How could Samuel's spirit be summoned by a witch?
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The witch did not call up Samuel by the power of trickery or Satan; God brought Samuel back to give Saul a prediction regarding his fate, a message Saul already knew. This in no way justifies efforts to contact the dead or communicate with persons or spirits from the past. God is against all such practices.
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Typically a "medium" needs to be in contact with you, hear your voice, etc.  It's just a means of making you real.  A "medium" has a gift that allows spirits in and without direct contact with a blood relative it is really difficult to pick out which spirit belongs to whom.  I've had some experience in the area, but I truly can't get a good read on what spirit is trying to come through without having some sort of contact with the person that is inquiring about the spirit.
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Acts 8:9  But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:\n10  To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.\n11  And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.\n12  But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.\n13  Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.\n\nOf course he was treated fairly.  He was shown his mistake and allowed to change from the error of his ways.\n\nMagicians can't do miracles.  Only God can do those or empower others to do them.
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You can't communicate with spirits because they don't exist. Neither do ghosts. You can, however, convince yourself that you do, in which case talking to them could be easy.
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This question has puzzled people for years, and you will receive various answers to it depending on the beliefs of individuals.  The Christian Bible is not completely clear concerning whether communication with the dead is possible.  There is one incidence of it in the Old Testament when King Saul attempts to communicate with the Prophet Samuel through a witch (medium) and seems to succeed.  But the voice that answers Saul is annoyed at being disturbed and has nothing good to share with Saul. On the other hand, the Bible is clear in a number of places, that it is best to have nothing to do with mediums and witches, and seems to clearly indicate that trying to communicate with the dead is a bad thing. Many Christians believe that the spirit one may communicate with is not the dead loved one at all, but rather a dark spirit (a demon) that knows everything about the person and his family. In the Bible such spirits are passed down generationally through families and are called familiar (or famil-ial) spirits. The Bible is not clear that we cannot make contact with the dead, but it is fairly clear that it is not good for us. This is from a traditional Christian perspective. If you are mourning the loss of a loved one, chatting with a good therapist or a good Christian pastor or teacher may be a way of getting help.  The dead are in a different realm (possibly different dimension) from us. They may or may not be able to contact us. Again, we usually do not know who or what we are involved with when we seek to communicate with the dead. We may accidently become involved in a spirit world that is overwhelming and not good for us. Most Christians of a traditional variety would advise against it. I am one of those. I hope this helps.  This is one perspective.\nThere are others.
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I agree with Saggart ....I know this is off the subject but I was once into the occult before I returned to God and I have to say that you create an opening for the evil a gateway that they can come through and attack you. I had many eerie things happen during the time I was involved with this. It can be as simple as a ouija board or as serious as chants and incantations. The truth is there are evil spirits,demons that can invade our very bodies.
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Apparently, you must be dealing with some manifestation of something you may have seen. Demonic spirits can appear just as you conjure them up. They take different forms to get you to be interested in them. I would really have to know more in detail regarding this issue. But if it is something that you are seeing. 1.) Make sure you are born again. 2.) If so, release him from his assignment in which he has come to torment you, by the authority in Jesus name. 3.) Move on with your life and get in a good word teaching church.
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Does this help?\n\nhttp://www.witchvox.com/vn/sh/ukgb2_sh.html
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From the reference:\n\nWhen a suspected witch crossed your path, you could make a cross shortcut by crossing your index and second finger or the index fingers of both hands. This would provide protection and ward off the evil influence.
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Why would you want to cast a spell when you could pray to God instead?\n\nSpell casting opens the door of your life to evil spiritual forces that seek to deceive people by masquerading as forces for good. But any supernatural force that doesn't come from God is by definition an evil source of power.\n\n2 Corinthians 11:14  And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.  (15)  So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
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get out your ouija board and light a candle and summons the web gods to let you in bwahahahahaha
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First of all, Spirits cannot harm you. They can scare the hell out of you and play pranks but the spirits can not do any physical harm to you. \n\n I do agree though that before trying to summon a spirit, always ask God or your Divine Power (if you have one) to surround you with a protecting light. If you want to summon a spirit, make sure you are doing it for the Higher Good and for good intentions only (such as wanting to make sure a deceased love one is ok). The next step is to practice meditation. Your mind has to let go of "Ego" thoughts and Earth things and worries in order to able to effectively talk to someone from the afterlife. With meditation, prayer, and a true belief in time it can happen. It would also be good read books on the subject that will help you learn how to meditate more effectively. \n\nOne last thing, although bad spirits cannot cause you harm, you dont want to open your door to lower spirits or to just anyone. That is like leaving your front door open and allowing anyone to come in. Always pray to God before trying to communicate..VERY important.
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Casting spells doesn't make you a witch.  Casting spells makes you a sorceress or magician.  To be a witch, you would have to follow the path of Wicca, which is the religion of witchcraft.  The religion of witchcraft and the practice of witchcraft are two different things.
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we're in the third dimension. . Talking to your soul is a matter of trusting your intuition, and yes, witches are real\n\nA line is one dimensional. A piece of paper is sort of two dimensional. And a basketball is three dimensional. This is important to conceptualizing our relationship with the spiritual. \n\nImagine a piece of paper. Now imagine a race of 2 dimensional stick people living on the paper. You (living in this three dimensional reality) see one of these stick people, and you say, "hey you!" the stick man looks around, but there's no one near him on the page. You say, "Hey, I'm talking to you," and you push on the man against the paper. He feels an odd and unnerving sensation for which he has no ability to understand. You press yourself against the page, and a sort of shadow of yourself appears on the page. This is very much like the relationship which we have with beings from the other realm. Humans exist in a primarily 3 dimensional universe, but scientists predict that there are many other dimensions.Whether or not this is exactly what is going on, it feels a lot like what is going on.\n\nIntuition is the key to tapping into the spiritual realm. Develop that through meditation, singing bowls, or divination tools such as tarot cards, runes, pendulum, scrying, magic 8 ball, whatever\n\nWitches are very real. I'll be with about a thousand in a week\n\nI once saw a one legged witch turn a storm.\n\nMy first ritual, we were all comfortable throughout the ritual, but the instant the ritual ended, we realized that the room was cold. The heat hadn't been on and the whole time and it was spring equinox.\n\nI do spiritual healing with singing bowls. I play the bowl in someone's hand, and feel the vibrations as they extend through the person, and can tell them where the vibrations are and what they're doing.\n\nI used to work with a Reiki master who could put healing energy into people and tell people many details about their lives while we were doing our energy work. Very specific things\n\nFor a while, a witch and I maintained a karmic connection through an object which was divided and each of us kept half, and sometimes I would smell something, and call her up, and it was exactly what she was smelling.\n"Did you just make cookies?"\n"Was the dog just breathing in your face?"\n"Did you just disinfect something?"
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Ghosts are more likely demons appearing as ghosts than actual ghosts.  Maybe this will help.\n                                                       Sorcery    \n(Includes any and all of the following:) Divination/Magicians/Witchcraft/Wizards/Soothsayers/Necromancers/Fortunetellers/Astrologers/Familiar Spirits/Charmers/Black Magic/Ouija boards/ Dungeons and Dragons/Harry Potter, wicca, psychics, tarot cards, spells, voodoo, ghosts, horoscopes, astral projection, incantations, spells, seeing'talking to spirits, spriit guides, signs of the Zodiac, reincarnation, ETC.\nAny and all of the above are Satanic or demonic or both.  We humans are to have nothing to do with them.  They cannot help us. They will only bring harm to us, now, in the future or in eternity.\n“31Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.”  Leviticus 19:31.\n“6And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.”  Leviticus 20:6.“11Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.”  Deuteronomy 18:11-14.\n“19And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?”  Isaiah 8:19.  (We are to seek God, not the dead.)\n“2Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.”  Daniel 2:2. (Chaldeans were known for their magic.)\n“10The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.”  Daniel2:10.“6And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus: 7Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God. 8But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. 9Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him. 10And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?”  Acts 16:6-10.\n“8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”  Revelation 21:8.  (Sorcerers are headed for the Lake of Fire, the second death.)“14Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.”  Revelation22:15.  (The "...tree of life..." is eternal life, "...the city..." here is Paradise or heaven.)\nNote: The Chaldeans were famous for their sorcery.\nGod does not approve of anyone attempting to learn of the future except what He has revealed in The Holy Bible.  He does not approve of anyone attempting to contact the dead for any reason.  He does not approve of playing games or telling stories about sorcery. God does not approve anyone seeking power from any of these sources.  They are all Satanic/Demonic. Anyone who does these th
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NEVER USE A OUIJA BOARD!!!! IT leaves your body valnurable to any spirit human or inhuman! then you can be possesed! and yes it is possible. (answer to your second question)
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I once saw a one legged witch turn a storm.\n\nMy first ritual, we were all comfortable throughout the ritual, but the instant the ritual ended, we realized that the room was cold. The heat hadn't been on and the whole time and it was spring equinox.\n\nI do spiritual healing with singing bowls. I play the bowl in someone's hand, and feel the vibrations as they extend through the person, and can tell them where the vibrations are and what they're doing.\n\nI used to work with a Reiki master who could put healing energy into people and tell people many details about their lives while we were doing our energy work. Very specific things\n\nI have this one singing bowl which plays differently, responding to the place where it's played, or what chakra it's played on. I use it to locate blockages for spiritual healing. I also used it to find the perfect place to set up my tent the first time I camped in Kansas. One night the wind ripped through the camp. By morning, just about every tent had blown over except mine.\n\nFor a while, a friend and I maintained a karmic connection through an object which was divided and each of us kept half, and sometimes I would smell something, and call her up, and it was exactly what she was smelling.\n"Did you just make cookies?"\n"Was the dog just breathing in your face?"\n"Did you just disinfect something?"\n\nAs for Vampires, many people drain those around them of life force, but there are some who can do it purposefully. They have the ability to reach out and drain a person's energy. They say it's better than caffeine. \n\nI have a good friend who can do that. She's the only energy vampire I know who uses her power for good. She takes people's headaches. She also has an amazing ability to sense energies, making her one of the most powerful witches I know (I know a lot of witches who claim to be powerful, but very few who actually are). I have known her for many years and we are very close friends.\n\nOne time it was the dead of winter, she was sitting next to a window, and she felt someone looking at her. She looked and there was someone dressed in black with no color in their body sitting across the road, intently looking at her. She looked down for no more than five seconds, looked up again, and he was sitting on her side of the road, still intently looking at her. He was not dressed for the cold, but was not shivering at all. Just intense calm looking at her. She immediately closed the blinds realizing that she had just had an encounter with a real vampire. A real vampire and a kindred spirit. It probably wasn't a vampire like Dracula or what we see from Hollywood, but it was definitely something from outside of our mundane existence.