Can a Christian be a Witch?

Question

I feel that Witches have a better connection to God then most Christians do.
I was wanting to know if it is possible for a christian to Worship God and be a Witch? Like Worship the way Witches do, but not cast bad spells or whatever.

Please if you have nothing nice to say don't say anything at all!

Answer 1

I think there's something in the Big Book about not suffering a witch to live...it's not like secular humanists conducted the Salem trials. If you don't want to be a Christian, good for you, but don't substitute another irrational belief system. Try logical reasoning...the water's fine.

Answer 2

Witchcraft is a technique, like prayer, that can be used in a wide variety of religious contexts -- including Christianity. In itself, witchcraft doesn't necessarily have an inherent religious worldview.

Wicca is one of the religions in which witchcraft is often practiced.

Can a Christian be a witch? Arguably. Can a Christian be a Wiccan? I don't think so, for reasons that this article lays out quite well:

http://wicca.timerift.net/christianwicca.shtml

To worship in a Wiccan context, one must accept the Wiccan worldview, which does not include the concept of Original Sin --and hence, renders the very point of Jesus' sacrifiice meaningless. And that's just one point among many.

I believe that you can find the personal connection to God that most witches feel quite well within the context of Christianity (although again, part of the reason that Wiccans at least have that better connection is because to us our Gods are immanent in the world, not separate from it the way God is generally perceived in Christianity). I wish you the best of luck on your path. If you have any further questions, please feel free to email me.

Answer 3

no but heres some interesting verses

Sciences


Architecture.
De 8:12; 1Ch 29:19

Arithmetic.
Ge 15:5; Le 26:8; Job 29:18

Astronomy.
Job 38:31-32

Astrology.
Isa 47:13

Botany.
1Ki 4:33

Geography.
Ge 10:1-30; Isa 11:11

History and Chronology.
1Ki 22:39; 2Ki 1:18; 1Ch 9:1; 29:29

Mechanics.
Ge 6:14-16; 11:4; Ex 14:6-7

Medicine.
Jer 8:22; Mr 5:26

Music.
1Ch 16:4-7; 25:6

Navigation.
1Ki 9:27; Ps 107:23

Surveying.
Jos 18:4-9; Ne 2:12-16; Eze 40:5-6

Zoology.
1Ki 4:33

Answer 4

I know a few christian witches. To many witchcraft is just the practice of magic and wicca is a religion. Some witch's are wiccan but, not all. Some consider their craft a religion some just a way to commune with nature and god. And I agree with you. I always felt like I was closer to god in nature than in some building.

Answer 5

Well, it's against the Christian religion to be a witch. It's a bit of a contradiction to be both. If you want to worship like witches, then you mean you want to be a witch not a Christian. You can't have the best of both worlds. It's one way or another. Some people may disagree with me on this, but they don't match.

Answer 6

A practicing witch does not require a faith in God to do there craft. But a Christian must have faith in Jesus Christ(God) alone to have a personal connection(union) with God. So I believe it is impossible to be both at the same time.

Answer 7

That has about as much chance of succeeding as the Titanic does arriving at its destination. They can worship God in vain all they want, he isnt going to save them because what they do is by definition detestable. They have NO connection with God besides with his wrath!

Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD -Deuteronomy 18:10

Answer 8

Yes , but in a very modified form, far to difficult to explain here.. Don't listen to the above Christian bleeting's.... They babble on about Witches and the Devil , well we don't believe in your God so we certainly don't believe in your Devil or your Hell... Hard to worship something you don't believe in hey !!! The word Witch means Wise , so when you combine two words together, as in Witchcraft.. Then you have :- The Craft of the Wise.... I say go with your inner-self and don't be brainwashed by the "Christian Clones" who make a lot of noise about subjects like this but know absolutely nothing... Love and Light... Blessed Be .. )O(

Answer 9

A Witch is someone who casts spells and practices Magick.

A spell is an enacted prayer.

So if your prayer works better when you enact them, by doing things like lighting candles, or praying the rosary.

Then you're a Witch. :)

Answer 10

Read "The Path of a Christian Witch" by Adelina St Clair. You can get it at walmart.com for about $12.00. Maybe this will help.

Answer 11

Of course it's possible for a Christian to be a Witch--as long as by "Witch" you mean the actual people who call themselves "witches" in modern times, as opposed to the purely mythological and imaginary witches of the Witch Trials and Biblical mythology. Conflating the two is as absurd as conflating the philosophy of LeVayan Satanism with goat-slaughtering, demon-summoning, and child-eating cultists. Just because two things use the same name doesn't make them the same thing.

To be a Christian, you need to believe that Jesus was the son of God and the messiah--or at the very least, you need to follow Jesus' teachings. To be a Wiccan, you need to follow Wicca, the belief in and/or use of benevolent, nature-oriented magical practices allegedly derived from pre-Christian western European beliefs. The two do not clearly contradict, so overlap is just as possible for Christians and Wiccans as it is for Christians and Buddhists.

The error of the above users is that they do not know what people who self-identify as "Witches" actually believe or practice. They are making the deeply prejudiced mistake of judging an entire group of people based on their own bigoted (albeit Biblically-inspird) views, rather than learning about those people before judging or condemning them. Modern "Witches" do not worship the Devil; they do not, by and large, practice "harmful" magic, or sacrifice, or any of the other stereotypical, cliched "witch-like" practices of fables. They revere the natural world and have beliefs most akin to Neo-Paganism, which is also the movement they are derived from and is itself an offshoot of 19th-century Romanticism. By and large, like most adherents of any major religion (and like most people in general), they are kind, helpful, unmalicious people with a desire to find spiritual meaning and happiness for themselves and those around them.

Wiccans/Witches are not the cartoonish Satan-worshipers the Christians above fantasize about (who may not even have ever existed), though they do borrow that name, largely due to a historical quirk. Gerald Gardner, who helped inspire the movement, theorized that the "Witches" of the Witch-Hunts were not random innocent people, as most historians believe, but rather practitioners of an ancient, benevolent pre-Christian religion; although Gardner's claims have never been verified and are largely rejected by modern scholars, they served as the inspiration for Wicca, which was created as a "revival" of the imaginary religion in question.

So, the answer is: yes, a Christian can be a Witch. And to say this is in no way a contradiction, because no Witch in the entire world worships or derives her powers from Satan. Condemning a new religious movement consisting of over 130,000 adherents for nothing more than its name is simply ignorant.