Where does someone like me, with psychic ability, fit into Christianity? Do you think I am evil?

Sensitive question to ask, but from personal experience, it is one that *must* be asked. Christianity is relatively new in the history of mankind and is not the only path to follow. There is no ONE path for everyone.

We must each find our own true path to walk - and every great leader (Jesus included) taught this. Remember that the bible was written by people with a very specific view who wanted others to fit into a very specific mould. I have some very strong opinions on this topic, but it's important that you discover your Truth for yourself.

A little bit of research can be extremely revealing and may help you feel better about .... well, just about every aspect of your spiritual life. Plainly, you don't fit in Christianity and that's a good thing. Labels are things people need, but God/Creator/Great Spirit does not need them to know You.

Sometimes, we get lost in labelling and trying to fit into something others can recognize and be comfortable with. When you are at peace with your Self and your relationship with your Creator, these things fall away. What you need to focus on is your personal spiritual life.

Are you walking true and living in a honest way? Is the path you're on right for you? Is your relationship with your Creator right with you?

These are the only things that matter. Know your Self and live in a righteous manner that is true to you. This is how you glorify and bring honour your maker.

Respect the bountiful blessings given to you and use them to bring Light wherever you stand, Little Sister.

If this is who you are, no one can tell you to look to someone to ask for something that you've already been given. Whether or not someone else believes in who you say you are is irrelevant. Don't second guess yourself and ask strangers who have no idea about you about you!

If this is truly you, focus on being you...........

No, you're not evil. You just likely have a very sensitive temporal lobe. Neurotheology is a fairly new science, but the discoveries made thusfar suggest that the sensing of a "presence" can be induced in laboratory conditions, and that many prophets of the past showed signs of either a damaged or sensitive temporal lobe.

I think it's a little more than coincidence that those with more outrageous and contradictory beliefs showed more signs of damage than sensitivity. What you may want to do is try to get rid of things in your house that produce too much electromagnetism when they're not turned on. Switch your plug-in clocks with battery powered or wind-up clocks.

Unplug things like your stove, microwave, and other appliances that are non essential, when you're not using them. That will clear away any possible physical-realm based interruptions that may cloud your perception. What you want is a kind of clear line.

If you can, make a kind of shelter room that blocks external electromagnetic fields as best as possible, so that you can think clearly and sort out actual messages from physical triggers that the mind assigns meaning to the same way we try to find patterns in random spots and such. I believe in God, but not the Santa Claus primitive version that most religious people, bless their hearts, misguidedly follow. So I believe that whatever is going on with you is likely very natural, and has a scientific albeit possibly metaphysical (because we don't know everything and can't observe everything) cause.

Abilities are neither good nor evil. It's what you do with them that makes the difference.

There are some really good answers here and some helpful suggestions. I do not think you are evil. I too, beleive that it is a gift.As long as you are using your gift for good, I see no harm in it.

I am a strong believer that there is no way God created this world as simple as we see it. I think there is more out there. I think certain people are given certain abilities and people become scared of the unknown and that is where you question yourself.

Embrace your ability and do some good with it.

I am happy you have this ability. I am not a Christian, so I am not qualified to answer a a Christian. I am a person.

According to what you write you use you gifts to help people. Evil does not help people. I like your courage.

I wish I was born a psychic, I would have won the lottery by now. :)You are the person that lives in your heart, do not let the judgement of others make you feel bad if you know you are trying to be good. Best wishes.

The Christian bible clearly states in various places that a believer should not predict the future by using witch craft. Tarot reading is definitely considered tabooed in Christianity. If you have this gift of telling the future you should pray and read your Bible.

Ask God to guide you to help develop your faith and stop predicting the future with Tarot Cards. If you need more guidance I suggest you consult a priest or a pastor.

By writesketchbead published 22 months ago.

I think you are worrying to much to be honest. For many years, I did research into the paranormal. I should add too that I am legally classified as a 'spiritualist' in terms of religious identification and trained for 3 years as a medium.

I was born into a religious family, attended religious schools and did youth work in both churches and synagogues. These days, I am entirely secular in my outlook. So you were 'born' psychic eh?

Well, congratulations - that makes you just like oh, the rest of the entire world's population! One of the things that came across so strongly in my research was that psychic experiences occur to EVERYONE, regardless of their beliefs and even in spite of their lack of them. My uncle was a classic case in point.An avowed atheist from the age of 15 (he died in his 80's), yet a man who had tremendous numbers of such experiences.

He could see or hear all manner of things - and yet that did nothing to change his views. He just accepted what he saw and left it at that. The point here is this: Forget what the 'christians' or any other 'religious' group thinks of you - because in fact, being -psychic is a perfectly natural human thing that has nothing to do with religion.

Lets draw an analogy. We can ALL sing and we can ALL run. However, we are not all Susan Boyle or Usain Bolt.

They are the exceptions to the rule. And so it is with yourself. Your psychic sense is just that bit more refined than other peoples.

So learn to control it (because I have seen people with uncontrolled psychic abilities go mad) and if you can use it to do a bit of good (and maybe earn a living from it too), then why not. After all, thats what singers and athletes do with their talents. What you must NOT do is imagine that its some kind of 'god' given 'gift'.

Its nothing of the kind. Its just an ability you have, thats all.

No way! You are not evil! God does not judge any of us.. you were given a psychic ability for a reason as you said (you help people.) I don't believe we should lable ourselves as any form of religion (catholics, buddist, jahova's, christians..) but more so join together and give thanks to god for allowing us a chance to experience this great joruney of ours.

Our life is full of mysteries and god has put us all here to love and learn about life and human connection. That's how I like to view it. Take care.

God gives each of us spiritual gifts, including mercy, administration, service, etc.Yours might be discernment -- "just knowing" things. Lori.

Yeah, if you really belive in the religion, then yeah. You are definatley not evil, and I think your power is awesome. But I think the real question is are you really psychic?

I have a friend who thinks she is psychic. Nothing she ever told me by using her "gift" was correct. She cites a couple of examples when one of her wild guesses panned out.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. People who think they are psychic are fooling themselves. No doubt you are very imaginative and intelligent.

Why don't you use these gifts honestly and write fiction or whatever else makes you happy.

It's a gift f the tarots...everybodys got it most just ignore it religion tells us it's evil...they want to do all the thinking for you...

My child, your God must be first and foremost in your life. Yes, it is true, many psychics are Christian (so I am), they do not need to be mutually exclusive to each other. Commit yourself to God first and let m guide you to use your psychic skills as He sees fit.To not use your God-given gifts to help others would be also wrong.

Bless you, dear one.

Within each of us is Spirit. The Physical body is just the vehicle our Spirit lives in on this earth . Our flesh has sensations feeling,symptoms and we reason, think and exist in the physical matter called earth.

The spirit that is within us is the breath of life that God had breathed into us, just like when Adam was created, then as God created Eve out of Adams body (Rib). So we are physical by earthly nature, but Spiritual by God's Will. The ability that you believe you have that causes you to see into someone's future is a Spiritual gift.

God gives us all spiritual abilities, and some of us are more aware than others. Even in the beginning of time, there were the earliest scientists, such as the Egyptians and the Mayans that could foresee the destinies of the world. I don't know who thought to call those who have this spiritual gift of Prophecy "psychics".

It is a term very misused. The proper use of this gift of prophecy is by whom you give credit to. To give God thanks for spiritual gifts is to put God higher than self.

If you give yourself credit for the spiritual gift and not acknowledge then you turn the special ability into a "craft". Being labeled "Christian" is a misused term too. To Accept Jesus into your life and dedication of everything in your life to and to know he has forgiven you, and to learn s Word from the Bible and to put s Word into Action makes you a Christian.My best recommendation to you is to Thank God everyday for your special Spiritual Gifts and acknowledge Jesus Name in everything you do.

Then He will give You Wisdom as you ask for it. Then you will never need tarot cards again! Oh, my thought about speaking to dead people- well, Satan has a lot of tricks up making us think that our dead loved ones are listening to us.

The Bible states that those who are passed away are asleep until the final Judgement Day.1 Corinthians 15:52 states that the dead shall not rise until the last trump is sounded, which means that those who are dead are really asleep until Jesus comes again.

I would have to to ask if you pray. If you pray and have asked God to help you know if this is a blessing or a curse and if you are helping someone then your decision could be based upon that. As long as you are not praying to the devil.....I am sure it may be untrue, but I have heard that some gifted people are in contact with satan?

I would not want to tell you that this could be right because satan is evil. All you really need to do is seek God and He can give you peace and let you know you are doing Prayer is the key, I believe for all of our answers. God Bless.

With all due respect for all who commented, I don't think anybody within themselves are the authority on this subject. Heck, I myself am not an authority in this subject! Opinions are like noses.

We all have them! So what source do you go to? The Bible!

There's a reason God put an authoritative source out there. That's so people won't be getting confused with all the different opinions of the masses. Now, in your question you said that if it fit's into Christianity.

We must understand that in order for one to be a Christian, we must believe in the Bible. That it's 100% inspired by God and it has no errors. That's what Christians believe.

You may see many comments of people claiming themselves to be Christians, but they'll give you answers which are not based on what the Bible truly teach in regard to consulting the dead. Maybe they don't know better, but it is what it is! Here I give you what the Bible says in regard to this.

These are only some scriptures: "Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. "- Leviticus 19:31"Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.

Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you. You must be blameless before the LORD your God. "- Deuteronomy 18:10-13For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 "When they say to you, "Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter," should not a people consult their God? {Should they} {consult} the dead on behalf of the living?" - Isaiah 8:19"And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

" - 2 Corinthians 11:13-14"And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment"- Hebrews 9:27 Ok? Good question by the way. I hope you consider what Scriptures say in regard to this.

And remember, everybody has an opinion. But we must check if they fit in with the Source. God bless and I wish you the best.

Dear Dr. Marie if you stop and think about it just a little all of the profits of the "Old Testiment" where merely people who were given insight to the future by God. Even people like Nostradamus was given prophetic revelations by God. I point out the obvious it is your decision.

I invite you to check out my Hub writings in Religion,Belief and Christianity.

I wrote a very extensive answer to your question. Please check out my hub titled "Psychic or Prophetic? " I hope it will help.

There is only one answer which is available to all of us, including you! Since you asked the question, I assume you are seeking an answer.

It seems to me that you're confident in what you believe. Seems to me that if you were evil, you wouldn't care enough to ask. The only problem I see is that you seem to be searching for a "label" .

I don't follow any "religion" but I do consider myself spiritual. I believe in goodness, honesty, truth. You didn't give much detail on how you help people, but as long as you feel that you do...how can that be wrong?

The main reason I choose not to follow the religions that I am familiar with is because a lot of churches or preachers or whatever, use fear to try and make us believe. It's like the show "Scared Straight". I'm not going to walk into a church every week and label myself as being a follower of religion simply because I've been scared into it or because it's what everyone else does.

I believe what I believe and I'm okay with that. I think it's confusing, but I also think it's supposed to be that way. We should question what we truly believe.

I don't think that telling people that they are going to burn in hell because they do this or that is a little ridiculous...how would they know?

If you are what you claim to be then there is nothing wrong with that. As humanity gets more educated it's harder for us to be herded like sheep. Harder for the David Koresh'es and Jim jones'es.

Have faith in God and you don't need organized religion.

This is an easy answer. Whoever wins the war installs their belief system and all others are subject to them. In short Christianity demonizes anything that does not agree with it.

All people are psychic; your ability is as natural as "natural. " People have been dreaming dreams and projecting astrally long before the Doomsaying, villifiers called Christians ever existed. No you're just human.

Old fashioned, psychic and spiritual human. Just like the rest of us. :).

Nope. I am a Christian, can be quite aware at times, and find many stereotype Christians have no idea of what they are talking about in this area when it comes to 'blanket condemnation'. I also have had prescences come and communicate with me, try to take me over etc, but I tell them to go away in the Name of Yahshua (Jesus) if they are not of and ask There is a battle between true and false, Light and darkness (which includes that which 'appears as light' but is really just energy masquerading as light).

In my understanding, and what others who died and came back related, the highest a person can reach is the top-level of the 2nd heaven, the 3rd heaven is only accessable through Christ, the 'real' Christ, not the pretention that is behind some. I go to great lengths to keep my mind/spirit in the 3rd heaven with Christ and Light, and not be open to entitites that just drift in from anywhere under that. Its so important to be ultra-disciplined in m and seek s Prescence in 'real terms'.

Its the duty to God, I firmly believe, that those who have abilities in this area, to seek God so much more and make an eternal committment of allegiance to so that He can develop us and enable us to grown in the true prophetic Spirit and as ..., (many are false and just mediums) and discern in s Spirit the Truth of a matter, and not let the ignorant manipulate them, nor those who are 'anti-God'. One needs to be cleansed of unclean spirits, undergo a water baptism, and truly seek Jeremiah 29:13. White or gold candle meditations with the bible as a background, calling on Fire and Light as a form of 'right-brain-praying' is of immense benifit, to learn focus and to invoke I would burn all the tarot cards and things that are clearly not of him, as they can be doorways to areas and prescences thar are not of God.2 Corinthians 10:5-7 talks of imagining, and things wrongfully in a deluded manner places above God, but it talks about bringing into captivity ones thoughts to God.

When this occurs, as you may well know, there is just pure awareness and no thought nor imagination, esp. When done in He also says: The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.(Matthew 6:22)Those with these kinds of gifts can be persecuted by the ignorant or suppressed wrongly, and then the enemy, the one of darkness just takes over sppearing as some kind of 'false saviour' of 'enlightenment', when nothing could be further from the truth. I guess, as myself, you may find you need to focus and meditate on God so much more and have a real connection/relationship with Christ that goes beyond the ordinary and staple Christian mindset to that which He reveals to you on the levels appropriate to your understanding/development.

Its like a maze....., but He is the Light that will guide you...not man/woman. May He guide you to .

Ahahhaa you gotta be kidding, like what loriamoore said, in the bible, there were people that could see the future. You having psychic abilities is just another gift haha and remember that all spirits are fallen angels or demons. They just appear as human to deceive us into believing that there is no heaven or hell after we die.

Like what the bible says, test every spirit.... for the devil is a GREAT deceiver.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.