Why are American Fundamentalist Christians so against things like tarot cards and tea leaves?

What is the biblical foundation for that?





Also, how do they feel about the Christians on TV who heal peoples cancer and arthritis and debt with holy water and strange dancing?

Why are American Fundamentalist Christians so against things like tarot cards and tea leaves?
Because they are small-minded, fearful little people who haven't broke out of the dogma they have been brought up and fed on their whole lives.


As for the televanglists healing people's cancer and other ailments the only things they are good at is healing their own debt by taking the money from the masses who believe their alflictions can be healed from believing in these charlatans.
Reply:uhh... i think youre wrong about the tea leaves... i have never heard that before.





tarot cards?? is witchcraft... its evil because you are using familiar spirits to devine the fututre.
Reply:Only 1 God, no images, etc., in Ten Commandments.





WHY? To enjoy a blessed life before God.





tarot cards, tea leaves ??????????????


Called DIVINATION, determining by an alleged assistance of evil spirits





Forbidden (Leviticus 19:26-28,31;20:6; Deuteronomy 18:9-14)


Denounced (Isaiah 8:19; Malachi 3:5)


To cease (Ezekiel 12:23,24;13:23; Micah 5:12)


Messages of, false (Ezekiel 21:29; Zechariah 10:2; 2 Thessalonians 2:9)


Diviners will be confounded (Micah 3:7)


Belongs to the works of the flesh (Galatians 5:20)


Wickedness of (1 Samuel 15:23)


Vainness of (Isaiah 44:25)


Punishment for (Exodus 22:18; Leviticus 20:27; Deuteronomy 13:5)


Divining by familiar spirits (mediums or spiritists) (Leviticus 20:27; 1 Chronicles 10:13; 2 Chronicles 33:6; Isaiah 8:19;19:3;)


Practiced » By the Egyptians (Isaiah 19:3,11,12)


Practiced » By the magicians (Exodus 7:11,22;8:7,18)


Practiced » By Balaam (Numbers 22:6;23:23; with;)


Practiced » By Jezebel (2 Kings 9:22)


Practiced » By the Ninevites (Nahum 3:4,5)


Practiced » By the Babylonians (Isaiah 47:9-13; Ezekiel 21:21,22; Daniel 2:2,10,27)


Practiced » By Belshazzar (Daniel 5:7,15)


Practiced » By Simon the Sorcerer (Magus) (Acts 8:9;)


Practiced » By Elymas (Bar-Jesus) (Acts 13:8)


Practiced » By the girl at Philippi (Acts 16:16)


Practiced » By charlatan Jews (Acts 19:13)


Practiced » By sons of Sceva (Acts 19:14,15)


Practiced » By astrologers (Jeremiah 10:2; Micah 3:6,7)


Practiced » By false prophets (Jeremiah 14:14;27:9;29:8,9; Ezekiel 13:6-9;22:28; Matthew 24)


By entrails (Ezekiel 21:21)


By images (2 Kings 23:24; Ezekiel 21:21)


By rods (Hosea 4:12)


Saul consulted the Witch of Endor (1 Samuel 28:7-25)


Books of, destroyed (Acts 19:19)








TV, rarely truth of Forgiveness, Freedom, and Enjoyment of Life.





The Life after this earthly existence should be included in Truth.


1:6 If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth.


1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all[b] sin.





2:5 But if anyone obeys his word, God's love[b] is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him:


2:6 Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.





TEA LEAVES ????????????????


2:15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.


2:16 For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world.


2:17 The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.
Reply:It started with fear.
Reply:Fundamentalists generally consider tarot cards and tea readings as witchcraft. To use those tools to divinate sets the divinator apart from the normal man and woman of the earth. Being a divinator speaks volumes that this person is peeking into God's plan and that is not allowed as only God should know his Omnipotent plan. We as mortal man and woman are but puppets in his game of chess. Knowing the future before it happens is considered a witchcraft practice. It does say in the Bible to "suffer not a witch to live". Many persons interpret this phrase to mean kill them at all costs, since a witch offers nothing else but a turning from God's sheperd ways.





I've always found the tv evangelists rather boring and chite. Just because they say they are doing God's bidding means nothing. It's the actions that count. I think Falwell said it best, "God told me to buy a Mercedes with this money."





Of course I am not one of those Fundamentalist Mercenaries, so I shouldn't really be answering this part of your question.
Reply:Because their religious leaders tell them to be afraid that these thibngs are of the devil .and they are scared .
Reply:They fear things they are not familiar with.





Unfortunately for them, these practices came before they did.





The healing you described is a type of Shamanic Healing... (well, minus that guy who like hits people to heal them... that's just... durr)








- 17 yo Pagan
Reply:Tarot and tea leaves are against the Bible.





One is to put their trust in God only.
Reply:What is the source of the power of Tarot cards or tea leaves? As Christians we believe there are two opposed principalities at work - the kingdom of God and the kingdom of evil. Not all of their evidence and manifestation is overt, some is subtle.Tarot cards and do not get power from God, so they come from the other source - so we clearly avoid them and do not give them any place.


The rest of what you said is a bit vague... God heals... but what is strange dancing?... and I am not familiar with tea leaves but I think I will stay unfamiliar with it.
Reply:I know why I Am against them.


You can get in touch with the Wrong Spirits doing that stuff.
Reply:The fundamentalist movement: bringing the paranoia back to Christianity!
Reply:Deuteronomy 19:9-14 says we are not to engage in fortune-telling, sorcery, interpret omens, engage in witchcraft, cast spells, function as mediums or psychics, or call forth the spirits of the dead. That is why Christians are against things like tarot cards. I do like to use tea leaves to brew tea, but not to determine my future.





I personally am against the televangelists that make a mockery out of the Christian religion. Many seem to be in it for the money. But the bible says you can not serve both God and $. But it's not for me to judge. God will sort it all out in the end.
Reply:Several places in the Bible denounce necromancers etc.


All Christians teach that fortune telling is sinful.


Using such things is communing with demons.





Prayer for healing is a long-establish Christian practice.


Jesus %26amp; the Apostles taught their disciples to do it.
Reply:Tarot cards are just pretty playing cards, so that's a good question. Some people quote a line from the Old Testament about the prohibition of divination and sorcery, blah blah blah...





Unfortunately some people choose only certain rules to follow in the OT and disregard the rest. They also fail to realize that the Bible has been mis-translated hundreds of times, kinda like a game of 'telephone' gone completely nuts.
Reply:I think these things could become idols.


As for the tv Christians--they don't really cure anyone of anything.


It's all an act.