horoscopes, astrology, is it fraud?

Horoscopes

Horoscopes, zodiac signs, astrology. Why is it not worth believing in the view of astrology that the stars of the zodiac influence our destiny?

We next consider horoscopes and examine their reliability. Many may be tied to this issue and cannot get away with it. They may take their horoscope seriously and watch carefully to see if they promise something better or worse for the future. In general, the desire for the better, as well as the discovery of a spouse or happiness, has made them interested in this area. However, in horoscopes and astrology (the purpose of astrology is the prediction of human nature and fate from stars and their positions, since it is thought that there is a clear connection between stars and terrestrial things) there are numerous problems that are usually not taken into account. These problems indicate that horoscopes and astrology cannot be true. At least the points below are worth noting.

Why all stars do not affect? If it is assumed that the stars influence our fate, why exactly the 12 constellations of astrology, whose stars may be located very far from each other and from the earth, are relevant? Why is it that only the stars of the zodiac would guide our destiny and not many other celestial bodies, of which there are millions in the world? Today, it is possible to feel thousands of stars, many of which are bigger, brighter and closer to the earth than the stars of the zodiac. Their attraction and radiation may be much stronger. Shouldn't these stars with stronger attraction and radiation, and which are closer to us, affect our lives much more than the 12 zodiac constellations? What makes the stars of the zodiac so meaningful and important, since no scientific explanation for their special effect has been found?

The mechanism of influence. When it was stated in the previous paragraph how difficult it is to prove that only certain stars - the 12 zodiac stars - affect our destiny, the mechanism of influence of the stars and their positions is an equally difficult problem. How can the same stars cause a different destiny for each person? If the stars themselves are dead and lifeless, how can they choose a different life and destiny for each one? Doesn't it require memory and shouldn't it be impossible, since dead celestial bodies can't intervene and direct each individual's life?

On the other hand, if a city has 70,000 inhabitants, shouldn't all the inhabitants of the city have the same fate, since the starry sky above them is exactly the same for everyone? How can the stars cause a different destiny for everyone, even though the sky above everyone is similar? How are dead celestial bodies able to act this way or is it a question of human superstition? No clear explanation for the mechanism of influence of the stars on people's lives has been found.

The moment of birth and the moment of conception. In astrology, the moment of birth is considered to have a decisive influence on a person's future life. It has been thought that a person's character, characteristics and destiny are determined by the moment of birth and the position of the stars at that time.

However, why pay so much attention to the moment of birth? Are not our qualities determined already in fertilisation and not when we are born? Birth cannot bring anything new to human nature, but everything is determined already at fertilization, that is, by the confluence of gametes. We get most of our character and other qualities already at that stage, as well as when we grow up in the mother's womb, and not only later at birth. So how can the position of the stars at birth affect? Isn't it too late by then? It can not be as important as the moment of conception.

Those born at the same time are a problem in astrology. The current estimate is that, on average, 270 people are born every minute. That means that 4 or 5 children are being born every second. In a year, there would be millions of people born at the same time. Should not each of them have the same course of life and destiny?

The fact is, however, that that we only know of one Napoleon, one Picasso, one Leonardo da Vinci, even though many other children were born at the same time? Why did they not all get the same character, gifts, and destiny, since they were born at the same moment?

Twins also present some challenges. It is possible that one twin dies before the other in a war. The survivor lives to be 70 years old. How is this possible in the light of astrology, because they were born and fertilised at the same moment? Should not their lives have been the same? Their different destinies show that the same position of the stars at the moment of their birth does not affect their lives at all.

Mass destructions. Prolonged wars and mass destructions create problems. Examples are the Second World War and the victims of the atomic bomb in Japan. A total of millions of people died in both of them. In addition, other major disasters are known, such as earthquakes, in which thousands of people may have perished at the same time.

A good question is, how could horoscopes, drawn up individually for each person, predict the fate of all these thousands and millions of people? How can these predictions be right for large groups of people who are born at the same time but die at different times? Isn't the truth that these predictions would have been wrong, because all individual horoscopes could not have predicted the same destiny for so many people?

Horoscopes have moved. Another problem for astrology is that the whole astrological system has moved one whole mark during the 2,000 years that have passed since the system was made.

This means that when someone now thinks that he is a Sagittarius, he is actually a Scorpio; and if someone now thinks that he is a Libra, he is as a matter of fact a Virgo. This means that each horoscope is always wrong by one month and that people use the wrong horoscopes. Based on this fact alone, horoscopes cannot be reliable.

LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE. When a person turns to horoscopes and forms of prophecy from the wrong source, they always take him away from God's guidance, and open his innermost being to the spirit world. Jesus said about the devil that he has come “to steal, and to kill, and to destroy” (John 10:10), which can also be one of the consequences of false predictions and prophecies. They can cause a person to have unnecessary fears, even to the compulsion to carry the prophecy out. The predictions, which at first seem to be captivating, can change into a burdensome yoke. It can be difficult to get rid of it, unless we really want to turn to God. Therefore, it is worth our while to give up these wrong prediction methods and give our lives to God. We can always turn to Him:

- (Lev 19:26) You shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall you use enchantment, nor observe times.

- (Isa 47:13) You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from these things that shall come on you.

- (Ps 37:5) Commit your way to the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

- (Phil 1:6) Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

The future, however, is something we should be interested in and prepared for, especially when it is a question of eternal life. The problem with many people is that they invest only in this life and search pleasure in it, but they do not think what will happen after this life. Many Bible verses talk about eternal life and Heaven, and it is a much better future than the best horoscopes can ever promise. We can enter this eternal kingdom through His Son Jesus Christ if we turn to Him; He is the only way to this kingdom. Therefore, allow God’s good plan come true in your life and take hold of the eternal life, and a good future will be waiting for you:

- (John 14:1-6) Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me.

2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to myself; that where I am, there you may be also.

4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.

5 Thomas said to him, Lord, we know not where you go; and how can we know the way?

6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me.

- (John 10:9) I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

- (Rev 21:1-6) And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

5 And he that sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said to me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

6 And he said to me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life freely.