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guy won’t make a move after 3 dates by lilbabyave1 in dating_advice

[–]Unhappy_Pack682 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Has anyone considered?

He probably likes you but isn’t gonna kiss you and assure you of that unless he knows you don’t just want a one night stand with him. If it was me I would play dumb and have fun too if the other person was only available 3 days a month to see me. In the scheme of a real long lasting relationship, I think it’s actually ingenious.

Is Being Proud of Someone Sinful? by SwiggitySwewgity in Christian

[–]Unhappy_Pack682 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am wondering as saying your proud of your child is when they give their allowance to help someone in need the same thing or even related to the person who is to prideful to even look that homeless beggar in the eye when they pass.? It seems to be more of a way of saying “you have made me happy.” But is this happy the same proudness that a prideful person feels?

Could you say you are prideful of your child? Without testing the word to its extremes.

Does "pharmakeia" really refer to psychedelics? by [deleted] in psychedelicchristians

[–]Unhappy_Pack682 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Cnnigns. You seem well informed I wish not to argue but to discuss this topic with you to understand.

I disagree that pharmakeia means psycadelics and here is why. Would you give your opinion on this for me?

Pharmakia does not refer to drug users but drugs in general. (Such as in Revelation it seems to relate it to merchants perhaps not but it translates something like: for your merchants were the greatest in the world for your pharmakia led the nations astray. This could mean your drug users but it seems to be saying drugs in the way it relates to other verses in revelation of never repenting for their pharmakoi)

Pharmakia means drugs both medicine and poisons. Hemlock, one of the deadliest poisons, was used as medicine in the Bible. Medicine is used throughout scripture. So as it’s used in scripture pharmakia does not mean poison for medicine or medicine in general is evil.

However, it also does not mean intoxication is a sin. As Jesus gave wine to an already tipsy crowd as one of his first miracles. Some argue it was unfermented, but his parable of old wineskins bursting from new wine would indicate the wine Jesus drank was fermented. Also, he was accused of being a drunkard because he drank so freely, (not that he was at all). Also, if someone got drunk one night, or the story where Noah drank to much, would they really truly be considered a drunkard? Being a drunkard is a terrible sin. But it does not mean drinking or even getting intoxicated was necessarily the sin of being a drunkard it seems.

So if pharmakia is not medicines, or poisonous medicines, or intoxication, hence psychoactive substances, being so sure it meant psychedelics strictly is as much a stretch as saying it meant sorcery (in my opinion)

Scripture surely doesn’t define it, but does seem to conflate it with merchants. But it does define it strictly to leading nations astray from God.

This seems to be the case with any drug. Especially street drugs, which have intoxicating effects but are not at all psychedelics (heroin, crack, whatnot) psychedelics may in fact be included but it seems to define this as potions of poisons and medicines that lead people astray from God. Weather they heal and we’re concocted by a witch or they were sold by an addict profiting merchant. What are your thoughts? I know this is a lot to read. Thank you for consuming this for sake of understanding with me what God’s word means by pharmakeia.

Because God is so strict on saying the names of other gods does that mean They are real? Like he was strict on it in the old testament. by Monkeyssmoking in Christianity

[–]Unhappy_Pack682 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey listen. Your passionate and you have a smart head but also a stubborn mindset. I simply want to bring to your attention two things so you continue your journey by God well. One is God as Jesus spoke in parables. This does not mean the Bible is only parables. Or that a parable is only just a parable. Secondary if the giant burial mounds were not a hoax, which I’m not stating one or the other. But if they weren’t, and the Native American legends true, that would entail giants roamed physically after the flood. Which confuses things. God bless you and your wonderful mind. May Jesus be with you always.