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Christians: how do you account for things considered generally as "spiritual gifts?"?
I'm asking about things like receiving information from spiritual sources, a la mediums or prophets, and how you would distinguish a medium from a prophet.
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- davidLv 75 years agoFavorite Answer
a medium is an astral reader and a prophet works at the mental plane level above the lower psychic level of most mediums.
- andy cLv 75 years ago
There are false prophets in the Bible, as well as true prophets. Spiritual discernment is a spiritual gift also, but if someone is teaching things that do not line up with the teaching of Christ and the New Testament, it should be obvious that they are not truly in God's will. Read 1 Samuel chapter 28.
- JORGE NLv 75 years ago
Thinking is about as spiritual a gift as I can think of. Not that I am very good at it. But it is the spiritual activity of my brain. May as well respect it as such. I have read about many who consider there to be more to it than just the reflective activity of my brain. That there are a whole lot of beings that exist in dimensions far beyond my ability to perceive them. That too is considered spiritual. Since I can barely think, something like that must be something that takes a whole lot of thinking to get. And then a whole lot more thinking trying to walk up the path that thinking leads to. Pretty hard for a non-thinking type like me.
- ?Lv 75 years ago
First demonstrate that "receiving information from spiritual sources" actually exists in reality, and then we can discuss the difference between psychics and prophets. Otherwise I'll say there's no difference at all, and that both are charlatans.
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- LindaLv 75 years ago
All information about God comes from the bible. Mediums are practicing witchcraft and are agents of Satan, not God.
The only prophets, are those who declare the things that the bile has taught them to declare.