Magic

Are charismatic leaders who are duping and fleecing their flocks, practicing dark magic?

• John Hagee
• Kenneth E. Hagin
• Billy James Hargis
• Jack Hayford
• Marilyn Hickey
• Benny Hinn
• Brian Houston
• Rex Humbard
• David Koresh
  
• Billy Graham Jr.
• Franklin Graham
• Kenneth Copeland
• Bishop TD Jakes
• David Oyedepo
• Pat Robertson

• Creflo Dollar

• Joel Osteen

• Rick Warren

• Joyce Meyer

Luke 11:46
And he said, Woe unto you also, you lawyers! for you laid men with burdens grievous to be borne, and you yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

If you want to call sophism dark magic perhaps.

Quintessence said:

Only in a very loose sense that bears little if any resemblance to the practice of magic (aka spellcraft) as it is understood by various occultists (or anyone else, for that matter).

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very loosely because the only Absolute is that there are no absolutes.

some magi were scholars of their day in various cultures. for instance isaac newton was an alchemist. the following magi associated himself with god


Acts 8:9-Acts 8:12 KJV
But there was a certain man, called Simon(simon magus), which before time in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries. But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus…