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Is it wrong to read Chinese fortune cookies?
OBrenda:
--- Quote from: EKnight on September 15, 2008, 07:44:45 PM ---But what if it's a message from God?
Eileen
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Not Impossible Eileen,
I believe God can speak to us in any way he chooses! He spoke a message through a donkey.
I don't think anybody believes that they are actually magical, they are just fun. I don't personally think it is bad thing, or that we should worry about it at all...
I say Enjoy & Be Blessed,
Brenda
;D
firefly77:
Eileen,
I guess it would depend on the motive of your heart ???... If God can use a donkey to speak to Balaam, why could he not use a fortune cookie to speak to someone? Can we ever put God into a box of our own understanding... I think and in a way hope not, at least not in this life.
musicman:
I have a lawsuit pending against all Chinese Restaurants. I've read hundreds of fortune cookies and have yet to receive my forturne. Plus, they are always stupid generic sayings like "you will find happiness from an unexpected source". Aaaahhh, yeah. That's what I'll be looking for. Come on!! Give me something concrete like, "you'll find 10 million $$ on the beach next Sunday evening. Or, you'll never have to work again. Or, women will find you attractive and charming. Something!! My case is based on the fact that they are falsely advertising. Those silly boring statements aren't worth the trouble of cracking open the cookie. They could all be true even if I lay in my bed for the next month. Where's the fortune, man?
Douglas Wayne Thomas:
Just speaking from experience, I have read many "fortune cookies" and none have ever said anything hurtful, mean, nasty, etc. However many have made me laugh and think good or better thoughts. God does work in mysterious ways and maybe; he even causes people to write things in "fortune cookies" that people might find inspirational. I do not believe that Satan controls every aspect of this world. Sometimes God seems to delight in thwarting Satan. Not really a fair fight seeing as how God created Satan.
One can see "Satanic" influences in everything if you look hard enough, things become a self fullfilling prophecy after awhile, however this website is also like that, eventually if we keep repeating the truth about God, hell, freewill etc. More and more people will begin to see the light and begin to understand God's fantastic plan for mankind, fortune cookies and all. ;D
Dave in Tenn:
Pardon me, but I feel the urge to 'preach'. ;D
I'm not naming names, but it is a bit over-doing it to worry about reading fortune cookies when we have our TV's on 24/7.
Richard, you probably did the right thing not reading that second one. Your concience is tender and that's a gift. You did it because you want to preserve the Word in your heart, and that's a good thing too. But you didn't sin by reading the first one. Jesus is Lord, not some law about reading or not reading. Do what He leads and what is wise, and obviously DON'T make an idol of what you read. But don't make a religion out of reading or not reading either, for that SURELY is an idol.
A tender concience is a gift. It beats an old grnarled, corrupt, seared one. But it's not the greatest blessing. The greatest blessing is spiritual maturity and a Life so full of Light that the darkness comprehendeth it not.
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