However, who told you that God will ask us anything , ever ?

Jesus, God Himself, but not just told me, to others as well.

 

[Soulx3]

I replied to the OP, not to you. I don't know why you replied at all.

I replied to you because I can and wanted to, just as you replied to me because you can and wanted to.

And no Scripture ever Said what you posted as far as known. Or, show when/where He did if He did.

Jesus said it to Peter when He was on earth, during the third year of His public life, as described by Maria Valtorta who was shown this scene by Jesus, and thus saw and heard the conversation take place between them as a first-hand witness on October 28th, 1946. You can read it in The Poem of the Man-God: Vol. III, ch. 517, p. 396.

Or, do you dare to limit God and His Word to the Bible, a book made up of multiple books, despite God's own apostle, John, acknowledging that even if everything Jesus said and did was written down, the whole world would not have room for all the books that would be written? He was obviously being hyperbolic, but his point remains clear.

 

[Soulx3]

Sorry, fairytales do not have the authenticity of Scripture at all.

As Jesus says, you shall known one by their fruits, and you present no fruit that supports your claim her writings are not truth. But, if you want to discredit her, rather than want to know the truth, you can indeed find and use "evil fruit" to say her writings are not of God, just as the Pharisees did to say Jesus was not from God, nor God Himself, even though He is.