Yet many of these same believers will not hesitate to talk about moments when they've felt spiritual guidance in their lives through the same divining process; even occasionally coming to tears in relating their own experience of the mysterious from within a literal Christian mindset.
On more than one occasion I have heard practicing Christians tell me that they've opened the Bible to a random page, run their finger down to a verse picked randomly and found a specific verse timely to their question and purpose. For them it was God's spirit moving them to find God's truth for their issue of the moment.
On more than one occasion I have seen quoted the biblical injunctions against divination, wizards and familiar spirits that cannot and should not be trusted. Yet these same quoting biblicists seem to remain unconscious of the fact of their own conscious acceptance of spiritual divination by trusting written words in a book they have come to accept as containing a spiritual communication of God to each person.
"God doesn't communicate with people in that manner"
Oh yeah?
In the 24th chapter of Genesis Abraham's servant blatantly requests God's help in an act of divining - from God - who is to become Isaac's future wife.
Divination by dreams occurs in a righteous context in Abimelech learning that Sarah was Abraham's wife in a dream, Joseph's dream interpretation for the well being of Pharaoh's Egypt and his own Israelite tribe, Gideon's acting upon a dream to defeat the Midianites, Daniel's dream interpretations, Joseph's dream assuring him it would be okay to take Mary to wife, and again later to take the child Jesus to Egypt.
In Numbers, righteousness was the singular purpose and intent of the use by the priests of the Urim and Thummim, the mechanics of which must have had a similarity to those of modern workers with divination.
And yet there remain those strong words against wizards and familiar spirits from which now we live with a contemporary popular interpretation that condemns all divination as occult and a tool of the Devil.
Could it be that there is a genuine tangible and palpable difference between superstitious divination and the real thing as spoken of favorably in the Bible?
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