Spiritualbeing126
Hi everyone. I recently read several posts about divinition and Christianity. I am studying this topic and here is what I have found so far.
First let me say right up front that I am a practicing Christian, and have only recently started exploring the cards. Please read this through before making any judgements, and I would love to hear your comments.
I am a reformed Christian, which means I am pretty conservative. I believe that the Bible is the inerrent word of God and that it has the last "Say" on almost any topic. The thing is though there are a whole lot of other things out there that don't fit into a nice little black and white box. I grew up on a haunted farm. I have had many encounters with the paramormal, and I believe in other realms and the pirit world. Also, as a human being I sometimes do things that I am not supposed to do.
I found the study of the spirit world and the tarot to be a completely natural thing, but it goes against my Christian learning, so I started to study.
There are several scriptures that forbid divinition in any way. The question for me then is: Can the tarot be used without it being divinition? and if not, how bad is it? The definition of Divition is: "The art or practice that seeks to foresee or foretell future events or discover hidden knowedge usually by the interpretation of omens or by the aid of supernatural powers". The Tarot does not have to be used to foretell the future. Also the discovery of "Hidden" uses insight which all of us use all the time, and most knowledge isn't really hidden, it just may not be easy to retrieve. Science comes to mind, as well as theololical studies etc. So theorhetically, yes, the cards could be used without going against God's admotition against divinition.
The answer to the second question is more involved. The Bible teaches that if even one law is broken then all of them have been broken, so technically lying is just as wrong as adultry which is just as wrong as reading the Tarot. But humans are hard wired to sin--we can not help it (That's why we need Christ). All of us have done something that breaks God's law. Reading the tarot is no worse than doing any of the other things we are not to do.
It is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but I don't believe that is nececassarily true. The intent in which a person does a thing does matter in the overall judgement of it. Motivations matter. If the tarot is read with the intent to worship evil, or to cause harm, that is wrong. Otherwise it is no worse than telling a little white lie or speeding or tasting a grape from a bunch you do not intend to buy.
I am still studying, but I will probably continue to use the Tarot, at least for awhile. The insight and focus and way it lets me look at specific things is important to me--maybe not as important as my Christianity, but something I look forward to nonetheless.
Salvation is based entirely on our relationship with Jesus Christ, not on whether or not we read tarot cards.
First let me say right up front that I am a practicing Christian, and have only recently started exploring the cards. Please read this through before making any judgements, and I would love to hear your comments.
I am a reformed Christian, which means I am pretty conservative. I believe that the Bible is the inerrent word of God and that it has the last "Say" on almost any topic. The thing is though there are a whole lot of other things out there that don't fit into a nice little black and white box. I grew up on a haunted farm. I have had many encounters with the paramormal, and I believe in other realms and the pirit world. Also, as a human being I sometimes do things that I am not supposed to do.
I found the study of the spirit world and the tarot to be a completely natural thing, but it goes against my Christian learning, so I started to study.
There are several scriptures that forbid divinition in any way. The question for me then is: Can the tarot be used without it being divinition? and if not, how bad is it? The definition of Divition is: "The art or practice that seeks to foresee or foretell future events or discover hidden knowedge usually by the interpretation of omens or by the aid of supernatural powers". The Tarot does not have to be used to foretell the future. Also the discovery of "Hidden" uses insight which all of us use all the time, and most knowledge isn't really hidden, it just may not be easy to retrieve. Science comes to mind, as well as theololical studies etc. So theorhetically, yes, the cards could be used without going against God's admotition against divinition.
The answer to the second question is more involved. The Bible teaches that if even one law is broken then all of them have been broken, so technically lying is just as wrong as adultry which is just as wrong as reading the Tarot. But humans are hard wired to sin--we can not help it (That's why we need Christ). All of us have done something that breaks God's law. Reading the tarot is no worse than doing any of the other things we are not to do.
It is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but I don't believe that is nececassarily true. The intent in which a person does a thing does matter in the overall judgement of it. Motivations matter. If the tarot is read with the intent to worship evil, or to cause harm, that is wrong. Otherwise it is no worse than telling a little white lie or speeding or tasting a grape from a bunch you do not intend to buy.
I am still studying, but I will probably continue to use the Tarot, at least for awhile. The insight and focus and way it lets me look at specific things is important to me--maybe not as important as my Christianity, but something I look forward to nonetheless.
Salvation is based entirely on our relationship with Jesus Christ, not on whether or not we read tarot cards.