can you really talk to the dead?

Answer 1

No, and here is the biblical answer:

Eccl. 9:5, 6, 10: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all . . . Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun. All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol [the grave], the place to which you are going.”

Ezek. 18:4, 20: “The soul that is sinning—it itself will die.” (So the soul is not something that survives the death of the body and with which living humans can thereafter communicate.)

Ps. 146:4: “His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.” (When the spirit is said to ‘go out’ of the body, this is merely another way of saying that the life-force has ceased to be active. Thus, after a person dies, his spirit does not exist as an immaterial being that can think and carry out plans apart from the body. It is not something with which the living can communicate after a person’s death.)



Does not the Bible indicate that King Saul communicated with the prophet Samuel after Samuel’s death?

The account is found at 1 Samuel 28:3-20. Verses 13, 14 show that Saul himself did not see Samuel but only assumed from the description given by the spirit medium that she saw Samuel. Saul desperately wanted to believe that it was Samuel and so let himself be deceived. Verse 3 says that Samuel was dead and buried. The scriptures quoted under the preceding subheading make clear that there was no part of Samuel that was alive in another realm and able to communicate with Saul. The voice that pretended to be that of Samuel was that of an impostor.

With whom are those who endeavor to speak with the dead actually communicating?

The truth about the condition of the dead is clearly stated in the Bible. But who tried to deceive the first human pair about death? Satan contradicted God’s warning that disobedience would bring death. (Gen. 3:4; Rev. 12:9) In time, of course, it became obvious that humans did die as God said they would. Reasonably, then, who was responsible for inventing the idea that humans really do not die but that some spirit part of man survives the death of the body? Such a deception fits Satan the Devil, whom Jesus described as “the father of the lie.” (John 8:44; see also 2 Thessalonians 2:9, 10.) Belief that the dead are really alive in another realm and that we can communicate with them has not benefited mankind. On the contrary, Revelation 18:23 says that, by means of the spiritistic practices of Babylon the Great, “all the nations were misled.” The spiritistic practice of ‘talking with the dead’ is actually a fraudulent deception that can put people in contact with the demons (angels that became selfish rebels against God) and often leads to a person’s hearing unwanted voices and being harassed by those wicked spirits.


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Answer 2

I tried talking to the dead. But wondered, why I didn't get any response from the dead. I will provide answer to this question when I am dead.

Answer 3

Regardless of whether it is actually possibly the vast majority of people who claim to be able to talk to the dead are con artists or deluding them selves.
If you analyse how they ask questions and which members of the public come to them - they are skilled people readers not contactors of the dead.
The british magician/hypnotist did a really interesting programme showing how easy it was for him to pretend to speak to the dead - because he is so good at reading living people.
Also if you search under cold questioning on google or wikipedia you will find lots of information on how many of these people work.

Answer 4

I talk *to* the dead on a regular basis. I tell my mother what wonderful little people her grandchildren are turning out to be.

I do not expect nor require an answer.

Answer 5

There are no "dead"! Spirits remain very much alive!
The term "dead" means a state where one lacks awareness
of themselves.

Answer 6

Sure you can....all dead people talk amongst themselves but if you want to talk to them.. you have to be dead first.

Answer 7

you can try but its the same as talking to the wall, once someone is dead they know nothing. they dont live anymore even in spirit

Answer 8

Yes you can-I was talking to this dead chick last week and she wanted a cigarette but I told her she shouldn't smoke.

Answer 9

Yes. They are not dead...there is no death...and it would not be a stretch to say that they are more alive than we are, here in the physical.

Answer 10

I talk to my deceased husband all the time. I know he is sometimes here. My 7 year old grand-daughter has seen him, although she was less than a year old at the time. He comforted her at a time when she needed him. I don't know how to explain that I knew it was him, I just know it was...