Audio 14: Abortion and the Church; Chapter 2 (Abortion's assault upon God's character and law); Section 5b (The New Testament’s condemnation of "pharmakeia")
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Advocates of permissive abortion laws commonly argue that Scripture never addresses abortion. Aside from disregarding the texts of Scripture enumerated above, they also take no account of New Testament passages which condemn pharmakeia (Greek φαρμακεία) and those who pay for these services.
Words with this root occur five times in the New Testament. While the basic meaning of pharmak- is “drug,” its derivatives have a broad semantic range encompassing “poison,” medicinal and psychotropic “drugs,” “potions,” etc. These words often carry nuances of magic or the occult.
Most significant for our purposes, though, throughout the ancient world these words referred to drugs, potions, and spells that were associated with abortions.
Advocates of permissive abortion laws commonly argue that Scripture never addresses abortion. Aside from disregarding the texts of Scripture enumerated above, they also take no account of New Testament passages which condemn pharmakeia (Greek φαρμακεία) and those who pay for these services.
Words with this root occur five times in the New Testament. While the basic meaning of pharmak- is “drug,” its derivatives have a broad semantic range encompassing “poison,” medicinal and psychotropic “drugs,” “potions,” etc. These words often carry nuances of magic or the occult.
Most significant for our purposes, though, throughout the ancient world these words referred to drugs, potions, and spells that were associated with abortions.
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Evangel Presbytery's complete Abortion and the Church may be read online, here; and downloaded as a PDF, here.
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The intro and outro of this recording are Psalm 13, "LORD, how long?" This is one Psalm from My Soul Among Lions' project setting out to record all the Psalms. Here is the full recording.
Listen here to Warhorn Media's full podcast series on abortion.
