Do Ghosts Exist?

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Psychics and Ghosts

A secret that a spiritual medium recently revealed to Postsecret

"What the Bible says about: Ghosts, and Psychics." angelfire.com. N.p., 07/08. Web. 22 Apr 2010. .

I read an article on a website that talks about what the bible says about ghosts and psychics. The bible says that Satan rebelled against God and was cast down into hell along with his fellow fallen angels, also known as demons. God created man in his image and therefore Satan hates man because they have a relationship with God that no angel could ever have. Satan is jealous and hates us for our relationship with God so he wants to deceive us. He tries to get us to reject God so that we will share his same punishment. Satan uses “ghosts” because he wants people to believe that these are the spirits of people who have died, but instead they have overcome the chains of death and have returned to roam the earth. These ghosts are not apparitions of loved ones, but instead are fallen angels masquerading around pretending to be people that we once knew. Some of these “ghosts” appear to people claiming that they want to help them and giving them evidence that they know things that has happened in the person’s life. Because these demons have been around longer than we know, they retain certain knowledge about our lives and use that knowledge against us. 2 Corinthians 11:14 tells us that Satan and his angels are able to disguise themselves as helpful spirits: “And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. (15) Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works”. God can send to us helpful spirits, but unless this spirit comes forth and says that they are sent from God, then they aren’t really a helpful spirit, but instead a fallen angel. As for talking to the dead, it’s forbidden by God and it’s not likely that you will call forth a good spirit because if you call forth an evil spirit then it will gladly show itself.

Being a Christian myself, I can’t help but to believe this. The bible doesn’t go in to much detail about ghosts and spirits, but if it tells me that ghosts are fallen angels disguised as helpful spirits then I can’t help but to believe it because it’s all a part of the faith that I have in God. It makes sense that nobody defeats death because in the bible it says that when we die we either spend eternity in heaven or spend eternity in hell. There’s no in between. As for people who actually talk to ghosts, I now believe that that’s a load of bull crap. A person who wishes to hear from a loved on is easily deceived by their medium and the medium takes advantage of that.

Bass Cemetary

A few friends and I went to Bass Cemetary for our interaction to see if we could have any encounters with the supernatural. Bass Cemetary is said to be haunted by the spirits of civil war soldiers and slaves. It is rumored that occult groups practice their rituals there, leaving behind animal carcasses that they have sacrificed. We didn't see any during our visit, but some of my friends have told me that when they have visited bass they have seen the carcasses. We didn't actually see any mists, figures, etc., but whenever I go to Bass I always have this eerie feeling, like something is following me. It's probably just a psychological thing. However, after I took a picture of Bradlie, Shawna, and Tatum, we saw an "orb" in the top right corner of the picture. I hear noises often whenever I go to Bass, but I have to remember that it's located in the woods and there's many of things that could have caused the noises, including the people that I may go with.

I thought that the interaction was the best part of this project. It was interesting to get together and talk about everyone's beliefs on this topic and going ghost hunting was a lot of fun. We stayed there for a good while and we didn't see any appartions or witness any other paranormal activity, so that makes me feel a little bit better about ghosts. When I started out researching this topic, it scared me to death. Now I think that people could have encounters with demons, but it won't happen unless you call upon them. I stayed in a "haunted" grave yard and I didn't see anything that would make me believe that there are ghosts.