What you think about Bibliomancy?

[Matthew12]

Hello sisters and brothers in Jesus Christ. I have question about Bibliomancy. Is that okay open some random scriptures, and read just this peace of Bible without full chapter? Is that not sin?
For example i use this website - mybibleverses.org/random-bible-verse/

But i am not sure if it's okay, but in other side - we can something ask God, and he will answer from this random Bible verse.

What you think?

 

[RichWh1]

Scripture always needs to be read in context not one verse taken out of context because there is the danger of forming your own pretext.



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[Lamb]

Hello sisters and brothers in Jesus Christ. I have question about Bibliomancy. Is that okay open some random scriptures, and read just this peace of Bible without full chapter? Is that not sin?
For example i use this website - mybibleverses.org/random-bible-verse/

But i am not sure if it's okay, but in other side - we can something ask God, and he will answer from this random Bible verse.

What you think?

Welcome to CH!

God's Word does not return to Him empty...and yet, man himself can make a mess of things by trying to use his own logic to explain a verse instead of using context as @RichWh1 says.

 

[Matthew12]

Welcome to CH!

God's Word does not return to Him empty...and yet, man himself can make a mess of things by trying to use his own logic to explain a verse instead of using context as @RichWh1 says.

Thanks,

maybe this is really better to read context of every scripture. But anyway, this is not sin to use some random Bible verse, and after that read context of this verse?

 

[Lamb]

Thanks,

maybe this is really better to read context of every scripture. But anyway, this is not sin to use some random Bible verse, and after that read context of this verse?

Could you maybe give us an example using a verse?

 

[tango]

Hello sisters and brothers in Jesus Christ. I have question about Bibliomancy. Is that okay open some random scriptures, and read just this peace of Bible without full chapter? Is that not sin?
For example i use this website - mybibleverses.org/random-bible-verse/

But i am not sure if it's okay, but in other side - we can something ask God, and he will answer from this random Bible verse.

What you think?

I don't think you'll ever find anyone to say it's a sin to read the Bible. Pulling a randomly selected verse out of context and applying it to a random situation may have unpredictable results. Like the guy who was desperately in need and found a $20 bill but wasn't sure if he should keep it. So he pulled the Bible open at random and found "Judas threw the money into the temple, then went and hanged himself".

He wasn't sure what to make of that so he tried again and found the verse that says "Jesus told them, go and do likewise". Now he was scared. So he tried one last time and found Jesus saying "What you are about to do, do quickly".

Scripture taken in context usually makes sense. Taking Scripture out of context can totally change the meaning of it. Look at Job 22:28 - if you take the one verse in isolation you'd be forgiven for thinking we can speak whatever we want into existence. But if you read it into the wider context, even just considering the chapter as a whole, you see that God never spoke the words in that verse - they were spoken by Eliphaz the Temmanite. In Job 42:7 God had some choice words for Eliphaz for speaking falsely.