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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: "spiritual gifts" (Taken from "Hearing God's Voice")
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 14:53:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 14:53:47 1986
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In article <328@aero.ARPA> homeier@aero.UUCP (Peter Homeier) writes:
> Then Elizabeth Purtell, alias "Lady Godiva", wrote in reply
> 
> >	I'm curious to know what people think about "spiritual abilities".
>
> ...  Such things as witchcraft, sorcery, astrology, ESP, consulting the
> dead, psychic powers, astral projection, and contacting spirits are
> condemned heavilly in the Bible as being works of the devil.  They are not
> just called sins, they are called "abominations".
> 
> "There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter
> pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or
> one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a
> medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
> 
> "For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of
> these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you.

As I recall (perhaps incorrectly), are found right next to the prohibition
against eating pork (and other "unclean" substances) which is phrased in
much the same way.

Why is it then that Christians now eat pork but still don't accept
"spiritual abilities" of the sorts Elizabeth asked about?
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh