New Age conferences and even local town festivals frequently feature a tarot card reader who, for a modest fee, will give you insight into your love life, finances, family problems, potential spouse, or any other questions you might have to ask. Even Oprah Winfrey’s site boasts an article, The Best tarot card decks for beginners.Īccording to Jack Ashcraft on, “The main use of tarot cards is for divination purposes. A quick Google search exposes over 35,000,000 sites which mention or are devoted to tarot cards as we know them today. Satan caused something innocent to be remade into a means of evil. For a fee, the fortune teller shares answers based on what cards are revealed and their position (upside down or right-side up). The adjacent cards have meaning for the fortune, too. In usual practice, the questioner shuffles the deck and the fortune teller or questioner deals a spread and one card is revealed. Tarot card decks are composed of different images, each meaning different things to the players and based on the order in which they are revealed. Tarot cards are now most commonly used for fortune telling. The present-day association of tarot with fortune-telling and the occult gained currency only in the 19th century and has nothing to do with the medieval tarot cards.” Writer Tim Husband shares their early uses: “Tarot is a game of trick taking, as the many trump cards clearly indicate, and even though there are many variations (mostly minor), the rules of the game likely have not changed significantly since the 15th century. Tarot cards actually began as regular playing cards and were based on a Medieval Italian deck of cards. Those who love Jesus Christ have spiritual discernment ( Romans 12:2 Ephesians 5:10) and the Apostle Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 2:16, we “have the mind of Christ.” God made sure we are sealed with the Holy Spirit ( Romans 8:9-11, 16, 37-39 Ephesians 1:13) no one and nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus ( Romans 8:35, 39). He is so sure of his own power, he attempted to destroy the Lord Jesus’ ministry ( Matthew 4). The devil seeks to steal and kill and destroy ( John 10:10). We are involved in serious kingdom business. He smooths all the bumps as He teaches us through His Word and comforts us with His Holy Spirit. (See the final subtopic of this article below.) What of Christians who experiment with such sinful actions?ĭon’t. One who willfully practices such sin and entices others is a “child of hell” and “Satan is their father” ( John 8:44). The devil can and does use things such as Ouija boards and tarot cards to seduce and entrap unsuspecting “players.” He then imprisons them in his deceit ( John 8:34). Pray, buckle your seatbelts, and put on your full armor of God ( Ephesians 6:10-28), for this is about to get bumpy as we delve into the wiles of the devil and how he manipulates things of the world for his purposes.
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