it's believed that marijuana was used in annointment oils mentioned in the bible. kaneh-bosm, as it was referred to was wrongly translated as calamus, when it was actually Cannabis. assuming this is true, is it possible the bush mentioned in the story of the burning bush is actually marijuana? it would certainly account for someone hallucinating and seeing "god".
2007-09-28 07:17:48 · 13 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
sorry, misuse of the word hallucinate... maybe more along the lines of having an open mind... whoa, that burning bush kinda looks like a man!!! you know what i mean?
2007-09-28 07:23:27 · update #1
besides, everyone knows marijuana is a gateway drug. if moses was smokin the doobie, who knows what else he was into?
2007-09-28 07:26:50 · update #2
LOL. Funny....
But, in actuality, there is a type of bush that grows in that area that secretes an oil that is higly flammable...as the oils build up, they ignite on a hot, sunny day when one drop of fluid acts like a magnifying glass and focuses the rays onto the bush. Then - WHAM! THe bush goes up in flames for thirty seconds to a minute and when the flames die out, the bush is still living, untouched by the fire.
Again, a completely mundane, ordinary scientific explanation for a perceived "miracle". I agree with Primoa that Moses wasnt hallucinating - but he wasnt talking to God either. He was ascribing a supernatural cause for a completely natural event that he couldnt comprehend.
2007-09-28 07:31:08 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Last I heard, Marijuana was cool with Jesus and the Scriptures. I read the Bible for weeks while I still maintained a weed habit. Now as for the Bible being against Marijuana, the Bible says to obey the laws of the land. If it is illegal, then it is forbidden by God. If it is legalized, then it's up to the conscience of each Christian. However though all things are legal, all things are not necessarily profitable.
2016-05-20 23:49:51 · answer #2 · answered by rene 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think hallucination, by the various authors’ who wrote the Bible and eyewitness accounts that make up the Bible, is a good alternative explanation to outright fabrication and lying, for the grandiose events purported to take place in biblical times. However, I don’t think we have to reach so far as drug use to explain why these illusory perceptions would take place.
After all, these people were living in harsh and unforgiving desert environments. Couple this fact with the prophets routinely abstaining from food and water for long periods of time, and living in seclusion, and it is natural to see how hallucinations and delusions of all sorts can come into being.
Only in the context of religion can the testimony of those who are deprived of necessities, and who are living in despair, be considered admissible evidence for what is intuitively preposterous.
2007-09-29 14:49:20 · answer #3 · answered by Lawrence Louis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know, cannabis does not induce hallucinations. It may be mind opening, but no hallucinations.
Translations are made by humans and therefore there is always room for error within them.
2007-09-28 07:43:46 · answer #4 · answered by Seafyre 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the kaneh-bosom translation has as much validity as anything else in the Bible.
Nobody smokes pot and thinks God is talking from a burning bush. Pot is not an hallucinogen.
2007-09-28 07:21:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
well cannibis grows in tropical regions with higher levels of humidity. since the middle east isnt very humid or tropical i would highly doubt this as well as the fact that cannibis doesnt have hallucinagenic affects.
2007-09-28 07:27:03 · answer #6 · answered by harrison b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weed doesn't make you hallucinate,... just gives you the giggles and munchies!
2007-09-28 07:23:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is wrong on so many levels......
Pot is NOT mentioned in the Bible......
It is NOT a mistranslation for cannibus....
Moses WAS spoken to by the Lord God Almighty through the bush.........no hallucinations!
Try again
2007-09-28 07:20:43 · answer #8 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 2⤊ 5⤋
I've never hallucinated on weed.
Acid maybe.
2007-09-28 07:21:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Aaron Carter smoke that at one point of his life :(
did u see the pictures in the National Inquirer?
2007-09-28 07:21:14 · answer #10 · answered by Gotnothingtodo! 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋