Ghosts and Demons

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I believe ghosts ever communicating with humans is very rare. I doubt seriously if one who is a soul from purgatory ever does. The only time it makes sense if it’s a saint from heaven whom God allows to appear and communicate for a particular purpose (if that ever happens)
 
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Some Catholics believe that ghosts are people who are in need of prayer (in purgatory) that God allows to ask for prayers. I don’t know if I buy it as I don’t think there’s an official church teaching on the matter.But I must admit I’ve heard some convincing anecdotal evidence from people I generally trust.
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Not “Ghosts”

God has allowed souls from purgatory to personally ask a given person for help.

Example:

a sacristan died and went to purgatory for not honoring the altar. He was allowed by God, to ask Padre Pio to say a mass for him so he could go to heaven. The man said he died at the friary Padre Pio was in, 70 yrs prior. Padre Pio validated it by looking up the person’s name. So he said mass for him. Fr Alessio who took care of Padre Pio in his last years, told me that story in Nov 1999 at San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. Fr Alessio died 2 months later.
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However demons are very real. The church has exorcists for a reason. Demons are real and they really do have power of the physical world when we let them into our lives.
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True.

AND

demon attacks can happen even when one is NOT giving permission. Padre Pio was constantly attacked, physically by dermons. They would throw him around his very small room.

For some extra reading Interview with an Exorcist | Catholic Answers
 
What is a ghost supposed to look like? I can assure you a demon can change shape and form.
 
I stated in my first post that I am not talking about private revelations. The typical ghost sight can involve just a group of atheist teens. It’s different to a private vision to a catholic.
 
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I stated in my first post that I am not talking about private revelations. The typical ghost sight can involve just a group of atheist teens. It’s different to a private vision to a catholic.
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There are thousands of ghost stories on the internet, they can’t all be fake.
 
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Perhaps, I think for us to see any spirit, they have to be able to physically manifest themselves in our material world. My gut feel is that demons do not have this power
 
What about the argument over Moses’ body between Satan and the angel Michael? Perhaps his appearance at the Transfiguration lets us know who won.
 
The Phrase, “I Ain’t afraid of No Ghosts!”, is a double negative, which means that the person saying it, IS claiming to be afraid of Ghosts, for they stated that they are not afraid of no Ghosts (or 0 ghosts).

This would also include of being afraid of the “Holy Ghost”.
 
1st part of the statement is accurate, the 2nd part is inaccurate.

Elijah never died, this is true, as seen in these verses: 2 Kings 2:1-23. Enoch, according to the Bible, also never died, and cannot now die, having been translated to Heaven, as seen in these verses: Genesis 5:24; Hebrews 11:5.

Revelation does not mention “Enoch”, by name, even once.

If you refer to the “two witnesses” of Revelation 11, those are not living persons as may be studied in context, but are symbols for something greater.

This is not correct. Moses was resurrected in the OT, by God, who had buried him.

The relevant verses:

Matthew 16:28, 17:1-12; Mark 9:1-13; Luke 9:27-36; John 11:25; 2 Peter 1:16-18; Romans 5:14; Jude 1:9

This is why the text of Romans says:

Rom 5:14 DRB But death reigned from Adam unto Moses, even over them also who have not sinned, after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who is a figure of him who was to come.

It says, “death reigned from Adam unto Moses”, because Moses was the first one resurrected permanently, and we see him in the NT, upon the mount of transfiguration, “in glory” (having been glorified):

Luk 9:30 And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias:

Luk 9:31 Who appeared in glory (Gr. “δοξηG1391 N-DSF”), and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.

In Jude, we see God sending His Highest Messenger to refute the devils claim to the “body” of Moses, for the devil claimed Moses as his prisoner for his sin in the OT. Yet, Moses had repented, and God knew this.

Moses is very much resurrected, alive, and in Heaven with Jesus right now. We can even see rejoicing in Heaven by those select persons, and angels at the time of Jesus’ death at Calvary.

Rev 12:12 “Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. …”
 
Not so.

Read:

Deu 34:5 DRB And Moses the servant of the Lord died there, in the land of Moab, by the commandment of the Lord:

Deu 34:6 DRB And he (the Lord) buried him (Moses) in the valley of the land of Moab over against Phogor: and no man hath known of his sepulchre until this present day.

God Himself buried his servant Moses. Only He knew where Moses was buried, and so in the NT, we see a glimpse of the OT events that led to the resurrection of Moses, when God the Father sent His Highest Messenger to retrieve Moses to life, and to rebuke the devil, who claimed Moses as prisoner in death.

Jud 1:9 DRB When Michael the archangel, disputing with the devil, contended about the body of Moses, he durst not bring against him the judgment of railing speech, but said: The Lord command thee.

And so we see Moses, very much alive again in the NT, in “glory” (Luk. 9:30-31).
 
Dear if God is a good thing.

I think gramtically it’s not a double negative because yheword no is an adjective for ghosts, so he is saying he is not afraid of zero ghosts?

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They can possess a human and therefore take on a physical nature.
 
Yes, but then their physical nature is the humans body. That is not the physical manifestation I am referring to.
 
Do you wonder how it is they can be seen at times, it is beyond science and human comprehension. You can’t see wind, yet it is there and can be felt, but yet we wouldn’t consider wind a physical object. Same can be said about a magnetic force, you can put your hand right in the middle of it and not be able to grab it, yet it is there. And these demons, they can and do leave marks on people. They are purely spritual but somehow or another they can have the ability to have a physical nature, albeit not one we understand. How, I do not know, I doubt anyone knows because science can not measure or put under a microscope anything from a spiritual realm.

How is it they can move objects. How was it able to hold my wife down. How were we able to see it change shapes. How could we feel it pass through us and how was it able to completely blank me out as though I was out of space and time? How can it whistle or say my wife’s name over and over. I guess from real time experience I know they are pure spirit but somehow or another they can defy the laws of nature. I guess in a way it is like the transfiguration of Jesus, He was there physically yet He wasn’t. He did the opposite by going from physical to transfigured. And you would think a physical nature would be needed to generate sounds, yet the Apostles could hear them conversing. All I know is that it blows my mind.
 
I read from private revelations that there were angels who were undecided, but at the last moment decided to go with God and not the devil.But God still had to punish them,they are on earth until the end of the world. Their sole purpose is to help man, and they can take the form of any human or animal.
 
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