Are the Jehovahs Witnesses using occult practices despised by God?
This interesting Q is in danger of losing the plot. The simple answer to your first Q is, No, they don’t use occult practices. They have never tried to contact the dead and if they refuse to pray to Jesus they certainly aren’t going to pray to any others who are no longer physically alive! Their explanations of doctrines relating to those with the heavenly hope who have already died are not worth going into because they miss the point. The real point is about occult influences that DO exist despite the JWs avoiding outright occult practices. This is where Johannes Greber comes in. The Johannes Greber Memorial Foundation leaflet says, “Late in the summer of 1923 God’s holy spirits contacted Pastor Greber. They revealed great truths to him… he started to work on his book Communication with the Spirit World of God. Later he translated the New Testament with the help of God’s spirit world. For years he conducted healing services in the Hislop House in New York City… At times he was giv
