Thank you indeed Vilhjalmr for this topic. I am indeed a Christian, and yet I study magick for as God has given the right of it to all people. Some Christians can be a but stubborn on the magick topic in relation to Christianity but if they at least read some of the bible and put two and two together, i'm sure they can come to understand things.
@Aquafish, of course it's an umbrella term, however I've seen lots of people claiming to be pagan. Also, just because you don't like a religion personally isn't making you a hypocrite, it's the ones who act just as intolerant as the Christian extremists.
I'm not a Christian myself, but I can see the links it shares with many others, such as Buddhism.
Jesus also practice White Magic, why can't his followers practice it. Jesus was missing for some years, history proven that he went to India to learn 'Supernatural' powers and also studied Buddhism. Healing was very common in India and China back then, but it is considered 'god beings' can have this abilities in other places. People would think one who has these abilities is from god or god. Healing can be perform by anyone with pure mind. Anyone has negative minds can also do it, but not that effective.
Sorry, maybe I misunderstand, but I heard that there was a history record in India that Jesus was there...History might be fake...or where I heard from must be fake...
I don't know...
"It takes hundreds of words to explain something, but it takes no word to understand it."
Even the Bible itself is lying, if you have never experience something....nothing is real, but through experience is true...
Ronin95, I think the actual word used to condemn magic in the Bible refers specifically to pagan witchcraft. The excuse a practitioner of grimoire or "High" magic would give is that the Bible doesn't say anything about that!
Interestingly, King Saul in the Bible gets a necromancer to call up a spirit of the dead for him... even though the Bible also says not to use necromancy.
