Steemchurch: The Witchery
Dark Arts
Deuteronomy 18: 9-12: 9 When you have entered the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you will not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations. 10 Let no one be found in you who causes his son or daughter to pass through the fire, nor a diviner, nor a sorcerer, nor a sorcerer, nor a sorcerer, 11 nor a forger of enchantments, nor one who asks a python, nor a magician, nor anyone who asks. to the dead. 12 For anyone who does these things is an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drove them out from before you.
It is difficult to distinguish clearly between witchcraft, sorcery and magic ... These practices use hidden means that are not of God, to produce effects beyond the natural powers of man.Witchcraft is perverse because it resorts to evil spirits. It implies a pact or at least a search for the intervention of those spirits. Being witch or sorcerer is obtained by satanic links in which one enters for a 'dedication', often within the family.Witchcraft implies the belief in an invisible reality to which the practitioner is bound. The Holy Scriptures and the Fathers teach that it is a devilish entity.
The supernatural help offered by witchcraft is sought for different reasons. The main ones are: To hurt whoever hates himself; to attract someone's love passion; to invoke the dead; to provoke calamities or impotence against enemies, opponents or real or imagined oppressors; to solve a problem which has become an obsession and it does not matter anymore what means it is solved.Witchcraft dates from the times of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. This is demonstrated by the Bible as well as other ancient writings such as the Code of Hammurabi (2000 a.C.)
The Bible, the teaching of the Fathers of the Church and tradition leave no doubt about the fact that human beings have the freedom to agree with the devil which has influence on the earth and human activities. On the other hand, Fathers like Saint Jerome, thought that in many cases witchcraft is a suggestion of the mind.The Bible condemns witchcraft and witchcraft, not as false or fraudulent, but because it is an abomination: 'You will not leave the sorceress alive' (Exodus 22:18, and Deuteronomy 18, 11-12)
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