If so, support your theories with bible related versus.
Or do you believe that Christianity and the investigation of the paranormal can coincide and work better together?
I believe that being a Christian, I can have a better understanding of the research of the paranormal, considering that most people believe that you have to see it to believe it; although I do not "see" God, I believe in Him.
2007-10-09 05:43:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Rudy, you see that you simply stated that the bible clearly states to stay away from it, yet you skirted around it by not giving our readers presise verses from the Book. Please do this, or don't make arguments that you cannot base facts upon please. Verses please....
2007-10-09 05:58:08 · update #1
Again, please state the verses. I know you can recite them, but can you tell us where they are? What book of the Bible?
I am a TRUE Christian who believes that we do go to heaven, but my heaven would be to stay and watch over my family. As far as Christians who do not believe in the devil, well, the only religion that I know that supports that idea are wiccans. I have friends who are wiccans and they believe less in the paranormal than my Christian friends do. So quoting the the bible that clearly speaks of Satan, yet you deny his existence....hmmmm, so what is the foundation for this theory?
2007-10-09 06:10:54 · update #2
I'm a Christian, and believe that Christians can do any kind of research they please. Researching anything, exercising healthy skepticism, and asking questions is not against my religion. I'm free to engage in scientific research of any sort, and if I also wished to research the paranormal (or anything else) then why not?
2007-10-09 05:47:51 · answer #1 · answered by solarius 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Biblically said, "the dead know nothing at all." With this, when one dies, they no longer exist. No feelings, no memories, no concept of time. Their only hope is in the resurrection sometime in the future. So, the question is....who are these ghosts, or spirits that people have claimed to be in contact with?
Turns out that they're the fallen demons that mimic our dead relatives, friends, etc., in order to deceive us to think that those we know are alive in some netherworld. So, as the Bible mentions to "not to practice divination, or contacts with the spirit world," it would be best to leave these spirits alone. All they can do is mislead, and perhaps cause harm to those alive. Though modern paranormal investigation is more scientific, it's really not a good idea, anymore than using the Ouija board.
2007-10-09 05:53:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you are a TRUE Christian you would believe you live 1 time you die and either go to heaven or hell. There are no ghost. The only spirits hanging around are EVIL! Exactly how does that help your paranormal beliefs? To me it goes agianst them? Just for the record I have a very strong intrest in the paranormal.I do believe in God but think the Devil is an urban myth created by christians to keep you in line with their beliefs
2007-10-09 05:51:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
2-3 times a day is an awful lot even for a 15 year old. This is a sign of a tendency toward addictive behavior. No doubt this pattern will start to assert itself in other parts of your life. It could involve drinking or other compulsive behavior. As a 15 year old you are likely to laugh at this and think that its a joke that proves my arrow mindedness. After you reach your 20s-30s you will recognize that I am right. The Christian life is one of personal sacrifice not personal indulgence that we see in the secular world. Christianity is work not play. We are often tempted to take the easy way out this is especially true when personal gratification is coupled with personal relief. Now that you have trained your body for 5 months that it needs to produce large amounts of semen everyday and stimulated your brain to expect it quitting will be absolute hell since you have created an additive patten that is in every way as powerful or even more so than a drug addiction. You have set the same mechanism into play. I want to remind you at this point that Christianity is all about eliminating the unnatural (or perhaps even natural) addictions that create dysfunctions in our lives. Masturbation is unhealthy because it give you an abnormal understanding of the uses of your sexual impulses. One of the ways this would manifest is in a distorted way of looking at women. The right way is to see women a a completion of ourselves and as life partners. The wrong way is to see them as only a means for sexual relief. As our New Age friends like to point out "perception dictates (understanding of) reality. The process of walking away from this behavior will take years to get away from. No matter what you are going to have a inclination to do this for years. All you can do about it is pray for help and cut back to once a day, every other day, every third day once a week etc. Eventually you will return to having nocturnal emissions which will eventually diminish in frequency but will continue until you die or get married, which ever come first. You will climb the walls the day or days preceding it but it will pass. I will pray for you but with all obsession with it over the last 5 month you have your work cut out for you. You will suffer greatly from the temptation but it will be a big lesson for you. May God bless you.
2016-05-19 23:15:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes your unquestioning acceptance of things without evidence will serve you well in investigating other unsubstantiated things. Too bad that serious investigations require objectivity.
2007-10-09 05:49:03 · answer #5 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There's one of the contradictions in the Buy-bull. It says not to mess with divination or psychics but Jesus raises the dead...In the story of Lazarus, he used a self-proclaimed witch.
2007-10-09 06:01:07 · answer #6 · answered by strpenta 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
christians think that sanford and son goes against christianity.
how the hell do you expect them to not think that paranormal investigation does.
2007-10-09 05:47:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
yes, the Bible clearly says to stay away from that, and have nothing to do with it.
2007-10-09 05:52:58 · answer #8 · answered by Rudy P 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
its always astounding to me that fundies adamantly believe that humans continue to live as 'spirits' but will angrily deny the existence of ghosts...
2007-10-09 05:57:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋