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Yes there is a presence in some places. Some are more sensitive than others.

Do I believe in ghosts....? NO! MTG

This.

This.

Agree

I remember reading a theory that everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen all occurs simultaneously. The analogy was that time is like a flip book - it is a series of "stills" that are always there. We have not figured out how to flip backwards, jump ahead, or stop the forward flip.

Yup, we’ll said.

Read James Lee Burke and see his description of ghostly Rebel soldiers.

Jim

Time is a dimension that an omnipotent being can see spread out before him. We on the other hand can only experience time on a straight line moving in one direction. We can see back but we can’t go back and we can’t see forward, we can only move forward against our will.

It explains how God knows everything while simultaneously allowing us free will. It isn’t that he knows what we will do and had foreordained it thus denying us our free will, he sees it is happening currently though to us, we haven’t reached that point in the timeline. Such a theory would also seem to imply that at least some version of reality exists at every point in the timeline. So there are, in essence many or infinite versions of ourselves each occupying different points in the timeline and moving forward separately.

Any Roman Catholic believers that there is no communication between the living and the dead (Excluding Jesus and the Apostles that is)???

If so, do any of them believe in the Virgin of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Fatima, or the Virgin of Lourdes?

Believe in Visions of the Saints?


there's a couple of more on the page that ^ came from

https://aleteia.org/2013/11/01/3-sobering-visions-of-purgatory-from-the-saints/

Assuming the story of the Virgin Mary is correct, she would be considered a dead person (human spirit) communicating with presently living humans?

I'm not that familiar with any of the Protestant versions of Christianity, do any of them believe in Saints, visions, and such (Episcopal/Anglicans perhaps?)

An older story from a different forum:

“One evening my wife and I were driving back from a day in the hills. We drove past a friend's house about 6 PM. They were having a family function and a dozen or more people were gathered together in the front yard. Their eldest son, let's call him "Mark", was standing maybe 50 feet off to one side, watching and smiling, dressed in swim trunks and a t-shirt. As we slowed down and honked, he waved and grinned at us.

An hour after we got home we had a phone call telling us that "Mark" had drowned in a mountain lake at noon.”


Spooky as hell.

Nope.

As a Catholic - I don't see those people as "dead" - Blessed Mother, Saints, etc.

"He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God rests upon him." (John 3: 36)

"And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, 'Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?' He said to him, 'What is written in the law? How do you read?' And he answered, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.' And he said to him, 'You have answered right; do this, and you will live.' " (Luke 10: 25-28)

"So Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. ' " (John 6: 53-57)

Eternal LIFE is pretty specific/clear.

That's some fugked up schit right there, I don't care how you slice it.

It's the biblical basis/foundation for the Holy Eucharist and transubstantiation.

Please read the entire chapter 6 of the book of John.
It will give you the context, and you can see what Jesus is actually referring to.
This was a discussion being held at the time of Passover, after Jesus performed the miracle of feeding the five thousand.

The farm had not been lived in for close onto 20 years when we acquired it. The old guy, Arnold, had lived there for a number of years alone after his wife died.

Shortly after we moved in, odd things started happening. For one thing, the back door kept coming unlocked. For another, a light in the upstairs attic started coming on all by itself.

Then the apparitions started. Over the next few years, KYHillchick, I and the kids all saw or heard someone in his underwear going from the smaller of the two downstairs bedrooms to the bathroom.

Once, 'Hilll woke up to footsteps, and thought it was one of us hitting the can at 0300, but no one ever came back. When he actually appeared, you'd catch him out of the corner of your eye and try to look at him directly, and he'd be gone.

I solved the door problem by putting a big barrel bolt on the door and adding a padlock on the outside. He still occasionally works the deadbolt, but he hasn't found the padlock.

The upstairs light is still a problem. I'll come in for the weekend, turn on the main breaker and find the upstairs light is on. I'll turn it off, go downstairs and then find it on again before I leave on Sunday.

Once, this was about 5 years in, I was out back talking to 'Hillchick on the cellphone. Suddenly, I heard voices coming from inside the cabin. It sounded like two men walking in through the back door and going into the dining room while having a conversation. I told 'HillChick that the neighbors were visiting, and had to go. I went in the house, and there was no one there.

Outside of the last incident, none of this has been particularly creepy. Even seeing a little guy in his underwear didn't seem all that odd. We just learned to live with it, and it pretty much fizzled after the first decade. I still have a problem with the upstairs light, but even that is getting to be a rare thing.

You better be afraid of the ghosts.

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Jesus said that there is no contact between the living and the dead. If Satan can convince you that there there is, then he's convinced you that Jesus was wrong, that he's imperfect, and he is not God.
The case of Samuel appearing to Saul was a special case. As Jesus said, with God all things are possible. God has the power to make the impossible possible. He impossibly brought Jesus back from the dead, did he not? God also impossibly made dead believers appear when Jesus died on the cross. They were seen walking around Jerusalem. We aren't given any information what that was all about other than it happened. It was another special case of God exercising his infinite power to do the impossible.

Then couldn’t God be exercising his infinite power, doing the impossible for someone who sees something, or hears a voice from somebody they once knew…Like a child, a parent, grandma, spouse, etc…?

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