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Christians & The Practice Of Using Tarot Cards
There is an increasing drive towards seeking to know the will of God through the use of divining cards. I found this Podcast while looking for images, and thought it worth posting about. The woman interviewed in the video is likely well-meaning, but she advocates for several New Age practices that are problematic and can even be dangerous for believers if they are not careful. I will touch primarily on Tarot card usage here, as according to the piece, she created what might be termed a Christian deck for use in divination and seeking divine guidance and prophetic answers. As I will explain, it's not the means the Lord Jesus Christ has given the church for hearing from Him prophetically in the end-times, and there are some very simple reasons why.
First the podcast for anyone who desires to watch it. I have not yet watched it in full, but will try to later.
www.truthseekah.com
As for my own position, here are my concerns with Christians using Tarot or anything resembling a Tarot deck, and I don't speak with a closed mind here but as someone who dabbled with Tarot when I was in the world, and even for a time after coming to Christ. There is a true need for knowing God's specific will in the here and now, and receiving prophetic insight into the things that matter to us most, only the problems with card use are two-fold in my opinion, from both a practical and spiritual standpoint.
1. While there were certain divination tools used in ancient Israel, such as the Umim and Thumim, it was an extremely limited form of hearing from God. By that, about all you could do with it was get a "Yes" or "No" answer to a question proposed. This is an exceedingly limited way to be asking God about ANYTHING, and it's why Israel instead largely relied on the prophets. The problem is that it eliminates all nuance. The Lord can't answer with, "Yes but..." Likewise He can't say "No but... " or qualify anything with, "Maybe, only..." He has almost zero recourse to actually teach you anything about your actual situation and the pros and cons, the potential benefits and possible dangers. All He can do (if He chooses to, and He rarely does for this very reason) is answer "Yes" or "No," and it gives you no information whatsoever about how to make an informed decision yourself or understand why He has made His if He has.
Tarot cards, runes, and other modern occult forms of divination have the same limitations. Aside from containing a ton of occult symbolism, they are also limited in their divinatory meanings, which leaves a person at the mercy of a rather narrow list of interpretative definitions in discerning his or her answer. Even if it were a "Christian" deck with only Christian symbolism in it, only someone with a genuine gift of discernment would be able to see through the base meanings to receive anything deeper and get much good out of it, and this is true with the world as well. The only good Tarot readers I ever met were clairvoyants, which means they were doing more than just going by basic meanings. They were receiving inspiration from a spiritual source that was telling them things only the spirit realm knows. But again, even with discernment, unless you had a deck with literally thousands of cards in it, you would always be at the mercy of a highly limited form of oracle. Dreams and visions on the other hand offer the Holy Spirit an unlimited source of symbolism to use in communicating messages to the believer, and they do not include occult theology implied in the visuals presented to the mind. This is why they will be the means used by the Lord to guide His people prophetically in the end-times (Joel 2:28-31).
2. Aside from the occult symbolism, some Tarot decks can also be cursed with a demonic blessing, and you do not always know where a deck has been or who might have handled it before it got to you. Growing up, my family had a Crowley deck which is a Satanist deck, and all the symbolism in the Crowley deck is tailored specifically to Satanist theology and the Satanist worldview. I was told when I was young that it had been used concerning a friend, and that the deck had somehow told them that he was going to die. Sometime later he drowned in a lake, and they became so concerned that someone painted a cross symbol in blood on that deck and buried it where no one would ever find it. Years later as a teenager, it made its way to me, which means someone else dug it up and put it in circulation again. It left my hands as well a few years before I became a believer, but the point is that Christians cannot be certain such devices have not been "blessed" with a blessing coming from a very bad source, even if it should be referred to as a "Christian" deck or not, so there can potentially be serious concerns even where the situation might seem wholesome or benign on the surface.
In short, cards used as divination devices are highly limited at best, and potentially dangerous at worst. Praying to the Lord Jesus Christ for dreams and visions is what the end-time church is going to be characterized by, and it will not come with having to navigate through mountains of occult symbolism, or the potentially coming into contact with something spiritually "blessed," causing believers to have to fend off Satanic curses in the use of it.
There is an increasing drive towards seeking to know the will of God through the use of divining cards. I found this Podcast while looking for images, and thought it worth posting about. The woman interviewed in the video is likely well-meaning, but she advocates for several New Age practices that are problematic and can even be dangerous for believers if they are not careful. I will touch primarily on Tarot card usage here, as according to the piece, she created what might be termed a Christian deck for use in divination and seeking divine guidance and prophetic answers. As I will explain, it's not the means the Lord Jesus Christ has given the church for hearing from Him prophetically in the end-times, and there are some very simple reasons why.
First the podcast for anyone who desires to watch it. I have not yet watched it in full, but will try to later.
Christalignment | New Age, Occult and Jesus | Interview With Jenny
In this episode of The TruthSeekah Podcast TruthSeekah is joined by Jenny from Christalignment as they speak about Christalignment, New Age, The Occult and
www.truthseekah.com
As for my own position, here are my concerns with Christians using Tarot or anything resembling a Tarot deck, and I don't speak with a closed mind here but as someone who dabbled with Tarot when I was in the world, and even for a time after coming to Christ. There is a true need for knowing God's specific will in the here and now, and receiving prophetic insight into the things that matter to us most, only the problems with card use are two-fold in my opinion, from both a practical and spiritual standpoint.
1. While there were certain divination tools used in ancient Israel, such as the Umim and Thumim, it was an extremely limited form of hearing from God. By that, about all you could do with it was get a "Yes" or "No" answer to a question proposed. This is an exceedingly limited way to be asking God about ANYTHING, and it's why Israel instead largely relied on the prophets. The problem is that it eliminates all nuance. The Lord can't answer with, "Yes but..." Likewise He can't say "No but... " or qualify anything with, "Maybe, only..." He has almost zero recourse to actually teach you anything about your actual situation and the pros and cons, the potential benefits and possible dangers. All He can do (if He chooses to, and He rarely does for this very reason) is answer "Yes" or "No," and it gives you no information whatsoever about how to make an informed decision yourself or understand why He has made His if He has.
Tarot cards, runes, and other modern occult forms of divination have the same limitations. Aside from containing a ton of occult symbolism, they are also limited in their divinatory meanings, which leaves a person at the mercy of a rather narrow list of interpretative definitions in discerning his or her answer. Even if it were a "Christian" deck with only Christian symbolism in it, only someone with a genuine gift of discernment would be able to see through the base meanings to receive anything deeper and get much good out of it, and this is true with the world as well. The only good Tarot readers I ever met were clairvoyants, which means they were doing more than just going by basic meanings. They were receiving inspiration from a spiritual source that was telling them things only the spirit realm knows. But again, even with discernment, unless you had a deck with literally thousands of cards in it, you would always be at the mercy of a highly limited form of oracle. Dreams and visions on the other hand offer the Holy Spirit an unlimited source of symbolism to use in communicating messages to the believer, and they do not include occult theology implied in the visuals presented to the mind. This is why they will be the means used by the Lord to guide His people prophetically in the end-times (Joel 2:28-31).
2. Aside from the occult symbolism, some Tarot decks can also be cursed with a demonic blessing, and you do not always know where a deck has been or who might have handled it before it got to you. Growing up, my family had a Crowley deck which is a Satanist deck, and all the symbolism in the Crowley deck is tailored specifically to Satanist theology and the Satanist worldview. I was told when I was young that it had been used concerning a friend, and that the deck had somehow told them that he was going to die. Sometime later he drowned in a lake, and they became so concerned that someone painted a cross symbol in blood on that deck and buried it where no one would ever find it. Years later as a teenager, it made its way to me, which means someone else dug it up and put it in circulation again. It left my hands as well a few years before I became a believer, but the point is that Christians cannot be certain such devices have not been "blessed" with a blessing coming from a very bad source, even if it should be referred to as a "Christian" deck or not, so there can potentially be serious concerns even where the situation might seem wholesome or benign on the surface.
In short, cards used as divination devices are highly limited at best, and potentially dangerous at worst. Praying to the Lord Jesus Christ for dreams and visions is what the end-time church is going to be characterized by, and it will not come with having to navigate through mountains of occult symbolism, or the potentially coming into contact with something spiritually "blessed," causing believers to have to fend off Satanic curses in the use of it.
