Open Door Baptist Church
Acts 8:9-25
When we say Simon the sorcerer, what do we really mean?
The Bible shows us that magic and the dark arts are a real thing, it is not just a matter of illusions or sleight of hand. There are several examples of conjuring in Exodus.
From sticks to serpents
Exodus 7:8-13
The plague of blood
Exodus 7:22
The plague of frogs
Exodus 8:6-7
The plague of lice
Exodus 8:16-19
Summoning spirits
There is an example of a medium summoning a spirit of the dead. This was when Saul was panicking having completely lost his way.
1 Samuel 28:7-19
Spiritual possession
People posessed with demons and evil spirits was common in the time of Jesus and the apostles. Now it is called “mental illness.”
Acts 16:16
Books of magic
Scroll, books and textx of the curious arts have always existed. Thankfully many have been destroyed over the course of history.
Acts 19:19
The greatest collection of ancient texts of the curious arts perished in 48BC
In 48 BC, during Caesar’s Civil War, Julius Caesar was besieged at Alexandria. His soldiers set fire to his own ships while trying to clear the wharves to block the fleet belonging to Cleopatra’s brother Ptolemy XIV.[80][81][57][8] This fire spread to the parts of the city nearest to the docks, causing considerable devastation.[81][78][8] The first-century AD Roman playwright and Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger quotes Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita Libri, which was written between 63 and 14 BC, as saying that the fire started by Caesar destroyed 40,000 scrolls from the Library of Alexandria.
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