re: #1029 Aceofwhat?

Yes, that helps. I know all the OT stuff on witchcraft (though likewise it’s rather confused), but I didn’t have the impression that Jesus himself said much about it.

Thanks for the Acts passage. That’s a real OT style showdown, in a way. However, it’s a Jewish false prophet, not a Christian witch, so it doesn’t really address a Christian tradition that embraces witchcraft. Assumedly, the witches of that tradition claim to be acting under God’s name and asking him for favors, in the end.

That’s the point I’m making— a ‘false prophet’ is only discernible by a ‘true prophet’. A hard-line Sunni will say that a hard-line Shi’ite is not a Muslim, but obviously, anthropologically or in common-sense, they are.