Blondie, you've proved that Jehovah does not hate magic, and there are other instances on that link you gave us. The "in those days but not now" argument just doesn't hold water, does it? Over and over again the WT tells us in its literature that all the Bible is relevant, and we can gain wisdom for today by consulting Bible-based principles.
The major difference between magic and miracles seems to be intent and purpose. Magic intends to astonish.. Miracles were to address real needs of people. Jesus resisted the power to use miracles for his own benefit during his "in the desert test.
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Jehovah hates magic? And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile turned into blood.
And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. So Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said. And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers.
He did much evil in the sight of the Lord , provoking him to anger. And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. So Saul died for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord , and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance.
He did not seek guidance from the Lord. Therefore the Lord put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
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. 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. For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord , he has also rejected you from being king. Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts. For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
And the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.
For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd. Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,. But the magicians did the same by their secret arts and made frogs come up on the land of Egypt. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. And say, Thus says the Lord God : Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls!
Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people and keep your own souls alive? Stand fast in your enchantments and your many sorceries, with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you may be able to succeed; perhaps you may inspire terror. And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. Nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts. And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord , provoking him to anger. When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.
He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God. But Elymas the magician for that is the meaning of his name opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. President Spencer W. Milestones in the Life of President Spencer W. Faust, Marion D. Hanks, and L. Tom Perry. Robert J. How can the consumer know which food additives are harmful and in what ways?
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