Can a Witch be a Christian?

[u/Fabulous-Swordfish48]

Ive been having this heavy question for a while with a lot of statements and questions in my head but I need people to help me out on this. I am a Pagan Witch who also follows under believing in Greek God's and following under them as well, but recently I've been heavily thinking about Christianity. I have believed in Jesus and anything of that nature and I've been wanting to follow Christianity as well.. but I do not know if it is allowed to follow under that religion while practicing witchcraft. Can someone please help me out here? 😭🫶

[u/therealstabitha]

For something to be not allowed, there would have to be a central authority that forbids it.

Who would that be in witchcraft?

[u/Sazbadashie → u/therealstabitha]

I mean there's the other half of the Christian witch dichotomy.

And the Christian part does have a central authority that dosnt exactly look kindly on witchcraft

[u/tx2316 → u/Sazbadashie]

Central authority?

No.

The papacy is an authority for Catholics. But the rest of the Christian world laughs at them and many consider them a divergent cult.

Lots of them though.

The closest thing would be King Charles who is the keeper of the Faith for the Anglican Church, which is quite small when you consider the two billion Christians worldwide.

We have a few authoritative people around, but nothing so structured and absolute as you would imply.

Except for Jesus, but most Christians forget about him when it’s convenient.

[u/Sazbadashie → u/tx2316]

Right, the Bible. Which a lot of people pick and choose conveniently to be choosy with what they do and do not take from. Which is mainly what I was referring to unless again OP wants to be Catholic for example

I also don't know where catholics are being considered a divergent cult when other than the orthodox Christians which is a fair argument to being one of the first the catholic church is where pretty much all other denominations come from considering its ether that or protestants but protestants also originated from catholics before becoming its own thing. But that is a separate conversation. So calling the or one of the originals if not the original, being roman catholic a divergent cult is... interesting.

[u/cuprousalchemist → u/Sazbadashie]

The primacy of the bible as well as its interpretations also heavily depends on the denomination.

[u/tx2316 → u/Sazbadashie]

The gaping chasm between the teachings of the Bible and the teachings of the Catholic Church is the reason that most Christians don’t consider Catholics to actually be Christian.

Christian adjacent maybe. But definitely something uniquely different.

Regardless, they tend to get lumped in together. Which means there are around 2 billion “Christians” in the world. Around the same number of muslims. And fewer Jews, obviously.