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Have you ever tried black magic? Has it worked?

Pitstop @pitstop (15551) • Australia 28 May 19

I'm not a follower of black magic, but it is quite popular as a source of cures etc in India. Does it work? Have any of you used it or has friends who've used it?

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Witchcraft In The Bible.

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 13 May 17

The Bible carries the notorious line ‘Thou shall not suffer a witch to live’ a line often used to justify the arrest, trial, torture, persecution and execution of suspected witches in Europe and America through to the 18th...

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Preists abusing children, wars, mistresses, selling forgiveness for sins,

urbandekay @urbandekay (18278) 5 Dec 11

Sitting on huge wealth while millions starve, the hubris of claiming infallibility, torture, not speaking out against Hitler, I refer of course to the popes and the Roman Church 16Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men...

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Was Luther right to protest about the heresy of the Roman Church

urbandekay @urbandekay (18278) 5 Dec 11

In the 16th Century a corrupt Roman Church engaged in a number of heretical practices including Selling indulgences - that is forgiveness for a price, Simony - buying a position in the Church, the pope fathered two children by...

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What is heresy?

grandpa_lash @grandpa_lash (5225) • Australia 24 Aug 09

The word comes from the Greek and means simply, a choice, usually between beliefs. It can only exist from the viewpoint of the orthodoxy that disagrees with it, and thus cannot be objectively defined: what is one’s person’s heresy...

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If someone would tell you "I'm a prophet of Christ" what would you do?

Khayam @Khayam (346) • Romania 20 Dec 08

The conceptualization that there won't be other prophets after Christ is popular, but simply not Biblical. According to Matthew 23:34, Jesus said: "Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, , and wise men, and scribes: and...

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The Ten Commandments and the Nag Hammadi Scrolls

Khayam @Khayam (346) • Romania 20 Dec 08

All Christian and Judaic believers are familiar with the Ten Commandments (the two stone tables authored by God and given to Moses on the Mount Sinai) - Exodus 19:23, Deuteronomy 5:2. Through these, the Creator expressed His will...

dead sea scrolls

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Worshiping phisical remains of saints = idolatry?

Khayam @Khayam (346) • Romania 20 Nov 08

Most of the Catholic and Ortodox Churches have a reliquary, a container for relics (most of the times, phisical remains of saints, pieces of clothing, or other objects associated with holy figures) that functions as a...

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Church changed the Bible

innocentwicked @innocentwicked (99) • Philippines 15 Dec 06

There are speculations that the Church changed some of the things in the original Bible so that people will look up to them (Men) and not to women like Mary Magdalene (who is supposedly Jesus' wife) It is said they did this to...