Simon Magus and the Danger of Treating the Spirit’s Power as a Commodity
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4107. Simon Magus is one of the more unsettling figures in the book of Acts, precisely because he looks, for one brief moment, like a genuine convert. Luke tells us plainly that Simon believed and was baptised along with the rest of the Samaritans who responded to Philip’s preaching (Acts 8:13). And yet within…