For Spiritist Readers: Should We Seek Guidance From Departed Spirits?

Truth has nothing to fear from honest examination.

Thank you for taking the time to read this page.

You may believe in Spiritism because it appears to bring together:

• Faith in God
• Reason
• Observation
• Spiritual experience
• Moral responsibility
• Charity
• Belief in life after death
• Hope of continuing spiritual progress

You may have attended a Spiritist center for:

• Prayer
• Biblical or moral instruction
• Spiritual counseling
• Passes or spiritual healing
• Mediumistic meetings
• Charitable service
• Comfort following bereavement

You may admire Spiritists who serve poor families, care for suffering people, distribute food, support hospitals, or teach forgiveness and compassion.

You may believe that death does not end personal existence and that departed spirits can communicate through mediums.

You may believe that people reincarnate as often as necessary to learn, repair earlier wrongs, develop morally, and progress toward spiritual perfection.

You may regard Jesus as the greatest moral teacher and the highest example God has given humanity.

You may also believe that traditional Christianity misunderstood Jesus by turning Him into God, teaching eternal punishment, or claiming that one earthly life permanently determines a person’s destiny.

These beliefs raise essential questions:

How can we determine whether a communicating spirit is truthful?

Does apparent supernatural knowledge prove that a message comes from God?

Did God forbid communication with the dead?

Do we live repeatedly through reincarnation—or once before judgment and resurrection?

Can suffering and moral effort remove guilt from previous wrongdoing?

Is charity the means of salvation—or the fruit of salvation?

Is Jesus merely the most advanced created spirit—or the eternal Creator who became man?

Did Jesus die principally as a moral example—or did He bear our sins as the final sacrifice?

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God…”
— 1 John 4:1, KJV

What Is Kardecist Spiritism?

Spiritism was organized through the writings of Allan Kardec, particularly The Spirits’ Book, first published in 1857.

Kardec presented Spiritism as a philosophical, moral, and investigative teaching based largely upon questions reportedly answered by communicating spirits through mediums.

Spiritism commonly teaches:

• One supreme God exists.
• God created spirits simple and ignorant rather than morally perfected.
• Spirits develop intellectually and morally over many lives.
• Human beings are spirits temporarily embodied in physical bodies.
• Reincarnation provides repeated opportunities for learning and improvement.
• Present suffering may relate to conduct in earlier lives.
• Departed spirits may communicate with the living through mediumship.
• Spirits exist at different levels of moral development.
• Higher spirits teach goodness and truth.
• Lower spirits may deceive, disturb, or mislead people.
• Charity, forgiveness, humility, and moral improvement are essential.
• Jesus is the highest moral example given to humanity.

Spiritism is distinct from merely believing that ghosts exist.

It offers a broad explanation of God, spirits, human identity, suffering, morality, reincarnation, death, and spiritual progress.

Important Areas of Agreement

Spiritism and biblical Christianity share several important beliefs and moral concerns.

Both generally affirm that:

• Material reality is not all that exists.
• Human personality continues after physical death.
• Spiritual beings exist.
• Our choices have consequences.
• Greed, pride, cruelty, hatred, and selfishness are wrong.
• Charity and compassion matter.
• Forgiveness is morally important.
• Human beings need spiritual transformation.
• Jesus taught extraordinary love and mercy.

The Bible commands charity:

“And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.”
— Colossians 3:14, KJV

It commands forgiveness:

“Forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”
— Ephesians 4:32, KJV

It teaches that death does not end human existence:

“For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.”
— Luke 20:38, KJV

It teaches that spiritual beings exist:

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers… against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
— Ephesians 6:12, KJV

These agreements are significant.

But believing in spirits does not establish that human beings should communicate with them.

Recognizing Jesus as a great moral teacher does not adequately answer His claims concerning His eternal identity, authority, death, and resurrection.

Can Departed Spirits Communicate With the Living?

The Bible does not teach that every reported supernatural communication is imaginary.

The spiritual world is real.

However, Scripture repeatedly forbids attempts to consult the dead.

“There shall not be found among you… a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.”
— Deuteronomy 18:10–11, KJV

God did not forbid such practices merely because every practitioner was fraudulent.

He forbade them because human beings must not seek spiritual guidance from unknown spirits.

When King Saul consulted a woman with a familiar spirit, Scripture treated the act as serious rebellion against God:

“So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD… and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it.”
— 1 Chronicles 10:13, KJV

The central issue is not simply whether communication appears to occur.

The issue is whether God authorizes us to seek it.

Why Would God Forbid Mediumship?

Human beings cannot independently see the true identity of an invisible communicator.

A spirit may claim to be:

• A deceased parent
• A child who died
• A wise teacher
• A physician
• A guardian
• A religious leader
• A highly developed spirit

But how can the living verify that claim?

A spirit may know private details without being the deceased person it claims to represent.

Spiritual beings may observe families, learn history, imitate personality, and use grief to establish trust.

The Bible warns:

“For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”
— 2 Corinthians 11:14, KJV

Deception does not always appear frightening or evil.

It may appear loving, comforting, intelligent, moral, and enlightened.

Does an Accurate Message Prove a Holy Source?

No.

In Acts, a young woman possessed by a spirit of divination followed Paul and said:

“These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.”
— Acts 16:17, KJV

Her statement was accurate.

Yet the source was an evil spirit.

Paul did not accept the spirit as a helpful partner merely because it spoke true words.

He commanded:

“I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.”
— Acts 16:18, KJV

Truth mixed with spiritual deception can be more dangerous than an obvious lie.

A message may correctly describe the past while teaching falsehood concerning Jesus, salvation, reincarnation, or the authority of Scripture.

Can Good Spirits Contradict the Holy Bible?

No spirit sent by God will contradict what God has already revealed.

Paul warned:

“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.”
— Galatians 1:8, KJV

Even an impressive heavenly appearance must be rejected if its message changes the gospel.

A spirit should not be trusted merely because it teaches:

• Love
• Charity
• Forgiveness
• Hope
• Moral progress

Those teachings may be used to gain trust while more fundamental truths are denied.

The crucial test includes what the spirit teaches about Jesus Christ.

Who Is Jesus Christ?

Spiritism commonly honors Jesus as humanity’s greatest moral guide and one of the most advanced spirits ever connected with Earth.

But Scripture does not present Jesus as a created spirit who gradually progressed toward perfection.

John writes:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
— John 1:1, KJV

The Word created everything:

“All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”
— John 1:3, KJV

He then became human:

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us…”
— John 1:14, KJV

Jesus is not included among the created spirits.

He created them.

Did Jesus Progress Through Earlier Lives?

No.

The Bible never teaches that Jesus reincarnated repeatedly or developed from spiritual ignorance into moral perfection.

Before His human birth, Jesus already possessed divine glory:

“And now, O Father, glorify thou me… with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.”
— John 17:5, KJV

Jesus said:

“Before Abraham was, I am.”
— John 8:58, KJV

He was not originally created simple and ignorant.

He is eternally holy, wise, and divine.

Is Jesus Merely a Moral Example?

Jesus is the perfect moral example, but He came to do more than teach us how to improve.

He said:

“For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
— Luke 19:10, KJV

He also said:

“The Son of man came… to give his life a ransom for many.”
— Mark 10:45, KJV

A moral teacher gives instruction.

A Savior rescues people who cannot rescue themselves.

Humanity needs both truth and redemption.

What Is Humanity’s Deepest Problem?

Spiritism often presents humanity as spiritually immature and still progressing from ignorance toward wisdom and goodness.

The Bible teaches a deeper problem.

We have knowingly sinned against our Creator.

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”
— Romans 3:23, KJV

We are not merely inexperienced students.

We are guilty rebels who have:

• Rejected God’s authority
• Worshipped created things
• Lied
• Hated
• Lusted
• Acted selfishly
• Failed to love God
• Failed to love others

Our problem requires more than education over many lives.

It requires forgiveness and new birth.

What Is Reincarnation?

Spiritism teaches that an individual spirit experiences repeated physical lives.

Reincarnation is believed to provide opportunities to:

• Learn
• Develop character
• Repair earlier wrongs
• Experience the consequences of previous conduct
• Assist other spirits
• Progress toward moral perfection

A difficult life may therefore be interpreted as a chosen trial, a learning opportunity, or the consequence of behavior in an earlier existence.

The Bible presents a different sequence:

“It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.”
— Hebrews 9:27, KJV

We live once.

We die once.

Then we face God.

Did Jesus Teach Reincarnation?

No.

Jesus taught resurrection.

“The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
And shall come forth…”
— John 5:28–29, KJV

Reincarnation means returning repeatedly in different physical bodies.

Resurrection means God raises the same person who lived and died.

Jesus said:

“I am the resurrection, and the life…”
— John 11:25, KJV

The Christian hope is not another life of testing.

It is resurrection into everlasting life through Christ.

Was John the Baptist the Reincarnation of Elijah?

Some use Jesus’ words about John coming in the spirit and power of Elijah as evidence of reincarnation.

But John personally denied being Elijah:

“And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not.”
— John 1:21, KJV

The angel explained before John’s birth that he would go before the Lord:

“In the spirit and power of Elias…”
— Luke 1:17, KJV

John fulfilled an Elijah-like prophetic role.

He was not Elijah living in another body.

Furthermore, Elijah had not died; Scripture records that he was taken up from Earth.

What About the Man Born Blind?

Jesus’ disciples asked:

“Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?”
— John 9:2, KJV

Some suggest that the question assumes the man could have sinned during a previous life.

But Jesus rejected the proposed explanation:

“Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.”
— John 9:3, KJV

Jesus did not teach that blindness resulted from forgotten misconduct during an earlier incarnation.

Does Reincarnation Explain Suffering Fairly?

Reincarnation may appear to explain why people experience unequal circumstances.

But it creates difficult moral questions.

If someone suffers because of wrongdoing in a life he cannot remember:

• How can he understand what he is correcting?
• How can he knowingly repent of the forgotten offense?
• How does suffering teach a specific lesson when its supposed cause is hidden?
• Why should a forgotten person’s actions be assigned to the present personality?

The Bible teaches that God judges people with complete knowledge and perfect justice.

“So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.”
— Romans 14:12, KJV

God does not condemn people for unknowable acts committed by another personality in an unremembered life.

Can Suffering Pay for Sin?

Earthly suffering may discipline, humble, warn, or mature a person.

But suffering by itself does not remove guilt.

A criminal does not become innocent merely by experiencing pain.

Justice requires that wrongdoing be addressed rightly.

The Bible teaches that Jesus bore the sinner’s penalty:

“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities…”
— Isaiah 53:5, KJV

Jesus did not suffer because He needed moral development.

He was completely sinless.

He suffered for us.

Did Jesus Die for Our Sins?

Yes.

The gospel declares:

“Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures.”
— 1 Corinthians 15:3, KJV

Peter writes:

“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree…”
— 1 Peter 2:24, KJV

And:

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God…”
— 1 Peter 3:18, KJV

Jesus did not merely demonstrate loving self-sacrifice.

He bore real guilt and judgment on behalf of sinners.

Does Substitution Contradict Personal Responsibility?

An ordinary guilty person cannot become a perfect substitute for another guilty person.

But Jesus is not an ordinary person.

He is:

• Eternally divine
• Truly human
• Completely sinless
• The willing Savior
• The rightful Judge
• The One against whom sin was committed

Jesus willingly laid down His life:

“No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself.”
— John 10:18, KJV

God did not punish an unwilling moral teacher.

God the Son willingly entered humanity and gave Himself for us.

Did Jesus Bodily Rise From the Dead?

Yes.

Jesus predicted:

“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
— John 2:19, KJV

John explains:

“But he spake of the temple of his body.”
— John 2:21, KJV

After His resurrection, Jesus said:

“Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.”
— Luke 24:39, KJV

He showed His wounds and ate in His disciples’ presence.

Jesus did not reincarnate into another body.

His crucified body was raised and glorified.

What Does the Resurrection Prove?

The bodily resurrection demonstrates that:

• Jesus defeated death.
• His claims are true.
• His sacrifice was accepted.
• Humanity’s future is resurrection rather than reincarnation.
• Jesus possesses authority to judge and save.
• Eternal life is available through Him.

Paul wrote:

“But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.”
— 1 Corinthians 15:20, KJV

Is Charity the Way of Salvation?

Spiritism places strong emphasis upon charity.

This has led many Spiritists to perform genuinely valuable acts of compassion.

The Bible also commands generous care for suffering people.

But charity cannot erase guilt.

Suppose someone commits serious wrongdoing and later gives generously to the poor.

The generosity is good.

But the earlier wrongdoing still requires forgiveness.

Good deeds are already our duty:

“When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say… we have done that which was our duty to do.”
— Luke 17:10, KJV

Charity is not spiritual currency with which we purchase salvation.

Does the Bible Teach Salvation by Works?

No.

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
— Ephesians 2:8–9, KJV

Paul also writes:

“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us…”
— Titus 3:5, KJV

Salvation is not the final result of enough incarnations, suffering, charity, and self-improvement.

It is God’s gift through Jesus Christ.

Does Grace Make Charity Unnecessary?

No.

The next verse after Ephesians 2:8–9 says:

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works…”
— Ephesians 2:10, KJV

The biblical order is:

1. God saves the sinner by grace.
2. God gives the believer new spiritual life.
3. The believer begins producing love, charity, holiness, and obedience.

Good works are the fruit of salvation.

They are not the payment for salvation.

Are Human Beings Progressing Inevitably Toward Perfection?

Human beings can learn, mature, and improve in particular ways.

But history also shows that education and time do not automatically remove:

• Pride
• Greed
• Violence
• Deception
• Hatred
• Sexual corruption
• Abuse of power

The deepest problem is within the heart.

Jesus said:

“For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts…”
— Mark 7:21, KJV

Humanity needs more than additional time and experience.

We need a new heart.

What Does It Mean to Be Born Again?

Jesus said:

“Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
— John 3:3, KJV

New birth is not reincarnation.

It is God giving spiritual life to a person during this present earthly life.

God promised:

“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you…”
— Ezekiel 36:26, KJV

The believer remains the same personal individual but receives a new relationship with God, new spiritual life, and transforming power through the Holy Ghost.

What About Spiritual Healing and Passes?

Spiritist centers may offer passes or practices intended to restore spiritual balance or transmit beneficial spiritual influence.

Prayer, compassion, encouragement, and human care may comfort suffering people.

But spiritual healing must not depend upon unknown spirits or invisible energies administered through mediumistic practice.

God is able to heal.

Christians may pray directly to Him:

“Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him…”
— James 5:14, KJV

Medical care should also be sought responsibly.

Apparent healing does not prove that every spiritual explanation or practice connected with it comes from God.

Can Lower Spirits Attach Themselves to People?

The Bible teaches that demonic oppression and possession are real.

But it does not teach believers to resolve such problems through conversation, negotiation, moral instruction offered to spirits, or mediumistic meetings.

Jesus commanded unclean spirits directly:

“Hold thy peace, and come out of him.”
— Mark 1:25, KJV

The people recognized His authority:

“For with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.”
— Mark 1:27, KJV

Jesus does not need the cooperation of a medium to exercise authority over spirits.

Can Jesus Free People From Spiritual Bondage?

Yes.

Christ defeated the powers of darkness:

“And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them…”
— Colossians 2:15, KJV

Believers have been delivered:

“From the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.”
— Colossians 1:13, KJV

A person does not need a more advanced spirit, medium, spiritual guide, or repeated cleansing process.

Jesus possesses complete authority.

What Should Someone Do With Mediumistic Practices?

A person who turns to Jesus should stop participating in:

• Automatic writing or psychography
• Attempted communication with departed spirits
• Spirit-guided séances
• Invocations of spiritual mentors
• Trance mediumship
• Practices intended to receive messages from the dead
• Reliance upon spirit guides for decisions or protection

In Acts, people who turned to Christ renounced occult practices:

“Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men…”
— Acts 19:19, KJV

They did not retain those practices as an additional source of spiritual insight.

They placed their allegiance completely in Jesus Christ.

Will Everyone Eventually Be Saved?

Spiritist belief in continuing progress may encourage hope that every spirit will eventually reach perfection.

The Bible teaches that God is patient and desires repentance:

“Not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
— 2 Peter 3:9, KJV

But Scripture does not teach that every person will inevitably repent after enough lives.

Jesus warned of final judgment:

“And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.”
— Matthew 25:46, KJV

The same verse describes both punishment and life as everlasting.

God’s patience should lead us to repentance now—not confidence in future incarnations.

Is Hell Merely a Temporary Condition?

People may experience consequences, remorse, spiritual darkness, and temporary discipline.

But Jesus also taught final separation from God.

He warned:

“Fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”
— Matthew 10:28, KJV

This warning does not contradict God’s love.

Love warns people honestly about danger.

God has provided rescue through Jesus Christ and calls everyone to repent.

Can We Know That We Have Eternal Life?

Yes.

You do not have to wonder how many incarnations, trials, debts, or stages of spiritual development remain.

John wrote:

“These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life…”
— 1 John 5:13, KJV

Jesus said:

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”
— John 6:47, KJV

Assurance does not rest upon our level of spiritual progress.

It rests upon Jesus Christ and His completed work.

Is Spiritism More Rational Than Biblical Christianity?

Spiritism often appeals to reason, investigation, and comparison of reported communications.

Honest examination is valuable.

But supernatural claims must be evaluated carefully.

Questions include:

• Can the communicator’s identity be independently established?
• Could information have been learned naturally?
• Could the medium have received information unconsciously?
• Could fraud, suggestion, or selective memory be involved?
• Could a deceptive spirit supply accurate details?
• Does the message contradict God’s earlier revelation?

The Holy Bible does not ask us to believe every extraordinary claim.

It commands us to test it.

Why Trust the Holy Bible Above Spirit Messages?

Scripture was given publicly through prophets and apostles whose messages were tested within history.

Biblical revelation is anchored in:

• Public events
• Historical nations and rulers
• Fulfilled prophecy
• Eyewitness testimony
• The public ministry of Jesus
• His crucifixion
• His bodily resurrection

Private spirit messages may vary, contradict one another, change between cultures, and depend heavily upon the claimed identity of an unseen communicator.

God’s written Word provides a stable standard:

“Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.”
— Psalm 119:160, KJV

What Must You Do?

1. Stop Seeking Guidance From Departed Spirits

Bring your questions, grief, fears, and decisions directly to God.

“Should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?”
— Isaiah 8:19, KJV

2. Recognize Your Sin

Your deepest problem is not merely spiritual immaturity or insufficient progress.

You have sinned against God.

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”
— Romans 3:23, KJV

3. Stop Trusting in Reincarnation and Self-Improvement

Repeated lives, suffering, charity, and moral development cannot erase guilt.

“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us…”
— Titus 3:5, KJV

4. Repent

Turn from sin, mediumship, spirit consultation, self-righteousness, and every spiritual confidence that competes with Jesus.

“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out…”
— Acts 3:19, KJV

5. Believe the Gospel

“Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.”
— 1 Corinthians 15:3–4, KJV

6. Receive Jesus as the Eternal Lord

Do not regard Jesus merely as a highly developed spirit or moral instructor.

“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God…”
— John 1:12, KJV

7. Trust Him Completely

Do not trust partly in Jesus and partly in:

• Spirit mentors
• Mediumship
• Reincarnation
• Spiritual passes
• Karmic repayment
• Charitable merit
• Your own moral evolution

“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved…”
— Acts 16:31, KJV

8. Follow Jesus in Love and Obedience

Grace does not eliminate charity.

It produces genuine love from a transformed heart.

“If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
— John 14:15, KJV

A Prayer From an Honest Heart

Repeating a prayer cannot save you. Jesus Christ saves. But you may express sincere repentance and faith in words such as these:

God who created heaven and earth, I want to know You as You truly are. I confess that I have sinned against You and cannot save myself through reincarnation, suffering, charity, moral improvement, mediumship, spiritual passes, or guidance from departed spirits. I renounce every attempt to communicate with spirits and every message that contradicts Your written Word. I believe that Jesus Christ is the eternal Creator and Lord who became man, bore my sins, died in my place, and bodily rose from the dead. I place my complete trust in Jesus Christ as my only Lord, Savior, righteousness, High Priest, and Mediator. Forgive me, give me a new heart, fill me with Your Holy Spirit, protect me from spiritual deception, and teach me to follow Your Word whatever it costs. In Jesus’ name, amen.

The saving power is not in repeating these exact words.

The question is whether you have genuinely turned from sin and every competing spiritual authority to the living God through Jesus Christ.

What If Spiritism Comforted You After Someone Died?

Your grief is real.

Your love for the person who died is real.

Wanting to know that he or she continues to exist is understandable.

The Bible does teach that death does not end personal existence.

But continuing a relationship through mediumship is not God’s answer to grief.

Jesus offers a stronger hope:

bodily resurrection.

“I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.”
— John 11:25, KJV

Do not allow a communicating spirit to use your grief to gain spiritual authority over you.

Entrust the departed person to God’s perfect knowledge and come directly to Jesus.

What If Your Family Is Spiritist?

Continue loving and honoring your family.

Do not mock mediums, Spiritist books, or people who believe they have been helped.

Do not become proud or needlessly argumentative.

Your life should increasingly demonstrate:

• Love
• Patience
• Truthfulness
• Purity
• Generosity
• Compassion
• Freedom from fear

But respectfully decline participation in mediumistic sessions or attempts to contact departed spirits.

You may explain:

“I still believe that the spiritual world is real and that charity matters, but I now believe God forbids us to seek guidance from the dead. I have placed my complete trust in Jesus Christ and the Holy Bible.”

What Should You Read Next?

Begin with the Gospel of John.

As you read, ask:

Is Jesus a created and developing spirit—or the eternal Creator?

Did Jesus merely teach moral progress—or come to save the lost?

Did He bear our sins?

Did His crucified body rise from the dead?

Does Jesus teach reincarnation or resurrection?

Does Scripture authorize communication with departed spirits?

Continue with:

• Deuteronomy 13 and 18
• 1 Samuel 28
• 1 Chronicles 10
• Isaiah 8
• Isaiah 53
• The Gospel of John
• Luke 16 and 24
• Acts 16, 17, and 19
• Romans 1–8
• 1 Corinthians 15
• 2 Corinthians 11
• Galatians 1–5
• Ephesians 1–2 and 6
• Colossians 1–2
• Hebrews 7–10
• 1 John
• Revelation 20–22

As you study, ask:

Can a spirit’s identity be verified merely because it knows private information?

Can an accurate spirit still be deceptive?

Would a holy spirit contradict Scripture’s gospel?

Do we live many lives—or once before judgment?

Can suffering and charity erase guilt?

Is Jesus merely our example—or our sin-bearing Savior?

Our Purpose

Our purpose is not to insult Spiritists, deny their charitable work, dismiss their concern for grieving people, or pretend that everyone carrying a Christian label truly follows Jesus.

Many church members also trust in:

• Religious experiences
• Dreams and private messages
• Healing personalities
• Good works
• Church membership
• Moral improvement
• A prayer once repeated

rather than Jesus Christ.

Every person must examine the foundation.

“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.”
— 2 Corinthians 13:5, KJV

Charity matters.

Forgiveness matters.

Compassion matters.

Life continues after physical death.

The spiritual world is real.

But God forbids consultation with the dead.

An accurate spirit may still be deceptive.

A comforting message may still contradict God’s Word.

Reincarnation is not resurrection.

Suffering cannot remove guilt.

Charity cannot purchase salvation.

Human beings do not inevitably progress into perfection.

Jesus Christ is not a highly advanced created spirit.

He is the eternal Word.

He created everything visible and invisible.

He became human.

He lived without sin.

He bore our guilt.

He died once as the final sacrifice.

His crucified body rose from the dead.

He defeated every spiritual power.

He offers new birth rather than repeated physical births.

He offers forgiveness rather than karmic repayment.

He offers salvation as a gift rather than a perfection we must achieve.

“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”
— 1 Timothy 2:5, KJV

“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
— Acts 4:12, KJV

“And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.”
— 1 John 5:11–12, KJV

Do not seek spiritual guidance from departed spirits. Come directly to Jesus Christ—the eternal Creator, sin-bearing Savior, bodily risen Lord, only Mediator, and giver of everlasting life.