angels and ghosts

     (…continued)  To say there is the possibility of supernatural occurrences is not yet to define what ghosts are.  The usual notion is that ghosts are the spirits of dead people roaming about on the earth— like Lenora.  But this is not what the Bible says happens to us when we die.  The Bible speaks not of ongoing disembodied

Image above:  The Witch of Endor (bringing up the ghost of Samuel), Dmitri Nikiforovich Martynov, 1857 ————————      (…continued)  The third, and most important, source of information about ghosts would be God’s Word.  Not counting the Holy Ghost, there are at least three ghost stories in the Bible.  In two of the three stories, the disciples think

      I once read an article about ghosts in, of all places, a respected theological journal.  It was written by a man who works in an old library that is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a previous librarian.  Other librarians claim to have seen this ghost in action; moving chairs around, knocking books off shelves,