Thread: Is it a sin to predict the future or tell someone about it?

I need to know asap.

Thanks.

Deuteronomy 18:10
There should not be found in you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, anyone who employs divination, a practicer of magic or anyone who looks for omens or a sorcerer, 11*or one who binds others with a spell or anyone who consults a spirit medium or a professional foreteller of events or anyone who inquires of the dead.

12*For everybody doing these things is something detestable to Jehovah, and on account of these detestable things Jehovah


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Its not a sin.
Its impossible.
And who ever claims to be predicting the future is a liar.

It's not a sin to predict the future or tell someone about it... however if you are using magic of any kind to predict anything... that would be a sin.

A prophet can tell you about things that haven't happened yet. But a lot of other people claim they can also. If you make a false claim about predicting the future, you're either lying (which is a sin) or insane.

So, if you think God has given you the power of prophecy, the way to tell is if anything you say will happen doesn't, you're not a prophet.

Seeing as you cant predict the future...

You can't predict the future, so it can't be a sin. There's nothing in the Bible that says having a conversation about the future is a sin, or that mentioning the future is a sin.

why, should it be?

Yea, because only God can tell our future. and if you try to predcit the future, you are doubting God, and not trusting him.

Spiritism is a sin (if that's what you mean).


Acts 16:16-18
And it happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a certain servant girl with a spirit, a demon of divination, met us. She used to furnish her masters with much gain by practicing the art of prediction. This [girl] kept following Paul and us and crying out with the words: “These men are slaves of the Most High God, who are publishing to you the way of salvation.” This she kept doing for many days. Finally Paul got tired of it and turned and said to the spirit: “I order you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.