Criminals may be a superstitious lot, but Christians should not be looking for omens for direction. Do you know someone who is superstitious? Maybe checking their horoscopes daily or believe in ghosts. What advice would you give someone who is always looking for an omen or a sign from God? (and I'm not talking about Biblical prophetic signs -- I'm talking about someone who can't move unless they receive a "signal" form above.)
Show me a Bible verse that tells us to look for omens and I'll do it. Until then, trust God and get moving.
ReplyDeleteOmens aren't such a bad thing, see. Like the Candyland Castle made out of ice cream instead of candy, it's gotta mean something!
ReplyDeleteI still wonder what they're up to in there.
You don't think we give away all our secrets, do you, Tmn?
ReplyDeleteFor the right price, I might tell you, Timn. They booted me from the game. They've also booted Jolly.
ReplyDeleteDitto what Michael said.
ReplyDelete(Deuteronomy 18:9-14 NKJV) -' "When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. {10} "There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, {11} "or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. {12} "For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you. {13} "You shall be blameless before the LORD your God. {14} "For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you." '
ReplyDeleteWe don't need omens, we have the Spirit and Word of God.
As for ghosts...They're real, they just go under a different name: Demon. Don't play around with them.
And, yes, double-ditto Michael. ;-)
ReplyDelete* Timn.
ReplyDeleteYou lousy candy people! I bet you had that ice-cream truck too...the ice cream truck that plays the worst Christmas song of all time...
ReplyDelete@Joel: Thanks the for verse!
ReplyDeleteDid the thought ever cross Bruce Wayne's mind of enrolling in the Police Academy and becoming a cop? ...or studying law and becoming a judge?
ReplyDeleteMmmmmmmmmm? No. That would be too bizzarre.
"The unregenerate are a deceitful lot. I'll need something to put the fear of God into them.
ReplyDelete"What's that? It's a...a..."
[As if by divine providence a 200 lb ESV Study Bible falls from the sky]
"It's an omen! No. That would be unbiblical. It's a sign from heaven! I'll become Bibleman!
[And thus is born the corniest scripture-quoting character of all of evangelicalismdom.]
I thought Mr. Timn was deceased . . .
ReplyDeleteToo bad, too, he's such a great character. Julian could have done a lot more with him.
ReplyDeleteI'm not dead you fool! I'm still kickin' haha! So get used to me princess bigfoot. That was a cover up, I faked my death so that the Calvinist Samurai weren't aware of my presence. Let's get physicals!
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