Why is it so hard for Christians to see witchcraft and occult? Are they that steeped in it that it’s not recognized as evil?
Let’s go to Webster’s definition of a Monster-
Monster
A monster is any creature, usually found in legends or horror fiction, that is often hideous and may produce fear or physical harm by its appearance or its actions. The word “monster” derives from Latinmonstrum, meaning an aberrant occurrence, usually biological, that was taken as a sign that something was wrong within the natural order.[1]
The word usually connotes something wrong or evil; a monster is generally morally objectionable, physically or psychologically hideous, and/or a freak of nature. It can also be applied figuratively to a person with similar characteristics like a greedy person or a person who does horrible things.
The root of monstrum is monere—which does not only mean to warn but also to instruct, and forms the basis of the modern Englishdemonstrate. Thus, the monster is also a sign or instruction. This benign interpretation was proposed by Saint Augustine, who did not see the monster as inherently evil, but as part of the natural design of the world, a kind-of deliberate category error.[2]
Well known monsters in fiction include Dracula, Frankenstein‘s creation, werewolves, mummies, and zombies, to name a few.
Do you want that in your pocket? Case closed! No bueno ya all. Stay away from witchcraft it drains your mind and your soul.
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? Galatians 3:1
O {1} foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, {a} before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
(1) The third reason or argument taken of those gifts of the Holy Spirit, with which they were endued from heaven after they had heard and believed the gospel by Paul’s ministry. And seeing that they were so evident to all men’s eyes, that they were as it were graphic images, in which they might behold the truth of the doctrine of the Gospel, just as much as if they had beheld with their eyes Christ himself crucified, in whose only death they ought to have their trust, he marvels how it could be that they could be so bewitched by the false apostles.
(a) Christ was laid before you so notably and so plainly that you had a graphic image of him as it were represented before your eyes, as if he had been crucified before you.
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