by diana netherton 8 Replies latest watchtower bible
If magic is so bad, then why is the Bible filled with magical events, such as Lot's wife turning into salt or all of the
so called miracles of Jesus? How does the society explain that? If Jehovah hates magic so much, why does he
repeatedly use it in the Bible???
Well, we call that miracles, not magic. If God does it, it's miracles.
Anybody else, it's magic.
It's easy when you can just write history after the fact; you get to call the shots!
If Jehovah hates magic so much, why does he
repeatedly use it in the Bible???
That ranks with "if God says it's wrong to kill, why does he kill so many in the Old Testament?"
Inconsistency is Jehovah's trademark.
Having a discussion with my daughter about the difference betweem magic and miracles started by a post on FB as well.
Basically, an unexplained phenomenon occurring near someone known to have God's approval. Water into wine for example is always classed as a miracle.
When a comparable alleged occurrence is performed by bad guys it is no longer a miracle but classed as magic and evil or satanic. This is very paradoxical. Moses and sticks and snakes being a good example of this.
Feeding lots of people with bread and fish is a brilliant trick (if true) but would it have been classed as a miracle if Satan had done it? No, he would have been accused of pretending to be an angel of light.
Conclusion: Sparlock and his kind will always be villified. There is nothing he can ever ever do which would make him acceptable. There is no evidence to support the Mum's view of him as being evil or a bad influence on her son but this does not stop her condemning him.
Sparlock is innocent of all charges.
I honestly think magic/Satan/spritism has nothing to do with it. It has to do with narrative and the ability to suspend disbelief.
The WTS WANTS YOU TO BELEIVE IN MAGIC. Yes, they also want you to believe that magic is Satan's version of miracle, but they need you to suspend disbelief and BELIEVE. If you start questioning whether or not magic is really real, you're headed down a slippery slope to disbelief in anything supernatural - which is bad for the WTBTS.
With Sparlock, the line between fantasy and reality is blurred. . .
The society HATES ambiguity. . .
And then there is this:
Daniel 1:3-4, 19-20, 2:12-13: "Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring into the king’s service some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility— young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king’s palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians... But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way.... The king talked with them, and he found none equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king’s service. In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.... Then [later] the king ordered the execution of all the wise men of Babylon. So the decree was issued to put the wise men to death, and men were sent to look for Daniel and his friends to put them to death".
Daniel and his friends studied the pagan literature of the Babylonians covering "every kind of learning," which included magic and astrology (what the Society would regard as the satanic "occult"). Daniel and his friends had God's blessing (and they refrained from pagan food, not pagan occult learning) and they excelled in magic and other occult arts such that they were "better than all the magicians and enchanters" in the kingdom. And so Daniel and his friends were reckoned among the "wise men of Babylon".
Basically, an unexplained phenomenon occurring near someone known to have God's approval. Water into wine for example is always classed as a miracle.
When a comparable alleged occurrence is performed by bad guys it is no longer a miracle but classed as magic and evil or satanic. This is very paradoxical. Moses and sticks and snakes being a good example of this.
Sparlock was created by God through the GB, does he have God's approval? Miracle or Magic?
good point. This isn't an item found at your local toy store. So the GB just invented a demon toy
Sparlock was created by God through the GB, does he have God's approval? Miracle or Magic?
It all boils down to the way he is dressed now. Life's a bitch!
