RE: What does "Witch" mean to you? Natural Medicine Free-for-All contest
I was listening to a reader the other day and she had mentioned she was not a witch. Witchcraft (in the negative) was the act of trying to change someones will using the dark arts. Witchcraft/black magick was magic used to directly influence someone against their will.
Had you not meddled using witchcraft the outcome of that persons life may have turned out differently - effecting someones freewill is the ultimate Blasphemy in gods eyes = witchcraft.
So you can be a practitioner of magic - healing - energy work and still not actually be doing "Witchcraft" if you are not forcing your will energetically on another via spell work and the like.
I liked this concept. Even though I dabble in the dark arts, I don't feel I could classify myself as a witch currently. For I do not do spell work against other souls and thus would tittle myself a "magician" working/focused on my own manifestations.
Even when we think of the origins of the word "Witch" you will find it came from the old english verb wiccian --- meaning "to bewitch"
So unless you are bewitching someone to your will you are not witching at all.
I am not committed to this concept but I would say it is my stance right now.
So, I would say Jesus was no witch in "God's" eyes - maybe man's but not God's. You had to choose to be saved - you had to believe to be healed - Jesus powers where very much in accordance with his followers free will. He needed no charms - he needed no chants - his powers came from the energy of pure love that people where naturally drawn to.