September 7, 2012 – 1 Samuel 28 – 29

I was thinking about Samuel coming back through the medium.  I think sometimes we see ghost stories or senesces and think that they couldn’t possibly be real.  We don’t necessarily get that from the Bible.  We are told that we aren’t to mess with them or participate in them, but not that they don’t work.  The story of the rich man wanting to visit his brothers doesn’t say he can’t, it says it won’t work.  The commandments are that we are not to participate in the occult, not that it is phony.  The Catholic Church does take possessions and evil spirits very serious.  I have understood that participating in things of the occult open you up to possible possession.  Exorcisms do happen and there are priest, even locally, that have participated in them.  I think that is something to think about when people play around with ouija boards or taro cards.  Even if they think it is a joke, there is power behind them.  We are told not to play with things we don’t understand.