The Bible Vs. Little Girl

Little Girl writes,

What Does the Bible Define as Witchcraft?

"What does the Christian Bible define as witchcraft?" —Anonymous

Honestly? Not many scholars can really pinpoint a lot of the definitions of some words. Jewitches has a fantastic blog about being a Jewish witch that goes over many of these terms, such as qasam qesem, a term used for forbidding divination. It literally means "distributing distributions." What the hell is that supposed to mean? It's unfortunately lost to time, given that back in the day, these cultural issues that were clear to the writers never made their way to us.

However, other terms, as that blog and as Discovering Christian Witchcraft go into, make it clear that all of these religions and cultures in southwest Asia—be it Israelite, Akkadian, Assyrian, or even Greek and Roman later on as those empires expanded—really did not like a thing commonly translated into witchcraft in modern sources. As those things are being described, however, we see that they had to do with specific things:

• Calling unclean spirits to ruin people's lives (by bringing ruin to crops, people, livestock, etc.) for absolutely no reason
  
• Poisoning people, either with real herbal poisons or with spiritual illness (because that's like, kinda murderous, y'know?)
  
• Bothering the dead (AKA necromancy, which is bad three ways: because it was a pagan practice Israelites were supposed to separate from, because it woke souls up from their sleep as they awaited the Messiah, and because it caused people to put their trust in random spirits rather than go to God, who actually knows the truth/future). 

So long as you're not doing any of that, you're not really doing witchcraft the way the Bible defines it. You're just doing religion (as we see with Joseph and his dream interpreting in Genesis or the Apostles with their casting of lots in Acts or any of the miracles Jesus was doing that other contemporary Jewish and Greek wonderworkers at the time, like Hanina ben Dosa and Apollonius of Tyana, were also doing to some extent).

No, that isn’t at all true.   Little Girl is acting as if casuistic law & apodidtic law work the same way. Apodictic Law says, “You shall have no other gods besides Me.”  Casuistic Law provides a representative list of violations that take the form of commands.  Therefore, her list is not an exhaustive list, it’s merely a representative list. 

• When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
• 5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. 7 So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.  (Genesis 6:1–8, ESV)

1. The Book of Ezekiel’s sign acts are acts of inductive prophecy that answer idolatry, sorcery, & witchcraft. 
2. Idolatry, sorcery, & witchcraft are what the forbidden sexual activities in Leviticus 18, Romans 1:18 - 32, & 1 Corinthians 6 & 7, & 1 Timothy 1 encompass.
3. You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. 18 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.  (Leviticus 19:17–18, ESV)
4. You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.  (Leviticus 19:19, ESV)
5. You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes. 27 You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.
6. 29 “Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity. 30 You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
7. 31 “Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.  (Leviticus 19:26–31, ESV)
8. From Deuteronomy 22: 
• A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.
• 9 “You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard. 
• 10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. 11 You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together.
• You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.  (Deuteronomy 22:5–12, ESV)
• Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
• 8 Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. 9 But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.” 10 But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. 11 Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error and perished in Korah’s rebellion. 12 These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; 13 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.  (Jude 5–13, ESV)
•  I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.  (Revelation 22:18–19, ESV)

Turning Matthew 6:24 into source material for use as a money spell is an obvious perversion of the text that breaks the entire First Table of the Law.  It looks to God as if God is just another pseudodeity in a pantheon of deities.  Harnessing the power of demons is an act of demon worship.  

So long as you're not trying to actually engage with the real essence of Kabbalah, though (like initiating into the Sefirot and all that) without the guidance of a trained rabbi at the least, you don't have to worry about the angels and demons. Just show respect to where these traditions, names, etc. originated from.

(Says a 28 Year Old “Christian Witch” who admits to having chatted with Loki & comporting with demons). 

No, that’s not at all true.  In truth, you’re inviting demons to work for or against you, & the agenda of demons is to control & destroy for their own ends.  That’s the consistent testimony of Scripture.  You may as well just come right out & agree with the Temple of Set that Satan is the good guy just any number of nullifidians have in times past.