Would an abrahamic believer pick up a book with "witchcraft" as its title?

[dianaiad]

Re-reading this, it sounds more of a racial issue
White: person or white heaven with a white (bearded) god, a white jesus and so forth. Just speculating

Race has nothing to do with it unless one is an utter idiot

Sorry...have decided not to pull punches.

Dark/black' refers to the inability to SEE. Nasty things sneak up in the dark (when we can't see)

White/shining refers to the ability to SEE. If everything is light and bright, one can see, and one can tell what's going on.

A 'white' person sneaking up in the dark is as evil as someone of any other skin shade.
a "person of color" walking up to you in the light is just as easy to see as the 'white' guy.


"White is also for cleanliness and purity....because it's HARD to keep cloth white. Dirty cloth tends to be dark.

Only those who are determined to make it all about them have problems seeing the analogies....and what the analogies are NOT.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Race has nothing to do with it unless one is an utter idiot

Sorry...have decided not to pull punches.

Dark/black' refers to the inability to SEE. Nasty things sneak up in the dark (when we can't see)

White/shining refers to the ability to SEE. If everything is light and bright, one can see, and one can tell what's going on.

A 'white' person sneaking up in the dark is as evil as someone of any other skin shade.
a "person of color" walking up to you in the light is just as easy to see as the 'white' guy.


"White is also for cleanliness and purity....because it's HARD to keep cloth white. Dirty cloth tends to be dark.

Only those who are determined to make it all about them have problems seeing the analogies....and what the analogies are NOT.

White/black is metaphor for privileged/poverty or majority/minority. It's termed white/black because whites were the majority at the time and they had the "upper hand" than blacks did.

White magic (or pure magic etc) and black magic (or tainted) aren't specific to colors but their opposites. We tend to separate the good and bad, up and down, this or that. It's in our English language and American culture.

Morality aside, that's the only thing I can think of. White-good and black-bad.

Another spin on this is "black-can't see" could be we are not comfortable with things that we don't know. Insecurity and uncertainty in the "dark" so it's seen as bad (unless one has faith) one will stay in darkness. Magic in one sense means illusions. We don't know what we experience and see may be an illusion.

White "one can see" so everything is clear. When things are clear, there is no need for darkness because one is with god.

There are many metaphors for it but unfortunately, metaphor is just a nice word to describe it the nature of the words.

 

[Hockeycowboy]

I know there are some people won't pick up the book at all. I had one friend who shoved the Quiji board with a stick cause she didn't want to touch the toy. This was years ago, though.

Would you pick up the physical book?

Oh...So, you mean just ‘pick it up’?

I did it, and read some of it...I’m still here.

(But I’d never buy one.)

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Oh...So, you mean just ‘pick it up’?

I did it, and read some of it...I’m still here.

(But I’d never buy one.)

I was thinking, if I picked up the same book and found Frank Sinatra's picture documentary in it, it would probably be a good read. ...but some people don't want to touch the book; and, I find that kind of weird on one hand but I guess I "understand" on the other.

 

[Deeje]

If God could become 'a burning bush' to speak to Moses, he could become a man and speak to the world if He so chose.

In reading the account, it isn't God who 'became a burning bush', but an angel appeared to Moses as God's representative and the burning bush was not really burning...here I believe again, is the operation of God's spirit in making a visual event when commissioning Moses to free God's people from harsh slavery in Egypt.

Exodus 3:1-3....
"Moses became a shepherd of the flock of his father-in-law Jethʹro, the priest of Midʹi·an. While he was leading the flock to the west side of the wilderness, he eventually came to the mountain of the true God, to Horʹeb. 2 Then Jehovah’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire in the midst of a thornbush. As he kept looking, he saw that the thornbush was on fire, and yet the thornbush was not consumed. 3 So Moses said: “I will go over to inspect this unusual sight to see why the thornbush does not burn up.”

Moses was told to remove his footwear because the ground upon which he was standing was holy. He was in Jehovah's presence, but God himself was not the thornbush. An Angel was usually his spokesman on the occasions where he conveyed his instructions to humans.

Since this is the meaning of the word "Logos" in Greek, ("The Word" or one who spoke God's words) we believe that the angel who always represented God to his earthly servants was Michael....the pre-human Jesus Christ.

The only other angel named as a messenger of God was Gabriel.