Is it wrong for a Christian to open a fortune cookie?

[JaniceM]

8 hours ago, Shiwiii said:

.  "On a wider scale, God has allowed husbands, men and/or superior authorities to make laws or guidelines for the benefit of society as a whole"

Not outside of what God has said. That is my point.  God has inspired the apostles to write what He wanted, nothing more and nothing less. To question things beyond what God has said,  is to allow men to rule instead of God. 

 

God has allowed men to rule and make laws, decisions on various matters.  The Bible does not say stop at the red light and go on green.  I agree at least moral laws should be based in harmony with God's laws.  A couple of verses come to mind.

 

(Matthew 19:8) He said to them: “Moses, out of regard for YOUR hardheartedness, made the concession to YOU of divorcing YOUR wives, but such has not been the case from [the] beginning.

 

(1 Corinthians 7:12) But to the others I say, yes, I, not the Lord: If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and yet she is agreeable to dwelling with him, let him not leave her;

 

(1 Corinthians 6:1-3) Does anyone of YOU that has a case against the other dare to go to court before unrighteous men, and not before the holy ones? 2 Or do YOU not know that the holy ones will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by YOU, are YOU unfit to try very trivial matters? 3 Do YOU not know that we shall judge angels? Why, then, not matters of this life?

 

(1 Corinthians 7:25-28) Now concerning virgins I have no command from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who had mercy shown him by the Lord to be faithful. 26 Therefore I think this to be well in view of the necessity here with us, that it is well for a man to continue as he is. 27 Are you bound to a wife? Stop seeking a release. Are you loosed from a wife? Stop seeking a wife. 28 But even if you did marry, you would commit no sin. And if a virgin [person] married, such one would commit no sin. However, those who do will have tribulation in their flesh. But I am sparing YOU.

[Shiwiii]

1 hour ago, JaniceM said:

God has allowed men to rule and make laws, decisions on various matters.  The Bible does not say stop at the red light and go on green.  I agree at least moral laws should be based in harmony with God's laws.  A couple of verses come to mind.

 

Right, but stopping at a red light is not against God's laws. Neither is eating a cookie or opening one. 

[JaniceM]

Hi Shiwii, I think the response was originally stated, that it is ok to eat a cookie in general  At the risk of sounding redundant, the issue was regarding fortune cookies (cakes), which people rely upon to predict their future (fortune-telling).  We therefore, would use God's word to see how he felt about such matters along with our conscience and be mindful of the conscience of others to guide us.

i.e.

Isa 64:11 “But YOU men are those leaving Jehovah, those forgetting my holy mountain, those setting in order a table for the god of Good Luck and those filling up mixed wine for the god of Destiny. 12 And I will destine YOU men to the sword, and YOU will all of YOU bow down to being slaughtered; for the reason that I called, but YOU did not answer; I spoke, but YOU did not listen; and YOU kept doing what was bad in my eyes, and the thing in which I took no delight YOU chose.”

 

(Jeremiah 7:18) The sons are picking up sticks of wood, and the fathers are lighting the fire, and the wives are kneading flour dough in order to make sacrificial cakes to the ‘queen of the heavens’; and there is a pouring out of drink offerings to other gods for the purpose of offending me.

[Shiwiii]

You are implying that a fortune cookie and its content is like that of a god? 

Your quote from Isaiah has more to do with their action of worshiping some god or gods, than it does with wondering if a generic note in a cookie is going to be true. Don't get me wrong here, I agree that if someone were to put all of their faith into what the little slip of paper in the cookie says then they are off their rocker in the first place. I hardly think many people do this. Some do I'm sure, but not most. 

[JaniceM]

I am not implying the content of a cookie is that of a god for the sake of your argument..  Growing up as a Baptist, we bought these cookies for we thought they could actually predict our future.  I now know differently, but when I first started studying the Bible, I would have been confused if I saw others buying cookies of this sort while they were teaching me God does not approve of spiritistic practices.  To me, it would have been sort of like when people or Christians look to astrology or the horoscopes today.   That is why it's best to use good judgment especially so we don't cause damage to the conscience and faith of others.

[Shiwiii]

 

I really don't get what being a baptist has to do with these cookies. All Baptists do not believe that the future is told by fortune cookies. 

 

It really is crazy how this thread has evolved. I think I'm done with cookies and their sneaky god-like spiritism fortunes! 

[JaniceM]

 

I grew up attending some of the mainstream religious sects, such as Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Evangelical churches, etc.  I don't recall any of us being taught about psychics, fortune-telling, astrology, looking for omens, horoscopes, or ouija boards, etc.   Even though we played around with such things of that nature, our conscience bothered us they were wrong.  We did not fully understand God's views and displeasure with such things.