ASTROLOGERS AND CHRISTIAN FAITH by Paul
Balliere
This may seem surprising, but the astrologers, the vast majority say they are "Christians" in the broadest sense. Is it possible to qualify astrology "Christian"? Called "Christian" someone who believes in the teachings of Jesus Christ and his apostles. This teaching is, in essence, historical and biblical. If someone deviates from doctrine or theology of Christianity and biblical history, it should no longer use the term "Christian" for himself or his teachings. It would be better to create a new terminology, more in keeping with his new religion.
The touchstone of Christianity has always been the Bible. True Christians believe that the Bible, also called the Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in the way of God. The Christian believes that no prophecy of Scripture can not be any private interpretation, for it is not by the will of man a prophecy was ever made, but is moved by the Holy Spirit that men spoke from God. Stone key of Christianity is the Bible and the Bible, whether astrology is actually compatible with Christian faith, we must try him in light of the teachings of the Old and New Testaments, the two parts of the Bible.
What about astrology in the light of the Old Testament? This portion of Scripture is called the Old Testament contains many allusions to the worship of the stars which is the origin of astrology. The Golden Calf, manufactured and erected by Aaron was the Egyptian god Apis, sometimes equated with Ra, the sun god, with some ancient representations appearance a bull on the solar disk between its horns. The condemnation of Israel's worship was offered was most severe. The Bible says: "... They made themselves a molten calf and said, Behold your God who brought you out of Egypt, and they fought against you (the Lord) to great outrage."
At the time of the kings of Israel, the practice of astrology and the world worship the stars enjoyed a revival. The cult of the stars competed worship of God in the hearts of the Israelites. There was also a cause and effect between the Israeli participation in the worship of stars and their ultimate fate. The Bible says: "They forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God ... They worshiped all the host of heaven (a biblical phrase to describe the stars) ... They divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do what is evil in the eyes of the LORD, to irritate the ... The Lord has rejected all the seed of Israel, He was humiliated and he ended up driving away from his face. "
The Old Testament is a hundred times alluded to the fact that Israel frequently adopted the cult Baal. But Baal was the sun god of the Phoenicians. Israel, in the midst of religious and spiritual decline going to build buildings dedicated to the worship of the sun (Baal), and devoting the horses and chariots.
Astarte was the goddess of the Moon (or Venus) of the Phoenicians. It represented love, fertility, luck. However, Israel, away from the commandments of God, he worshiped. "In the worship of the stars syrophéniciens, the sun and moon were worshiped under the names of Baal and Astarte, who represented the forces of nature in its male and female aspect. It was a purely astral worship. The stars were revered as leaders and controllers of all that was happening under heaven. We burned incense not only to the Sun and the Moon, but also signs of the zodiac and all the host of heaven, that is to say to all the stars. This allows us to think that the Sun, Moon, planets and stars were worshiped in correlation with the zodiac, and that this worship mingled astrology, divination and the draw of the horoscope. "
ago in the Old Testament, a Hebrew phrase which is translated as "the Zodiac" (about those who burned incense to the zodiac and all the host of heaven). This expression means literally "to the twelve signs " and refers to the twelve divisions of the zodiac, marked by the twelve figures and names of animals: the twelve constellations of the zodiac. The Bible condemns
she really such practices? Astrology is compatible with Christian faith? A Prophet of the Bible, Ezekiel, took over the men of Israel because they worshiped the sun and the women of Israel because they were weeping for Tammuz. However, Tammuz, the deity of the Phoenicians, had introduced the worship of the seven planets and twelve signs of the zodiac.
Sin, implicit in these practices is not only idolatry but also divination. Jeremiah, another prophet Bible gives the following warning: "In those days saith the Lord, we will draw from their graves the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its leaders, the bones of the priests, the prophets of bone and bones inhabitants of Jerusalem. They extend to the sun, the moon, and all the host of heaven they loved, they have served, they followed, they sought and to whom they worshiped. " (Jeremiah 8:1-2)
God condemned Israel's participation in the astrology world, because it was part of the occult practices of the religious world around him. He has forbidden to seek to know the future by any means whatsoever occult. God says: "You learn to imitate the abominations of those nations. Let no one be found among you anyone who practices divination or sorcery, astrologer, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, person a consulter with familiar spirits, or tell fortunes, who interrogates the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD. "
The Bible, the Word of God, takes the astrologer for particular target of his jokes: "The misfortune will come upon you, without you in the way dawn the calamity will fall upon you without your being able to avert it, and the destruction will come upon you suddenly, unexpectedly. Stand now with thine enchantments and the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from your youth, perhaps you will be able to benefit, perhaps thou mayest prevail. You're tired dint see: they get up and let them save you those who know the sky, who observe the stars, who announced after the new moons, what should happen to you! Here they are as stubble, fire consumes them, they will not save their lives from the flames: it will not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before. "
In summary, the Old Testament through the prophets of God, bases its hostility to the astrological two reasons. The first is that astrology was (and is) a form of polytheism, ie, the belief in multiple gods, which leads to the worship of the stars. The second is that astrology is a form of occultism, track absolutely forbidden by God. What then? Abandon such practices. God and not see the stars.
The New Testament writers had to keep the heart of the Gospel from corruption or any compromise. So they asked the churches to reject false doctrine. New converts who had believed in Jesus Christ openly broke with the occult practices of the past. The Bible says this: "A crowd of believers came to the confession aloud practices. Many of those who had engaged in such trifles made a lot of their books and burned them in public" ( Acts 19:18-19).
Someone might object that the practices of modern astrology are no longer linked as in the days of the Old Testament, the worship of astral deities. It is however clear that astrology is a religion substitute. Astrologers proclaim "another gospel" and thus fall under the condemnation expressed in these words by the Apostle Paul in one of his letters: "If we ourselves, if a angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be anathema (that is to say cursed)! We have said before, and I repeat at this time: if someone tells you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed "Statements by astrologers themselves confirm the fact there is an unbridgeable gap between their vision and that of the Bible. Although most astrologers say they are "Christians", they are generally hostile to the teachings of biblical Christianity.
Daniel Logan, who was nicknamed " the prophet despite himself, "clearly states that Jesus is not Christ. It also denies and rejects the Flood the biblical story of Adam and Eve. He spoke favorably of the Antichrist is to come. And about Christian Science He says she's right. The Bible warns us about such pronouncements. The apostle John declares: "Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This man is the antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also. "(1 John 2:22-23)
Daniel Logan's statements show that astrologers, while claiming to be "Christians" seek to destroy, in reality the true biblical faith. Linda Goodman's books have become bestsellers. It does not claim to be Christian, and she is doing everything possible to refute Christianity. Also denies that Jesus is the Christ, she says it was a man. It advocates a return to polytheism male and female (we talked about in a previous issue), and it goes up to say that the sin of Adam and Eve was good, not bad. While Ms. Goodman is free to believe what she wants, his comments are unacceptable the Christian perspective.
The apostle John declares in his second letter: "Many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. He who is such is a deceiver and an antichrist." And he adds: "... Whoever does not abide in the doctrine of Christ hath not God: he that abideth in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and bring not this doctrine , do not get in your house. "
We examined a series of biblical passages that condemn astrology and are clearly an abomination to God. God calls you to believe that the Bible is his Word, it contains the message. This is a message that can get you out of your mistakes, your practices, your vain hopes, your dead ends. A message that can get you to understand the forgiveness of all your sins through faith in Jesus Christ and live a brand new, happy, full of peace and assurance, because it is built on God. Know that a true Christian can not approve what the Bible regards as a reprehensible practice.
Some people claim that the Church would be deleted and excluded certain books of the Bible "Lost," which prove that Jesus believed in astrology and reincarnation. The The best known are hidden life of Christ and the Gospel of Aquarius. Edgar J. Goodspeed, in one of his works which appeared in 1956, closely examines the hidden life of Christ and the Gospel of Aquarius and all other books "lost" from the Bible, and it shows that they are all false.
In some of these books dating from the late Middle Ages, the clothing of Jesus and the apostles are exactly those we wore in medieval times. Moreover, these books contain historical errors and fraudulent claims. The statement Notovitch, that he received the hidden life of Christ the lama who led the monastery Himis was verified by a team that went to the site. Before it, the lama in question declared under oath that he never had a visit from Notovitch. And while he is reading his book, he cried at every turn: "These are lies, lies, lies - nothing but lies!"
In all your difficulties, you tried to get away from the path of astrology. You keep checking your horoscope, hoping to find some promise of happiness and success. You went to consult a famous astrologer. And you say: "But if this route is not good, that I have there? How get out? Is there a solution? "Yes, fortunately, in his great love, God gave us His Son Jesus, to destroy the devil's work. The Bible says:" The Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work ". Faced with the pride of the devil is humility of the Son of God dying for us under the contempt of men.
Facing slavery of the devil, God offers postage, thanks to the name which you can be saved: a name above every evil authority is Jesus. The Bible says: "There is salvation in no one else, for there is under heaven is none other name was given among men whereby we must be saved. "What, dear friends? Repent of your practices vain, particularly astrology. humbly ask God to forgive you invoking the blood of Jesus, who 's is given for you on the cross. Destroy resolutely without exception and without delay while it comes to these practices, books, and other objects that may remain carriers for the devil in your life. Join the Christians live their faith. Just write us and we'll give you the addresses of our meetings closest to your home.
The influence of the stars, we are told, would explain how the fate of each is fixed at birth. Most astrologers call the theory of reincarnation to explain why the fate of one is different from another. The destiny of each astrology would be determined by his karma. According to this astrologer at the time of its reincarnation, the soul chooses to be born at a date that coincides with a particular position of the stars. However, according to the Bible, we have only this life to prepare us for eternity. She said: "It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the Judgement." A man in the Bible said to God: "I know you bring me to death, the appointment of all living. "
The soul of man does not exist before his conception in the womb. The human being is not caught in an endless cycle lives, to be reborn continuously. Karma is a myth. By dying on the cross of Calvary, Jesus Christ had paid the law of God called us because of our sins. "The Bible says:" For when we were still powerless, Christ at the appointed time, died for the ungodly. Just dying to be right, someone might die for a good man. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. "The death of Christ instead of man makes the karmic reincarnation as useless as it is false. The Bible says:" There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Jesus Christ. "
The incompatibility of astrology with the true Christian faith is evident for a second reason. Astrology is linked to polytheism, ie, the belief in many gods. The cult of the stars, which is the basis of astrology, is still today the only explanation of the influence exerted by the stars on humans. The stars are regarded as deities who have the will and power determine the fate of men. Christianity, by cons, is resolutely monotheistic, that is to say, he calls us to faith in one God, living and true. This is why Christians refuse to be misled by the proponents of a polytheistic religion secular trying to reinvent itself by adopting scientific terminology more consistent with our century. Hear God declare emphatically: "I am the LORD, and there is no other. Beside me there is no God ... as we know, from sunrise to sunset that beside me there is no God
I am the LORD, and there is no other "and again:" For thus saith the LORD, the Creator of the heavens, God himself that formed the earth, who made it and who established it, who created it is not empty, that the He formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD, and there is none else. "And again:" Who predicted these things from the beginning, and has long been advertised? Is not I the LORD? There is no other God than me, I'm just God who saves. "We never finish to mention all the biblical passages like. Here's another one who is like a pillar for faith Christian: "There is only one God and one mediator in God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all. "
Astrology is an occult science. It means here the word" occult "to mean the beliefs and practices that involve forces of satanic origin, prohibited by the Bible. After Christian Church has banned all occult practices, because God condemns in the Bible, those who wished to deliver had to do it in secret so as not face prosecution. Thus, we began to use the Latin word Occultus which means "hidden, unknown," to designate them.
There are different reasons why people engage in occult practices like astrology:
1. The desire to know the future by supernatural means.
2. The desire to acquire supernatural power to influence the future or improve his own condition.
3. The desire to contact the spirit world to communicate with the dead.
4. The desire to make contact with Satan and his demons, strange as it may seem desire!
Astrology has always been and still is, a branch of the occult. It is therefore not surprising that the occult religions of our time are at the forefront of the movement birth. If astrology is not an occult science, should she so talismans, rings, pendants, bracelets, medals, badges etc.. equipped with a zodiac sign? Why some astrologers say that they "psychic intuition" is necessary if one wants to draw a horoscope? The only logical answer to these questions is that astrology is indeed part of the occult.
Astrology is a kind of substitute deceptive, misleading a substitute for the biblical revelation. After years of scientific research and archaeological discoveries, we could not prove that the Bible has erred on a single point. Every time the Bible has predicted an event, it did not fail to occur. Astrology, with its failures, its internal contradictions and external, do not compare with the Bible and its reliability. The Bible, in fact, establishes a rule about predictions, a rule that has not lost its validity. She said: "Perhaps thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word that Jehovah has not spoken?
When the prophet says that will not happen and not happen, this is a word that the LORD has not spoken. It presumptuously that the prophet has said: do not be afraid of him "(Deuteronomy 18: 21-22). It appears from these words that the prophet sent by God is never wrong when it announces the future. It is relatively easy to uncover the false prophet. One prediction that did not realize makes him a false prophet. Astrologers have often mistaken in their predictions. According to the rule established by the Bible, they are false prophets and lead people astray.
honestly recognize that as a religious ideology, astrology is incompatible with Christian faith. Weighing Balance of Christianity, it does not measure up. It is therefore devoid of any credibility. It is only by his attraction to his infatuation with superstition and the occult that modern man allows himself to be captivated by astrology. But she should have no impact on man or the true Christian sense.
Within your multiple difficulties, answer the call of Jesus who said, "Come unto me all ye who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. "This is a sure promise a faithful saying and worthy of faith. I wish you to experience the truth and the news today.
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