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 :category: faith
 :tags: sermon, english, Bible
 
+There are some verses which are usually very important for every
+Christian. Everyone of us has one verses like John 3:16 NET (“For
+this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only
+Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but
+have eternal life”), or John 1:12 NET (“But to all who have
+received him—those who believe in his name—he has given the right
+to become God’s children”). Then there are verses which we really
+don’t know what to do with (e.g., just for fun Exodus 35:2b NET
+“Anyone who does work on [Sabbath] will be put to death.”,
+Leviticus 25:44 NET “As for your male and female slaves who may
+belong to you—you may buy male and female slaves from the nations
+all around you.” so only Austrian slaves, but I cannot import
+them from Africa, even they are a way more affordable?), but then
+there are verses which nobody disputes but they are for most of
+us not part of The Bible Verseparade. I expect most of my readers
+to be Muggles, so I don’t think Exodus 22:18 KJV (“Thou shalt not
+suffer a witch to live.”) is up there in those most popular
+verses of your life.
+
+However, I think that even for us, Muggles, this verse can bring
+a very important lesson, and this is not the one I hear usually
+when it comes to be the subject of Christian talk.
+
+First of all, let me add here disclaimer: whatever I say in the
+following paragraphs should not be understood as approval of
+occultism in any shape or form. Even if I claim this verse to be
+more complicated and less useful that it usually is thought to
+be, I still fully believe that Bible stands very clearly against
+any form of occultism, divination or wiccan practices. Not only
+they are usually sin against the First Commandment, but they are
+quite certainly always a sin against the Eleventh One (“Thou
+shall not be stupid.”). Discussion of occultism is not subject of
+this article.
+
+Let me start with a short historian’s exercise. Czech polymath,
+universal artist, overall genius, and gynaecologist amateur, Jára
+Cimrman very sternly urged great men of history to consider the
+day when they accomplish their great achievement and think about
+future students who will have to learn about it in their history
+classes. We can commend the Czech king and German emperor
+Charles IV. for founding the Prague university now named after
+him in year 1348, because everybody knows that all great events
+of Czech history are supposed to happen in the year ending with
+48, but April 7th is completely unconscionable date, when he
+could wait just two weeks, and he would be at least found the
+university on Easter (April 17th 1348). On the other hand, we
+should really appreciate action of the pope Leo III who made
+Charlemagne the first Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on the
+Christmas Day of year 800.
+
+Year 800 AD is very good year for couple of thoughts. First of
+all, what do you know about that year in the history (of course,
+you know that Holy Roman Empire was founded, but something else).
+What happened here in the are of the current Czechia?
+
+So, for example when we think what happened eight hundred years
+ago (1220), we considered such event to happen really long time
+ago, so long time ago, that anything is hardly known about it.
+Well, Christianity was that old in that year.
+
+Or we can use 1200 hundred years which separate us (roughly) from
+that year as a measurement with which we can consider the flow of
+time.
+
+* Exodus 22:18 (LXX) “φαρμακοὺς οὐ περιποιήσετε.” : “You shall
+  not permit a female sorcerer to live.”
+* Leviticus 19:26 “You shall not eat anything with its blood. You
+  shall not practice augury or witchcraft.“
+* Leviticus 20:27 (LXX) “Καὶ ἀνὴρ ἢ γυνή, ὃς ἂν γένηται αὐτῶν
+  ἐγγαστρίμυθος ἢ ἐπαοιδός, θανάτῳ θανατούσθωσαν ἀμφότεροι·
+  λίθοις λιθοβολήσετε αὐτούς, ἔνοχοί εἰσι.“ “A man or a woman who
+  is a medium or a wizard shall be put to death; they shall be
+  stoned to death, their blood is upon them.”
+* Deuteronomy 18:10-11 “No one shall be found among you who makes
+  a son or daughter pass through fire, or who practices
+  divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, //
+  or one who casts spells, or who consults ghosts or spirits, or
+  who seeks oracles from the dead.”
+* http://www.religioustolerance.org/divin_bibl.htm points rightly
+  out that some practices in Bible are looking very much occultic
+  in nature: Joseph’s silver cup used for divination,
+  Numbers 5:12-31, Urim & Thummim, Elisha cursing small boy who
+  calls him “badly”, lots, Daniel was supervisor of “the
+  magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans and soothsayers”
+  (Daniel 5:11). In the New Testament Paul’s declaration in
+  Acts 13:6-12 looks uncomfortably like a curse, and Acts 5:9
+  perhaps too (this one is more explainable).
+
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