
Think on These
Things
by Tom McLemore
Question: Mr. McLemore, is it wrong to consult horoscopes, psychics, mediums, palm-readers and so forth?
Answer: In Deuteronomy 18:10, 11 it is written, “No one shall be found among you who makes a son or daughter pass through fire, or who practices divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, or one who casts spells, or who consults ghosts or spirits, or who seeks oracles from the dead.” Many claim that what they have learned from horoscopes, psychics, mediums, palm-readers has come true, and they seem to think that this proves that it is proper to consult them. This is clearly not the case. Consulting such constitutes a challenge to God’s prerogative of revelation. Furthermore, such practices focus people’s attention upon events rather than upon the sovereign Lord of history and upon satisfying their own curiosity and desires rather than knowing and doing the will of Almighty God. In Deuteronomy 29:29, it is said that “[t]he secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.”

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