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Christian Witchcraft

There is a pernicious teaching in some segments of the Christian church which needs to be named. This teaching goes by at least several different names: “Name and Claim It” or “Faith Healing” or the “Prosperity Gospel”. To put it simply, the substance of this teaching is this: If a person will have adequate faith in God’s promises of blessing and abundance (almost always meant to be material things or physical healing) then God is then required to grant that person what he or she is asking for. If you doubt me watch some of the religious television programs on cable sometime. Many (if not the majority) will teach some version of this doctrine. This is nothing other than a form of witchcraft dressed up rather shabbily in Christian terms.               This teaching presumes that there is some way to impose upon God binding obligations so that he must give us what we want. “I am believing God for a wife (and I already know who she is). She just has not come to recognize it yet.” The p