What does the Bible say about horoscope?
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The Bible forbids seeking guidance, knowledge, or control through horoscopes and calls believers to trust the Lord alone. Deuteronomy 18:10-12 condemns divination and fortune-telling as practices opposed to faithful worship, while Leviticus 19:26 likewise prohibits interpreting omens. Deuteronomy 4:19 warns God’s people not to be drawn into serving the sun, moon, and stars, which God created and rules. Galatians 5:20-21 includes sorcery among the works of the flesh that are inconsistent with life in God’s kingdom. Christians may appreciate the heavens as testimony to God’s glory, but should seek wisdom through Scripture, prayer, and godly counsel rather than astrological signs.
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- Deuteronomy 18:10-12
[10] There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, [11] or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer. [12] For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you.
- Leviticus 19:26
"'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
- Deuteronomy 4:19
and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
- Galatians 5:20-21
[20] idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, [21] envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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