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NASB | Leviticus 19:26 ¶ 'You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination or soothsaying. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Leviticus 19:26 ¶ 'You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination [using omens or witchcraft] or soothsaying. |
Bible Question: WHY IS A TEA LEAVE READER SO BAD WHEN THEY TELL YOU TRUE EVENTS THAT WILL HAPPEN TO PREPARE YOU. |
Bible Answer: All forms of magick and divination (and reading tea leaves is certainly divination) are gravely contrary to the Christian faith. Divination involves communing with fallen beings from the spirit world. When you fellowship with these evil spirits about what the patterns in the tea leaves means you are in the presence of demons. However nicely the ‘spirits’ treat you initially you are giving them entrance into your life. You may well be embarking on a lifetime of torment and fear. The LORD will be angry with you for scorning Him in this way, especially if you do not act in ignorance, and he is unlikely to prevent them harming you and taking over your life. It would be an entirely different matter if you were to turn to Him and repent. God can reveal the future to his prophets or to other saints. Still, a sound Christian attitude consists in putting oneself confidently into the hands of Providence for whatever concerns the future, and giving up all unhealthy curiosity about it. All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future: Jeremiah 29:8 "For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream. Deut 18:10 "There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, Not only is reading tea leaves forbidden but also consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums. All conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone. All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one's service and have a supernatural power over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. |
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