Date
1-16-2025
Department
Rawlings School of Divinity
Degree
Master of Arts in Christian Apologetics (MA)
Chair
Josh Waltman
Keywords
Demons, phenomenology, witchcraft, witches, magic, ancient magic, wizard, warlock, magician, Bible, Urim and Thummim, medium, Spiritism, necromancy, Pastoral, Apologetics, Apologetic, Divination, Poltergeist, ghost, paranormal
Disciplines
Ethics in Religion | Religion
Recommended Citation
Wrenn, Joshua Dean, "Witchcraft, Demons, and Spiritual Death: An Apologetic for the Bible's Prohibition Against Witchcraft" (2025). Masters Theses. 1258.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/masters/1258
Abstract
This paper attempts to apologetically defend the Bible's intolerance against witchcraft and other related activities that are prohibited in the Old Testament. It does so by showing that Witchcraft and other related activities gets one involved with demonic entities. It shows how demonic entities are deceitful, and how they are actually the ones behind the power of witchcraft. The paper starts by studying the history of ancient witchcraft, which is something that is useful for understanding the witchcraft of today. It then builds a profile of demons. The paper shows what demons physically do and what they attempt to get people to believe. The paper, in chapter 3, then shows that witchcraft involves signs of demonism, the signs of which were enumerated in chapter 2. The way that the paper attempts to prove its thesis is through library analysis, namely it uses an evidentiary argument based on case studies. Lastly, the paper deals with potential apologetic pushback in the last chapter.
