Divine Insight wrote:
Because of this, "Witchcraft" in Wicca cannot be evil.
For a bible believing Christians, evil is whatever God SAYS is evil. If God pronounces giving charity to starving orphans "evil" is thus becomes by biblical definition, evil. Arguably, God pronounce the eating of fruit (at least one particular fruit, in a particular garden) "evil". He declared wearing mixed threads a sin and eating shellfish an abomination. So we can reasonably conclude biblically, that if a person judges something harmless, even positive, God could well declare that same thing evil, and for the believer it becomes so.
CONCLUSION: Since God declared witchcraft (without any qualifications) "evil", witchcraft, whatever the flavor is biblically evil.
Divine Insight wrote:Moreover, according to Jesus,
good works cannot be done in the name of Satan, for a house divided against itself will surely fall.
This is true
Divine Insight wrote:
Since Wiccans can only do good wor[k]s (because of their foundational Rede) then their power cannot come from Satan
Here, we have a faulty premise. You are presuming that what Jesus classified as "good" is the same as your classification of "good". However good is a value judgement based on an established criteria, to assume that because you personally judge something is good because (in your OPINION) it does no harm or is even beneficial and therefore that it falls into Jesus' defintion of what is "good" is inaccurate.
WHAT WERE JESUS STANDARDS OF GOOD and EVIL
"Your word is truth" - Jesus Christ
On one occassion, someone tried to use the term "good" teacher as a sort of honorary title, Jesus reply is interesting, he said "No one is Good except one, God". We can thus conclude that Jesus viewed Jehovah (YHWH) as "good" in the absolute. If that were the case, would it seem reasonable to believe that Jesus through one of God's laws was wrong, faulty or unfair? Yet that same law code condemned witchcraft making no allowance for "good witches" over "bad".
Further, Jesus habitually referred to the Law of Moses when teaching citing it as the authority behind his teaching. When that same Young man mentioned earlier, asked Jesus what he (the Young man) should to to obtain everlasting life, Jesus refered to several of the laws of Moses. Jesus conformed to the requirements of that written law and stated his purpose was not to destroy that law. Although Jesus did indeed emphasis the principles of love and compassion, principles upon which he said the law was based, at no time did he break a single one of them.
It might be argued that his silence on certain laws was a "silent disapproval" but jésus was extremely vocal about the oral laws (just as binding on the people of his day) that he disagreed with, going out of his way to condemn them. If he wanted to modify or condemn the law on witchcraft, making allowances for "good witches" there is no reason to believe he wouldn't have done so.
It seems logical therefore to conclude that Jesus agreed and supported the Mosaic law which included the condemnation of any sort of spriitism (including so called "good witchcraft"). At the very lease we can say that there is no reason to conclude his silence on the specific question of witchcraft indicated an approval of "certain types" of practices.
JESUS WILL REJECT THOSE THAT DO "MIRACLES"
Some "white witches" argue they use their powers for good. An interesting scripture to address this is
Matthew chapter 7 verse 22. In this verse Jesus speaks of his ultimate rejection of those that do not actively do the will of his Father. He calls these people "workers of lawlessness" (NWT) or some bibles say "
evil". (verse 23). However these individuals perform "many powerful works in Jesus' name" or "miracles" we would hardly think these works consisted of harming people. Rather they were no doubt doing what appeared to be good and postive. Where does the supernatural power to perform these "good" miracles come from? Evidently not from Jehovah the creator or his faithful spirit followers. If not from them, then the only alternative is that the demons have the power to perform miracles and use their own agents ("white witches") to dupe people into disobeying God.
In view of the above, it seems reasonable to conclude that Jesus did NOT view witchcraft, no matter what it's guise, as "good works" rather, as a type of
spiritism which is contact with the demons. Jesus was often in conflict with demons, freeing people from their control. Those same demons, like their leader Satan can (as scriptures say) transform into an "
angel of light" appearing to be entirely positive. But since the very contact with them displeases God, and those that are unrepentent will eventually be destroyed by Jesus, even the "whitest" witch, doing nothing but "charity" and "kindness" is leading someone to disobey their Creator which could lead to that one's ultimate death. In short, even a witch that goes about curing cancer, is doing so with demonic power and that is encouraging people to disobey God. Hardly something "good"!
CONCLUSION Under the Christian system, instigated at Jesus' death, mercy can be extended to those that practice witchcraft. The admonishion Jesus used "go and sin no more" must apply. So-called "white witches" are nothing more than agents of Satan, using their demonic powers in what looks like a positive way to fool people into disobeying the bibles command to avoid spiritism at all costs.
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