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Does the Bible allow or forbid deducing God's will from celestial or weather events, such as meteorite, lightning etc? What does the text of the Bible say on this topic?

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"Christians" is not a specific enough frame of reference to hang this sort of question on any more than "computers" would be specific enough to ask "Do computers support connecting to CRX machines?" What sort of computers? What hardware and Operating System? Without those sort of details, the question is unanswerable. We don't even have a working definition for what makes something Christian or not on this site except self-profession. WHAT Christians do you want to know about here? – Caleb♦ Feb 16 at 18:44
@Caleb why you close this? I think you can assume some things about a Christian of any kind: belief in God, belief in Christ, acceptance of the Bible in some way. Therefore, the answer is best made from the Bible as I made mine. – fredsbend Feb 16 at 21:22
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@fredsbend: Those are actually not assumptions you can make on this site. In scope for this site are "Christianity and all its heresies". This includes groups that would reject one or more of even those basic tenants but still label themselves "Christian". In the case of this question, we certainly have groups claiming to be Christian with opposing doctrines on this point. I think you might find David's post on our meta site helpful in understanding how this question is outside of what we can handle constructively. – Caleb♦ Feb 16 at 22:05
@Caleb Could this question move to Hermeneutics with a title change: "What does the bible say about deducing..." – fredsbend Feb 19 at 7:34
@fredsbend: Biblical Hermeneutics does not accept scavenger hunt questions asking what the "Bible says about topic X". Questions there must arise from a specific text such as "what does the word X refer to in verse Y". – Caleb♦ Feb 19 at 9:43
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That is astrology, which definitely classifies as pagan, occultic, and like sorcery and numerology. Strictly forbidden in the OT and not really talked about in the NT.

However, casting lots to make a decision was apparently okay in the disciples minds when they replaced Judas with Matthias in Acts 1. But the disciples were continuously doing and thinking things that Christ had to correct until Acts 2 on the day of Pentecost.

Now there are always the personal ways of deducing God's will. Gideon prayed that God make the fleece wet and the ground dry one day and the opposite the next to be sure of God's will to attack the opposing army. Found in Judges 6 and 7. What we actually might make of that I really cannot say.

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