Magic
208Cynic, Epic, Stoic, Skeptic
21 Oct 2024
30:28¶ 74
“Something was going on with those stars, yes. So that was something that grabbed a lot of people, and then other people just flat-out…”
31:23¶ 76
“Right. They didn’t think they were consorting with demons or any such thing. They didn’t equate magic with demonism or Satanism, and actually rarely…”
119When Nature Fails
23 May 2022
44:39¶ 190
“Yeah. That’s the nature of prayer over against magic. Prayer is not Christian magic. Magic of all sorts, if it’s true magic, is Satanic.…”
43:22¶ 186
“We can’t do anything until God’s people pray.” I didn’t fully recognize it for what it was at the time, but looking back on…”
41:00¶ 175
“It does end up with a worldview that’s very magical, because Satan has his warriors out in the world and all the Godless heathens…”
102The King as Priest
24 Jan 2022
14:03¶ 41
“Well, you know, I don’t want to wait, but I want God’s blessing.” So you’ve just decided that you can get God’s blessing without…”
13:33¶ 40
“With that in mind, he goes ahead and does it for pragmatic reasons. He wants the loyalty of the people, and if he’s serious…”
16:05¶ 55
“…by Samuel. Samuel had said wait. He said it as a prophet, that is as the active voice of God on earth, and that…”
83Baal and Astarte
13 Sep 2021
14:02¶ 60
“Kind of skipping ahead, this is something important about Baal worship. First of all, it was atheistic because it denies the true God. It…”
14:34¶ 61
“Magic being any method you use to try to influence and manipulate these forces, right?”
14:40¶ 63
“Just a side note, that is one reason why the claims that things like Harry Potter or even Lord of the Rings, that some…”
39Magic vs. the Covenant Word
27 Sep 2020
2:57¶ 13
“What we’re looking at is two very different conceptions of the name of God. These vagabond Jews, in keeping with the religious Hellenic influences…”
6:12¶ 21
“Anyway, this is how Egyptian culture saw the word, the name. Again, as above, so below. The whole universe is geared – to use…”
3:43¶ 14
“It didn’t work, did it? Paul was successful because Jesus had given him a commission to cast out evil spirits, and when Paul said…”
37Image and Word (part 1)
13 Sep 2020
19:32¶ 65
“And we end up with magic, and that’s what we’re talking about here. We’ll talk more about it next week when we talk about…”
20:04¶ 66
“The words don’t have to be intelligent or intelligible; they simply have to be the right words. So whether it’s abracadabra or some meaningless…”
20:19¶ 67
“The Greek and Roman fathers, as they performed family rituals at the breakfast or dinner table, had the right words that they had to…”
28Prince of Egypt (part 2): Of Miracles and Magic
12 Jul 2020
1:53¶ 5
“The word ‘tricks’ here is confusing because they’re not tricks, they’re rituals. The rituals, the incantations, the proper turning of the wheel on the…”
2:37¶ 8
“In the pagan world it was the general assumption that man, being the peak of the rational universe, should be able to call upon…”
3:08¶ 9
“The Greeks call them demons, spirits, magical entities, gods. They too had to be whipped into line, controlled, begged/borrowed/pleaded with. This they took to…”
18Faith, Community, and Justification
3 May 2020
5:57¶ 16
“And thus magic becomes the barrier, the protection, the shield against the gods. The gods want everything done by the book. You have to…”
6:22¶ 18
“We don’t know. Say it like this, because if you don’t, bad things are going to happen.”
6:29¶ 19
“Irrationality bringing a rational predictability to a chaotic universe, an incredible thing.”
15The Babylon Project
12 Apr 2020
41:23¶ 134
“It was very recent, but if you tried to say, “This is magic,” there’s no reference for people. They think of magic like something…”
41:55¶ 135
“God simply becomes your servant. The Holy Spirit becomes something at your beck and command who is bound to do what you ask because…”
36:56¶ 121
“Satan was offering a form of deism. “Yes, there is this God person, and behind him even something else that has structured the universe,…”