
Dowsing, Faith, and Reason (Divining Rods, Pendulums, Radiasthesia, Rhabdomancy, Water Witching)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Do You Do Dowsing?
Some Bible translations translate the word staff as divining rod. The Hebrew word there is makhe and makhe is a branch or a stick, although it can mean staff or rod specifically. You need something from the context to tell you that it would be that kind of rod," he says. "We don't have evidence here in the text that dowsing was the particular thing they were doing"
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Transcript

After discussing the history and concept of dowsing with Dr. Paul Smith, Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Dr. Smith talk about what the Christian faith has to say about it, what science studies have shown, and what we should make of it.
