Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!lll-winken!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!WOOSTER!MCMV9048 From: MCMV9048@WOOSTER (Mark V. McGrew) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia Subject: Re: Good Witches Message-ID: Date: 13 Jan 90 19:30:00 GMT Sender: Practical Christian Life Reply-To: Practical Christian Life Lines: 29 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway X-VMS-To: IN%"CHRISTIA@FINHUTC.BITNET" >What of those who lived before God started revealing details of the >Godhead? Weren't cave people doing the will of God when when they >attempted to understand their reality by finding God in wood spirts and >weather phenomenon? It was all that God had revealed up to that point. > >And can people be blamed if they still believe these simple (incomplete) >understandings of God? Even when Jesus was here in the flesh there were >many who were unconvinced by him and refused to believe. Those of us who >are Christian know the completeness and wonderfulness of his message, but >there are many who find God in other ways. > >It is my understanding that many "witches" are not anti-Christian (who >exist simply as a reaction to Christianity and mock Christian symbols) >but are instead remnants of earlier understandings of God. As such, it is >sad that they do not share our more-complete understanding of God, but I >would hesitate before calling them "bad". Before Abraham, God spoke directly, in a mystical way possibly. To the Jews, God spoke through the Law and the Prophets. For us, God speaks through Jesus Christ. Each is superior to the one before, and anyone who rejects the superior is making a grave (consider the term) mistake. Read Hebrews. It explains it really well. God bless, "Jesus Christ alone knew answers to Mark McGrew all questions and knew how to feed 20,000 Jews with five loaves of bread. We don't possess that skill." --Official atheist Mikhail Gorbachov