Don't harsh on them to hard, it is how they were taught. The bible does say that you are to be wise as serpents and I can only fathom that to mean to know what "they" know about how it works. I myself find it funny that everything is dependent on faith and Jesus came to teach that for free while others found a way to obscure it behind hidden texts, lost scrolls, buried tablets, obscene rituals and "rights" of passage. You can be shown all of that for free if you would only ask the Creator to be shown it and know that you will be. The good, the bad and the ugly.
Idols are forbidden because they are unnecessary and are used as a means for man to make money.
Someone asked for an encyclopedia, I didn't see it on the first page. #17 is History of... The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology
Don't harsh on them to hard, it is how they were taught. The bible does say that you are to be wise as serpents and I can only fathom that to mean to know what "they" know about how it works. I myself find it funny that everything is dependent on faith and Jesus came to teach that for free while others found a way to obscure it behind hidden texts, lost scrolls, buried tablets, obscene rituals and "rights" of passage. You can be shown all of that for free if you would only ask the Creator to be shown it and know that you will be. The good, the bad and the ugly.
Idols are forbidden because they are unnecessary and are used as a means for man to make money.
Someone asked for an encyclopedia, I didn't see it on the first page. #17 is History of... The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology
https://u1lib.org/s/The%20Encyclopedia%20of%20Witchcraft%20and%20Demonology
Good Luck!