By John Sanidopoulos
In the history of Christianity, heap magicians are recorded to confine irrepressible their ancient art and pull up the Christian confide in, not having the status of magic was found to be "synthetic" or "debunked", but having the status of they came to hang on that in the eternal light of truth of the Triune God what they attention had spiritual power was in fact half-light, evil and a demonic lie.In the middle of the imaginative magicians to go down their craft while having witnessed the haughty power of Christ were certain Ephesians in the crux of the imaginative century while central visited by the Apostle Paul. Acts 19:11-20 figures this astonishing event:
Now God worked innovative miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his torso to the not well, and the diseases passed on them and the evil spirits went out of them. Hence some of the wandering Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to fit the name of the Member of the aristocracy Jesus finer those who had evil spirits, saying, "We oust you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches." As a consequence put on were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish initially priest, who did so.
And the evil spirit answered and aimed, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?"
Hence the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, vanquished them, and prevailed on top of them, so that they fled out of that empire revealed and hard done by. This became agreed whichever to all Jews and Greeks back at the ranch in Ephesus; and sense strike on them all, and the name of the Member of the aristocracy Jesus was puffed up. And heap who had hypothetical came confessing and relating their activities. As a consequence, A variety of OF Population WHO HAD Qualified Appeal BROUGHT THEIR BOOKS Coupled AND BURNED THEM IN THE Examination OF ALL. AND THEY COUNTED UP THE Value OF THEM, AND IT TOTALED FIFTY THOUSAND PIECES OF Snowy. So the word of the Member of the aristocracy grew mightily and prevailed.
A variety of other magicians renewed at home the brood centuries of Christianity, formerly paganism prevailed and Christians were wronged by the pagans. In the middle of them were St. Gargalos (Sept. 29) who was a pagan priest under Emperor Sapor of Persia and was martyred with Sts. Dada and Gobdelaas in the fourth century, St. Athanasius (Apr. 23) who was a magician under Monarch Diocletian and was martyred in 303 A.D. while witnessing the sufferings of St. George, and St. Marus (May 31) who was a magician and dead person under the Procunsel of Comana Sebastian in the jiffy century and renewed while fault to be help to pollute St. Hermias the Elevated Fatality.
The greatest popular magician of the brood Church to confine renewed to Christianity is the Blessed Fatality Cyprian (Oct. 2). Cyprian was a pagan magician of Antioch who was dealing with demons. By their aid he hunted to bring St. Justina, a Christian virgin, to ruin; but she hindered the threefold attacks of the devils by the sign of the in a mood. Brought to worry, Cyprian ready the sign of the in a mood himself and in this way was limp from the support of Satan. The story of St. Cyprian became notably common plus Christians at home the rule of Julian the Fugitive, who in the crux of the fourth century tried to accumulate paganism in the Roman Empire, and his story strengthened Christians to not be deprived of to the pagan gods, whose power was go fast early the Problematical of Christ. Sts. Cyprian and Justina are even today invoked as consumers of those who confine become converted by demons and magic.
Monotonous in our modern time put on are examples of those who skillful the dark arts and renewed to Christianity. Vladimir Bykov was a wonderful Clairvoyant in Russia who irrepressible his craft while meeting with the holy spiritual fathers of Optina Monastery. He wrote a book aristocrat "Mollify Havens for the Entertainment of a Pilot Being". He would come to say: "Spiritism is demonic! In order Christianity is your product." Vladimir in due course became an In order Christian priest and in 1924 or 1925 was martyred for his In order confide in by the skeptic communists.
Bigger towards the end in Greece a has-been magician, Evangelos Koutroubelis, became an In order Christian, and wrote a book on top of magic and the dark arts, aristocrat "The Practical joker of Populace" (published by "Astir" in 1994).
