ripple effect: vacaville

sorry about that.

This is from Vacaville?

sheer luck meaning, it’s nothing of importance or anything… they use intuition to tell you something that happens to be true. for example, you walk up to one of those “street psychics” and they size you up by your clothes/who you’re with and tell you something about yourself that happens to be true.

as opposed to divine intervention (probably not so common) whereby God directly puts into your hands, some sort of info via one of these medium — just kinda giving you a bigger picture of things or some sort of indirect communication — you still have free will to do with that info what you will, though, right?

Ok, so I was curious about this and did some quick research online. Here is what I found…first of all, reading Luke 16:19-26

“Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus
19 Jesus said, “There was a certain rich man who was splendidly clothed in purple and fine linen and who lived each day in luxury. 20 At his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus who was covered with sores. 21 As Lazarus lay there longing for scraps from the rich man’s table, the dogs would come and lick his open sores.
22 “Finally, the poor man died and was carried by the angels to be with Abraham.[e] The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and his soul went to the place of the dead.[f] There, in torment, he saw Abraham in the far distance with Lazarus at his side.
24 “The rich man shouted, ‘Father Abraham, have some pity! Send Lazarus over here to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. I am in anguish in these flames.’
25 “But Abraham said to him, ‘Son, remember that during your lifetime you had everything you wanted, and Lazarus had nothing. So now he is here being comforted, and you are in anguish. 26 And besides, there is a great chasm separating us. No one can cross over to you from here, and no one can cross over to us from there.’”

Doesn’t verse 26 plainly say that there care no such things as ghosts?

Then, at http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/ghosts.html, I found this explanation…which was one of the rare coherent responses that I found

“In 1 Samuel 28 Saul asks for a woman who is a medium so that he can talk to her. This woman had spoken to a “familiar spirit” on many occasions. She made her living by doing so. This spirit was not the deceased loved one her customer wished to contact, but an evil spirit directed by Satan to imitate the deceased. On this occasion with Saul however, God allowed the actual spirit of Samuel to be contacted. This had never happened before (she expected the same deceiving spirit she had always seen) and the medium “cried with a loud voice” (verse 12).
God used this instance to show both his power and presence to the medium revealing himself as the one true God. He also used it to send a message of condemnation to Saul. ”

After the explanation, the writer also gives the corresponding notes from his/her Bible.

“1 Samuel 28:7, 12 (KJV)
(7)Then said Saul unto his servants, “Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her”. And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor”.
Notes for 28:7 “familiar spirit”: Communication with spirits is as old as history, but has been strictly forbid- by God (Deuteronomy 18:9-14). The entities called by spirit mediums (a process called “channeling” in the New Age movement) are not the spirits of deceased human beings, as often claimed, but are evil spirits or demons, under the direction of Satan. When a spirit controls the body of a medium, essentially the body is demon possessed. Any “guidance” from such a source will inevitably be deceptive and dangerous, leading the one so deceived still further from the Lord.
(12) And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, “saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul”.
Notes for 28:12 “the woman saw Samuel” The “witch of En-dor” (I Samuel 28:7) undoubtedly expected to call up her own “familiar spirit” who could feign a message from Samuel. God, however, actually allowed Samuel’s own spirit to return to deliver one final message of condemnation to rebellious Saul. This is why the woman screamed out in shock and fear; her channeling had never before communicated with the departed spirits of real humans. ”

Just thought I’d give y’all more to think about…