Divination (from Latin divinare 'to foresee, foretell, predict, prophesy, etc.')
SCRIPTURES ON DIVINATION
Genesis 44:15 - Joseph said to them, “What is this you have done? Don’t you know that a man like me can find things out by divination?”
Genesis 44:5
Is this not the cup my master drinks from and uses for divination?
Genesis 30:27
But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”
Why does the word divination sound so terrible in the bible? Can it be translation errors like act 16:16 (I'll explain later) or some people were doing the bad forms of Divination and not the good ones!?!
The word divination is not Hebrew or Greek, it comes from the Latin word divinare, meaning “to foresee” or “to be inspired by a god.
The bible has many forms of divination mentioned some good like lots casting, dream interpreting, the Urim and Thummim, and some bad forms like 'looking into animal livers' Ezekiel 21:21, lying divinations (Ezekiel 12:24, 13:6-7) and any divination involving another deity/loa other than the Christian GOD!!
Acts 16:16 originally mentioned the greek word "pythōna" which is python but they translated it to the word divination. The woman in acts 16 was a worshiper in the temple of Apollo or the Oracle of Delphi which had a snake guarding the temple. Hence the reason she had a python spirit. This is the only story in the bible where someone had a python spirit from worshiping at a temple (Oracle of Delphi).
Acts 1:26 also mentions the divination "lots casting" which is cleromancy but they did not remove the words 'lots casting" and replace it with the word divination like they did in acts 16:16 with the word python! Both were divination one accepted the other not! Again never calling on a demonic spirits will be best! Instead call on the Holy Spirit using the intuition!
The forms of divination condone by God were done in a clean and holy manner! Today knowledge has increased and we now know that there are dozens of different forms of divination! Many you will never find in scripture like alomancy, floromancy, carromancy, cybermancy, regular playing cards/cartomancy, Aeromancy, Anemosomancy, etc etc..
It's Kind of like your chemistry, biology and physics textbooks (plus other textbooks)! We know everything in it is correct even though its not found in scripture or the bible! It all depends on how we go about using it!!
Here is a list of diviners found in scripture: Moses, Aaron, Joshua, Judge Samuel, King Saul, King David, Joseph, many high priests, and the eleven apostles after the death of Jesus (Numbers 12:5-8; Acts 1:24-6; John 15:3-4) etc... Every human being must do divination at some point in time in their lives like dream interpreting or Oneiromancy. All most all humans receive prophetic dreams to warn or protect them from harm!!
As a Christian I say keep everything clean through the Holy Spirit and you'll be fine, even with cartomancy!!
So let say you bought a tarot deck because you heard of all it's rich Christian/bible roots, history and background, keep it clean & holy just like the divination tools lots casting and the urim and thummim found in the word of God, the bible!
WRITTEN BY KIMTHEWISE