Spirits of the dead do not exist.
Not exact matches
Well, yeah... and I mean if what someone is really trying to achieve with this is to reduce practices that in any way, shape or form could indicate that someone bears them or their faith ill will... I don't think publicly humiliating people who would take the time to look up your
dead ancestor's name and then take the time to drive to a temple and then get immersed in water on their behalf so that they (by their belief) have the option to accept your religion post mortem is really misguided and contrary to the
spirit of freedom
of religion in what it advocates.
Jesus said; I will show you my faith by my works: Faith without works is
dead: (There is no life) = If we have the Faith
of Christ (a gift from God) then we will have the works that go with it that is evident
of our faith; the works will testify to our faith, then
do we produce fruit that will remain: If our heart
does not convict us to
do what is right according the written word, then we are not in faith: Our hearts are far from the life
of Words
of our Lord penetrating into our hearts because our hearts are wicked; even Paul who said; follow me as I am
of Christ; how was that??? In and by the Holy
Spirit, even
Spirit of truth as Paul takes us through the Words
of the Lord to have us established in the truth: The Word
of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher
of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compared.
Let me just ask one question: Can we PLEASE start the debate in the country about how «God», «Hell», «Heaven», «Satan», «Muhammad», «Jesus», «Angels» «Ghosts» «Demons» and «
Spirits of the
Dead and or / Nature / Mother Earth»
do not exist in any rational form as the way they are presented throughout world history?
Baptism
of the
Dead does not mean that the
Dead wil accept it in the
Spirit World..
Jesus was never afraid to touch the untouchable sam is giving good advice but in the scriptures when a person in the old testament touched a leper or a
dead person they became unclean that is our fear.What is different with Jesus is that when he touched the lepers his righteousness made them clean instantly when he touched the
dead they came to life that is the power
of the holy
spirit and that power is in all
of us who believe by faith in Jesus Christ.So we
do nt have to be afraid because we are covered in Christ.brentnz
If that man chooses to
do any
of the works
of a regenerate believer in Jesus, he can — from his
dead spirit and from his natural soul, ultimately from a source
of fleshly self - pride.
Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy
Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou
didst shape
of clay as it were the likeness
of a bird by My permission, and
didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou
didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou
didst raise the
dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children
of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those
of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believe.
That Word or
Spirit most certainly is not
dead; and Altizer's «gospel» is precisely the reality in human experience and in the world - order
of that Word or
Spirit with whom men must reckon whether they wish to
do so or not.
I have christian friends from other churchs and there women
do these things and they
do it because that is how they interpret the word.Its optional and not inforced by the church or by there husbands.They
do it as an act
of worship to the Lord.The point is how you interpret the word that was what i was getting at as we know the word is the inspired word
of God to understand it we need the inspiration
of the holy
spirit otherwise the word is
dead and brings no life.In the case
of mother etta she was called to preach and God used her as an evengelist in her day her ministry grew she witnessed to thousands she healed the sick and saved the lost you can argue over a point but the proof is there that God uses women just as he uses men in ministry today.
By the way Peter never identified himself as the rock... Explain to me these passages, Acts 4:8 - 11» then, Peter, filled with holy
spirit, said to them: «Rulers
of the people and older men, 9 if we are this day being examined, on the basis
of a good deed to an ailing man, as to by whom this man has been made well, 10 let it be known to all
of YOU and to all the people
of Israel, that in the name
of Jesus Christ the Naz · a · rene», whom YOU impaled but whom God raised up from the
dead, by this one
does this man stand here sound in front
of YOU.
But this means that instead
of leaving the demonic kingdom in peace we attack it here, there and everywhere, as witnesses
of the resurrection from the
dead, as instruments
of the
Spirit of God who
does not share his sovereignty with idols but fetches his originally good creation back to himself in order that a new heaven may appear on a new earth.24
If the actual, proven
spirits of dead people all testify that they know for certain that God doesn't exist, would you believe them?
We need to have trust first
of all that Jesus is raised from the
dead, lives now as powerful Lord and is available to us in the
Spirit, even though appearances and the laws
of probability
do not support that conviction.
I don't know if you've ever experienced the power
of a Ouija board, but it's basically a means
of communicating with
spirits / ghosts / entities by placing your hands on a planchette and moving it about the board to spell out messages (presumably from the
dead).
Plus that kind
of established that there are lots
of these different investigators and they all
do things just a little bit differently from one another and you could have plenty
of chapters
of this franchise with all sorts
of different investigators using different methods to contact the
dead and experiencing all sorts
of different evil
spirits.
Strangely reminiscent
of the 1945 film «Blithe
Spirit» (albeit with a slight twist), «Over Her
Dead Body» doesn't have a single original idea throughout its mercifully short 93 - minute runtime.
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Metes and Bounds: By Marty Douglas — In the
spirit that there's no such thing as a horse so
dead that it doesn't have one more flog in it: I recently received a letter from a reader
of my August column, in which I frankly discussed my attitude toward the non-voter — those
of us with the right to vote in a Canadian election, who, for a variety
of reasons ranging from feeble to fervent, choose not to vote.