Is this what Nancy P was rambling on about a couple of years ago about the “word”?
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: She said she would come on a radio show with me about it one day. I’ll try to contact her if I can remember her name she was using.
If your practicing that words have power in that they shape your life and future, your practicing witchcraft. Words have power in that they are influential - but they do not have the power to create things. A positive attitude is nice but it does not change reality and neither do words. Positive and negative confession is the very foundation of witchcraft. A confession is the same thing as an incantation or spell in witchcraft and other branches of occult philosophy. The belief that words have creative power is occultic in origin and is not a historical Christian teaching. It was brought into Christianity through Kenneth Hagin, whom got it from EW Kenyon, whom got it from Phineus Quimby of New Thought fame. Also a student of Quimby was Mary Baker Eddie of Christian Science fame. She coined the phrase ‘YOU POSSESS WHAT YOU CONFESS”
What seems to have caused you to excerpt your own blog?
Your pride has deceived you.
Study the NT some more.
Blog pimp.
What exactly can a practicing witch do, that any other person cannot do?
This does not mean none of the ex- testimonies are true, but i do not think invoking an ex witch is necessary when it is clear that the basic doctrine of the typical WoF preachers, that lack of wealth, or health, is a sure sign of lack of faith, is false.
For sure faith is the victory, but faith is manifest in both deliverance as well as endurance when deliverance is not forth coming.
Thus the word "others" in Heb. 11:36:
"Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. " (Hebrews 11:33-38)
I’m having a little difficulty with the “witchcraft” concept used herein.
According to the article, either sort-of-witchcraft or outright witchcraft, or maybe neo-paganism, includes: yoga, nudism, Buddhism, and ‘positive thinking’.
Elsewhere, other things attributed to witchcraft include meditation, Freemasonry, and even Catholicism.
This is somewhat far afield of the Hebrew definition of ‘kashaph’ as a witch or sorcerer (indeterminate, but generally ascribed to magical herbalists, poisoners, magicians, astrologers, those who communicate with the dead, and those who worshiped the Chaldean religions.)
In the old sense, modern Democrats are closer to being witches than are most self-described witches today.
“By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another,” Jesus said (John 13:35)
Given this measure, I think Christ might prefer the company of witches and pagans. They certainly don’t stab each other in the back like those who identify themselves as Christians and Conservatives.
I am getting VERY tired of folks attacking others’ religions.
If what you’ve got is so good, share it. Lay off the other guys. Don’t assume the rest of us are so stupid we can’t tell the wheat from the chaff without your exposes.