Frank Goad
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Does your religion believe in trying to talk to the dead?Yes or No?In my religion no.
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Does your religion believe in trying to talk to the dead?Yes or No?In my religion no.
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Does your religion believe in trying to talk to the dead?Yes or No?In my religion no.
I believe it is possible to talk to the dead and that doing so is very easy...
It's just that they cannot hear you or respond!
Sgt. Pepper
All you need is love.
Does your religion believe in trying to talk to the dead?Yes or No?In my religion no.
Yes.
Viker
Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
Yes. We call it fire/combustion necromancy. Fire is a gateway between worlds. It illuminates the obscured and can purify the surrounding. In my current avatar there is a triangle, symbol for fire. It is illuminating a representative symbolism of the Pantheon hidden above it. Through fire we can communicate with deities or even the dead. Other symbolisms and various non-combustible methods can be used but fire is most effective.
Sounds like not allowing yourself to fully move on.
there is a difference between invocation of saints and evoking spirits.
An invocation of the saints of this nature is an act whereby the believer in Christ commits himself with confidence to their charity. Since God is the source of all love (cf. Rom 5:5), any invocation of the saints is an acknowledgement of God as the ultimate foundation of the charity of the saints, and tends in the last analysis towards Him.
Evoking of spirits “evocation”, would involve any method whereby “the effort is made by human techniques to establish communication in the external order with spirits or disembodied souls in the hope of acquiring various kinds of information and forms of help.”
(Deut 18:10-14; cf. also Ex 22:17; Lev 19:31; 20:6, 27). A most famous instance is the evocation of the spirit of Samuel (’ôbôt) on the part of King Saul (1 Sam 28:3-25) to which Scripture attributes both the rejection and the death of Saul: “Saul died because he committed evil inasmuch as he transgressed the divine mandate, failing to observe it, and, what is more, consulted ghosts and not the Lord for guidance. And the Lord killed him and transferred his kingdom to David, the son of Jesse” (1 Chron 10:13-14). In the New Testament the Apostles sustain this prohibition and banish all magical practices (Acts 13:6-12; 16:16-18; 19:11-20).
The faithful are directed in all that concerns such matters to God’s own revelation. “They have Moses and the prophets; let them heed them” (Lk 16:29). Any further curiosity about postmortem affairs would be utterly foolish and should therefore be simply repressed.
An invocation of the saints of this nature is an act whereby the believer in Christ commits himself with confidence to their charity. Since God is the source of all love (cf. Rom 5:5), any invocation of the saints is an acknowledgement of God as the ultimate foundation of the charity of the saints, and tends in the last analysis towards Him.
Evoking of spirits “evocation”, would involve any method whereby “the effort is made by human techniques to establish communication in the external order with spirits or disembodied souls in the hope of acquiring various kinds of information and forms of help.”
(Deut 18:10-14; cf. also Ex 22:17; Lev 19:31; 20:6, 27). A most famous instance is the evocation of the spirit of Samuel (’ôbôt) on the part of King Saul (1 Sam 28:3-25) to which Scripture attributes both the rejection and the death of Saul: “Saul died because he committed evil inasmuch as he transgressed the divine mandate, failing to observe it, and, what is more, consulted ghosts and not the Lord for guidance. And the Lord killed him and transferred his kingdom to David, the son of Jesse” (1 Chron 10:13-14). In the New Testament the Apostles sustain this prohibition and banish all magical practices (Acts 13:6-12; 16:16-18; 19:11-20).
The faithful are directed in all that concerns such matters to God’s own revelation. “They have Moses and the prophets; let them heed them” (Lk 16:29). Any further curiosity about postmortem affairs would be utterly foolish and should therefore be simply repressed.
Sgt. Pepper
All you need is love.
Does your religion believe in trying to talk to the dead?Yes or No?In my religion no.
Why are you so interested in speaking to the spirits when it is against your religion to believe in communicating with the dead? You've asked a lot of specific questions concerning ghosts and poltergeists, but as a Christian, you're not allowed to believe in communicating with the dead. I don't want to argue with you about whether or not you should ask questions about ghosts or poltergeists or whether or not you should believe in the paranormal. I'm curious about where your interest in the paranormal stems from. I don't recall you ever saying that you've had a personal encounter with the paranormal.
Exaltist Ethan
Bridging the Gap Between Believers and Skeptics
Nope. One of the few things I have in common with Christianity, as I know you and Eddi believe.Does your religion believe in trying to talk to the dead?Yes or No?In my religion no.
In Judaism, attempts to talk to the dead are forbidden, and the Torah states as much. However, I have thankfully never witnessed anyone being harshly judged for going to the grave of a loved one and quietly talking to that person at the grave, or for talking to that person in his/her dreams. Mourning (I believe) is a deeply personal thing, and (I also believe) mourners should not be further troubled by others as they process their grief in their own way. May we all, always, be tolerant and kind towards others. That, I believe, is the essence of godliness.
Does your religion believe in trying to talk to the dead?Yes or No?In my religion no.
No. I don't believe it is any more possible to talk to dead humans than it is to talk to dead fish or plants. I believe consciousness ends with death.