By ghosts, I assume you mean disembodied spirits of human beings. If that's what you mean then NO there are no ghosts roaming around in our world today. The Bible clearly teaches that there is no intermediate state that one could be in after death. After one dies, he or she could either be in Paradise or in Hades. The spirit of the dead person will not roam around here to haunt people.
Lu 16:22 "So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
23 "And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
The ghosts that people see could be made up stories, hallucinations or the apparitions of demons masquerading as the spirits of dead humans.
Think and consider the utter fraud that it involves --- A man seeing the spirit of his dead uncle in his house with his usual clothes on! Are we to think that clothes have spirits too? That they go on clinging to the spirit of the deceased person?
Ghost cars, ghost trains, ghost ships, ghost carriages? Are we to think that cars, trains and carriages have spirits too? Come on!
There are only three possibilities --- they could be made up stories, hallucinations or demons masquerading as spirits of dead humans.
If they are demons the agenda is clear. It is done to deceive people that there is no judgment, that the Bible is wrong, that the need for personal salvation is false.
Thursday, August 30, 2018
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Are "Giants" in Genesis 6 really giants of great physical stature?
Ge 6:4 There were giants (Nephilim in Hebrew) on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
The word "giants" here in Hebrew is Nephilim. There are some who say that Nephilim here does not really refer to men of gigantic physical statures but giant in terms of ferocity and wickedness. I believe that this refers to giants in a physical sense. Elsewhere Moses used the word Nephilim and you can read it for yourself. I am quoting from the ESV:
Gen 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
Num 13:32 So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height.
Num 13:33 And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."
The word "giants" here in Hebrew is Nephilim. There are some who say that Nephilim here does not really refer to men of gigantic physical statures but giant in terms of ferocity and wickedness. I believe that this refers to giants in a physical sense. Elsewhere Moses used the word Nephilim and you can read it for yourself. I am quoting from the ESV:
Gen 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
Num 13:32 So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height.
Num 13:33 And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."
Thursday, August 2, 2018
What's the nature of the conflict among Christians in James 4:1-10?
James 4:1-10 can be divided into two:
Verses 1 to 5 --- we have the diagnosis of the cause of conflict among Christians
Verses 6 to 10 --- we have the prescription of the cure of conflict among Christians
The diagnosis of the cause of conflict among Christians is the desire for pleasure in themselves. They seek pleasure, they pursue their desires at any cost even if other Christians will be hurt and affected by it. They want to do what they want and want to get it that they don't even think of the consequences of their actions. They even fight for it if possible.
The cause is that they are really at war with themselves and at war with God. There is conflict without because there is first of all a conflict within.
The prescription of the cure of conflict among Christians is humility before God. "...submit to God" (verse 7). "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord" (verse 10). Humble submission to God's Word; its precepts and principles.
Verses 1 to 5 --- we have the diagnosis of the cause of conflict among Christians
Verses 6 to 10 --- we have the prescription of the cure of conflict among Christians
The diagnosis of the cause of conflict among Christians is the desire for pleasure in themselves. They seek pleasure, they pursue their desires at any cost even if other Christians will be hurt and affected by it. They want to do what they want and want to get it that they don't even think of the consequences of their actions. They even fight for it if possible.
The cause is that they are really at war with themselves and at war with God. There is conflict without because there is first of all a conflict within.
The prescription of the cure of conflict among Christians is humility before God. "...submit to God" (verse 7). "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord" (verse 10). Humble submission to God's Word; its precepts and principles.
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