What is the Christian view of psychics / fortune tellers?
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What does the Bible say about psychics / fortune tellers / soothsayers / clairvoyants / being clairvoyant? If not God, from where do psychics get their information?
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- What is the Christian view of psychics and fortune -tellers? We're going to answer that question.
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- You can also discover more on GotQuestions .org. The Bible strongly condemns spiritism, mediums, the occult, and psychics.
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- Horoscopes, tarot cards, astrology, fortune -tellers, palm readings, and seances fall into this category as well.
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- These practices are based on the concept that there are gods, spirits, or deceased loved ones that can give us advice and guidance.
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- These gods, or spirits, are demons. The Bible gives us no reason to believe that deceased loved ones can contact us.
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- If they were believers, they are in heaven, enjoying the most wonderful place imaginable, in fellowship with a loving
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- God. If they were not believers, they are in hell, suffering the unending torment for rejecting
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- God's love and rebelling against Him. So if our loved ones cannot contact us, how did mediums, spiritists, and psychics get such accurate information?
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- There have been many exposures of psychics as frauds. It has been proven that psychics can gain immense amounts of information on someone through ordinary means.
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- Sometimes by just using a telephone number, through caller ID, and an internet search, a psychic can get names, addresses, dates of birth, dates of marriage, family members, etc.
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- However, it is undeniable that psychics sometimes know things that should be impossible for them to know.
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- Where do they get this information? The answer is from Satan and his demons. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
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- It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.
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- Acts also describes a fortune teller who was able to predict the future until the apostle
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- Paul rebuked a demon out of her. Satan pretends to be kind and helpful.
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- He tries to appear as something good. Satan and his demons will give a psychic information about a person in order to get that person hooked into spiritism, something that God forbids.
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- It appears innocent at first, but soon people can find themselves addicted to psychics and unwittingly allow
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- Satan to control and destroy their lives. Peter proclaimed, Be self -controlled and alert.
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- Your enemy, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. In some cases, the psychics themselves are deceived, not knowing the true source of the information they receive.
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- Whatever the case, and wherever the source of the information, nothing connected to spiritism, witchcraft, or astrology is a godly means of discovering information.
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- How does God want us to discern his will for our life? God's plan is simple, yet powerful and effective.
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- Study the Bible and pray for wisdom. That answers the question, what is the Christian view of psychics and fortune tellers?
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