The Biblical Basis for Witchcraft

By Sophia Aletheia

Are you a Christian wondering why Christians can't do the miracles of Jesus?

 

Are you a witch wondering why Christians condemn people of other faiths?

 

Or are you a Christian Witch, who is unsure if crystals, herbs, or spells are acceptable to use as a Christian? Are you afraid because you believe the Bible says you're going to Hell?

 

I wrote this book after realizing that neither Christians nor witches were walking in the power that God had for them. This book will address all these issues scripturally, and conclude that every Christian should also be a witch.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sophia Aletheia
• Release date: Feb 22, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215214275

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Sophia Aletheia

The Biblical Basis for Witchcraft

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Contents

I. INTRODUCTION AND FOUNDATION

The Problem

What Is A Witch?

What Constitutes Salvation?

The Hell Delusion

Reinterpreting the Bible

Heretical Spiritual Paths

What Does the Bible Frown Upon?

Christian Treatment of Witches

We Have Freedom

II. MAGIC, BIBLE STYLE

What is Magic?

Biblical Spells

Biblical Wizards

Biblical Spiritual Gifts

Biblical Miracles

III. EMBRACING OUR DESTINY

A Church Full of Magic

Defense Against the Dark Arts

Real Questions From Real Witches

Real Prophecies & Healings

A Real Relationship With God

What’s Next?

About The Author

I

Introduction and Foundation

Witchcraft is absolutely condoned by God.

Let’s try looking at God (and scripture) a little differently.

The Problem

The world of Christiandom has a big problem. Its problem is that it has come out of alignment with Christ—if indeed it was ever in alignment—and is now treating those of other religious traditions terribly, all the while rejecting the things of God for itself.

The world of paganism, witchcraft, and the New Age/spiritual community also has a problem. Its problem is that it is using the things of God while not necessarily acknowledging the correct authority (Creator) for those things, and therefore not using them correctly, or with the level of power that’s possible to harness when they are used correctly. This world has been largely driven away from truths found in organized religion due to the hypocrisy, corruption, and general lack of resonance it has found there.

Which brings us to the third world: that of Christian Witches. This group has a problem as well. Its problem is that it struggles with an identity crisis and has difficulty deciding what it wants to be. Both its Christian and pagan (for lack of a better term) aspects scream at one another that the other half isn’t allowed to be there. They’re odd bedfellows, assumed and even demanded to be at odds with one another. This group largely does not know who God is, and is generally at a loss as to how to combine its fascination with witchcraft with its love for its savior. It is also not as powerful as it could be, because its instruction has come mostly from occult practitioners, rather than from Christians passing down impartations directly from heaven.

Intrigued?

Good.

Because this is not a book about witchcraft—this is a faith revolution.

By the time you’re done reading this book, you’re going to see Christianity, witchcraft, magic, spiritual gifts, God, and a whole lot of other things differently. We’re gonna use the Bible, and a whole lot of common sense, to explain that God doesn’t hate magic, that he expects you to use it as you mature in him, and show you Christians should be the strongest witches you ever meet.

As you may have surmised, I am aiming to reach three main audiences with this book: Christians, Witches, and Christian Witches. I want to be direct and make sure you all get the appropriate takeaways from this book. So let me take a quick moment and explain to each of these groups what you should be learning as you read through. Feel free to skip ahead to the appropriate sub-section, and read away.

Christians

I am writing this book to Christians because we have chosen to adhere to an interpretation of the Bible that leaves us enslaved and bigoted towards others, rather than free and empowered. Rather than being at the helm of a worldwide spiritual revival, we are largely hamstrung and infighting, struggling to find our identity and make the impact Jesus promised we would make.

The reason is that we have largely rejected God and the spiritual gifts he gave us to walk in the Greater Works of Christ, and instead of following his command to love one another, have selected specific people groups out for hatred and judgment, which we believe is justified on the basis of calling out sin, but which, in fact is not biblical in the least.

This book will demonstrate that we have been prejudiced against things we know nothing about, we have summarily rejected the things of God, we have idolized a version of the Bible that has kept us enslaved instead of setting us free, that the Bible is a book stock full of magic, and that God condones it and wants us to learn about magic under the auspices of intimacy with Jesus. Once we have stepped into this new identity as magical beings—or what some might term witches, we will have been empowered to take the world by storm, just as Jesus told us we would.

Witches

The reason I am writing to witches in this book is because you are frequently shunned by Christians, told that you are going to Hell, and told that your practices and religions are illegitimate. Meanwhile, you are usually deeply spiritual people who know the secrets of the earth and the spiritual realm, and who sometimes even have a relationship with the Creator that rivals that of many Christians. God loves you too, and Jesus died for you too. And though you may not care about any of that, Christians need to practice loving you the way Jesus loves us—unconditionally, and without judgment.

Meanwhile, you need to learn that there’s a God who created all the cool culty, spiritual, and cultural things you love so much, and that if you want to learn about true power, you have to learn to trust him with your lives, as well as with your magical training. No matter how powerful you may become, you will never be as powerful as you could be if you simply followed God.

This book will show you that the Bible is not at odds with you, and in fact supports much of what you do. It will also call you out on idolatry, and encourage you to work strongly with God/Creator/Source, in order to harness maximum freedom and power in your lives.

Christian Witches

To those who are reading this book who in some way identify as Christian, and also witch, your main problem is that you have no idea who God is, no idea who you are, and you rely on spellwork to try to make your life better, instead of talking to the person who created spells: God himself.

Because you have no idea who God is, some of you are caught up in petty problems and are trying desperately to use any means necessary to improve your life, when what you ought to be doing is surrendering to God and asking him to transform your lives.

Your other problem is that most of you are trapped in the broom closet, and experience mild to severe persecution by family, friends, churchgoers, pastors, and basically anyone who doesn’t understand your path, which is most people. It’s a difficult road to walk, and you need all the support you can get to walk your path without succumbing to the various types of shame the world will try to heap on you for being different.

This book will help you by giving you a strong Biblical basis to understand that the Bible does not condemn you for being a witch, which will be an ever-present argument you hear from your persecutors as to why you must cease all occult involvement immediately. This book is a tool you can use to learn what the Bible, not to mention God, actually says about witchcraft, why it’s ok, why God doesn’t hate you for being drawn to the occult, and what a lot of occult practices look like in a biblical context. My hope is that this will contribute greatly to the countering of lies that religious people have told you about who God is and how he feels about you, help you to better form your identity as a Christian Witch and understand what that means, and give you a resource you can use when you find yourself in a difficult conversation with religious people, to help them understand what you are trying to say, although you might not have the right words to say it.

This book will also help to guide you with understanding appropriate and inappropriate ways to use magic, and how to walk more closely with God so that he is lord of your life, and not the spells he teaches you to perform.

Conclusion

God is in control, and nobody should be judging anybody else. We really can all get along, if we only learn that at our core a lot of us are pursuing the same things: most of us are intuitively aware of creator, most of us intuitively get excited by magic, and if we’re honest, most of us think living in a magical world with an all-loving God overseeing it all would be a pretty great way to live. We can all have that! But first we have to believe that it’s real, it’s available to us, and it’s the way God intended us all to live in the first place.

What Is A Witch?

Ihave chosen to provocatively call this book The Biblical Basis for Witchcraft, in order to spark people’s interest, as well as gain readership. I could’ve called it The Biblical Basis for Mysticism, or The Biblical Basis for Magic, or even The Biblical Basis for Spiritual Gifts, but I chose to use a trigger word in order to help people to deeper question their assumptions about religious taboos.

Now that we’re here, let’s take a moment and define some terms, so we can all be on the same page about exactly what this book is talking about, without tripping up over definitions. In this section you will learn that the terms Christian and witch, do not necessarily imply positive or negative moral standing, and that there’s enough overlap to be able to say that sometimes Christians are witches, and sometimes witches are Christians.

What Is a Christian?

The definition of Christian accepted by most within the church is going to be someone who has accepted Jesus’ sacrifice as payment for their sins, and committed to letting him be Lord of their life. That’s your Sunday School answer that will get your ticket stamped, get you into Heaven, and most importantly, get pastors and Christians off your back.

Yet in reality, Christians run the gamut. Every religion has a spectrum of people who follow it, because every religion is going to have those who pay lipservice, as well as mature believers, and unless you know how to watch people’s actions instead of their words, you are going to end up confused.

One might say that mature Christians are those who have an intimate relationship with Jesus, such that they follow him in all they do, and live a life of praise and gratitude to him. Their fruits will be love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.¹ They will also be outflowing in fully developed spiritual gifts, and be producing signs and wonders.² You will know them because they love everyone, and judge no one—just like Jesus did.³

But most Christians have not reached anywhere near this level of maturity. Most of them are halfway committed, steeped in religious indoctrination, ignorant of how to develop a real relationship with Jesus, untrained in healing, and generally an complete basket case that goes to church on Sunday. Some of them have a daily private devotional time. Huzzah, that’s as good as it gets.

And of course, some Christians are nasty people who say they follow Christ, but in reality have no interest in him, and live their lives as they please, using religion as a means to judge others, make themselves look good, and coerce people into doing their will. These Pharisees follow Satan,⁴ as is pointed out many times in scripture, and have nothing to do with Jesus.

What Is A Witch?

What is a witch?

Is it an old crone sitting in a dark dungeon brewing evil potions and reading incantations from a thousand year old spellbook?

Well yes, that is one possibility.

But it could also be a 15-year-old girl playing with daisies while she collects some pretty rocks.

It could also be someone who’s felt drawn to the occult her entire life who has a collection of manuscripts she’s been studying.

Or it could be someone who has a psychic gift and sees regular visions—and so did her mother, and so did her mother, and so did her mother, back thousands of generations.

Much like Christians, or people of any religion, witches can be any race, and practically any creed.

They could be pagan, but they could also not be. The word witch, comes to us from the word wise. Witches were simply the wise women of their villages, the ones that learned herb lore, and the ways of nature. They knew things others didn’t, and they helped where others couldn’t. They often had intuitive gifts, and they could sense things about the future that at times made others uncomfortable.

Do witches worship Satan? Some of them do, but most of them do not. Most witches come upon their path not because they are seeking out evil, but because they are connecting with nature. Many of them do not believe in Satan, but believe that the choice to pursue good or evil is in the hands of men, and they look down upon those who scapegoat Satan instead of taking personal responsibility for their actions.

Do witches ever worship God? More do than you might think—there are mystics in almost every religion.

Mystics are not necessarily witches, but they are people who delve into mystical things. There’s a lot of overlap. Also, as witches connect with nature, many also naturally find themselves connecting with God. Outside of the church, without ever having read a holy book or heard religious doctrine, they begin to connect with him intuitively, resulting in a beautiful, authentic, organic relationship with the creator.⁵

What, then, is a witch?

It appears to be a generic label given to those who have interest in the unseen world. It can be applied to anyone, from the novice to the experienced.

Does it imply that someone is good or evil?

No, not at all. It does not mean that someone is evil or not following God. That is a personal decision that witchcraft has no bearing on whatsoever.

Having defined witch, then, what is witchcraft?

Witchcraft is a term referring to how a witch chooses to practice magic.

It can be simple, or elaborate. It can happen once a day, or once a year. It may involve deities, or it may not.

Worship of the divine is not actually a requirement for practicing witchcraft. In this manner, you will find that it’s possible for witches to follow the religion of their choice, practice witchcraft, and the two will actually have very little to do with each other—in much the same way that deciding what to prepare for lunch would have little bearing on how you planned to do your daily devotional time with God.

A lot of women consider themselves to be witchy just because they leave water out to charge in the light of the moon, and also occasionally find rocks they like and bring them home with them. That’s it! No complex rituals or ancient spells going on here.

Witchcraft is diverse, and just because someone tells you they’re into witchy things, in no way does it imply that they are involved in darkness. As you can imagine, charging crystals beneath the moon is a far cry from human sacrifice, and the two very rarely meet.

Witches are as diverse as Christians. In the same way that someone who tells you they’re a Christian might have a close relationship with God, or might be a corrupt scumbag using religion for political gain, so it is with witches. They come in every shape and size under the sun, and while some do work for the dark, many also work for the light.

As for those who work for the light, I would say that they currently do just as much, if not more, good as Christians in this world, because of their having embraced spirituality and, in particular, spiritual gifts.

Many Christians push away spiritual gifts, for a variety of reasons. I have yet to meet anyone who identified as witch, pagan,