For a few months now, Tele 5 has been treating its audience to the show of a lady who claims to have the gift of contacting the dead . All kinds of famous people have passed through the program, who have almost always shed a few tears when they believed that they were really receiving messages from their deceased loved ones. As Chesterton said, “ when you stop believing in God you immediately believe in anything .” These people may think they believe in God, but the closest they come is to believing in the existence of a higher being or entity. They do not believe in the God of Christian Revelation , whose characteristic is the fact that it is not the fruit of what man thinks God is, but is God himself revealing himself to man as he is. Among the laws that God has given to those who not only believe in His existence but also want to be faithful to Him, is the prohibition of attempting to consult with the dead.
Such a prohibition is clear in the Mosaic law but is ratified in the New Testament , where we see the apostles standing up to the whole world of Country Email List sorcerers, magicians and other showbiz, among whom we must undoubtedly include the spiritualists. It so happens that Saint Paul exorcised a young woman who was possessed by an unclean spirit, which made her a fortune teller: It happened that when we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl possessed of a divine spirit came out to meet us, who by pronouncing oracles produced a lot of money for her masters. She followed Paul and us shouting: “These men are servants of the Most High God, who announce to you a way of salvation.” He had been doing this for many days. When Paul was tired, he turned and said to her spirit: “In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her.” And at the same moment she came out.
Acts 16:16-18 That was "expensive": When their masters saw that their hope of gain was gone, they arrested Paul and Silas and dragged them to the agora, before the magistrates; They presented them to the praetors and said: “These men are stirring up our city; They are Jews and they preach customs that we, being Romans, cannot accept or practice." The people rioted against them; the praetors made them tear off their clothes and ordered them to be flogged with rods. After having given them many lashes, they threw them out. the prison and ordered the jailer to guard them with all care. Acts 16:19-23 From this story we can draw several conclusions. The first, that if witchcraft is real - something that those who do not believe in the existence of the spiritual world will deny, but Christians know that it exists - its origin is unclean . The second, which has a solution. That is, whoever believes he has received a gift from God when in reality he is a victim of possession, he can be liberated.