HasahZ
Dona Nobis Pacem
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'the other side'
I'm sure I've already posted this somewhere unless I'm thinking of something else... Biblically the ONLY places we see anything close to people coming back... first in the OT, 1Sa 28:1-25... Saul sought a medium because he wanted to converse with Samuel, sometimes this passage is referred to as the witch of Endor... did Samuel really come back or was it a familiar spirit or demon? And I should do a Catholic search on this first but for now... it seems the Bible isn't really clear on this point... the passage appears that it could be taken either way. If it really was Samuel then it had to be God-ordained/permitted... I'm inclined to think it wasn't. In the end, Saul is defeated, wounded and kills himself (1Sa 31:4).
Then moving on to the NT we have the transfiguration. It was pointed out my someone a year or more ago that the disciples did not interact with, weren't allowed to interact with Moses and Elijah (Mat 17)... I have no questions there if it was really Moses and Elijah... the point is that there was no interaction.
I remember my days of rushing home to watch my favorite psychic on TV or visit local psychics I met... or even the few times I was asked to do readings for them... I so wanted to believe in it all but still so unsure of it. I wanted to believe, wanted to convince myself etc. Biblically we're warned to have nothing to do with those with familiar spirits etc... so I used to be one to be avoided, very much so.
Are familiar spirits and demons one in the same, that I'm not quite clear on... I at first thought they were different yet I've heard opinions that they are the same. I've yet to study the Catholic view on these... I'm still learning things I should have the first time around.
For me to now warn against such things as psychics, occult, divination and all those things that used to pull me all over the place, I don't liken it on to Hitler, or a pre-Nazi stance. To say that would almost be akin to lumping Jesus and the disciples into the same box as anyone that's dabbled, can't be done.
There are a lot of fine lines in life, I knew that from an early age. Freeing myself from all my old occult attachments was something I needed to do, something I wanted to do and did freely. For those I knew still in it, I have to keep praying for them and should pray much more than I do!
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...Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them.
Amen
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11/8/2007, 9:34 pm
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