Originally posted by stoker
robbie carrobie what do you make of the this issue in the JW issue. that saul when he visited a medium and the spirit of samual arose from his sleep, your JWs are saying that it was a demon??. Well since the demon spoke the truth as to sauls death seems your way belive that demons beyond gods grace speak the truth. I belive what the bible says in this matter and they do not say it was a demon, nor does it dismiss it as faulse.
quite clearly, as is indicated by Solomon, in the inspired word of God, the dead are conscious of nothing, the are therefore incapable of influencing the world of the living. that being the case, quite obviously then, this was an apparition, not the actual spirit of Saul. how can one see a spirit? it cannot be done. how can the dead influence the living, it cannot be done. whether daemons can speak truth or not i do not know, however, it seems quite clear from other biblical accounts that they do indeed, for example Paul cured a girl that had a 'spirit', of prediction, Christ cured a daemon possessed man, that spoke the truth concerning who Jesus was. what have you to say for yourself now my friend?
you must understand first and fore-mostly why we have come to this evaluation, for everything we profess, has a biblical basis, whether others agree with the interpretation or not!
you should learn to trust what we print, it is well researched and always corroborated. i shall provide you with an example, there is in one of our publications, a picture of the city of Babylon, with a ziggurat in the middle. The angle of the picture is such that it is viewed as if one is looking up to the ancient walls from the river Euphrates. The question was posed, that it would not be possible to see that ziggurat given the dimensions of the city of Babylon and its close proximity to the Euphrates river. what did we do? we built a three dimensional scale model of the entire city and projected the viewpoint upwards, and yes indeed, it would have been possible to see the ziggurat. There is nothing that we shall not do, to try to ascertain accurate knowledge, even in small details like this. Have confidence, what you are reading is truth!