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Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold
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I can't actually see the difference there. Muttering to "saints" that are necessarily dead (and getting a reply) or obsessing over deceased persons (to "channel" them) are both prohibited by God, therefore God has nothing to do with either cult. The precedent is established from antiquity, that a living dog is better than a dead lion, that the dead know nothing and have no part in anything we do, that we should drink wine with merry hearts and have plenty of head ointment.
Some trends in fashion are not rated by God one way or the other, hat shape for instance: square
OR round
OR round
OR conical as depicted is pretty much a matter of taste.
Pretending you're talking to dead people is not hats. Jesus knew this and Jesus explained using a parable so we would know too, how there is a great gulf fixed that souls in Heaven cannot traverse; they cannot communicate with The Lost even if they drive at 200
MPH along some imaginary road forever:
ain't gonna happen. I mention this because we've all heard, “Oh, but that's The Old Testament,” and some of it is but the theme is fleshed out in The New Testament, from the words of Jesus himself.
Whichever tradition liars are beholden to, perhaps for bread & butter or garish pageantry, they all claim to be in touch with angelic beings or entities on higher planes of consciousness. In every case what they claim to do CONTRADICTS what Jesus helps us to see and involves PROHIBITED activities, which is why it's so refreshing to read about a Christian who has had an actual encounter with the other world.
ECCLESIASTES 9:4-8
LUKE 16:23-26