![]() We believe that the divination that is forbidden is attempting to predict the future. It is true that Deuteronomy forbids "divination." However there are many places in the bible where random events are interpreted as communicating the will of God. Second, these reading serve to illustrate the synergies between the Bible and the I Ching. First, these readings are easier for contemporary Christians to relate to. In the Christian I Ching, these anachronistic readings have been replaced by short readings from the Hebrew and Christian bibles. However these stories have little meaning to most people today. These stories were meaningful to people 3,000 years ago, when the I Ching was first introduced. In the original I Ching, each of the 64 archetypes is illustrated by short readings that helped people remember the essence of the archetype. The Dao De Jing and the I Ching are bound by a common philosophy, but are two completely different books. It describes the source of all existance that the ancients knew as Tao and that most Christians know as God. The Dao De Jing, also known as the Tao Te Ching, is another of the great chinese wisdom books. Both Yìjīng and I Ching refer to the same book. This is an alternative spelling of the I Ching. When used in the context of Christian discernment, this becomes a tool for understanding how God is calling us to respond to specific situations. Usually the I Ching is coupled with mapping protocols, which allow one to map situations that one cares about to archetypes that the I Ching knows about. It recognizes 64 fundamental archetypes, and believes everything can be described by those archetypes and the relationships between them. The I Ching is a 3000 year old book of Asian wisdom.
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