“Every time somebody in the Bible converses with an angel, they are communicating with a spirit. It happens multiple times in Scripture, and is never condemned.”
Where in the Bible does someone initiate communication with an angel, or any other spirit, through prayer, and not have that condemned? Angels are messengers of God, of course they are not forbidden to communicate with us. It’s trying to attempt the reverse which is clearly forbidden.
Your view of angels seems, well, unbiblical and detached to me, as if they were very far from us, or as if they dont see and hear us. Look, even we dumb humans can communicate with tens of millions in a flash with our mere earthly technologies. Do you really think these blessed angels have less communication capacity than plodding humans do?
In the Psalms, you and I initiate communication with angels, we address them directly:
Psalm 103:20
Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his bidding, obedient to his spoken word.
We ask (invite) (pray) them to join us in blessing and praising God:
Psalm 148:2
Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his host!
If we werent to address Angels, God wouldnt have us doing it in the Psalms. And in many dozens of Christmas carols, sung in your church I suppose and mine, where we ask the Angels to wing you way through all the earth join us in chorus raising, etc. etc.
We have present with us Guardian Angels, sent to serve those who are to be saved.
Hebrews 1:14
Are not all angels spirits in the divine service, sent to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?
We are always in the presence of angels: they observe us and know what we're doing.
Luke 15:10
Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to mortals.1 Timothy 5:21 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels, I warn you to keep these instructions.
It would be an interesting question, I think, whether we can ever NOT communicate with angels: that is, whether we ever say or do anything that they dont know.
I would argue that neither the good angels nor the bad can read our minds ----but they can form a very shrewd opinion of what were thinking, simply because of their intelligence and centuries of experience. But Satan couldnt read Christs mind: that makes me suppose that he couldnt read our minds either, and neither can the good angels.
But other than that, I think we are in constant communication with angels. Even you are, whether you realize it or not!
If thats the case, then what kind of spiritualism are we forbidden? Its pretty straightforward:
That about covers it. May the Angels protect you, boogieman!