Nov. 14, 2008 - Magic For Pleasure
I find that *magic is a touchy subject with Christians. I am not sure why, though, as the Bible is so very clear on it. I took a poll a few weeks ago posing the question “Is it alright for a Christian to involve themselves (in any form) with magic?” and the results were nearly as they should’ve been. There where 33 voters that said no and 4 that said yes. I took another poll asking “Based on previous poll, is it fair to say Christians should NOT read books containing any magic?” and the results were QUITE different, though I expected it…. over 200 people said it was NOT fair to say that Christians should not read books containing magic, and only a piddly amount said that yes that was a fair statement.
It seems that there are certain areas, whether because we grew up with them or because they are just personal, of our lives that Christians reason out with our faith and refuse to see in any other way because it might comprise their comfort (read more on “Christian standards“). Many of you have read my stance on allegorical literature to the Bible using magic and witchcraft. I was quite disgusted when I realized I was involving myself with something that is of Satan to represent a Holy God.
As long as I’ve been alive magic has been put in a fun and playful way. You see that the majority of the Disney films have some kind of witchcraft or magic in them. However, if you type in the word magic in the Noah Webster 1828 Dictionary you will find that magic is something very scary and can lead down all sorts of paths. Magic an art of interacting with spirits, evil spirits, departed spirits, sorcery, and, enchantment. Magic is a tool Satan has used for thousands of years to deceive God’s most precious creation, Man, with since the time of Nimrod (early BC), and now, in the 21 century, he is using it more cunningly to “teach the Word of God in a way people will be interested in”.
I wonder how God feels. I wonder how He feels knowing something that He hates so much and is such an abomination to Him is being used to represent him.
I know how is feels. His Word tells me. His words says God hates sin. He hates it so much he had to turn His head when His beloved Son died on a cross with the World’s sin on his shoulders. It will not be allowed in His kingdom.
Magic is a sin. The Bible says so, and I wonder if it causes Him to turn his head knowing his children are accepting it in such ways. To what extent is involving yourselves with magic, and who is make that judgment? You? Or God?
Exodus 22:18 “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”
Does a witch (or anyone else who practices magic) live, good or bad, in the books you read? How close to the line are you really? Mother Dear wrote awhile back about Forbidden Love: What Lines Does Our Faith Not Cross? What about the lines your faith won’t cross? My faith was crossing lines for sometime and something had to go…. God’s commands or my desires. What about you?
I have heard that “good guys” using magic is like that of the miracles in the Bible that the apostles preformed, but while people are trying to reason this out they don’t realize that 1) magic is of Satan, no exceptions, and an abomination to the Lord. 2) The apostles were filled with the power of God and were given authority to perform such the miracles. It doesn’t matter that people thought they were gods. That is irrelevant. We can not compare these two to one another. They are not equal. One is of God. One is of Satan.
I know what the Bible says about witchcraft and magic. It says they are abominations to the Lord and He will drive them out. Saul died because he consulted a Medium (a witch) and had the crown past on from their family’s name. He were also unfaithful to the Lord in his ways. What is the difference between consulting a witch and reading, for pleasure, about witches and magic? God hates all types of magic. It doesn’t say God only hates magic if you personally do it. He just says He hates it so therefore we must assume that it means ALL, to every extent. If there was a chance that it alright to, as a Christian, read about such abominations, how can it be edifying in your life? I wrote more on edifying here: Think Pink - Edify.
Deuteronomy 18: 9-13
9When thou [God's people] art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
10There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
11Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
12For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
13Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
Please if the Bible says differently some place else do show me give me a verse. I have said quite a few times this past week if you don’t have the Bible to back you up %100 than what are you doing? To every single thing you believe you should have some kind of Biblical-foundation for it. If it’s not of God, then it’s of Man, and man’s way are not righteous. Man’s ways lead to death. If you don’t have a verse to give me, then please, don’t comment in disagreement.
Instead just take a minute to step out of what you’ve grown up with, what you are comfortable with, and what you have reasoned out with your faith, and simply consider what I am saying as a friend who loves you and is truly someone who is seeking after God. If you know me personally you know I am not a judgmental person or someone who seeks to put themselves above anyone. I am just trying to strengthen the Body and offer myself as a living sacrifice to Him.
*I didn’t mean magic as in a card trick or optical illusions, but the art of magic.
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