christowitch:

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breelandwalker:

delilah-twisted:

delilah-twisted-deactivated2015:

Again, they’re sinning against they’re own “lord and savior”.

There are a million things in the bible saying witchcraft is impure and forbidden

Ah, then I have a fun little literary-history factoid for you:

King James VI and I, as in The King James Bible upon which most modern versions of the text are based, was obsessed with and terrified of witches. His advisors traumatized him with tales of them since his childhood, so when the time came for this great project which was going to produce a new translation of the Bible, he basically told the editors that any reference to poisoning, assassination, sorcery, or magic was to be denoted as “witchcraft” and condemned in the text.

Which is where we get “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”

The original text for this passage uses a word which more closely translates to “poisoner,” as in apothecaries who made poisons and potions which were to be used in the commission of murder, usually against a ruling party.

And the only thing King James was more scared of than witches was good old-fashioned regicide. He was utterly convinced that there was some secret cabal of witches and sorcerers that were out to get him. He wrote a book on the subject entitled “Daemonologie.” In it, he supports the practice of witch-hunting and describes how best to reveal and subsequently punish witches. He even personally presided over some of the procedures he helped put in place.

As you can see, King James had a bit of a prejudice and one or two screws loose, and it’s his English version of the Holy Text that most people are familiar with today.

So, coming back around to Christian witches, the only magic that the Bible officially disapproves of is that which is not sanctioned by God, or more specifically, that which is not given strength by calling upon Him. There are dozens of instances in the Bible of the faithful crying out to God for help and He answers with miracles that if seen by an outsider could be construed as witchcraft.

Appalachian grannies, rootworkers, Santeria, vodou, hoodoo…all of these traditions call on God, Jesus Christ, The Virgin Mary, the Holy Ghost, and various saints in order to make their magic work.

Whether this is “acceptable” is between the practitioner and God, and is not for the rest of us to judge.

thank you

Very well said. History & research triumphs over prejudice & misconceptions once again.

Boom @breelandwalker drops knowledge and walks away.

Putting this in my resources to point any new Christian witchlings in the right direction