Why God hates witchcraft and sorcery

People like me would think, what’s so wrong with magic? I don’t see anything bad about using supernatural power for things like levitation and telepathy or even flight. I think of it as just fun and cool. What does God not like about it? Does God falsely forbid magic and enchantment?

Edit: What could possibly be wrong with using psychics, clairvoyance, and remote viewing to track down criminals? It would be very useful to catch people behind phishing scams. I don’t see how that could hurt anyone! If anything, it would help by catching the criminal. Maybe the criminal would be hurt, but that’s no different than when catching the criminal with normal means.

Also, how can it be sin if it doesn’t have a victim? “There’s no such thing as a victimless sin!”

Isn’t evil simply benefiting self at the deteriment of others, or having own gain at others’ loss, or taking pleasure in harming and hurting others?

Or is it giving good things to people that have done bad? Or helping people who are evil?

Edit: An example of a poor answer from God is “because God said so” or “to glorify God.” A good answer would be how it detriments or harms. “For our own good” is the kind of answer I want, but more detail would be good, like “For what good?” I want a good reason for God’s prohibition of magic, enchantment, spells, charms, and psychics – not just any reason, but a GOOD reason. Not “Because God said so” or “to honor and glorify God”, but how it detriments, harms, helps, or benefits.

I propose…

Witchcraft and sorcery is just magicians and enchanters’ ways of trespassing the limits of spiritual power that God has put in place for them. It can be compared to 1 Samuel 8:6, in which the Isrealites want a king to “fight our battles,” instead of letting God fighting battles, since God will fight their battles when they are faithful to him, and ONLY when they are faithful to him.

How? Witchcraft and sorcery are seeking wisdom, guidance, and help from spiritual sources that are not God’s holy spirit, without taking into consideration faithfulness to God. Only those who are faithful should get spiritual help, wisdom, and guidance. Witchcraft and sorcery would be people’s thought for getting help WITHOUT faithfulness to God.

Harry Potter gets all his power from Satan? I am not going to link the offensive article that I am thinking of. Why can’t anyone get the same power from God’s Holy Spirit?

Edit: Why doesn’t God grant some people clairvoyance?

Edit: Contacting the dead is dangerous, because you’re not actually encountering the dead spirits you think you are talking to, you’re talking to demons impersonating dead spirits. But let’s suppose that there weren’t any demons and that you actually WERE talking to the dead spirits you intend to talk to. So what’s wrong with movies depicting contacting the dead? There are no demons in movies like Frozen 2 or Moana, and people are talking to legitimate spirits, not demons, so that defeats the danger of contacting the dead.

Edit: I don’t care what God calls good and what God calls bad! I only care what IS good and what IS bad!

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