SPIRITUALISM AND THE BIBLE - LIFE AFTER DEATH.

SPIRITUALISM AND THE BIBLE – LIFE AFTER DEATH.

 

 

“Spiritualism is the belief or doctrine that the spirits of the dead, surviving after the mortal life, can and do communicate with the living, especially through a person (a medium) particularly susceptible to their influence.” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/spiritualism).

Satan uses many successful agencies in order to seduce man and spiritualism is one of these delusive teachings.  The belief that spirits of the dead can return and/or communicate with the living is a sacred channel through which Satan works to accomplish his purpose.  The fallen angels who do Satan’s bidding appear as messengers. 

Satan has the power to bring before men what appears to be their departed friends.  His counterfeits are perfect in familiarity as far as looks, words, tone and demeanor.  Satan comforts many with the false assurance that their loved ones are enjoying bliss in heaven and he does this without any suspicion of danger.  Men give ear “…to the seducing spirits and doctrines of devils”. (1 Timothy 4:1).

The these fallen spirits sometimes utter cautions and warnings which prove to be correct.  They build confidence and then they present doctrines, by leading people to misinterpret scriptures, which actually undermines the scriptures.  They state some truths and this gives their statements the appearance of reliability and the false teachings are believed as implicitly as if they were the most sacred truths of the Bible.

He contradicts what the apostles wrote as documented in the Bible and in this way he denies the truth of the Holy Spirit and the divine origin of the Bible.  In this way Satan tears away the foundation of the Christian’s hope for eternal life and puts out the truth that reveals the only path to salvation.  This is ultimately Satan’s goal.  The same way Satan tried to exalt himself…

“For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:” (Isaiah 14:13).

…and lost his place in heaven, he is now trying to do the same thing to mankind.

Satan misleads people by exciting the ambition for self-exaltation.  In the place of righteousness and perfection of the infinite God, he has substituted the sinful, erring nature of man himself as the rule of judgement, standard, and character.  Instead of progressing upward toward the likeness of God, man is descending downward.

Spiritualism professes to teach Christ and the Bible.  The problem is, the Bible is interpreted in a manner that is pleasing to the ears of unrepentant men with un-renewed hearts.  Love is upheld as the chief attribute of God, but it is degraded with a weak sentimentalism and does not make a distinction between what God and Jesus Christ view as good and evil.  God’s denunciations of sin, the requirements of His holy law and His justice are all kept out of site.

Satan, as sure as the sunrises in the east, is preparing for his final effort to deceive the world.  He laid the foundation when he assured Eve in the garden “In the day ye eat thereof, then you surely not die.  In the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as good as gods, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:5-5).  


God never intended man to determine "good and evil".  That is why he told Adam and Eve, (...Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."  (Genesis 2:16-17). 

 

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THE ETERNAL PUNISMENT OF THE UNSAVED IN HELL IS NOT BIBLICAL.

Popular myth:

Hell is a Biblical doctrine that is in the Bible from the beginning to the end.

 

 

"This is not true! Two thirds of the Bible (the Old Testament) does not mention Hell at all. (“Sheol,” the Old Testament word that is sometimes translated as Hell, only means “grave” by definition, and it is where everyone in the Old Testament went when they died--good or evil, Jew or Gentile).  The other translation is a "pit". Thus the Old Testament does not contain the modern Christian concept of Hell!

"If Hell is real, why did God tell the Jews that burning their children alive in the fire to the false god Molech, (in the valley of Gehenna) was so detestable to Him? God said that such a thing “never even entered His mind” (Jer. 32:35).

"How could God say such a thing to Israel, if He has plans to burn alive a good majority of His own creation in a spiritual and eternal Gehenna of His own making?

"FACT: The King James Bible erroneously translates the word “Sheol” as Hell a total of 31 times in the Old Testament, thus setting a foundation for that doctrine in the New Testament as well as the majority of Bible translations to follow the KJV.

"Even so, most new translations have completely eliminated Hell from the Old Testament, as honest and better scholarship has demanded. The Jewish version of the Old Testament (the Tanakh) has no concept of Hell in it.

"The importance of this fact cannot be over-emphasized. If a doctrine does not appear as seed form in the books of the Law, the Prophets and the Psalms, it cannot fairly be taught as a major biblical doctrine, if indeed it can be taught as biblical at all!"  (http://www.tentmaker.org/ifhellisreal.htm)

 

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WHAT DOES THE BIBLE TELL US ABOUT LIFE AFTER DEATH?

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE?

The Bible has a definite view about life after death and it may be contrary to the popular belief of most Christians.  The Bible does not tell us that when we die we go to heaven.  It is very true that this is a popular Christian doctrines preached by most Christian denominations today, but just because it is a Christian doctrine does not make it true.

Their are many varied doctrines in the Christian religion today.  Each church professing a particular doctrine will swear on the Bible that what they are preaching is the truth and that if you do not believe them you will go to hell.  The question is, how can all these different doctrines be true?  The short answer is that they can't.  There can only be one truth.

If this is the case, then there are a lot of Christians out there who believe that they were going to go to heaven when thy die who aren't.  The Bible actually tells us that no one goes to heaven right after they die.  This is a fabrication thought up by Satan and instituted by the early Roman Church in order to deceive new found Christian believers and give them false hope which, because of the uncertainty of a belief that cannot really be proven by the scriptures evokes dread, fear and hopelessness, which is exactly what Satan wants to do.  He is a master at this.

The Bible makes it pretty simple to understand exactly what happens when we die.  It says, "Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it"  (Ecclesiastes 12:7).  Most Christians at this point will say, "see, the Bible says that the spirit goes back to God, who gave it!"

That is true, it does say that.  But, the Bible also says, "The spirit of God is in my nostrils" (Job 27:3).  God's Spirit that he gave to man is the "breath of God"  The "breath of life".  It is God's power.  The Bible never says anywhere that the spirit has any intellect, life, wisdom, or feeling.  it is the breath "of" life, not life itself.

To understand exactly what the scripture means, you must understand what the human spirit is.  Exactly how is the word for spirit used in the Bible.  Let’s take a look at the Old Testament since this is what Jesus Christ taught from. 

The English word “spirit” is interpreted from the Hebrew noun, “ruwach”.  The Hebrew word  “ruwach” is related to the verb meaning, "to breathe", or "to blow", The primitive Hebrew root of the word “ruwach” means breath as in “the breath of life”, or to blow as in blowing air from the nostrils.

Ruwach can refer to wind, breath or to the mind such as in a state of agitation.  It could describe a person as physically being in a fast motion, such as a horse breathing quickly or being vivacious or animated with vigor.  It can also describe a psychological state of being such as being mad or angry.  It could describe your temperament as being courageous or describe your disposition as impatient, angry, bitter.  All of these descriptions can describe the spirit of a man.

The spirit of a man is an abstract description.  It is not a physical entity.  The spirit doesn't think or have any thought process.  It cannot speak, see or talk.

Biblically it is defined as breath, to blow, or wind.  It is a force that has energy.  Job 19:17 interprets “ruwach” as breath.

The Bible also tells us that the soul is a living being.  "And the lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, (ruwach); and man became a living soul"  (Genesis 2:7).  The soul is a combination of two things, the body plus the breath of God, the spirit or the power of God. 

There is no scripture in the Bible that tells us that the body and soul, exists without, the spirit.  The Bible tells us that the spirit, which simply is the power of God that kept the body alive making it a "living soul", goes back to God.  There is no scripture that tells us that the soul goes anywhere after death except that it "...will return to the earth as it was..."  (Ecclesiastes 12:7).