A seance is a meeting of a group of people who attempt to communicate with the spirit world or souls of dead people through the use of a medium. Medium is the occult term for one who acts as an intermediary between the spirit world and the physical world. He usually claims to have a spirit-guide who is his initial contact in the spirit world. Mediums make use of various objects such as ouija boards, drawings, rapping, noises, automatic writing, etc.
An oiuja board is a small game board containing numbers and letters used by spiritists to contact the souls of the dead. Participants sit at a table around the ouija board and place hands on a "pointer," which is then moved around the board to various letters by the "visiting spirit(s)." The resulting message is supposedly the message desired from the supernatural spirit world.
Fortunetelling is of the three branches of the occult. The other branches are black magic ("witchcraft" and "sorcery" are synonymous terms) and spiritism. Fortune telling involves divination and takes such forms such as horoscopes, crystal ball gazing, palmistry, reading of tarrot cards, numerology, psychometry (ability to foretell a person's future by possessing an object belonging to that person).
Can the dead communicate with the living? According to Scriptures, it is not possible to contact the spirits of the dead. Jesus made this clear in the account of the rich man and Lazaruz in Luke 16:19-31. The Bible condemns all forms of witchcraft, including sorcery, astrology, and reading signs in human and animal entrails.
"You shall not ... practice divination or soothsaying... Do not turn to mediums or spiritists: do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord you God."
Leviticus 19:26, 31
"There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead... For those nations, which you shall dis-possess, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so."
Deuteronomy 18:10, 11, 14
All occult practices are sins against God; the Bible forbids their uses. They are also potential sources of demonization.
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