Is the Holy Spirit Misleading You?

[SteveII]

You are taking a command written to the Jewish people living under a theocracy thousands of years ago and trying to apply it to people that it was not directed toward not in the setting that it was written in. 

One way of knowing that you are NOT led by God is if the action is contrary to the teachings found in the NT. Can you think of any historical atrocity that would not have been avoided if that were followed?

So if god lied to the Jews, making them believe there are witches, I should brush it off because he wasn't talking to me. Or maybe you think the god of the oT is not the god of the NT.

A man came to Jesus asking healing for his sick slave. Rather than upbraiding the man for being a slave owner, Jesus praised him as having mire faith than he had ever seen. In the 19th century 120 pastors surveyed agreed unanimously there is nothing in the bible that speaks against slavery.

But many atrocities could have been avoided if people followed the precepts of Ma'at or Iwa Pele or the Instructions of Ptah or the Emerald Tablets of Thoth or...

Wait, wait. I never meant to imply there were no witches. There are people still today that pursue contact with evil spirits, sicko rituals, and such so I imagine there were similar things back then. 

Read Philemon--Paul definitely was against the idea of slavery back in the day (which was much tamer than modern slavery). Your example proves my point that if slave owners followed verses like those found here: https://dailyverses.net/neighbor the institution would have not ever have begun. 

But your own question was about how do we know what the holy spirit wants us to do, and I answered it is fairly easy to know what he does not want us to do (examine the NT). Christians don't have a monopoly on being moral.