and if not then what where they.
2007-02-12 07:12:29 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
crazy, misguided, ignorant....shall I go on...
2007-02-12 07:19:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
THEY believed they were, just as many do today. A lot of the people who were burned were also Christian, but someone held a grudge and they found a lot of excuses to accuse them. A mole could convince the powers that be that a person was a witch. Even owning a cat would be a good reason (hence the black plague). There are many so called "Christians" who would like to see us executed today and they believe they are "true Christians". A lot of them seem to hang out in R & S!
2007-02-12 18:02:30 · answer #2 · answered by Enchanted Gypsy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only requirement to be a Christian is the belief that Jesus was the Christ (Messiah) and therefor the Son of God. Whether or not any Christian is considered a "true" Christian will be argued as long as there are Christians.
2007-02-12 15:17:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They might have been Christians by their own description,but they were not true followers of Christ. If you are in the garage, are you a car? Jesus warned us that there are going to be a lot of bad stuff happening in the name of God. He was right. He does not have any part in it. People were nly using His Holy name wrong.
I would call them religionists. The very group that Jesus wanted to free us from. esus wantd to teach us hw to serve God and one another with love and compassion.
2007-02-13 11:44:43 · answer #4 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To a Christian,witchcraft is very evil, however so is murder.If
there were real witches,that punishment judgment should
have been done by God,not man.
2007-02-12 15:25:15 · answer #5 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They were regular people who were afraid of witches. Not christians, that happened during or sometime after the Great Depression, so realize alot of people were scared.
2007-02-12 15:21:42 · answer #6 · answered by Gods Girl...check my new profile 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A true christian would never kill another person because Jesus taught to turn the other cheek, and a true christian would seek to give the witch time to have a change of heart instead of killing her while she was living in sin.I don't know what you would classify them as, they were just afraid of what they didn't understand.
2007-02-12 15:22:02 · answer #7 · answered by Ben 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
People are a lot more educated than they were back then.
Even witches!
2007-02-12 15:19:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have no idea. I don't know what those people truly believed and what they truly thought. Perhaps they were just misguided or tragically mistaken? Perhaps they were vindictive, nasty people. I have no idea.
2007-02-12 15:19:02 · answer #9 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't say for sure what was within their heart as far as spiritual matters go. I can say for sure that they were jackasses. Have a nice day.
2007-02-12 15:17:38 · answer #10 · answered by Myaloo 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
They weren't christains, the were puriton's or quakers,depending on which one you believe to be christains.
2007-02-12 15:18:53 · answer #11 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋