The Witch Hunts of Salem 1692

[mark kennedy]

Well obiviously because if people had been following the teaching of Jesus Christ, they would have never done ANY of these things.I could have taken the bible and pointed out all the commandments they were breaking...sheesh.

Strangely, in Deuteronomy the prohibition against divination is mentioned just before the Prophet.

When you enter the land the Lord God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, encages in witchcraft, or cast spells, or who is a medium or spiritist, or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord, and because of these detestable practices the Lord you God will drive out those nations before you. You must be blameless before the Lord you God. (Deuteronomy18:1-13)​

The rest of Deuteronomy 18 is pure Gospel, it is one of the more detailed descriptions of Christ in the incarnation. Sammuel Parris' daughter and neices were practicing divination with Tibutu when they were possesed. It was their testimony that condemned Sarah Good and Rebecca Nurse, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it odd to have demon possesed people testifying in court?

Cotton Mathers 'spectral analysis' focused primarily on some dark figure who appeared in dreams. People who encountered this figure were compeled to write in some mystical book and supposedly became an agent of Satan. God used dreams to communicate His revelation to people in the Old Testament as well as the New Testament. Jacob, Joseph, Peter and the Magi all recieved prophecy through dreams. Cotton Mathers is not doing this in the Biblical sense, what he did was very simular to divination

Of course I would have been burned as a witch....sigh....

Actually, most people who opposed them openly were either expelled and 20 in all were actually hung (not burned). George Burroughs had been expelled because he made too much noise and ended up in Maine. They extradited him later and when he was about to be hung he recited the Lord's Prayer perfectly (something no sorceror was supposed to be able to do). When the crowd heard this they wanted to take him back to court and get the decision reversed. Instead the people carrying out the executions quickly hung him. Like I have said, this had nothing to do with witches, this was a pure undiluted secular agenda disquised as religion.

Thanks for the interesting information...good study!

God bless
WhiteStar

Your very welcome, its important the Christians realize that this had nothing to do with Biblical Christianity. Secularists have used this to portray Christianity as dangerous and superstitious anarchy. A closer look reveals that it was not Biblical Christianity that was to blame, it was the occult and a pragmatic secular agenda.

Grace and peace,
Mark

 

[mark kennedy]

I'm going to bump the thread in hopes of getting it going again