06/02/2026
As an Ex Witch, I get asked about these things EVERY SINGLE DAY.
This is a long read, but an important one, and I felt led to share it.
The Bible’s concern is not usually the physical object. Wood is wood. Metal is metal. String is string. A statue is stone. A necklace is glass.
The deeper question is:
“What spiritual belief is attached to this, and where am I placing my trust?”
Throughout Scripture, God consistently calls His people to seek Him alone for protection, wisdom, guidance, peace, healing, and spiritual power. Whenever people began looking elsewhere, even if they still claimed to believe in God. He confronted them about it.
👉🏽 Sage & Smudging
This is one that often catches Christians off guard.
Burning sage as a pleasant fragrance is not the issue.
The concern arises when sage is burned to:
• Remove negative energy
• Cleanse a home spiritually
• Drive away spirits
• Create spiritual protection
At that point, sage is no longer being used as a plant. It is being used as a spiritual tool.
The Christian question becomes:
“Why do I believe smoke from a plant can accomplish what Scripture says God accomplishes?”
In the Bible, when people wanted spiritual cleansing, protection, or freedom, they sought God, not herbs, crystals, charms, or rituals.
👉🏽 Psychic Readings
This is where Scripture is the clearest.
The Bible repeatedly warns against divination, mediums, fortune tellers, spiritists, and attempts to gain supernatural knowledge apart from God.
Why?
Because God wants His people to seek Him for direction.
The danger is not merely receiving wrong information.
The danger is becoming dependent on spiritual sources that God never authorized.
A psychic may appear helpful, accurate, comforting, or insightful.
But Christians ask:
“What is the source?”
Accuracy alone does not prove something comes from God.
Even in Scripture, deceptive spiritual powers sometimes revealed true information.
The test was always whether the source led people toward God or away from Him.
👉🏽 The Evil Eye
This is where things become more spiritually significant.
The evil eye is not merely decorative. Traditionally, it is worn because it is believed to protect a person from curses, jealousy, bad energy, or spiritual harm.
The Christian concern is straightforward:
If a person believes an object is spiritually protecting them, they are assigning a role to that object that belongs to God.
Psalm 91 does not say a charm protects us. It points to God as Protector.
The issue isn’t the blue bead. The issue is the belief behind it.
👉🏽 Dreamcatchers
Dreamcatchers originated as spiritual objects intended to filter dreams and provide protection during sleep.
Again, the concern isn’t the woven web itself.
The question is:
“What am I believing this object does?”
If it is viewed as decoration, that’s one thing.
If it is viewed as having spiritual power to guard a person while they sleep, many Christians would see that as placing trust in something other than God.
👉🏽 The Ankh
The ankh is an ancient Egyptian religious symbol representing life and eternal life. It was connected to the worship of Egyptian gods.
Today, many people wear it because they like the design or Egyptian history.
However, from a Christian perspective, some believers ask:
“Why would I wear a symbol that originally represented a spiritual system devoted to gods other than the God of Scripture?”
👉🏽👉🏽 So What About “Opening Doors”?
This phrase gets used a lot, and sometimes it’s used carelessly.
The strongest biblical argument isn’t that every object contains a demon.
Rather, the danger is that spiritual compromise often starts with misplaced trust.
A person might begin with:
• An evil eye for protection
• A psychic reading for guidance
• Sage for cleansing
• Crystals for energy
Over time, their confidence slowly shifts away from God and toward spiritual systems that are not rooted in Christ.
That is why many Christians speak of “opening doors.”
They’re not usually talking about a demon hiding in a necklace.
They’re talking about opening your heart, trust, and attention to spiritual influences that are not leading you toward Jesus.
🫶🏽 From someone who has come out of witchcraft, the reason I encourage extra caution is that I’ve already experienced a world where spiritual power, spiritual experiences, and spiritual practices existed outside of biblical Christianity.
The New Testament repeatedly calls believers to test every spirit, every teaching, and every spiritual experience by Christ.
The ultimate question isn’t:
“Is this object evil?”
The deeper question is:
“Does this draw my trust, dependence, fascination, or spiritual focus toward Christ, or away from Him?”
That’s often where mature Christians draw the line.
Because what you repeatedly trust, seek, and turn to spiritually will shape the direction of your heart. God never asked us to trust a charm, a ritual, a psychic, or an object. He asked us to trust Him.
❤️🙏🏻 Natalie
