Witchcraft = medication

[TRFrance]

Originally Posted by clgustaveson

...there are MANY words that have the same root but mean entirely different things. Cognates even further illustrate this point... just because the Bible uses a word with the same root doesn't mean there is any connection with a modern word of a completely different meaning.

The fact that it was translated as something different expresses the difference in translation. This is why words have multiple meanings where some of the meanings are entirely unrelated and I fail to see a connection at all with idol worship and witchcraft to pharmacology.

This is the kind of erroneous conclusions people can fall into when they find a Greek word that is related to a modern day word (even if the original word has multiple meaning in different contexts)... and then try to apply one of the meanings of the original word to the modern day usage of the related modern-day word... and then try to create a link between the 2 very different word meanings (old and modern) by using the word linkage as a bridge between the two totally unrelated meanings.

Not only is it a terribly unsound practice, but that kind of exegesis can provide, and has provided in some cases, an undergirding [and badly flawed] foundation for some of the worst false doctrines we have today.

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by TRFrance

This is the kind of erroneous conclusions people can fall into when they find a Greek word that is related to a modern day word (even if the original word has multiple meaning in different contexts)... and then try to apply one of the meanings of the original word to the modern day usage of the related modern-day word... and then try to create a link between the 2 very different word meanings (old and modern) by using the word linkage as a bridge between the two totally unrelated meanings.

Not only is it a terribly unsound practice, but that kind of exegesis can provide, and has provided in some cases, an undergirding [and badly flawed] foundation for some of the worst false doctrines we have today.

Right. Etymology 101.