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To: The_Reader_David
How about you researching the word. It is from nekron manteia: dead oracle. The root mancy deals only with divination or oracles. The context also shows that this is the correct reading. All of the other practices condemned in the chapter involve vain attempts to divine the future or magically control it. Only one mentions the dead.

I have researched the word. I've also researched the topic. That's how I know the dictionary meaning that you posted is, to say the least, incomplete. A number of the arts listed in the OT have to do with communing with the dead. And they are all forbidden. How can you be christian and not know the law? How is it that a Jew knows these things and you don't? Where's Angelo.

913 posted on 10/18/2001 6:34:26 AM PDT by Havoc
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To: Havoc
Perhaps you haven't noticed that the Holy Apostles, inspired by the Holy Spirit, released Christians from keeping the whole of the Law. Read Acts. Quite fitting since Christ fulfilled all the Law in his Life, Death and Resurrection.

I will again ask: would you avoid buying a linen-wool blend jacket? And add: for that matter, do you make sure the meat you buy at the supermarket wasn't strangled?--that's part the Apostles kept. Do you seriously believe that a widower who stops by his wife's grave and sits a while and addresses his wife in imaginary conversation for his comfort is a necromancer? If you have mold or mildew, do you call a priest and have him scrape the wall it's on, then come back later and check, and tear down your house if it came back? Do you not eat pork or lobster?

I suspect you are not so zealous for the Old Covenant Law as you let on, and have just picked passage from it you can twist into a justification for your preconceived idea that the historic Christian practice of asking the intercessions of the saints in Christ is wrong.

1,031 posted on 10/18/2001 11:38:13 AM PDT by The_Reader_David
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