Are Horoscopes and Astrology Evil and Un-Biblical?

[Celticflower]

I know someone who recorded horoscopes for a phone-in service, and according to her they just used the same horoscopes for each star sign, just in a different order.

Sounds about right.

 

[dayhiker]

I used to read my horoscope -- but the day after so I could laugh at all the stuff that didn't happen.

Whether or not it is evil, I now find it to just be a waste of time. I think the space could be better used for more comics.

I agree more comics ...

 

[Apollo Celestio]

I don't know if it's sin, but I do think it's a load of crap.
(I didn't really read the thread, apologies.)

 

[CShephard53]

You know what? Some Catholic priests also blessed Nazi SS and molest children, so that appeal to authority is out the window.


There should not be found in you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, anyone who employs divination, a practicer of magic or anyone who looks for omens or a sorcerer, or one who binds others with a spell or anyone who consults a spirit medium or a professional foreteller of events or anyone who inquires of the dead. For everybody doing these things is something detestable to Jehovah, and on account of these detestable things Jehovah your God is driving them away from before you. You should prove yourself faultless with Jehovah your God. - Deut 18:10-13


"Look! To obey is better than a sacrifice, to pay attention than the fat of rams; for rebelliousness is the same as the sin of divination, and pushing ahead presumptuously the same as [using] uncanny power and teraphim." 1Sam 15:22-23

"and they continued to make their sons and their daughters pass through the fire and to practice divination and to look for omens, and they kept selling themselves to do what was bad in the eyes of Jehovah, to offend him;" - 2Kings 17:17

"And he himself made his own sons pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hin′nom, and practiced magic and used divination and practiced sorcery and made spiritistic mediums and professional foretellers of events. He did on a grand scale what was bad in the eyes of Jehovah, to offend him." 2Chr 33:6

I've got plenty more.

I look at my horoscope every once in a full moon. I laugh at it every time. Once, it had the guts to tell me my favorite number was 666. That's really funny, because I hate 6. I laugh at fortune cookies too. They are excellent entertainment. Fun to make fun of.

 

[CShephard53]

Lots of stuff is fun but not good for you - pornography comes to mind.

Where on earth did that jump in logic come from?

 

[icedtea]

Oddly, even when I was in it, I still knew it never forecast accurately.

 

[Speculative]

I laugh at fortune cookies too. They are excellent entertainment. Fun to make fun of.

Yeah, I only use fortune cookies to get the lottery numbers

 

[Floatingaxe]

There is nothing wrong with reading your horoscope for fun. It is when people take it seriously that it is wrong.

We are to be guardians of our own eyes and minds. To read horoscopes or indulge in anything occult for fun is just as wrong as doing it seriously.

We are told to avoid the very appearance of sin.

 

[jckstraw72]

looking at them "just for fun" trivializes and makes light of that which is evil, when it fact it is a very serious thing.

 

[]RiSeN[]

looking at them "just for fun" trivializes and makes light of that which is evil, when it fact it is a very serious thing.

And yet how many people will be dressing up on October 31st?

 

[Solidlyhere]

Fallen speaks out of ignorance: "And yet how many people will be dressing up on October 31st?"

Hallowe'en is a Christian name.

This mocking the evil spirits on the day when they used to cause terror is a Christian thing.

Please read my Post explaining it:
http://foru.ms/showthread.php?p=40237738#post40237738

 

[jckstraw72]

And yet how many people will be dressing up on October 31st?

i agree, Halloween is the same kind of thing.

 

[jckstraw72]

no Halloween is pagans mocking Christian holidays ...

http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/praxis/halloween.aspx

http://www.allsaintsofamerica.org/orthodoxy/halloween.html

 

[Celticflower]

no Halloween is pagans mocking Christian holidays ...

http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/praxis/halloween.aspx

http://www.allsaintsofamerica.org/orthodoxy/halloween.html

Halloween = Hallowe'en = All Hallows Eve + the night before All Saints Day = a feast day to honor all the saints who have passed from this life. It falls on the day before All Souls Day = the rememberence of all in Christ who have passed away.

Q: Are we supposed to take seriously Halloween advice from someone whose avatar is dressed like a flower?

 

[CShephard53]

Halloween = Hallowe'en = All Hallows Eve + the night before All Saints Day = a feast day to honor all the saints who have passed from this life. If fall on the day before All Souls Day = the rememberence of all in Christ who have passed away.

Q: Are we supposed to take seriously Halloween advice from someone whose avatar is dressed like a flower?

Um, excuse me, but halloween is for kids to have fun. They don't know the history. They don't care about the history. They want candy and to have fun with friends. To talk about how many Reeses they got, how much Laffy Taffy they got. I'll bet you 100$, and I don't bet, that 9/10 kids at my church don't know and don't care about the history behind halloween.

 

[]RiSeN[]

Fallen speaks out of ignorance: "And yet how many people will be dressing up on October 31st?"

Hallowe'en is a Christian name.

This mocking the evil spirits on the day when they used to cause terror is a Christian thing.

Please read my Post explaining it:
http://foru.ms/showthread.php?p=40237738#post40237738

You would have no problem getting a job under the Bush administration. The only thing I was ignorant of was your power of "spin" being remarkable.

 

[Celticflower]

Um, excuse me, but halloween is for kids to have fun. They don't know the history. They don't care about the history. They want candy and to have fun with friends. To talk about how many Reeses they got, how much Laffy Taffy they got. I'll bet you 100$, and I don't bet, that 9/10 kids at my church don't know and don't care about the history behind halloween.

I agree that kids don't know the history. My point was that Halloween started as a Christian holiday. It has become what it is because we let it -just like Christmas-- which is why most kids don't know the history. For them it is just a night to dress up, get candy and maybe scare or be scared. that doesn't make it evil or Satanic as some are trying to claim. Just makes it a fun a fun night for kids.

 

[Floatingaxe]

Before the Catholic Church made it a Saint's Day, it was always a Pagan day for the dead.

Get your facts straight.

 

[Celticflower]

If you are referring to Samhain -- that was not a "day of the dead". It was the beginning of the new year for the druids and was also the beginning of the earth's winter sleep. While they did believe the veil between this world and the Otherworld was thinnest at this time of year their connection with the dead was more of a communication -- the dead could carry messages to the Source (or the One Who Watches). It was not a ghoulish celebration of the dead.

BTW--Pagan does not mean evil or satanic.

 

[Floatingaxe]

BTW--Pagan does not mean evil or satanic.

Yes it does.

If it doesn't honour Jesus Christ, then it is of Satan.