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I was reading a post about Harry Potter and for some strange reason I was wondering this, so I thought I\'d ask (since I searched and couldn\'t find anything)
Does Orthodoxy consider Palmistry, evil because its a type of divination. A psuedo science perhaps just not yet proven. Or is it as I have always just thought, just a game, a conversation piece to laugh over?
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EP
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When you say \"palmistry\" do you mean palm-reading, like fortune telling?
In that case, it would be out of the question. There are a lot of references in the scriptures against diviniation. The Old Testament refers to several incidents when kings went to sooth-sayers and then a holy prophet came to them and said, \"Was it because there is no God in Israel that you go to soothsayers?\" And then the prophet delivers the word of the Lord, and something bad always happens to the one who went to the soothsayer.
In the New Testament, I\'m reminded of the slave girl who was possessed with a spirit of divination in the Book of Acts. St. Paul cast out the demon from her.
As for things like Ouija, tarot cards, etc.--all these things may seem funny or interesting, but behind them works an evil spirit, a bad spirituality, whether anyone is aware of it or not.
The truth of what will happen in the future lies only with God, and any attempt to find out the future from some other source is 1)a turning away from God and 2) will end up with the person being horribly deceived, for Satan is a liar and the father of lies.
Reader John
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