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Is getting a psychic reading/palm reading a sin?
I am wondering if it would be sinful to get one just for fun. It s cheap. Would something bad happen if I got a reading? Would it open the doors to evil?
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Yes it is a sin. The bible tells us not to listen to false prophets and don't give place to the Devil. By getting your palm read or going to a psychic you're honestly opening up a door to something you don't fully understand and trust me don't want to be apart of.
Leviticus 19:31
“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God."
It's basically saying, don't go to black magic or psychics or other things of that nature. By doing so you're weighing yourself down, and putting your faith and trust in something else other then God. Hope that I could help :)
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I'd look at this not from the point of view of it being sinful or not, but on you as a person. You're unlikely to get a bad prediction, since you are paying. Unless it's a trick to purchase some sort of way of changing it with further visits. That's not an unknown trick. If you are the sort to cling rather tighlty to predictions and 'promises' of great things, I wouldn't go either, as you're only setting yourself up for some disappointment when it doesn't happen 'as foretold'. If you want to go looking for a 'genuine' (??!) psychic/palm reader/fortune teller etc you're on a fruitless search mate. It's a bit of theatre, a gimmick. Popular in circus sideshow tents. Where it belongs. Do it for a bit of a laugh if you like, but don't take it seriously. If anyone on earth could predict the future we would all know about them. They would have incredible power, and wealth. They wouldn't be offering cheap fortune telling and sooth-saying, now would they? I mean, would YOU? I'd be charging massive money! Such people can often have extremely acute powers of 'reading people' by feeding them leading questions and noticing minute, subtle and brief changes of expression in faces, and intonation/inflection in voices. They're not without skill, but I promise you they have no secret or special supernatural powers.
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Consider it entertainment and a bit of a fruad. Nobody knows the future, nothing bad will occur either as a result. There's no way to open the doors to evil either. Whether it's a sin is open to interpretation and what you yourself beleive about it.
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And here you get a totally different perspective as each of us answers from our own life experiences.
I grew up in church and 30 yrs of my life chose to blindly believe everything I was told. In essence, I was not truly making decisions for myself out of having checked anything out fully but allowing the decisions to be made for me...until the day I sought relief from an acupuncturist and my church leaders told me to avoid going there because they were evil and opened the doors to evil. It was then my eyes were opened to see how silly some of the churches beliefs were and how misguided. I learned to think and investigate for myself after that.
I will tell you that in the psychic trades including palm reading or tarot card reading, that there are many charletans, meaning those who pretend to have a true message for you but are nothing more than a magician's act and very good at extracting helping info from you unknowingly or giving vague info that could pertain to anyone. Then on the other hand, I have come to know that there are truly people out there who have what we call psychic skills, the real thing.
I do not believe that it is sinful to have fun, and I do not believe that palm reading or tarot cards are in themselves evil but a tool for personal use, but in addition to being able to hear from God personally. There are few you'll ever come across in life who would seem to support trusting God and use of psychic ways at the same time. I will explain.
If you really want to know what is the best next immediate step in life, best to ask God. God himself has never given me details of my far future as far as my life and spiritual growth and now looking back, I can see why...It would have overwhelmed me, scared me maybe or I may not have trusted what I heard or worried about things I didn't understand and wasnt ready for back then but am now. For example, I used to believe the message from church doctrine to trust God to heal my marriage and for that reason stayed with a verbally abusive man for nearly 30 yrs. God was patient to not tell me to leave him yet anytime earlier because I hadn't built enough personal trust in God yet to believe. Once I had, God gave me the missing or misinterpreted parts that allowed me to decide to leave.
I'm a very spiritual person who can hear from GOd so well that I do not doubt what I hear as my own thoughts, I have learned the difference of knowing when it is Gods message planted in my mind or my own thought which is hard at first as both sound like your own internal voice but it is your sensing ability that tells you which is which and that takes time dear, so be patient there and keep talking to God.
Now I will explain why I do not consider some things labeled "evil or of the devil" by the church to actually be so. One thing many Christians believe is that anyone who calls themselves a pagan or a witch is a Satanist. God led me to get to know some of these people, a good size group. As always, I not only question God once...to make sure I am on the right track but ask for confirmations of many sorts over
and over. That is a good thing to do and God wont fault you and label you a disbelieving, untrusty person...you are simply being very diligent and thorough which is good as truly there can be things meant to take you off course onto a path you are not meant to be on.
What I discovered from talking to these witches and pagans among which I found those with psychic skills is that most of them believe in God, Goddess or a combo, as in Lord and Lady, being Jesus and the Holy Spirit as the Lady. The Holy Spirit used to be called a She rather than a He for the feminine qualities that female humans have. So I see that as reasonable. I also discovered that they don't believe in the same devil and hell that Christians do. That they are not Satanists and can't be if they don't believe in him. They do acknowledge dark negative energies and protecting oneself against them. I have also found pagans to be ones to believe in the laying on of hands and healing people and belief in prayers. I have seen more healing and done more real healing than ever before in Church because my mindset is to know that if God has given me the go ahead to pray for recovery, then there will be healing, no question as to whether its Gods will or not. Its kind of dumb to pray first and ask God Later. I have rarely heard God say, no...that baby isn't meant to live, the parents need the experience of the loss to grow spiritually and that opportunity is taken away if the baby is healed and live. 9 out of 10 cases, healing is meant to happen and does because I know it is meant to happen and so my belief is part of what makes it happen.
In doing energy healing, I have trained with Reiki healing but have gone on to do more beyond that, I have been in constant contact with God asking if any special Healing Angels are needed in some cases and I call upon them to come work with me, or if I get a mental hint as to what the real issue is with a person, not just the symptom, i go for confirmation sometimes, being using pendulums. If a believer in Christ is using this as a confirmation tool, not their only source, there is nothing wrong with it. After all we are human and can have moments we are tired, have a headache, and want to help but have issues of our own weighing on our minds to distract so at times, I have used a pendulum, knowing that as I hold it, it is actually my own energy moving it.
The thing about this is, my energy is being guided by my subconscious mind which has been proven in many books I've read to be more open at times to receiving messages from God than our conscious/awake mind, its just wired that way. Again, I do not rely only on this. But I believe as many do, that GOd himself speaks to us sometimes, using our subconscious as a way to send us confirmation on something we are doing. The same can be said for tarot cards. Palm reading in itself is more of an art, studying the lines in a persons hands to mean something. I have looked at the book and gone over the lines in diagrams to match up with what is in my hands and found that it is pretty right on for what has already occured in my life or is shortly about to...decisions and directions I have not yet taken but am unswayingly already dedicated to take. It is too much a study to learn it all to do for someone else. I feel though that if anyone is looking for confirmation from God, wanting to use a source other than hearing the voice in your head, then if you are the one holding a pendulum or using tarot cards, you can indeed get accurate results everytime. I do not trust someone else to do it for me, you then leave it open for misdirection from whomever is doing it, maybe not intentionally on their part but as far as God is part of all this, it's supposed to be Gods message to you , not thru someone else unless a person is simply confirming something GOd already told you. Example: One day I prayed asked God if He was pleased with me (thinking of King David and how God was pleased with him. God said Yes to me. Then he confirmed it for me. Pastor had a workshop run by a woman who gave us exercises to do, sitting one on one with a person and asking GOd to give us a message for them. The lady looked at me and said, I got something but It doesnt make any sense to me. All I heard is Yes, I am Pleased with you. My face lit up and I was so excited and relayed the story to her so she could see that not only had she heard correctly but God at same time confirmed something for me I hadn't even asked for confirmation on.
Trust God to lead you dear, and you can't go wrong, even if you had Palm reading done.
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Hi sweetie!!! The bible does indeed tell us to stay away from such things... Why?? Because God wants us to trust in him... Instead,I highly recommend praying as you will feel much better!!! I promise!!
I know its all meant in good clean fun,but take it from me,it isn't... God bless you!!
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