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Originally posted by Expat888
having met many christians (unfortuneatly) and wiccans over the years in my travels along with having studied history..
By far Christianity is the most barbaric, evil, narrowminded, bloodthirsty religion there is.. With its history of bloodshed, mass murder and wars Christianity has created and continues to create misery in the world..
"WITCH" as defined in the Bible:
Please give the Greek and/or Aramaic word used
that was translated in the King James Version
as "Witch." Then let us translate it fully.
You will find it means "a poisoner of wells."
WRONG! You will find no such thing. (It seems that I have to correct
THIS error about once every six months.)
HEBREW: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance shows seven references to the
words "witch," "witchcraft," and "witchcrafts." It identifies three
words as receiving that translation.
Two of them are the same root word: kashaph and kesheph. Strong's
observes that the proper translation for kashaph is "to whisper" as in
to whisper or mutter a spell. If they are correct, then perhaps the
best possible modern translations would be "enchanter" and
"enchantments" (from "chant"). In this context, Exodus 22:18 would
read, "Thou shalt not permit an enchanter to live."
The remaining word is used only once, and that is qecem, which Strong's
identifies as derived from qacem, which means to determine by drawing
lots. They give the translation, based on this, as being "divination"
as in to read random elements such as tarot cards. By this context, I
Samuel 15:23 would read, "For rebellion is as the sin of divination."
GREEK: According to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, the word "witch"
does not appear in the KJV New Testament; the word "witchcraft" appears
once in Galations 5:20. In that verse the Greek given is indeed the
much-mistranslated word pharmakeia. Strong's gives its derivation as
being from pharmakeus, which means potion. The word pharmakeus does not
appear anywhere in Greek literature to refer to "poison" except--and
there only if you really stretch it--in the trial of Paracelsus, the
father of modern medicine.
In early Greek thought, a physik was an herbal remedy, and was
perscribed by physicians, or respected doctors. (Yes, early Greek
doctors were exclusively herbalists.) A conflicting school of thought
claimed that pharmakeoi, or potions derived from non-living matter,
might also have effect in some diseases. So in Galations 5:20, Paul is
telling us that those who use chemical potions (such as aspirin or
Tylenol) to cure diseases or disease symptoms are accursed of God.
In conclusion: the Greek New Testament nowhere refers to anything
resembling the modern religion or practices of Witchcraft. (Although it
is interesting to note that the first 11 apostles practiced something
roughly like qacem to pick a 12th--and if the later accounts are to be
read correctly, came up with a wrong answer.) The Hebrew Old Testament,
on the other hand, contains many unambiguous prohibitions of magical
practices, including (but not limited to) chanting of spells and
divination from random elements.
(Reference: James Strong ed., _Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the
Bible_, 1894, as published by Abingdon Press, 1975.)
-Brad Hicks
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
Well, now we know how deeply and completely you hate Wicca. As a Wiccan myself, I appreciate knowing who has such deep hatred. I know who to avoid and watch carefully in future threads. Hate is such an ugly thing....and wow... there are two full pages of it.
I wonder, if I were equally dark in my feelings toward any major religion, like yours for instance, how would it be taken if I went off on a two page rant to tear into the Faith and basically stomp down on anyone who followed it? You, sir, just did exactly that to me and everyone else here who follow a Pagan faith or Wicca in particular.
I'm just curious...What was it about today, and this topic in particular that made you sit back and say to yourself "Self, this is a great day to go deeply insult and generally infuriate some fellow ATS members by calling them evil devil worshipers"?
Originally posted by RevelationGeneration
reply to post by Wotan
Oh so paganism was around before the Old testament? I don't think so...
Paganism is not the old religion you say it is, paganism was formed in rebellion to the God of Abraham our true God Yahweh. Moses also exposed the pagan God's as being false when he brought Yahweh's wrath to Egypt...
Originally posted by GonzoSinister
REVGEN -
I have spotted you in a few threads recently hitting up your hollier than thou mumbo jumbo garbage....
Here are so points i would like you to digest... as a christian do you celebrate christmas? like in december around the 25th on month??
this IS A PAGAN FESTIVAL, i will not accept anything other than cold hard facts to dissprove that.. i know it too be fact, there were many days in the pagan religon which were incorporated into the Christian religon as a way to make those who practise pagan beliefs feel that christianity was a more accessible religon when the religon was being brough here.
Furthermore.. those who are Wicca, who follow witchcraft and or paganism.. dont care about your One true God, as he is only your one true God and not theres..
one of the major downfalls of religous nuts on here is they come on chanting about what GOD sais (in another thread you actually said GOD gave us the bible and it is fact) where we have no proof of such a belief in the lsightest, no historical evidence and actually if you look at the bible objectivley we know it has been changed and added to at least a handful of times to either cross language barriers or make it more accessible to the readers...
yet we are not here picking apart your religon... (i am niether a christian nor am i Wicca) no we go about talking about lazer beams, comets, OWS, Darkknight, chinese lanterns and end of days, like every day on here.. somehow about once every three days someone comes on with "factual" hollier then though garbage spewed up from a book of hearsay which is treated as fact by blind believers in Faith and we get verbally attacked for being sinners/wrong/uneducated/stupid for not believing in somthing which for all intesive purposes was a book written by men wanting to teach the masses a list of social rights and wrongs as a way to "better" themselves in an outdated and much simpler society.
Sorry Mods... i can see this getting deleted but i cannot handle the Im religous and right posts any more today!
Oh so paganism was around before the Old testament? I don't think so...
Paganism is not the old religion you say it is, paganism was formed in rebellion to the God of Abraham our true God Yahweh. Moses also exposed the pagan God's as being false when he brought Yahweh's wrath to Egypt...
Originally posted by RevelationGeneration
Hence, based on the Bible, ALL witches are wicked including Wiccans. So Christian... if unholy-wood and a bunch of confused Wiccans tell you that white witches are good, who are you going to believe? Them or the Bible?
We define good or bad in relation to the Bible and the Bible ALONE. The Bible is our FINAL AUTHORITY.
Originally posted by reficul
reply to post by RevelationGeneration
listen dingbat,the king james bible your quoting from is already known to mistranslate the word witch from poisoner. 'thou shall not let a poisoner(witch) to live' your religious bigotry is not welcome here.
your the person who nearly wiped out the american indian's beliefs,as well as the tribes of celtic scotland,ireland,and wales. your opinion of your god has caused countless bloody murders,war and death throughout this world that is unimaginable. you and your kind disgust me. I AM A PAGAN,AND PROUD OF IT!!!.
your so called satanist are a branch of your own religion! we don't have a devil to blame bad stuff on,we take responsability for our own actions.
you are the one thats gonna burn in your own hellfire that you created.
us pagans know that our soul is forever
you are the reason i hate christians - not the Christ. do yourself a favour and listen to his teachings,not your warped interpretations of them. maybe you can check out Buddah,or the Dali Lamma
if your gonna post such crap on this site,be prepared for opposition,and i have been studying religion for 40 years,and i can promise i know more about yours than you do!
thanx for pissing me off
Originally posted by RevelationGeneration
Originally posted by Lysergic
reply to post by RevelationGeneration
The Devil never actually existed.
Biggest trick the Devil pulled was to convince people he doesn't exist!