It is their opinion to assume that just because we mentioned numbers that it means something of the occult. I have been walking with God a while now, and I know the difference.
Well I don't know about anyone else but I didn't say that. I said that it
sounds like numerology, which I think is a bit dodgy. Someone else then said that numerology is connected with the occult.
That doesn't mean that we were saying that because the OP mentioned numbers they are into numerology. But then again, they could be going that way without even realising it.
You know the internet is used for trash and the occult as well, does that mean all of us should not be on it then. God uses it too doesn't he?...and that can be applied to just about anything you can think of in this world.
Well of course it doesn't mean that we shouldn't be on it, and of course God uses it. The internet is a tool, a method of communication. We can use it to communicate and have fellowship with other Christians, give prayer support, link to church services, post Bible verses and teaching and encourage each other in the faith. We can be in touch with Christians we might never meet and read the works, teachings and sermons of great Christians and preachers.
Other people use this method of communication to promote their own beliefs, fantasies and desires. And in some cases they may be violent, pornographic or anti christian beliefs.
Anything good that gets invented also gets distorted or perverted by some people. And anything that God does, the devil tries to counterfeit.
The same thing with numbers. Everything God created he uses for his Glory.
He can use it for his glory, but he may not always do so. He used a star to lead the Magi to Jesus. They were astrologers, or astonomers, and used to looking in the sky for signs; so God gave them a sign and it led them to his Son. That does not mean that God condones astrology - he used the star because the Magi were stargazers. The Jews weren't, they had God's word for guidance, so when Herod asked where the Messiah was to be born, they looked it up in the Scriptures. (Matthew 2:3-6)
If a non Christian was a mathematician or accountant and God wanted to get their attention, he'd use numbers. That doesn't mean that numbers are his preferred, or chief, method of communication. If he uses them, he uses them just like we use the internet, to communicate.
As I also said, I, personally, do not see what he can possibly communicate through numbers that he hasn't already plainly said in his word, or through his Son. It's too cryptic and open to misinterpretation. If God wants to talk to you, or anyone here, he can do it far more directly that by having certain numbers keep appearing on a clock, or whatever. He could certainly direct you to his word, and his Son, by having certain Scriptures pop up everywhere, but not random numbers that could mean anything. The signs that God gives point to Jesus.
If you can't trust him to to give you 1,000 dollars on time...You can't believe him for a million......
This is the same concept........trust me.....
I don't know what you're saying here .
If we can trust God in small things, we can trust him in big things too, but that's got nothing to do with numbers.
