The Magic 8 Ball, of course, is sold in toy stores. It’s a sphere made
to look like a billiard ball. It works like rolling a die, except that you shake
it and the “die” floats to the top of the liquid inside so you can
see what it says through a little window.
When you ask it questions and shake it, you get answers
like “Yes,” “No,” and “I
Don’t Know.” You could play the game without an 8 Ball by assigning
the same answers to regular dice numbers and rolling them on the ground.
An Ouija (wee-gee) board is a “game” in which you also ask a question.
You then determine the answer by having two people hold a pointer at the same
time and allowing themselves to be “directed” in their movements
around an alphabet on the board to spell out answers.
Tarot cards are like large playing cards with certain
images printed on them. Usually used by a psychic or fortune teller, they
supposedly tell the future of a person being “read.” These are
also easy to get in novelty shops or on the Internet.
None of these devices have any supernatural power on its own. None of them
are known to work any more accurately than flipping a coin. However, consulting
them for information about our lives or our future is just as futile and dangerous
as going to a psychic or reading our horoscope.
When we look for real, supernatural information from
sources other than God, Satan and his demons can use those things to deceive
us. I’m not saying
that spirits actually make the 8 Ball answer a certain way or take over the
pointer on a Ouija board or direct which cards come up in a deck of Tarot.
(Although, it’s possible for a demon to control a person using the tools.)
What I’m saying is that the very act of looking to those things for
guidance shows that we’re not relying on God. And if we do it for real,
we’re asking “other spirits” to guide our lives. That’s
dangerous territory.
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