Why do Christians say that witches are evil?
Answer:
Let us start by reading a number of bible passages: 1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of divination/witchcraft, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king.”
Exodus 22:18 “You shall not permit a sorceress/witch to live. 2 Chronicles 33:6 And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery/witchcraft, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger. Galatians 5:19-20 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery/witchcraft, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, The Scriptures do not make any distinction between black or white witchcraft. It forbids any sort of witchcraft, and the scripture is clear that these are abominations to God. This is not limited to just what is now called “Wicca”, but to all sorts of religious practice that involve the casting of spells, the charming of objects, fortune telling (divination), the invocation of spirits, or the use of supernatural powers. Whether these means work or not is irrelevant. It is still sin in God’s eyes. Having said that, the bible does give examples where real supernatural power can be obtained through these evil means. All these practices required the practitioner to be put to death in the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 13:5). It is not a sin that the Lord takes lightly.
As Christians, the absolute standard by which we measure morality must always be that which is required of us by God. Whatever God considers to be good is good, and whatever he considers to be evil is evil. Since the bible tells us that witchcraft is evil, it is evil regardless of the intention or purpose of its use. Once God is established as the absolute standard by which we measure morality; and since God has revealed in his Word that witchcraft is evil, it follows that saying that witchcraft can be either good or bad is no different from saying that there is such a thing as “good” adultery and “bad” adultery. By saying that witchcraft can be good if the witch/sorcerer has good intentions, places the cart before the horse. Morality comes from God’s standard, not man’s intended purpose. The person who says that it is alright to use witchcraft if the intention is good exalts his opinion of morality above that of God.
Both the person who commits the act of witchcraft as well as the person who request its use are guilty before God (See Saul’s invocation of Samuel; 1 Samuel 28). If witchcraft is sin, then regardless of the intention, it cannot be of “real” help the receiver since no one profits from sin (cf: Matthew 5:28-30).
Even if we assume that witchcraft works, it uses a source of power that is foreign to God. Some older books say that this source of power is from the devil, while nowadays, others, in their attempt to make witchcraft more appealing to the populace, attribute the same source to the subconscious mind. Either way, the bible is clear that it is not from God but from the devil.
In summary, the three reasons why witchcraft is sin is that: (1) it performs evil (2) to attain one’s man-centered objectives (3) by appealing to the devil, the world’s only other source of supernatural power.
“When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD. And because of these abominations the LORD your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the LORD your God, for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.” – Deuteronomy 18:9-14
In the New Testament, those who had come to believe in Jesus, “came, confessing and divulging their practices. And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.”
If you are practicing witchcraft or any sort, the bible commands you to repent of your sins before God, believe in the gospel, and you will be saved.
[1] Cheung, Vincent, Doctrine and Obedience, MA, 2005, p.24-26
http://www.vincentcheung.com/books/docobedience.pdf
[2] ibid, p.24-26
Bibliography
Cheung, Vincent, Doctrine and Obedience, MA, 2005, p.24-26
http://www.vincentcheung.com/books/docobedience.pdf
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