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To: fidelis

Agreed, but the activity is due to demon Activity, not ghosts. Ghosts don’t exist. One is either in the grsve awaiting hell or in heaven when they die


13 posted on 08/28/2022 6:19:44 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: Bob434
Sometimes (maybe even most times) this activity is attributable to demons, but not always. Demons will usually appear for the purpose of causing a person to turn from God from either fear, deception, or outright possession. Ghosts, or apparitions, reportedly often deliver different sorts of messages, everything from warnings to the living to repent (which a demon would not do), to just silent, seemingly neutral, appearances.

The Bible seems to take the existence of ghosts for granted. It reports and mentions them, and commands us not to have recourse to them, but it never says they don't exist or that they are always demons. The most famous example, of course, is the ghost of Samuel that is conjured up by the witch of Endor at the command of Saul and God permits it. Isaiah matter-of-factly mentions ghosts in Isaiah 19:3 and 29:4. When Jesus comes walking across the waves in Matthew 14:26, the disciples cry out that "It is a ghost!" and neither Jesus or Matthew offer a corrective saying there is no such thing. Jesus himself refers to the properties of ghosts when he appears to the disciples on the evening of Easter in Luke 24:37-39. They think he is a ghost, but he reassures them by reminding them of the qualities that ghosts possess. He doesn't dismiss their belief in ghosts or even qualify it by saying something like, "as you imagine a supposed ghost might have," but, again, uses the term matter-of-factly.

True appearances of ghosts do not seem to be common, and they are definitely out of the normal or natural order of things. But as in the example of Samuel, God in his singular Sovereignty and Omnipotence for his own Omniscient reasons, can and apparently does, make exceptions for his own purposes. But careful discernment is necessary on our part to differentiate between the apparition of a human soul (ghosts) or deceitful and malevolent demonic activity.

15 posted on 08/28/2022 7:15:24 AM PDT by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: Bob434

Do you have proof of those assertions?


25 posted on 08/28/2022 3:08:49 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Bob434

Agreed, but the activity is due to demon Activity, not ghosts. Ghosts don’t exist. One is either in the grsve awaiting hell or in heaven when they die.

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I had a ghost cat for years. It definitely wasn’t a demon. It was my cat.
I had to have her put down, from a vet that made house calls. He told me to wash my hands in salt after to help her move on, because cats like to hang around.
Of course, I didn’t do it, because I thought he was out of his mind.

Well, let me tell you, that cat never left. I use to feel her jump on the bed every night when I turned off the lights, just like she did when she was living. I’d feel her play with my hair when I was sleeping. I’d see flashes of her running through the house. I’d hear a faint meow.
Oddly, the only stranger she liked was my dad, and when he died years later, that’s when I never saw, heard, or felt her again.
I always tell everyone that my dad must of came and showed my cat the way to heaven.


26 posted on 08/28/2022 3:30:08 PM PDT by kara37 ( )
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