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NASB | Acts 16:16 ¶ It happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave-girl having a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune-telling. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 16:16 ¶ It happened that as we were on our way to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave-girl who had a spirit of divination [that is, a demonic spirit claiming to foretell the future and discover hidden knowledge], and she brought her owners a good profit by fortune-telling. |
Bible Question: where in the bible does God punish for using psychics? |
Bible Answer: Greetings Jana. I'm not sure if God has specifically punished anyone for using a psychic, however we understand that someone with psychic powers gets them from a demonic spirit. If you read Acts 16:16-end. It talks about the Apostle Paul when he cast a demon out of a girl who was using psychic abilities to make money for her masters. Now it also states in 1 Sam 28 how Saul used a mediam to contact Samuel. At this time Saul was already being punished by God so it doesn't state that God punished him for that reason. Throughout the Word it mentions how God is not pleased with sorcery and things like that. Depending on which bible translation you are using, you could look up the words, sorcery, soothsayer, sorcerer in a bible concordance and find many scriptures about this topic. Those words are definately used in the King James Bible. I'm not sure which other names that psychics would go by in the other bible translations. The bottom line is that psychics get their powers from Satan, so a child of God should not be using psychics to get information. They should be using the Spirit of God and His prophets to get any answers they are looking for. Would you trust your enemy to give you a truthful answer? Some scriptures I found you might want to look at are: Acts 13:6 Rev 21:8 -good one Acts 8:9-24 Micah 5:12 is another good one There are many more, I hope this helps. Sal |
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