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What was that passage(s)?
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OK, Eternal Life, sure thing. In the Spirit World (Heaven in Christian terms), but they are dead as far as this world is concerned, no?

If it's true for the Saints (mortal men) and the Blessed Virgin ( a blessed, but mortal, woman) and they have been granted Eternal Life, could that not also be true for other mortals that followed the guidance in your quotes (Luke and John), and if so, and folks were visited by them, would those folks not be seeing the spirits of dead (in the common vernacular) people?

I'm no Theologist, but in my view, God can, and does, just about anything God wants.

So, to answer your question.....................................YES

Before I got married (and then divorced) I was staying at the ex's grandfather's house, since he had passed a few years prior. We were in the living room watching the old Curtis Mathis television. I was sitting in her grandfather's Lazy Boy recliner. Then it was time to go up to the bedroom and get busy. In order to get out of the Lazy Boy it must be returned to the upright position, which I did. I then turned the TV off and went upstairs. Sometime later - in the middle of the night - I heard something, so I went downstairs to investigate and to get a glass of ice water.

I went into the living room and the Lazy Boy was reclined and the television was on! No one else was in the house. I again turned the TV off and I put the chair back into the upright position. Perhaps granddad didn't like me boning his granddaughter in his bed.

The next day, nothing happened & I didn't get kilt.

Maybe it's Shaman, glowing in the dark after shaving his hair?

Maybe he needs to ask The Donald who his spray on tan person is?

Read the parable of Lazarus and the rich man, Luke 16:19-31.

Then there's Hebrews 9:27 Man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.

Here's a good article I read: GHOSTS

Yes, God could do that. However, in keeping with God's character, he only exceeds his own power for special purposes. In the case of Samuel appearing to Saul, this was the king of Israel, God's own chosen ruler, sinning to the point where God was going to kick him off the throne. He needed something powerful to convince him.
In the case of the dead believers arising at Jesus' death, we aren't told what God was doing. He had his own reasons and didn't have a need to tell us what it was.

After nearly 30 years in EMS I've witnessed things that I can't explain. guy with a broken neck walking out of a pool. told me 2 white guys in white flowing robes pulled him out. by standers said he walked out and fell over. He didn't walk anywhere with the c3 fracture he had and there was no white people in this neighborhood I assure you. Birds pecking on the window of a guy who just passed. I've felt the presence of peoples spirits in houses I've never been in before. I believe there's plenty of things in this universe we are too ignorant to comprehend. Just like animals seem to have a 6th sense, I believe we lack certain perceptions. Because we lack these we are ignorant of their possibilities of existing. I think we use religion to try and explain some of these. possibilities of ghost being around us and trying to reveal something maybe real. Must be pretty frustrating for them not to be able to convey the message. maybe that's their hell. IMHO

RC,

Thanks for the information.

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That was my thinking. Especially when a spirit seems to be comforting or benevolent towards the person witnessing it.


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A couple of theories are that ghosts are demons or that ghosts are those in purgatory.

Now the really weird stuff happens at the house just up the road from the farm. I don't know about the current inhabitants. However, the guy who sold us our place was raised in this house, and his parents remain. . . active.

For a while after we moved in there was a woman renting it out that complained that she was getting groped and pinched by a spirit. She finally had enough and moved out.

The mother's spirit was also fairly active. The previous owner used to have to come over and call up to the attic. "Don't worry, Momma! You're hats are just fine." It seems Mom was very proud of an extensive hat collection that she kept in boxes in the attic. After she died the hats were removed. However, something was frequently heard in the attic rummaging through non-existent hat boxes.

I was never personally witness to any of this, but these are not the sort of stories you go making up. As with our apparitions, most of this has died down over the intervening 20 years. However, it was quite something when we first got there.

I quite agree. As for the bolded piece, this is why He announced himself to Moses as "I AM".

Eternal beings that are not tethered to the unilateral time-stream of the universe, unlike we humans in this corporeal life, have a hard time grasping this. Other eternal beings who have never been tied to the physical universe as we are can presumably experience eternity as a single moment; so it's certainly possible that a human spirit that has been released by death may appear to be "stuck" to a place like a haunted house or a battlefield. Whether it's a different "dimension" or simply a different viewpoint of one cohesive universe is, to my mind, not a big distinction.

It's strange how a battle that was so small (compared to others like the Somme, Stalingrad, Gettysburg, etc) as Little Bighorn should have such a strong spiritual presence. I suspect there is something else at play here, beyond the Little Bighorn site.

C.S. Lewis wrote of this, pointing out the fact that there are places in Britain and continental Europe that seem to have strong spiritual presence, which he called "nodes", if I recall correctly. Places like this seem to be a focus for repeated paranormal activity, and may attract temporal activity such as battles, accidents, and so forth. I know of a couple of these places in western Canada, which were highly significant to the plains Indians, "holy" places to them, where I myself and others have experienced paranormal phenomena. These were associated with battles and other socially significant events in the past, at least according to oral histories.

....crickets...

He can't cite one because there is nothing in the Gospels to support this assertion.

My house in Wisconsin was apparently "haunted". I never personally saw or otherwise interacted with our ghost, but one of my daughters, my late/ex-wife, and one of my daughters' friends all did interact with her.

The ghost was that of a young woman who had worked for previous owners of the house in the 1920's who had died in the house. Both my daughter and my late/ex-wife said her name was Elizabeth, or Lizzie, and years later we were able to confirm that this was indeed the name of a maid who had lived and died there. We ALL heard footsteps in the attic that sounded like a woman wearing leather shoes walking, on numerous occasions. My daughter selected the attic for her bedroom when we lived there, and she said she saw the ghost numerous times but that was all she was aware of. Her young friend encountered the ghost in our basement on one occasion, and he was absolutely terrified by the apparition, which he said was hideous and threatening. My then wife, who was something of a psychic, said she had conversations with the ghost girl in her "dreams", on several occasions, and she proclaimed the ghost harmless.

Myself, I never saw or heard her (other than the footsteps). But we often had personal objects moved from one floor of the house to another, and lights would be found on when they had been definitely turned off. Interestingly enough, when I had an electrician replace the old knob-and-tube wiring in our kitchen and part of our main floor, the problem of lights switching themselves off and on ended. Apparently Lizzie couldn't figure out the new switches.

James,

Years ago I had an appointment to meet some farm and ranch folks pretty far out in the country. Rural Texas. Old ranch/farm type house.

I drove up at the appropriate time, and knocked on the door. No answer. Went back to the pickup to wait, and saw a woman standing beside a clothes line in back of the house. Middle aged looking woman. Her hair was up, not hanging free.

When I walked around the house to talk to her she wasn't there. I continued to walk completely around the house, but didn't see her.

Before I could get back to my pickup, another car drove up, and it was the people I was supposed to meet.

I apologized and told them I wasn't prowling around their house, but had seen the woman out back and went to talk to her.

The husband and wife looked at each other, then back to me and simply stated "So, you saw her too."

I told them I did, plain as day. They just said she was a ghost that lived around their place. That she means no harm. I told them I didn't feel scared or threatened, and they said "Good", and we went about our meeting.


Not the best ghost story there is, but pretty good confirmation that my eyes weren't playing tricks on me.

Healy Creek valley, especially the upper end, has a "feel" to it for me, anyway. It feels to me like something powerful resides there, brooding maybe, not hostile, just uncaring.