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Should Christians seek psychic help? February 26, 2009

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Though obviously an overgeneralization, it does seem that spirituality is among the “in” things.  It has become both cool and lucrative.  The television is scattered with spiritualists like John Edwards, James Van Praagh, Sylvia Browne, and Char Margolis who claim psychic power to speak to departed human beings.  But as alarming as this movement may be in our broader culture, it’s most troubling that even many Christians are being duped into thinking that the practice of physics can be squared with a biblical worldview.  The Bible’s prohibitions against necromancy (communing with the dead) aren’t given to keep us from gaining helpful information from the spirit world.  Rather, such prohibitions come to us to protect us from lies and deception. (more…)