Expert: Brenda Martin - 11/17/2009

Question
There seems to be a lot of shows and movies now about ghosts, EVP's, etc.
I find it interesting as I have lost a lot of relatives.
However, I am not sure what Jesus and Christianity says about this, but I think I remember something about not doing it.
Still, if a spirit has not crossed over, he is still a person and it should be OK to comunicate right?
thanks for your thoughts!

Answer
Hi Terry, you said--"a lot of shows and movies now about ghosts, EVP's, etc".

Yes there is & the bible tells us why "the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one" 1 John 5;19

"what Jesus and Christianity says about this?"

God’s law condemned as “unclean” and “detestable” the practice of consulting the dead. Deut. 18:10-12; Isa. 8:19)

Lev. 19:31: “Do not turn yourselves to the spirit mediums, and do not consult professional foretellers of events, so as to become unclean by them. I am Jehovah your God.”

"if a spirit has not crossed over, he is still a person and it should be OK to comunicate right?"

Wrong; the dead are dead, we cannot communicate with them, it is the demons you are in fact talking to--Eccl. 9:5: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.”

Ps. 146:4: “His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.”

Ezek. 18:4: “The soul that is sinning—it itself will die.”

After Jehovah warned our first parents that disobedience would bring death, who contradicted that? “The serpent [used by Satan; see Revelation 12:9] said to the woman: ‘You positively will not die.’” (Gen. 3:4) Later, of course, Adam and Eve did die. Reasonably, then, who invented the idea that a spirit part of man survives the death of the body? this is not what God’s Word says.

Would a God of love condemn this practice if the living were simply communicating with loved ones who had departed? On the other hand, if demonic spirits were impersonating the dead and misleading mankind by conveying to their minds impressions that would perpetuate a lie, would it not be loving on God’s part to safeguard his servants against such deception?—Eph. 6:11, 12.

all the best
Brenda