This has been written many times on this site.
You can be a Christian and practise witchcraft. But you cannot be a Christian Wiccan. They are two different religions.
Witchcraft can be any, or none!
It depends on what sort of Christian you are and this basically comes down to whether Jesus' statement "I haven't come to change one letter of the law" means he was giving endorsement to the laws as detailed in the Torah, or if his 'sacrifice' was allegorical to the extent that all previous laws were now defunct.
If you subscribe to the former then there is no way you can adopt anything wiccan as this is detestable to god and carries a death penalty.
Exodus 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Leviticus 20:27A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones.
Deutronomy 18: 10-11 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Yet compare with Jesus 'breaking' some of the other laws, for example plucking ears of wheat on the Sabbath. And clearly he was well into healing and predicting.
Most Christians I've met have never read the bible in its entirety and are only so because this is the way they have been brought up. Others become because of some close encounter, like Saul on the road to Damascus and still others because they need fulfillment and take the Alpha Course and such like.
Islam has the same base and still go by those old laws. They don't eat pork and still stone women for adultery. Jews too with their circumcisions and many other things. But even in these religions they have become, like the Christians, fractionalised.
As a Christian you have to decide and that means cherry-picking from these ancient writings.
And before anyone else makes the comment these 'little books' have been altered by being re-written so much that the original has been lost, please then tell us if this is fact or opinion and if it's fact, give references.
I am Christian. As the people above me said, I do believe Jesus was doing "magick". (I don't like the term "magick" but it's what people here use lol.) I believe as long as we spread love, it's okay. I believe that Jesus is the ultimate healer, same with God/the universe. In a lot of healing practises, Healing energy comes from the universe, which I believe IS God himself. Therefore, I believe that the universe is the ultimate healer...
Anyways, Prayer is technically witchcraft because you're sending your thoughts and intentions to a super natural being.
Moses was able to part the red sea! I'm just sayin. There are so many different organized religions telling yyou what to believe. And what god wanted that I think that's a good clue that they are no expert to tell anyone what god wants. So of course you can be christian and wiccan. I to believe similar beliefs!! Be blessed. Law of three and be judged.
But you can't be Christian Wiccan this is how,
Christianity is a monotheistic religion whilst Wicca is a duo theistic religion,
They have a god and goddess and others whilst Christianity has a god a virgin mary and so on, what has extreme similarities betweer Christianity and other religions is vodou.
Research it.
I did want to point out something that may or may not have been referenced in an earlier post (I did not read every page):
We are all aware that there are several different types of Christianity...Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, etc., all with their own interpretation. If one goes back even further into the history of Christianity, this background actually becomes even more diverse. Many people either forget, or are unaware, of the early gnostic movement and their teachings, as they were deemed heresy by the early church and omitted from the canonical bible.
I say this because gnostic texts outline a completely different cosmology and even pantheon (not monotheistic). So while I can see that "traditional" Christian beliefs may be in conflict with Wicca, other forms of Christianity are a little closer than you would think.
I am not trying to offend anyone, just sharing another perspective. Just my two cents anyway!
Yes, you can be Wicca and Christian. What people fail to realize and remember is that many of the religions today stem from Wicca. The five points of the pentagrams are the five place where the nails were nailed into Christ on the cross. Yuletide is a Wicca tradition, as are many others that you can look into..many of these were adopted into the religions we know today.
I think the general concern is not the label really but that one can believe in jesus christ and perhaps mary and maybe even god. Christians in general have morphed thru the centuries what they could not either make their followers believe as a whole enough to have a monopoly or were scared of so they sort of mashed bits and pieces of it with their origins just to say they won the religious war. Either way just because christianity says god was never a physical being and mary gave birth to jesus and she became pregnant by immaculate conception does not mean that these are not the very same gods and goddessess confused thru time on purpose by the church in order to keep control of what they felt were rituals that were worshipping the devil. History of this kind has been very diluted and twisted to be what it needed to be or perception of belief written in history has created cause and effect. So yes you can be exactly what you seek. Why not? You feel it in your heart or chances are you would not have asked. Be blessed.
