SENTINEL WATCH October 12, 2009 Issue

ANSWERS ARE NOT IN THE STARS

BEA ROEGGE

TYPE THE WORD ASTROLOGY into Google, and you'll get over 28 million entries. Many of these websites offer far more services than the relatively tiny horoscope predictions that appear in local newspapers or magazines. There are compatibility and romance calculators, different types of astrology, and other ways to tell the future.

While these may seem like fun, there's also the danger that after a while, a site visitor will start looking forward to and believing in the "fortunes" that are predicted. In fact, one may even begin to look for "proof" that the horoscope of the day has some accuracy. That is a slippery slope indeed because it leads one away from trusting in the one God to the belief that the stars control one's destiny.

The Bible clearly states as the first of the Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." And in the Second Commandment, the warning not to make "any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above" certainly suggests that we must not worship the stars (Ex. 20:3, 4). These commandments signify that we should look nowhere else for guidance than to the one infinite God.

About the author

Contributing editor Bea Roegge is a Christian Science practitioner who lives in Chicago. Even though she's not teaching new classes, she holds annual meetings of her pupils in Chicago.

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