Christians and their denial of white magick evidenced in their own book.?

Question

Paul states that "on the way to the place of prayer we met a slave-girl possessed by the spirit of devination." Acts 16:16

Yet, the Christians now state that devination is impossible. That those claiming to have this talent are "witches or worse." I suppose this is because they never really study there own Books, but instead take the words of there leaders as "gospel." They also become paranoid and aggressive when confronted with true information like this.

Since their is a wee bit of leeway in the new testament, lets go to the Torah. The witch of Endor cured Miriam of leprosy with an incantation. I suppose, by Christian standards, already mentioned in answers below, here the Witch of Endor should have been murdered for curing Miriam.

Some of you might want to actually read Acts 16:17 as the only reason Paul cast out the spirit of the slave girl was that she exasperated him by following him and his companion stating "These men are the servants of the most High God, and are declaring to you a way to salvation." 16:17 ---
People who don't know the words of their own book shouldn't make up things to fill in their voids.

The way some who answered speak, students with school spirit should have that spirit cast out, because it is a demon created by Satan..There is no demon spoken of in 16:16, 16;17, or 16:18. Please try to at least give an answer true to your own Bible.

Answer 1

Yeah, you're actually quite right on this issue. Thankfully, a very small number of Christians does recognize this fallacy. Try researching "Christian mysticism." It's very interesting.

Answer 2

I have studied the Bible and read through it many times. I never once said devination is impossible. But the bible does warn us not to medal w/ these things. If it was a good spirit to have would Paul have cast it out?

Answer 3

Stop picking on the Christians. They feel the way they do because they have been told that God is a judgmental punishing Jerk. Just because they have been mislead into believing this nonsense is no reason to be making fun of them. Remember most of them were told this as little children when they were to young to be able to look at this from a logical basis and see it for the nonsense that it is.

We need to do what we can to make them realize that God loves each and every one of us or we would not be here.

You can’t help them by being nasty and making fun of what they believe in. The best we can do is try to lead them to the truth by example. If they see us responding lovingly to situations where they have been trained to attack or be defensive, hopefully they will notice and start to understand the True meaning of the message Jesus left for us.

Rather than the judgmental message their religion teaches.

We need to remember what Jesus said. Judge not, love our enemies, Turn the other cheek, and love our neighbors as our selves. Remember Christians are our neighbors too. We need to love them as Brother Jesus asks us to do.

Love and blessings

Answer 4

if you read on after this verse you'd see in 16:17-18 that they cast the demon out in the name of Jesus Christ and it left. We dont deny that its impossible we just believe that these so called talents are from demons. The fact that it was cast out i feel makes it wrong to posess these "talents", b/c the girl was not saying evil against Paul or Silas, in fact she was saying they were from God and still yet they commanded the spirit to leave her

Answer 5

There is no white magic. There is magic. yes, the bible speak os wizardy, sorcery, witchcraft. I firmly believe in its reality. I also believe "suffer not a witch to live".

Answer 6

Yeah, they're in denial about magick but in the same breath they'll tell you that Jesus walked on water!

Answer 7

No..."magic" is real. However, it's source is from Satan and not from God. Therefore even if it performs something good, the source behind it is evil.