Do ghosts exist?

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hospitalpharmacist

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Recently I could see tv programs on ghosts real or fake. I wasn't interested in such matter until I had strange experiences. I'm going to tell what happened to me.
I'm a cat lover and I drive crazy when I see a cat; I own 4 cats in my life. The first one died because of a car accident when i was a child. Other two female cats died then along the years and now I own an other female cat I love very much. After the death of my third cat I began to have supernatural experiences; often during nights I see a black shadow out of my bedroom or into my bedroom. Once I could clearly note a cat
shadow walking in the air. During another night I feel something who climbed up my legs (I was lying in my bed) and when I touched it, it had just the shape of a cat. then it suddenly climbed down from the bed. When I opened my eyes my bedroom door was still closed so it was impossible that my cat came into the room. Recently I felt again something pressing on my bed. I'm wondering if my last cat died because of a bad illness wants to tell me she is ok. What do you think about?
God bless you all.

Cris
 

Agricola

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Yes and no!

Not very helpful maybe, but when you begin to look into the spiritual realm, different dimensions etc, you will begin to understand what is going on. Basically we can only interact with Height, width, depth and time, but there are other dimensions which we can not perceive this is where demons, GOd, angels and all other spiritual beings inhabit. It is apparently difficult, but not impossible for demons to manifest themselves physically in our dimensions, but they certainly can interact without much problem.

Ghosts are not dead people returning, they are demons disguising themselves as dead people. Ghosts are very real, I have had experience of a so called haunting in my work, but I ended up telling it where to go in name of Jesus and to leave, which it did, I did not see anything, just hearing footsteps, paperwork went missing and re-appearing in strange places, door banging etc.

Your experiences can only be demonic, best to get some help with this, im not experienced enough, but there are some people on this forum who are.
 

homwardbound

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Are weapons
2 Corinthians 10:4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,

Ask God whom lives in you if you believe to separate in you truth from error and stand in God's might, (righteousness) not any of our own and strongholds are thus pulled down and yet always fighting to cause fear, when God's
1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

The Devil, enemy works through fear to control, and God works through Love his type best described in 1Cor13:4-13 to set us free in God's type of Love that Christ revealed through and by the cross, the resurrection is where the power is. Where the new life is for us that believe, a gift to us from God, so we are raised anew in God's Spirit worshipping God in Spirit and truth
 
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hospitalpharmacist

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Thanks for your replies.
So if I understood they are Evil's attacks; Evil is trying to make me afraid. Why if this explanation is real I felt only confusion but not fear every time these unexplained facts happened to me?

Cris
 

jb

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Ghosts are not dead people returning, they are demons (disguising) imitating (themselves as) dead people....
This is what is happening in the spiritual realm when the spiritually dead medium/spiritualist links up with the demon doing the imitating...

So, 'no' there are no such things as ghosts, just demons imitating them.
 
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Mammachickadee

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Animals would be required to have souls if they were to be ghosts.
 

jb

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This is what is happening in the spiritual realm when the spiritually dead medium/spiritualist links up with the demon doing the imitating...

So, 'no' there are no such things as ghosts, just demons imitating them.
Instead of using the word 'imitating' I think the word 'impersonating' is more accurate...
 
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hospitalpharmacist

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So what i should do with that?
 
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wwjd_kilden

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Though there are definitely demons, sometimes our minds simply play tricks on us. We see a shadow and our mind connects it to a pet that would normally be sleeping in that spot, or we hear a sound and it happens to be similar to the thud of a pet jumping down from the bed, our mind connects what seems to make sense from experience.

If it bugs you: Tell it to go away in the name of Christ.
 
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hospitalpharmacist

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Thanks wwjd_kilden
I will follow your advice. Only another question Is it possible that such demons are related to my family' s bad atmosphere made of yelling non cooperation and verbal and psychological abuses?

Cris
 
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danschance

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My home became haunted because I was engaging in things that God forbids. In fact most of the paranormal activity was in my room. While on the computer, in my room, I saw a shadow out of the corner of my eye. I assumed my son had walked into the master bedroom to use the bathroom, which he frequently does. Then I realized he made no noise when he walked. So I got up to see if he was in the bathroom and he was not. There is no way for him to leave the bathroom and not walk past me. So I was either wrong and somehow became confused and thought I saw a black shadow that resembled my son or I did see it.

A month later my son was on the computer in my room and he claimed to of seen a black shadow of our dog "Kona". Kona was a great dog. She was a rottweiler mix and the best dog I have ever owned. My son said he turned to look at a black shadow that he thought was Kona but then it was gone. Kona died of old age about a year before this happened. So he was very freaked out.

My son loved Kona more than the rest of us and missed her for years. I have five children and love them all equally but prefer my older son's company to the rest. You have a strong attachment to cats and you experienced this same phenomena with a cat. I knew a lady who saw "shadow spiders" and she had a phobia of spiders. The connection between all of this is the person had a strong emotion attached to a thing similar to what the paranormal activity was about.

I can say with great assurance that this type of phenomena is caused by the demonic and not disembodied spirits. It might be possible that you may of been mistaken and nothing paranormal occurred, but I find that to be very remote in your case. Some people might say this is caused by sleep paralysis but I do not believe sleep paralysis is an aberrant sleep phenomena. No known cause or source of sleep paralysis has ever been identified.

My only suggestion is that you learn about deliverance. You already suspect demonic involvement with your family and I agree this is likely. Deliverance stopped all the paranormal activity in my home. Using deliverance techniques, I have cleared two haunted homes.

There are thre basic types of hauntings, if you will.
1) Haunted land or buildings.
This is a home that is known to have ghosts (demons) regardless of who lives there. Ghost hunters and paranormal experts often say some tragic circumstances have occurred and they are sort of right. The bible says:
Leviticus 18:24-25,27, "Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants... (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which [were] before you, and the land is defiled."
Sin can pollute a property and it allows a demon to occupy it.

2) Haunted objects or cursed objects.
This is very similar to the point above. Typically this sort of object has been used or cursed by the occult. I have dealt with three cursed objects.

3) Haunted people or demon oppressed or possessed people.
Often people assume they live in a haunted home but when they move they find the same sort of haunting in their new residence. This is because the demon is attached to them. Those in this category can be helped thru deliverance. The most common symptom of this is the activity almost always is in the room where they sleep. The see the "ghost" most often or are the only ones in a family to see them. The paranormal activity is associated with the almost exclusively.

I hope this gives you some clarity on the matter.
 
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kenisyes

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People exist in our memories as long as we love them. I think you miss your cat.

Ghost phenomena is caused by recordings of emotion prior to death lodging into the subatomic structure of surroundings. Our brain plays the recordings back.
 
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danschance

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There is no need to worry or have fear. I have no idea if you are possessed and I never said you were. Yes, I believe this demon is somehow attached to you or so it would seem. If you were not afraid before my post there is no need to be afraid after.

Demons have limits placed on them by God as to what they can do. We as Christians have authority over them. If you see it again, ask Jesus to pass His sword thru it, in Jesus name and it will leave.
 
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hospitalpharmacist

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Thanks danschance
I'm sorry I misunderstood your post. I'm looking just now for some deliverance prayers I can pray to remove this presence.
Thanks again
God bless you
Cris
 
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xXErraticEmilyXx

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I kind of wonder about that, too.
I don't believe in them, however I believe that the disciples saw Jesus's ghost. I think that demons like to disguise themselves as the ghosts of our loved ones so that we might communicate with the dead and stray from what Christ teaches us. Souls only live on the earth once.
 
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danschance

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Thanks danschance
I'm sorry I misunderstood your post. I'm looking just now for some deliverance prayers I can pray to remove this presence.
Thanks again
God bless you
Cris
It might not be that easy. I think your best bet would be to ask God for help and ask God to reveal why it is there.
 
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danschance

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People exist in our memories as long as we love them. I think you miss your cat.

Ghost phenomena is caused by recordings of emotion prior to death lodging into the subatomic structure of surroundings. Our brain plays the recordings back.
That is called by people in the ghost hunting bizness as a "residual haunt". A residual haunt is where a ghost does the same thing over and over. Christians should get the details of what is being played over and over because it might be key in removing the demon(s) from the property.

One residual haunt people kept on seeing a young man getting murdered in a bathroom. So in this case, the murder was the legal right by which the demons claim as a legal excuse to haunt the premises. Then a few simple prayers from any christian takes away this legal right right and it no longer becomes "defiled". Sorry if I went over this is a bit fast but this is the easiest haunt to stop with some simple prayers.
 

gb9

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when the disciples saw Jesus walking on water, they thought they were seeing a ghost. so these things are not new.