@Giuliano
"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." John 10:10
Yet many who have heard will not hear!
Amen! Can we hear? Can we understand? Can we speak? Just what exactly is it that the Holy Spirit in a person is to do... if not quenched? Quicken perhaps?
Yes, we need those new, pure tongues speaking through pure lips by the Holy Spirit in us rather than through logical carnal minds of men!
All of our friends, co-workers, natural family, fellow church goers and fellow forum members likely include a lot of "dead" people. Are we communicating with each other? Many times seemingly, we are not, but there is the possibility of an open heart among the dead who is hungry and thirsty for the righteousness of God, is there not? Was Jesus sending them to the Living here... or to the dead in hope that some would respond and be quickened?
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." Matt 28:19-20
Yes, with the disobedience of Adam and Eve death was immediately on the scene in every person born of the flesh from then until now. But... the living also came up from the dead because God made it a possibility. For this reason certainly God sent Jesus to us.Giuliano said: Perhaps your teachers were dead and knew nothing at all. Adam and Eve died on the spot when they ate of the forbidden fruit. Death entered the world. They died that very day. In one way. They remained alive in two other ways -- body and soul. Their bodies died later. Was Adam mistaken when he called Eve the "mother of all living"?
"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." John 10:10
Yet many who have heard will not hear!
You can see how they died by how they started speaking with "forked tongues." They were lying to God. They were blaming others with a satanic spirit of accusation. The Holy Spirit God had breathed into them had left. Thus they became mere "souls" like the animals rather than the "living souls" they became when God breathed. The promise in the New Testament is that those who receive the Holy Spirit will speak "with" "new tongues." Don't revise that to mean "in" "other languages." It means pure lips, pure tongues, etc. There may be some glossalia here and there -- but the pure lips is the thing.
Amen! Can we hear? Can we understand? Can we speak? Just what exactly is it that the Holy Spirit in a person is to do... if not quenched? Quicken perhaps?
James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
No man can tame that forked tongue that mixes truth and lies, blessings and curses. Only God can take care of it.
Yes, we need those new, pure tongues speaking through pure lips by the Holy Spirit in us rather than through logical carnal minds of men!
This is that unstable double minded man trying to walk on both sides of the fence to receive the blessings of God while holding fast to what he considers important to him in this world of carnal man!
This goes directly to the question in the thread title: Can the dead communicate with the living? They do every day that a living man [one who has received Life from Jesus] is listening to any of the dead men around him [all of the people on planet Earth who have not received the Life that Jesus brought].You misunderstand what "dead" means in the passage that says the dead know nothing. There are people walking around dead who know nothing. Let the dead bury the dead, eh? What will you be saying next, that Abraham is dead?
All of our friends, co-workers, natural family, fellow church goers and fellow forum members likely include a lot of "dead" people. Are we communicating with each other? Many times seemingly, we are not, but there is the possibility of an open heart among the dead who is hungry and thirsty for the righteousness of God, is there not? Was Jesus sending them to the Living here... or to the dead in hope that some would respond and be quickened?
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." Matt 28:19-20
God is Not the Lord of all, but of the Living! Again... most of our friends, co-workers, natural family, fellow church goers and fellow forum members are probably dead in the eyes of God. People seem to think that whether or not the dirt has been shoveled onto a person's face determined whether is Alive or dead to God. Wrong dividing line!Mark 12:26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
I can vouch for the accuracy of what Jesus said about Abraham. I've seen and talked with him. He isn't dead. He's alive and alert. So is Sarah. I wish you could see how Abraham's eyes sparkled with light.
People presume that they, born of their mothers, are not beasts, that they have somehow in the image of God. That image was lost to mankind when Adam and Eve disobeyed to them and to all of their offspring. There is such a thing as redemption and being born anew or from above, but it is not equivalent to being born from the coupling of a carnal man and a carnal woman. Without God we are dead indeed, and/or beasts indeed that "goeth downward to the earth"!What of this? People often fail to read enough of the passage. . . .
Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
God gave us the possibility with everything needed to come to Life again and to approach Him more closely, but most are more interested in the blessings anticipated in some later eventuality than they are in listening to and following God wherever it is that He leads them...now! They want to sit back in their easy chairs [comfortable Sunday or Saturday pews] and speak of some distant hereafter instead of enjoying now the Life we can and should have right now! Abraham is Alive now! Are we?Yes, who knows? The person who knows will repent and mend his ways. The person who trusts in God's Messiah will never die. His body may die, but his soul will not. He will have become a "living soul" the way Adam was made. Some may sleep but some do not.