Do you call yourself a Christian and yet read your stars, and/or when asked what star sign you are,?

I used to rely on the stars. You are correct, it is an abomination, as is "divination" which is basically what astrology is.

When I did that, I was relying on mysticism and myth, rather than on the Lord!

God bless!

I am a Christian believer, and no, I do not believe in astrology or any sort of occultic divination. There are actually many Scriptural prohibitions against it. Here's another one that I'm familiar with:

9 "When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. 10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in [a] the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, 11 or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. 12 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. 13 You must be blameless before the LORD your God."

Deuteronomy 18:9-13

To my way of thinking, astrology can be classified as "practicing divination" and "interpreting omens" because you are looking to the position of the stars and planets at a particular time to try and fortell the future, determine a persons personality, their fate, etc. The same as with reading tea leaves or using a ouija board.

Hello,

I think astrology is a fake pseudo science anyway. We all could use a little more love, a little more money and ultimate health as well. All of us have these desires in common and one way or another and its just a matter of playing the odds since the answers are just yes and no.

Predictions are always vague and believe me, I have never seen one predict the correct numbers for a lottery or exact details of bid events. In short, I do not worry about that sin or offence to got since common sense tells me to avoid it and hence there is no temptation!

Regards,

Michael Kelly

Here is a quick article from About Magazine On This Subject:

Time Twin Study Discredits Astrology

Originally tracked as part of a different medical study, data on a group of 2,000 people born within minutes of each other demonstrates that claims about power of astrology are false. Followed for several decades, information about their occupation, anxiety levels, marital status, aggressiveness, sociability, IQ levels and ability in art, sport, mathematics and reading were recorded. The results?

Scientists failed to find any evidence whatsoever for consistent similarities. The Telegraph reported:

Dr Dean said the results undermined the claims of astrologers, who typically work with birth data far less precise than that used in the study. “They sometimes argue that times of birth just a minute apart can make all the difference by altering what they call the ‘house cusps’,” he said. “But in their work, they are happy to take whatever time they can get from a client.” ...

Dr Dean said the consistency of the findings weighed heavily against astrology. “It has no acceptable mechanism, its principles are invalid and it has failed hundreds of tests,” he said. “But no hint of these problems will be found in astrology books which, in effect, are exercises in deception.” It is unlikely that these results will have much impact upon the astrology industry, considering how profitable it is:

Some of the most popular figures in the field, such as Russell Grant, Mystic Meg and Shelley von Strunckel, can earn £600,000 or more a year. A single profitable astrology website can be worth as much as £50 million. When the Daily Mail discovered that its expert on the zodiac, Jonathan Cainer, was about to leave the newspaper in 1999, it reportedly offered him a £1 million salary and a £1 million bonus to stay. He still preferred the offer at the Daily Express: no salary but all the money from his telephone lines. Astrology isn’t science. Astrology isn’t even close to science — reading chicken entrails will provide you with the same quality of information about a person’s future and character (curious that no newspapers have “chicken entrails” sections or that there are no pay-per-minute phone lines where someone will read chicken entrails for you). There is, however, a great deal more money to be made in reading stars than in reading entrails, so I guess that’s why the one has survived but the other is a lost art.

It is not the saying I am Aquarius or reading an occassional horoscope that would be an abomination. It would be believing in it or giving it some sort of power (that only belongs to God).

Perhaps you should do a bible study and understand that is why pagan religions are inconsistent with Christianity (common knowledge).

As you can tell by some of the other people's answers this is not particularly surprising or difficult to grasp by anyone, except you adn a few others.

Hi! Ladyeagle: I completely agree...

I also think the Bible discourages believing or even pretending to believe in fables like Santa clause and the easter bunny etc...

2 Tim 4:3-4

3.)For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

4.) And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto FABLES.

Have a good day!

When I was first Saved, 1972, I was uneducated about what The Bible says on these thing's, but The LORD brought me to a Church that enlightened me to the deeper thing's of God's WORD.

Be Blessed

Nope. I never read them, and I don't tell people who ask me either.

I had one person really pushing me about it, too... pushing me to tell them when my birthday was so they could tell me how accurate my horoscope was. I finally had to get up and walk away from them...nothing I said would make them drop it.

By the way, a good site for debunking astrology is Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy page -- it's not a religious site, it's scientific and astronomical, but he does a good job of demonstrating the foolishness of astrology. I think it's http://www.badastronomy.com/

Not a question... a true statement of how things are in the eyes of the one God.

But the fun of reading what a soul that believes can forth see the future writes is incredibly amazing... and to seeing those who believe and guide their lives for what a fortune teller/witch say is also incredible. With all respect for those who may have another faith.

I know that as a Christian those things; the stars and my sign mean nothing at all. I don't listen to the scopes or anything else. I live for Christ. My sign is the cross and the stars light up a dark sky. Can I get an AMEN!

You know I saw "read your stars" and my first thought was of the stars for each question and was wondering how to "read" them. :-}

I tell people I'd rather believe in the One who made the stars. Did you know they found 2 constellations after the original 12 so to be absolutely accurate they'd have to include those too don't you think?