What Does the Bible Say About Tarot Cards?
Opinions on this are pretty charged on both sides but I’ve had many Christian clients and I’ve read a fair chunk of the Bible myself. So what does the Bible say about Tarot Cards?
I try to have the patience to see things from other peoples perspective (you know, kind of like the Bible suggests you should) but it can be hard when you’re dealing with people telling you that you’re going to hell.
Much of this is based on a large amount of misunderstanding the Tarot to begin with. They’re painting it with a brush without really questioning it. The Tarot isn’t actually mentioned in the Bible. The Closest thing is references to divination and omens:
God warned His people, the Israelites, against divination when they were on the verge of entering the Promised Land. He lists divination among such evils as child sacrifice and casting spells in Deuteronomy 18:9–12. Leviticus 19:26 puts is blatantly: “Do not practice divination or seek omens.” Tarot card reading definitely falls within the scope of this prohibition.
We should not follow the world and try to read our future from anything but God. Jeremiah 10:2 says “This is what the LORD says: ‘Do not act like the other nations, who try to read their future in the stars. Do not be afraid of their predictions, even though other nations are terrified by them.’”
However, it really depends on your belief in the Tarot whether or not that qualifies. I have many Christian clients and have had this discussion many times — it doesn’t seem to put anyone off.
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For the most part, it’s the more “fundamentalist” Christian groups that feel that the “occult” is necessarily the “work of the devil”.
They probably base this on a couple of bible verses which (most likely) had nothing to do with the occult at all.
One of these that’s commonly quoted is the “thou shalt not suffer a witch to live”….. By which they presume that “witchcraft” (the occult) is evil. However, many scholars maintain that the term “witch”is a mistranslation and the actual word would refer to “poisoner”.
Nothing to do with anything occult…
But generally there’s this notion that if something is not “from God”…. Then it must of necessity be of “the Devil”.
Again, there is no evidence for any of these things, and critically-thinking individuals dismiss them as superstitious nonsense. But many Christians are rather “trapped” into believing in such things merely on the grounds that they are mentioned in scripture.
