Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.
If some people believe in it, there is reason to do it. But why would Christians want to participate in divination activities they don't agree with.
Does a divination activity have to be connected to the worship of a specific false deity to be forbidden?
This is from another thread about the definition of 'single', but this would have been off topic in that thread.
My question is the practice of catching the bouquet or garter a form of divination. I've always heard the one who catches it will get married next or get married soon.
The Old Testament forbids divination. In history, divination could be cutting open an animal liver to read the filaments to predict the future, examining the flight paths of birds to predict the future, throwing down arrows to determine which way to go, etc.
Is this a form of divination, throwing bouquets to see who get's married next?
It does create a comical and sometimes frightening situation. I remember seeing a rather large girl in her 20's get her hand on a bouquet along with the fingers of some girl once. Maybe she really believed in catching the bouquet as a form of divination and was determined to secure her lot in the near future.
The point is that it's not really a divination activity. Because that's not what people are really doing. Since no one really believes that. I know you keep claiming someone might actually believe it. But no one really does. People know it's just a game.
This whole conversation reminds of the hype in the 80s over rock music being satanic because if you play the songs backwards it tells you to worship the devil or something.
Wagner probably drunk water and tea, but that doesn't mean we should forbid these activities. It is interesting that your church would not allow that piece. Were they quite limited in what type of music was allowed on the church organ?
In the minds of the people at church, that song has nothing to do with paganism. Do the lyrics say anything about paganism? If Jesus could say not to cast pearls before swine, and Paul could quote "In Him we live, move, and have our being" and the Old Testament can quote Balaam, then we shouldn't forbid repeating non-pagan utterances that happened to be spoken by Gentiles, pagans and diviners. I think the same principle applies to musical compositions.
It's not a ritual related to paganism or divination in our culture. Throwing the bouquet is done with an understanding that the person catching it gets married next-- or that that is the tradition, whether or not the people present believe in it.
Again, no connection to paganism. That's an interesting fact. It certainly does have something to do with virginity nowadays, or at least it did in the 1900's. I think most Americans would associate white dresses with virginity, even though some people would chuckle at the notion if they thought of it as some brides walked down the aisle.
Either way, the evil spirit thing is not a part of contemporary culture or thought.
This is from another thread about the definition of 'single', but this would have been off topic in that thread.
My question is the practice of catching the bouquet or garter a form of divination. I've always heard the one who catches it will get married next or get married soon.
The Old Testament forbids divination. In history, divination could be cutting open an animal liver to read the filaments to predict the future, examining the flight paths of birds to predict the future, throwing down arrows to determine which way to go, etc.
Is this a form of divination, throwing bouquets to see who get's married next?
It does create a comical and sometimes frightening situation. I remember seeing a rather large girl in her 20's get her hand on a bouquet along with the fingers of some girl once. Maybe she really believed in catching the bouquet as a form of divination and was determined to secure her lot in the near future.
This is from another thread about the definition of 'single', but this would have been off topic in that thread.
My question is the practice of catching the bouquet or garter a form of divination. I've always heard the one who catches it will get married next or get married soon.
The Old Testament forbids divination. In history, divination could be cutting open an animal liver to read the filaments to predict the future, examining the flight paths of birds to predict the future, throwing down arrows to determine which way to go, etc.
Is this a form of divination, throwing bouquets to see who get's married next?
It does create a comical and sometimes frightening situation. I remember seeing a rather large girl in her 20's get her hand on a bouquet along with the fingers of some girl once. Maybe she really believed in catching the bouquet as a form of divination and was determined to secure her lot in the near future.
This is from another thread about the definition of 'single', but this would have been off topic in that thread.
My question is the practice of catching the bouquet or garter a form of divination. I've always heard the one who catches it will get married next or get married soon.
The Old Testament forbids divination. In history, divination could be cutting open an animal liver to read the filaments to predict the future, examining the flight paths of birds to predict the future, throwing down arrows to determine which way to go, etc.
Is this a form of divination, throwing bouquets to see who get's married next?
It does create a comical and sometimes frightening situation. I remember seeing a rather large girl in her 20's get her hand on a bouquet along with the fingers of some girl once. Maybe she really believed in catching the bouquet as a form of divination and was determined to secure her lot in the near future.
Have you not read the scriptures where people would cast lots to find God's choice for someone? How is the throwing of the bouquet any different than casting lots?
Casting lots was to get direction to make a decision. Throwing the bouquet is (presumably) predicting the future or doing magic to make the person who catches it get married. I'm not sure the origin of the practice.
You shouldn't blow out candles. Its evil. It can cause a portal to open to hell and cake demons come out and eat your gifts and then go away after stealing your remote and right footed socks!!!!!As I get older, sometimes the "wish" is to have enough air in my lungs to blow out all the candles..
You shouldn't blow out candles. Its evil. It can cause a portal to open to hell and cake demons come out and eat your gifts and then go away after stealing your remote and right footed socks!!!!!
Why can't making a wish while blowing out a candle on a cake be a form of prayer? God knows the desires of our hearts. He wants to give us good things. So why not start the wish with "God, I wish...."
As I get older, sometimes the "wish" is to have enough air in my lungs to blow out all the candles..
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?