CHRISTIANITY does not allow room for the believe of horoscopes, yet many do. How does it affect our faith?

Question

i still do not understand why they say beleving in zodiac is a sin in the christian world. SUPPLY me with reasons, and other opinions.

Answer 1

Deuteronomy 18-10-14

There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12 For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you. 13 You shall be blameless before the LORD your God. 14 For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you.


It doesn't actually say zodiac but many classify it in with all this. Most "horoscopes" are false, most are just written to fill newspapers and web sites.

I want to say I recall a passage saying something like " in the end days, look to those with wisdom of the stars for guidance " or something along those lines. I take that as, look to those that study stars and the zodiac. For history alone tells us astronomy and zodiac use to be one in the same.

Answer 2

Astrology, a form of divination, also became popular during the twelfth century renaissance. Astrology saw an interconnection between the physical world's microcosm and macrocosm to human endeavors and natural phenomena that reflect one another. Some examples of natural phenomena that were used for divination included:

weather;
animal behavior, e.g., a bird's crowing; and
cycles of moon, often used to determine favorable and unfavorable undertakings such as travel or weddings.

The church opposed using natural phenomena as being superstitious, but not magic. Unusual natural events were often interpreted as omens having some bearing on human affairs. For example, comets were viewed as foreshadowing the death of kings since time of Julius Caesar, whose death was preceded by a comet in 44 B.C.E. When Halley's Comet appeared on the eve of the Norman invasion of England in 1066 by William the Conqueror, it was viewed as a sign of Harold's pending defeat by William. Indeed, Harold was slain in the battle of Hastings and William made King.

Astrology in the Places of Power

Astrologers and sorcerers frequently served as court advisors as aids to decision making. Astrologers were consulted by emperors and popes. Even Galileo, Johannes Kepler, considered to be the first theoretical astrophysicist, were astrologers. Emperors that relied upon astrology included Charles IV and Charles V. The papacy also used astrology: Sixtus IV, Julius II, Leo X, and Paul III. According to the Catholic encyclopedia, ambassadors were not received in papal courts until astrologers were consulted:

"When these rulers lived astrology was, so to say, the regulator of official life; it is a fact characteristic of the age, that at the papal and imperial courts ambassadors were not received in audience until the court astrologer had been consulted." (See http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02018e.htm)

Astral Magic

Beginning with the twelfth century, astral magic was widespread among European Jewish intellectuals. Astral magic was based on the concept celestial forces could be used for personal benefit. The idea was that the stars and zodiac signs release constant emanations (also called, spirituality) that contain extraordinary forces. Influencing signs and planets' locations in heavens determined the quality of these emanations and the character of the forces. These emanations and forces could be absorbed and "drawn down" on earth using an image, effigy, or amulet that symbolized planets or constellations. The magician "draws down" this spirituality to change the course of natural forces, to predict the future, or to heal the sick.

Condemnation

Divination was the most strongly condemned form of magic by the church. In condemning divination, the Catholic church argued that divination,

circumvented or ignored the will of God;
ignored pious prayer and supplication in favor of human manipulation; and
saw a person's destiny as subjected to fate or predetermined, thereby denying God's granting of free will to mankind.

In the thirteenth century, Gerard of Feltre defined the problem of divination in his Summa on the Stars: "If the stars make a man a murderer or a thief, then all the more it is the first cause, God, who does this, which is shameful to suggest." Here the use of the term, "first cause" is an allusion to the cosmological argument for the existence of God:

1. Everything that had a beginning had a cause.
2. The universe had a beginning.
3. Therefore the universe had a Cause.

Divination essentially removed God from the religious equation. Divination meant that mankind's actions were subject to the control of nature and the heavens by astrologers, oneiromancers, or chiromancers, and not orthodox priests. If these phenomena were the only things controlling persons' lives and destinies, why would anyone need the church or lead a pious life?

Answer 3

The reason is they are divined by unclean spirits,demons, satan and his minions control people and the world currently through the zodiac. It is a work of darkness of the devil himself to keep your eyes of the one TRUE GOD! That's the sin in it. (it comes not from Father God but the enemy)(you do not want to be in the enemies camp when God shows up here and punishes them here at the end of time)The bible says if you want to know the future ask God himself not astrology or phycics or mediums, this is not faith! And with out faith it is impossible to please God! That's the answer!

Answer 4

Because it is superstitious. When you open the door to superstition you close the door to faith. When you search for hidden knowledge, that is cultish practice and is to be avoided. You aren't trusting 100% in God when you try to search for secret knowledge and it can affect you faith by shifting your focus off of God and onto circumstances.

Answer 5

It is looking to another source then God for answers.
Plus its just plain stupid.
1000's of people where born on the same day as you,do you really think you will all do the same thing , daily?<><

Answer 6

If it does not come directly from God, it is of the world and corruption and filth. Do you expect to consult your star charts after the universe is destroyed?

Answer 7

The bible said that Horoscopes is a from of witchcraft.

Answer 8

Reliance on those things means Christians are not putting their faith in Jesus Christ.

Answer 9

it was designed by a differant culture, that they could not find a way to absorb into their religion.... therefore, it is of the devil.

Answer 10

horoscopes are not real.