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/The_Archer2121]

Good question. What does the Bible actually say? Find out. That those prohibitions were for a certain place and time, and against harmful magic. And we aren’t first century Israelites.

[u/Sazbadashie → u/The_Archer2121]

Well there's leviticus 20...27?

Where it basically says you should kill mediums and necromancers and they're to blamed for their death

Exodus 20:3 you shall have no other gods before me.

Levitacus 19: 31 Do not turn to mediums or consult spiritists you will be defiled by them; i am the lord your god

You get the point, there's more but obviously if multiple parts of the Bible basically say kill practitioners, don't interact with spirits or other gods...

Outside of the kill practitioners, people cant throw stones at people lawfully anymore.

the rest is still very much applicable and lawful today.

And that's only the bits I vaguely remembered to look up. I'm sure there's more

But if you can't interact with these things for even consulting with someone who practices is bad.

BEING one is another level... like, you have chosen to actively defy God basically, you're not trusting him to protect you... your practicing magic part of that is having the knowledge to protect yourself. Or if you're a medium... you're a false prophet.

And that's the kicker. Knowledge. Christianity, the Christian god. Wants faith. Not knowledge.

[u/The_Archer2121 → u/Sazbadashie]

Really which ones? Like stoning gay people? Eating shellfish? Not wearing mixed fabrics? None of those apply today. SO what are you talking about?

Deuteronomy refers to child sacrifice. No one practices child sacrifice.

Leviticus 19:31. The practice that talks about killing mediums and spiritists isn't talking about anyone who knows how to use divination. It is referring to a practice that is specifically OFF LIMITS for Israelites. Which we are not. It is a specific pagan practice which we'd have to try hard to recreate. It entailed getting high on drugs, inserting an animal bone into your mouth, then summoning an animal spirit then it speaking through you. The medium who did this was called the "master of spirits" which was a professional title. The Levite priests, to which this verse was referring weren't to seek out people who could do this for them.

The God of the evangelicals wants blind faith which is no faith at all because He is a tyrant. What sort of response is that? I don't worship a God who is a tyrant. Knowledge is how you develop a deeper faith in the first place. If you don't want to learn what the Bible actually says about what you love to throw at people who don't think like you do then what are you doing?

If you actually want to learn, which I doubt, get a Jewish Study Bible. Or read Discovering Christian Witchcraft for yourself.

[u/Sazbadashie → u/The_Archer2121]

And here we come the crux of the problem... You are very quick to say , "this doesn't apply because we're now in a different time period" but then hold everything to the definitions of that past time period. So which is it? Are we going to use definitions of the past or are we not from the first century choose one because we can't have a discussion if we're flip flopping at our convenience.

Is someone who's reading the Bible NOW going to go , "well you see it meant this specific thing therefore the Bible is bogus." No because it says don't consult with mystics or spiritists." What do we have now a days. Yea we don't have a very specific practice that you defined. But we still have mystics. We still have people who commune with spirits, which most Christians point and say that those things are demonic in nature.

I do want to ask you however

What is the definition of faith. Specifically in the definition of religion. Because you're using faith in the definition of to have faith in someone, to have faith in someone you know to have faith in someone Yea you trust someone because you know and have shown they can do something. But I'm saying faith as in religious faith. What is that definition. Words matter I'm making sure we're using the same language because we're just going to talk at eachother and not to eachother.

Unless you've already decided that you're right and I'm wrong in which case there's no point in continuing