According to the bible with craft is real and indeed a work of evil, in the bible it does not directly say tarot cards etc but i think it falls in the category of divination and according to the bible it should be avoided in any means because it is work of evil.
"Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spirits or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you."
Well, different religions have different ideas regarding God's thoughts, however, you go on to mention the Bible, so we can stick to that.
Regarding witchcraft, it says remarkably little except to prohibit it and that you should "not suffer a witch to live".
Regarding Tarot cards, it says nothing at all, if only because the cards were not invented until the mid 15Th century. The church had very little to say about them either, probably because their origins were not actually occult - they were created for playing card games and the images were largely Christian. The church occasionally spoke against gambling with them but it was known to exempt them from some regional bans on regular playing cards! For their first 350 years they were only known for playing games and it was not until the end of the 18Th century that anyone thought to use them for divination - and even then, the practice was limited to just France for a further 100 years.
Of course, the Bible does have something to say about divination, regardless of what is used for it, be that tarot cards or tea leaves, it is described as sorcery. The current position from the Catholic and Anglican churches is that tarot was indeed invented for card games - and that it is still used for them throughout much of continental Europe today - they object only to their use for divination and magic. Neither supports killing witches anymore - but that is in the Bible.
Astrology and other forms of divination then, would all be considered to be sorcery - although not with any great consistency. Various Popes are known to have employed astrologers in the past. We should also note that the Bible does not condemn all incidents of prophecy - the interpretation of dreams is, for example, not condemned, some suggest because such knowledge is given by God, making it acceptable.
Tarot Cards, is a form of divination. This opens controversy, some think its evil, some not. Keep in mind the bible has weird rules, if you ever have eaten shrimp or any other form of seafood that's not a fish with scales, well you are going to burn in hell. Lots of other rules as well. Problem is. What really is the word of god?, or some mortal that decides they are going to write a chapter into the bible, calming how god is, from their own mortal standpoint. If Divination is evil, then every prophet in the bible, that can see the future, is evil and thus should burn in hell. See what I am getting at? The bible was written by people, on historical record, along with people that wrote morals into code, as they saw fit.
God hasn't said anything about Tarot cards, which have nothing to do with witchcraft.
The only thing written by God is the 10 commandments and they say nothing about divination.
Everything else written down is the word of priests, religious leaders and zealots of ancient history.
Tarot is a recent development of the divinityRyrts, the ancient arts of Numerology and Astrology are in the bible. The 3 Wise men who visited Jesus on his birth were astrologists.
Actually Tarot has more to do with Christianity than any other spiritual group or religion.
Take a look at a Tarot deck and you'll find the Garden of Eden, Adam & Eve, The Tower of Babel, The Last Judgement, The Holy Grail, The Rainbow after the flood, the list goes on....
Tarot isn't just about predicting the future it's about connecting with your inner self. It's like window to your soul. I way of talking to your sub-concious, higher self, immortal soul.
Jesus said "The kingdom of God is within you."
Anything that brings you closer to the kingdom of God can't be un-Christian.
As for the future predicting aspect remember this please - Jesus was a fortune teller himself.
He said to Peter: "Truly I say to you that this very night, before a cockerel crows, you shall deny Me three times".
If it's ok for Jesus to tell the future, then how can it be un-Christian, satanic, immoral or dangerous.
If Jesus was to return today he'd be shunned as a crank, a heretic, the religious leaders would want to inflict on him the same fate he had before. Men are power greedy and don't like upstarts rocking the hierarchy that gives them their power.
Tarot readers, psychics, astrologists, numerologists are good spiritual people.
If you want to support the persecution of these people in their beliefs because you've been told to by a power greedy despotic religious leader then I feel very sorry for you.
God only answers this best. If you are talking about bible then there is no direct reference to tarot or astrology given.
witchcraft is respected or detested depending on the context but it is mentioned over there. Anything that can be beneficial for humanity can be supported or anything which brings power but no moral value is disgraced in Bible.
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