I thought this information would be helpful to those who have questioned reading the messages in fortune cookies. Should A Christian Read The Fortune In A Chinese Restaurant Fortune Cookie? Should A Christian Read The Fortune In A Chinese Restaurant Fortune Cookie? The biblical answer is, No! When my family orders Chinese food we will crack open the Fortune Cookie without reading the Fortune and throw it in the trash without looking at it. After doing this we will enjoy our cookie sans the Fortune. Many people in Evangelical circles will claim Christian Liberty when reading a Fortune Cookie and label a Christian with my perspective as Legalistic. That is not surprising when you consider the state of the Evangelical Church today. Many people who regularly attend church and claim to be Christian are not going to heaven according to Jesus. The history of a Fortune Cookie is rooted in the Japanese temple tradition of random fortunes, called Omikuji. Omikuji is explained in Wikipedia, Omikuji are random fortunes written on strips of paper at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan. Literally sacred lottery, these are usually received by making a small offering (generally a five-yen coin as it is considered good luck) and randomly choosing one from a box, hoping for the resulting fortune to be good. (Nowadays, these are sometimes coin-slot machines)...The random fortunes in fortune cookies may be derived from omikuji; this is claimed by Seiichi Kito of Fugetsu-Do, and supported by evidence that (American) fortune cookies derive from 19th century Kyoto cookies Fortune Cookie Fortunes are thoroughly pagan with roots in Shinto Shrines and Buddhist Temples. Fortune Cookie Fortunes are a form of divination and God strictly forbids his people from practicing such demonic activities. In The New Ungers Bible Dictionary Merrill F. Unger correctly defines divination. A Fortune Cookie falls into this definition of divination due to its propensity to reveal secret knowledge about the future. Divination, the art of obtaining secret knowledge, especially of the future, is a pagan counterpart of prophecy. Careful comparison of Scripture will reveal that inspirational divination is by demonic power, whereas genuine prophecy is by the Spirit of God. The biblical attitude toward divination is distinctively hostile (Deuteronomy 18:10-12), Page 313. The biblical teaching on divination (Fortune Cookies) is plain and a person who calls themselves a Christian can follow what the Bible teaches or they can ignore it. If you are a babe in Christ (1 Corinthians 3:1, 1 Peter 2:2) it is understandable for you to not know these things. However, if you call yourself a Christian and you willfully disregard clear and plain teachings of Scripture after being shown what the Bible teaches on the subject one has to wonder if you are really saved. What you do says a lot about your spiritual condition. But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say? Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great,” Luke 6:46-49
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:04:46 +0000
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