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Chronos Location: Phoenix, Arizona Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes \| \|	Religion and Ghosts < on 7/17/2006 8:50 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	Hey, I was just reading about ghosts in another section of the forum and it got me wondering: What does religion say about ghosts? I don't mean any religion in specific, I am basicly asking if your specific religion either dispells the existence of ghosts or if there are things that support the idea of ghosts. Any input would be great, thanks!
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Watcher Location: Louisiana Gender: Male Total Likes: 22 likes \| \|	Re: Religion and Ghosts < Reply # 1 on 7/19/2006 9:43 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	Honestly, there are passages in the Bible that could be read as supporting the existence of ghosts. There are other passages in the Bible that would seem to deny it. Actual belief in ghosts among Christians varies pretty significantly. I believe in them, my pastor does not. So I'd say generally that I think Christianity is about 50/50 on the issue. The jury's still out except for some very fundamentalist interpretations. [last edit 7/19/2006 9:45 PM by Watcher - edited 2 times]
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journeylady Location: Kitchener Gender: Female Total Likes: 0 likes \| \|	Re: Religion and Ghosts < Reply # 2 on 7/20/2006 1:26 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	I think what I've been taught (it was awhile ago that I asked about it and since I was satisfied with the answer the details slipped from my mind) is that since the moment you die you pretty much immediately find yourself at the judgement day and then are sent either to heaven or hell there can be no ghosts because there's just no opportunity for them to exist. BUT there are demons who pretend and try to fool you, there are many sort of 'paranormal' presences that can't be explained... perhaps you could call them ghosts, but they are not dead people. I think that's how it went. and that's pretty much what I believe. I don't believe in ghosts but I believe in demons.
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KublaKhan Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Total Likes: 207 likes With Satan, it's always gimmie, gimmie. \| \|	Re: Religion and Ghosts < Reply # 3 on 7/20/2006 4:09 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	Doesn't Christianity depend on the belief of ghosts?
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journeylady Location: Kitchener Gender: Female Total Likes: 0 likes \| \|	Re: Religion and Ghosts < Reply # 4 on 7/20/2006 4:15 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	why would you say that?
	It's a tragedy. It's exactly like a greek tragedy. We should only be Greeks.

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Posted by journeylady
why would you say that?

Oh...I dunno. Something about the Father, Son and Holy Ghost thing, I guess.

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journeylady Location: Kitchener Gender: Female Total Likes: 0 likes \| \|	Re: Religion and Ghosts < Reply # 6 on 7/20/2006 7:16 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	yeah I kinda figured you were going to say that about 30 seconds after I pushed send... Since in my church we always refer to it at the Holy Spirit... which conjures up a totally different image in my mind, It never ocurred to me. As I said in my previous post, if you're talking about ghost as in dead human beings then I don't believe in that... The Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost is an aspect of God... but it's not a dead person, ergo not a ghost in my books. as per usual with my posts, this is just my opinion.
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Posted by journeylady
yeah I kinda figured you were going to say that about 30 seconds after I pushed send... Since in my church we always refer to it at the Holy Spirit... which conjures up a totally different image in my mind, It never ocurred to me.

As I said in my previous post, if you're talking about ghost as in dead human beings then I don't believe in that...

The Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost is an aspect of God... but it's not a dead person, ergo not a ghost in my books.

as per usual with my posts, this is just my opinion.

So here we have a fellow named Jesus...the Word made Flesh...the human manifestation of God...and he died, this Jesus person...this Son of Man...and now where does this leave me?

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Posted by KublaKhan

So here we have a fellow named Jesus...the Word made Flesh...the human manifestation of God...and he died, this Jesus person...this Son of Man...and now where does this leave me?

It leaves you with a dead guy. But that's alright cause not only is he a man, he's also God, so in a few days he raises himself up from the dead again.

This leaves us with a living, risen Messiah. The definition I gave of ghost was a dead person. He's not dead anymore so therefore, not a ghost.

It's a tragedy.
It's exactly like a greek tragedy.
We should only be Greeks.

Chronos Location: Phoenix, Arizona Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes \| \|	Re: Religion and Ghosts < Reply # 9 on 7/24/2006 3:52 AM > \| Reply with Quote

	In my religion it's taught that when you die your spirit instantly goes into kind of a different spiritual plane and behind a "veil" that stops spirits from seeing people and people from seeing spirits. In my religion it's taught that they than stay there till judgement. Nothing is taught about ghosts in my religion, but I've always thought that it was possible for there to be circumstances where the veil is parted for certain people. Just my opinion though.
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Posted by KublaKhan
Doesn't Christianity depend on the belief of ghosts?

Not necessarily KK.

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Posted by journeylady
This leaves us with a living, risen Messiah. The definition I gave of ghost was a dead person. He's not dead anymore so therefore, not a ghost.

Nope, not a ghost.

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Posted by MutantMandias

Nope, not a ghost.

Hehehe!! I love it.

But still. I said a LIVING risen Messiah. not a Living DEAD risen Messiah...

It's a tragedy.
It's exactly like a greek tragedy.
We should only be Greeks.

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