Psychic readings? A money making scam, or talking to the dead?

Answer 1

Non-free psychic readings purporting to talk to the dead are most definitely one or the other, yes.

Answer 2

The Bible is pretty clear on this one. Money-making scams from so-called psychics were quite well-known even in ancient days. The devil has power. He is a spiritual being who once dwelled in Heaven with the angels. Of course he is able to recount the way a person looked and how they lived. He can guide any "psychic's" words to convince anyone they are communicating with the dead. Many psychics even believe they are so-gifted. Heck, I am not psychic, but I do have the uncanny ability to sense things accurately before they happen. I have been told by some people that I "must be psychic or something". I don't believe people are psychic. I believe that God can gift certain individuals with a spiritual discernment and possibly a gift of prophecy (predicting the future accurately), but only when used to do good, for nobody's gain other than the person who is the fortunate recipient of the spiritual discernment/prophecy. When one's spiritual gift as it were, begins to dabble into talking with the dead, then that's where evil comes in and Satan takes over. Sometimes people never had a gift to begin with - they just see an opportunity and they seize upon it.

Look folks, when we die, we face judgment. To do that, we have to face God. That means we meet Him in Heaven. Once there, we are either sent to Heaven or Hell. There is no limbo on this earth where unsettled dead people roam the earth with unfinished business. Instead, you who may see this sort of thing are witnessing the business of the devil and his demons. Believe me or don't believe me, but no person who has ever died and gone to Heaven is even going to be thinking about communicating with those on earth. They are going to be somewhat distracted by the glory of Heaven. Those who aren't there will not be roaming the earth. Why would God send some to Heaven and allow others to roam around in limbo until He sentences them to hell? Makes no sense.

Answer 3

Reading horoscopes is witchcraft. Playing with Ouija boards is witchcraft. Psychic readings is witchcraft. Water witching is witchcraft. There is so much witchcraft going on today that we must be aware of these things and stay away from them. Witchcraft and the effects of witchcraft is not being taught in the pulpit and the people of God are being destroyed and deceived by them.
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/New%20Age/psychic_explosion.htm

Answer 4

If the psychics really were psychic they would be winning the Lottery quite often.

Answer 5

Scam.

Answer 6

It is a money making scam. Making foolish comments for those who waant to be fooled.
jtm

Answer 7

scam.
Who knows who or what those nut jobs are "talking" to!

Just think...if "Psychics" could read minds, why do they always ask your name or if there's a (fill in the name) in the room....

Or don't think and blow your money.

Answer 8

its all a scam. ok have you ever seen in the newspaper "psychic wins lottery"??? no!

Answer 9

ask James Randi

Answer 10

A money making scam, talking to demons and getting everyone to believe the lie that those dead are actually "not dead".

Where are the dead?

Gen. 3:19: “In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.”

Eccl. 9:10: “All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol [“the grave,” KJ, Kx; “the world of the dead,” TEV], the place to which you are going.”

What is the condition of the dead?

Eccl. 9:5: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.”

Ps. 146:4: “His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts [“thoughts,” KJ, 145:4 in Dy; “all his thinking,” NE; “plans,” RS, NAB] do perish.”

John 11:11-14: “‘Lazarus our friend has gone to rest, but I am journeying there to awaken him from sleep.’ . . . Jesus said to them outspokenly: ‘Lazarus has died.’” (Also Psalm 13:3)

Is there some part of man that lives on when the body dies?

Ezek. 18:4: “The soul [“soul,” RS, NE, KJ, Dy, Kx; “man,” JB; “person,” TEV] that is sinning—it itself will die.”

Isa. 53:12: “He poured out his soul [“soul,” RS, KJ, Dy; “life,” TEV; “himself,” JB, Kx, NAB] to the very death.” (Compare Matthew 26:38.)

See also the main headings “Soul” and “Spirit.”

Are the dead in any way able to help or to harm the living?

Eccl. 9:6: “Their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.”

Isa. 26:14: “They are dead; they will not live. Impotent in death, they will not rise up.”

Does the Bible indicate whether the dead experience pain?

Eccl. 9:5, 10: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all . . . All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol,* the place to which you are going.” (If they are conscious of nothing, they obviously feel no pain.) (*“Sheol,” AS, RS, NE, JB; “the grave,” KJ, Kx; “hell,” Dy; “the world of the dead,” TEV.)

Ps. 146:4: “His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts* do perish.” (*“Thoughts,” KJ, 145:4 in Dy; “schemes,” JB; “plans,” RS, TEV.)

Does the Bible indicate that the soul survives the death of the body?

Ezek. 18:4: “The soul* that is sinning—it itself will die.” (*“Soul,” KJ, Dy, RS, NE, Kx; “the man,” JB; “the person,” TEV.)

“The concept of ‘soul,’ meaning a purely spiritual, immaterial reality, separate from the ‘body,’ . . . does not exist in the Bible.”—La Parole de Dieu (Paris, 1960), Georges Auzou, professor of Sacred Scripture, Rouen Seminary, France, p. 128.

“Although the Hebrew word nefesh [in the Hebrew Scriptures] is frequently translated as ‘soul,’ it would be inaccurate to read into it a Greek meaning. Nefesh . . . is never conceived of as operating separately from the body. In the New Testament the Greek word psyche is often translated as ‘soul’ but again should not be readily understood to have the meaning the word had for the Greek philosophers. It usually means ‘life,’ or ‘vitality,’ or, at times, ‘the self.’”—The Encyclopedia Americana (1977), Vol. 25, p. 236.