The answer is, absolutely, positively, “No!!!”
1. Talking to the dead is a pagan practice that is closely associated to witchcraft.
A. Conjuring up spirits of the dead is called necromancy
B. It is also called divination.
C. Among the pagan practices associated with witchcraft are fortune telling, channeling (having the spirit of the dead speak through a living person), divination and necromancy.
D. These practices take on many forms, such as séances, ouiji boards, tarot cards, and palm reading, among others.
e. There seems to be increasingly more interest in these practices lately with the availability of psychics on telephone hotlines, and new television shows. Recently, on national news (FOX, CNN, and others) it was reported that Hilary Clinton had a spiritual adviser help her talk to Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi. Mrs. Clinton used psychic advisers to “help her be a more effective First Lady.” Likewise, First Lady, Nancy Reagan reportedly consulted psychics for similar reasons.
f. The problem with these and similar practices is that they are strictly forbidden by God! For those of us interested in seeking bible truths, we need to understand that it is clearly an abomination against God to speak to the dead. The law of God in the Old Testament soundly condemns all such pagan practices.
Scriptures
Leviticus 19:26 and 31 Ye shall not … use enchantment… Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 18:9-12 …thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For 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.
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