what's the bibical difference between the terms witchcraft and the occult?

The Bible uses pharmakia for witch drugery

There is no word for occult except what Paul uses the deeper things of satan

They are parts of the same...SPIRITISM...something the Bible says to avoid.

(Galatians 5:19-21) Now the works of the flesh are plainly seen, and they are sexual immorality, uncleanness, brazen conduct, 20 idolatry, spiritism, hostility, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, dissensions, divisions, sects, 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and things like these. I am forewarning you about these things, the same way I already warned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

1) What's the bibical difference between the terms witchcraft and the occult?

The Bible does not use the word "occult", so there is no "Biblical difference" between the two terms. The two terms have the difference seen in a standard English dictionary.

2) Do the words have the same exact meaning? Or just syonyms?

Neither. They have different meanings that are not synonymous.

3) the bible saying Pharmakeia

About "pharmakeia"

http://biblehub.com/greek/5331.htm

It is a Koine Greek word and appears only in Greek texts. With regard to Bible source documents, the word appears in the source texts only of the New Testament and The Book of Wisdom, those being authored in Koine Greek.

The word has three distinct meanings:

- use/administration of drugs

- poisoning

- sorcery

Which meaning is intended by the author can usually be determined by the context, but please realize that **all three meanings** are associated with that word in ancient Koine Greek documents. It's not a case of "it really means drugs, not sorcery". Sometimes it really means drugs, sometimes it really means poison, and sometimes it really means sorcery. In any case, the word is not found in Deuteronomy.

4) and Divination and Deuteronomy 18 using other terminology besides witch.

Deu 18:10-11 uses the following **Hebrew** terms:

- qasam qesem - (one who) divines (using) divination

http://biblehub.com/hebrew/7081.htm

- anan - (one who) practices soothsaying

http://biblehub.com/hebrew/6049a.htm

- nachash - (one who) practices divination

http://biblehub.com/hebrew/5172.htm

- kashaph - (one who) practices sorcery

http://biblehub.com/hebrew/3784.htm

- chabar cheber - (one who) spells (i.e casts) a spell

http://biblehub.com/hebrew/2267.htm

- ob - (one who consults a) medium or a spirit

http://biblehub.com/hebrew/178.htm

- yiddeoni - (one who consults a) familiar spirit

http://biblehub.com/hebrew/3049.htm

- darash muth - (one who) calls up the dead

http://biblehub.com/hebrew/4191.htm

sin is not equally bad, any type of sin can be a misdemeanor or a severe criminal act.

there is a bible verse that says there is point of no return where repentance wont work.

and words do have power, to quote one preacher, but not all preachers interpret the same words with identical definition.

for example some bibles dont use the word Begotten in John 3:16 because Jesus cant be begotten or created by some traditions. in another example for 40 years iver heard that if a man offends a child that it means its sexual abuse but to offend a child could also mean that you turn his soul away from God by being offensive. did christ mean a child pedaphile abuser or just something said and done that turns a soul into hell.

The bible doesn't say anything directly about drugs, except to not drink to excess, unless you're mortally wounded or about to die. Then you can drink a lot to kill the pain. Opium was around over ten thousand years ago, so it was obviously well known at the time it was written, same as magic mushrooms, and the vision of Ezekiel of God as a four headed flying beast in the sky, floating in a ring made of eyes sounds exactly like that. I mean, who hears voices in their head, sees burning bushes, and all that? Crazy people, or people on drugs. The fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. It was the original sin, it was the downfall of the entire human race, but at the same time, we could not let it go, no matter how much some of us wanted to get rid of it, there are reasons why we kept these things. For example, what happens when you have a broken leg in hospital? You get given opiates. These things could be the death of you, but like the Yin and Yang symbol, there is good in everything bad, and bad in everything good.

NO

They are the same. They are connected with Satan the devil and his demons.

In the Bible, God tells us to stay away from the devil: "Oppose the Devil, and he will flee from you. Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you.” (James 4:7, 8)