Dead people can't come back and communicate with the living.
What is appearing to people in the form of apparitions of dead relatives, etc, is demons.
Anyone who has visitations or apparitions is experiencing demonic activity.
Thank you for saying what I was thinking.
Dead people can't come back and communicate with the living...What is appearing to people in the form of apparitions of dead relatives, etc, is demons...Anyone who has visitations or apparitions is experiencing demonic activity.Evidently, they can, and they did, in regard to Padre Pio: http://www.helpersoftheholysouls.com/ourpatron_plus/purgatory_saints/StPioOfPietrelcina.htm
1) I Samuel 28 King Saul, The witch of Endor and the Prophet Samuel.
2)Luke 16:19-31 Lazarus and the Rich Man
7 “Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, 28 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’ 29 Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’”
Notice that Abraham did not say "there is no coming back from the dead," nor did he say "you heathen believer in ghosts and things once dead, you are d***** to the lowest h3ll" No, all he said was if someone came back from the dead no one would be persuaded to act differently.
3) Luke 24:39 Quote from Jesus
Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
Note again. Jesus did not say there were NO GHOSTS He said,"a ghost does not have flesh and bones..." The implication being that there are/were ghosts in the first place.
Not that they are a prevalent as the Catholic church makes them out to be, but they are not to be discounted and may just a natural part of life (death)in regards to the human journey on earth.