Saul then said to his attendants, "Find me a woman who is a medium, so I may go and inquire of her." "There is one in Endor," they said. He inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him by dreams or Urim or prophets. When Saul saw the Philistine army, he was afraid terror filled his heart. Third, it is not beyond the realm of imagination to think that Eliphaz made up the encounter in order to give some credence to his philosophical position on sin and suffering.įinally, under times of great stress, the brain is perfectly capable of conjuring up a seemingly very real human experience (like seeing a ghost) which, in fact, never occurred at all!Īnother infamous “ghost” experience occurred with King Saul and the Witch of Endor in 1 Samuel 28:4-25 Again reading the passage is fascinating: Second, the conclusions drawn by the apparition (ghost) were not from God. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice: "Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker? If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error, how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!" It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end. Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people, fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake. "A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.
Eliphaz’s night-time demonic (?) encounter makes for fascinating reading ( Job 4:12-19): In Job 4 Eliphaz, one of Job’s three argumentative “friends”, described a night-time encounter with a ghost who enforced Eliphaz’s incorrect assumption that Job’s problems resulted from his sin.
Ghosts are encountered several times in the Word of God. The word ‘ ghost’ may also refer to the spirit or soul of a deceased person, or to any spirit. Bible Definition of a GhostĪ ghost may be defined as "the spirit of a dead person, especially one believed to appear in bodily likeness to living persons or to haunt former habitats."Ī ghost may be defined as "any faint shadowy semblance an unsubstantial image a phantom a glimmering as, not a ghost of a chance."Ī ghost is sometimes said to be "the apparition of a deceased person. Let’s begin with several definitions that give us a foundation from which we can work. They also asked if this could this be a family member who died and has returned from Heaven? Are ghosts real? Annonĭear Annon, Surprisingly-or, perhaps not-the Bible has a lot to say about ghosts. The ghost walks by them but does not do anything to them. They have stated that they have seen a ghost, a man who stands by a window. I have had a friend ask me a question about ghosts.
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