Zone1 What Does The Bible Say About Witchcraft Being Used For Healing?

[Road Runner]

Somebody on a different website who likes witches and witchcraft told me that not all witchcraft is evil after I told them that I don't like real witchcraft because of my religion and I just like them in fiction. So I wanted to know what the Bible actually said about it.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Somebody on a different website who likes witches and witchcraft told me that not all witchcraft is evil after I told them that I don't like real witchcraft because of my religion and I just like them in fiction. So I wanted to know what the Bible actually said about it.

God does it..it's a miracle. VooDoo does it...is demonic. Doctor does it..is expensive~

 

[Moonglow]

witchcraft like religion is a human construct and only exists in our imagination.

 

[Coyote]

witchcraft like religion is a human construct and only exists in our imagination.

I just turned you into a newt.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

I just turned you into a newt.

Nice resale value in the eyes..witches luv em!

 

[Moonglow]

I just turned you into a newt.

Considering I was a skank I don't see the magic.

 

[johngaltshrugged]

Somebody on a different website who likes witches and witchcraft told me that not all witchcraft is evil after I told them that I don't like real witchcraft because of my religion and I just like them in fiction. So I wanted to know what the Bible actually said about it.

No matter what they are calling it or claiming, witchcraft & divination of any kind is strictly forbidden by God.
Both are tools of Satan.

2 Chronicles 33:6​

6 He sacrificed his children in the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, practiced divination and witchcraft, sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger.

18 Top Bible Verses About Witchcraft - Warnings from Scripture

God warns us of the danger of using witchcraft and mediums. Here are Bible verses explaining how Satan uses witchcraft to deceive and destroy.

www.biblestudytools.com

1 Samuel 15:23 - Samuel Denounces Saul

For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.

www.biblehub.com

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

What Does The Bible Say About Witchcraft Being Used For Healing?​

To not to?

 

[Road Runner]

No matter what they are calling it or claiming, witchcraft & divination of any kind is strictly forbidden by God.

That actually exists. I don't believe that this applies to fantasy.

 

[DudleySmith]

The official Catholic position was that it was just nonsense peasant superstition and there was no such thing, at least to the scholars. Most of the witch burnings actually were during the laughably mis-named 'Enlightenment;, and committed by hysterical peasants, who were mostly still pagans even up to the early 20th Century in many parts of Europe. The biblical verses read more like they were condemning the practices as fraudulent and con artists creating harmful beliefs, which is in fact the case.

It's worth noting that almost no witch burnings took place in the heavily Catholic regions in Italy and Spain over the centuries, and most of them were in politically unstable border regions where Protestants were the main rulers.

Part of the 'Burning Times' myth is exploded here:

Who Burned the Witches

Since the Enlightenment, rationalists have liked to cite witch burning as a prime example of medieval ignorance and religious (usually Catholic) bigotry run amok. (Leftists today still denounce it as…

www.crisismagazine.com

"Sixty years ago, one of the neopagan movement’s founders, Gerald Gardner, coined the term “the Burning Times” to describe this time of persecution. Although Gardner’s historical expertise has since been questioned, neopagan proponents Margot Adler and Starhawk (born Miriam Simos) are still preaching Gardner’s teachings because, they say, “invented history is satisfying myth.”

Nine million women burned is a figure conveniently larger than the Jewish Shoah, yet it was actually invented out of whole cloth by American feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage in 1893. Radical feminists have made much of this mass “gynecide,” as antipornography activist Andrea Dworkin has called it. The feminists see witches as the natural enemy of patriarchy, rallying around them as Old Leftists did around the leaders of the Spanish Republic. For them, as for pagans, playing the politics of victimization strengthens solidarity.

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Although the general public has yet to notice, recent academic research has largely demolished both the old Enlightenment certainties and the new neopagan theories. Archival studies conducted in different regions of Europe over the last few decades have more accurately measured who killed how many of whom under what circumstances. Using the tools of anthropology and psychology, historians have reconstructed the social context in which the witch-hunts happened. They have a clearer picture now of how witchcraft theories developed and on what intellectual basis."

Another fact is a number of serious crimes, like murdering people via poisoning for instance, was lumped under 'witchcraft' as well. Given the lack of power women had, this was indeed likely a common crime by women against wife beating husbands and the like.

The Church inherited Roman and Germanic laws regarding maleficent magic, laws that treated witchcraft as a crime. But to St. Augustine, concrete witchcraft consisted of idolatry and illusion rather than harm to others. Following Augustine, an anonymous ninth-century text, Canon Episcopi, became part of the Church’s canon law, declaring that belief in the reality of night-flying witches was heresy because there was no such thing as an actual witch. Although the idolatry and heresy associated with witchcraft resided only in the will, not in actual deeds, they were nevertheless sinful, Augustine wrote. Punishment was in order — but not burning.

 

[Moonglow]

Isn't Jesus a zombie, is he not the living dead?

 

[DudleySmith]

Isn't Jesus a zombie, is he not the living dead?

If we need an example of the living dead, we can just refer to you.

 

[SweetSue92]

That actually exists. I don't believe that this applies to fantasy.

Some denominations make a big deal out of women wearing only skirts/dresses, or covering the hair, or not cutting the hair. Or not playing cards, or never drinking alcohol, or not going to movies. Do your thing, but in most cases the Biblical justification for these decisions is pretty weak.

Not so for witchcraft. It's a serious violation, not playing at the edges, because it's real and it's evil. It's accessing a spiritual world that is opposed to God. People who say they are "good witches" or "they only use witchcraft for good"--this is like saying you know there's a serial killer next door, and you know what he does, but you just chat with him about checkers and your gardening, so it's okay.

1. It is darkness. Witchcraft is darkness

Leviticus 20:6
Leviticus 20:7
Revelation 18:23
Revelation 21:8

2. Please get yourself to a good Biblically-solid church and join

 

[fncceo]

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Any of today's technology based medicine would be witchcraft to an earlier age.

 

[SweetSue92]

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Any of today's technology based medicine would be witchcraft to an earlier age.

That people centuries ago would think the smartphone is witchcraft does not make it witchcraft. Or robotic surgery, or whatever.

The doctor can say "I employed this science/technology and this is how the patient responded."

What is the "science/technology" of witchcraft? They are spells.

 

[zaangalewa]

That people centuries ago would think the smartphone is witchcraft ...

No one thinks so although it had been a female Hollywood actor fighting against the Nazis who made the complex mathematical calculations why smart phones work.

 

[Road Runner]

SweetSue92 Wait a second, weren't there healers in the Bible that got their power from God?

 

[norwegen]

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Any of today's technology based medicine would be witchcraft to an earlier age.

Technology is not indistinguishable from magic. We know how technology works.

And of course it would have been magic to an ancient people. Because it didn't exist then. If someone were to have watched a television show two thousand years, certainly that would have been magic. No natural explanation for it.

 

[SweetSue92]

SweetSue92 Wait a second, weren't there healers in the Bible that got their power from God?

You cannot tell the difference between God's power and....witchcraft?

 

[Road Runner]

You cannot tell the difference between God's power and....witchcraft?

Maybe it's just what they call it and it's not to be taken literally. I mean it's sort of magical although more so miraculous being able to heal somebody.