The Bible warns against engaging in practices that involve seeking power or guidance from sources other than God. Deuteronomy 18:9-14 and Leviticus 19:31 condemn such activities, including sorcery and mediumship, as abominations to the Lord. Exodus 22:18 and Isaiah 8:19 also condemn those who practice witchcraft, highlighting the severity of God's judgment against them. Ultimately, Revelation 21:8 lists sorcerers among those who will be excluded from eternal life, emphasizing the importance of seeking a pure and holy relationship with God.
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When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery, casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead. For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you. You must be blameless before the LORD your God. Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
You must not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out, or you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.
You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in Your name.”
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.