[Sca-cooks] Catholic/Christian, was: The Fallwell/Robertson statements

[Elizabeth A Heckert]

    My understanding is that the "witch" refered to in Exodus 22:18 and
Deuteronomy 18:9-14 refer to the "witch" of Endor (1 Samuel chap. 28)
That woman was either a fraud or someone who was capable of contacting
unseen and (potentially) evil spirits.

    Deuteronomy 18:9-14 describes child sacrifice, divination
(foretelling the future) and mediumship as being the practices that make
a witch, none of which (as I understand) define a modern practicer of
Wicca.

    Also, please don't forget, the laws of Moses were for the Hebrews!
They were surrounded by non-Hebraic people who worshiped other gods, and
wouldn't be able to apply their laws to other peoples.  God tells them,
over and over, that the laws are for the Hebrews themselves.

     This does not excuse Christians of later eras, but in this day and
age, I would hope that it is obvious that if you're a Christian, and you
denigrate another person's religion, you've lost all hope of telling them
about Christianity, which action, really, means you've blasphemed (denied
God) which is the absolute *worst* sin--which is another reason why
Falwell and Robertson are not Christians.

     I'll shut up now.

     Elizabeth



On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 19:50:07 +0200 Volker Bach <bachv at paganet.de> writes:

>It would probably be interesting enough to simply
>compare different Bible versions in various
>languages and from various groups.
>Anyone else?

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