What the Bible Says About Spiritualism
Algernon James Pollock
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What Spiritualism Says About the Bible
Modern spiritualism denies all that is distinctive in the Bible, and therefore in Christianity. It denies: -
(1) The inspiration of the Bible.
(2) The fall of man.
(3) The deity of the Lord Jesus.
(4) The atonement.
(5) The existence of a personal devil.
(6) The existence of demons.
(7) The existence of hell.
All these the Bible affirms. Either the Bible affirmation or the Spiritualistic denial is correct. Whichever is correct proves the other system to be entirely false. There is no room for the two systems.
The following quotation from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's " The New Revelation," amply proves the foregoing statement:-
" Christianity must change or perish... One can see no justice in a vicarious sacrifice, nor in the God who could be placated by such means. Above all, many cannot understand such expressions as ' the redemption from sin,' cleansed by the blood of the Lamb,' and so forth.. Never was there any evidence of a fall, then what became of the atonement, of the redemption, or original sin, or a large part of Christian mystical philosophy " (pp. 71, 72).
Sir A. C. Doyle ventures to quote Scripture approvingly when it says, " Try the spirits whether they be of God " (1 John 4:1). He thinks this is an invitation to go to spiritualistic séances. But the test is to find out whether the spirits confess that Jesus Christ is come in flesh. If they do not, the spirits are " NOT of God," but have the " spirit of antichrist." To acknowledge Jesus Christ cone in flesh is to acknowledge His Godhead, and His Manhood and His atoning work. It is to acknowledge all His claims.
What the Bible Says About Spiritualism
Spiritualism is no new thing. The serpent's form was assumed by Satan in the Garden of Eden, and his myriads of demons have been busy at their work of deception ever since.
Written over 2,600 years, the questions asked then are being asked now on all hands.
" And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?" (Isa. 8:19).
The answer is emphatic and wholly condemnatory.
" To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this word it is because they have no light in them " (Isa. 8:20), Spiritualism then, as now, had no divine light in it.
We are warned of this latter-day activity of Spiritualism.
" Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God bath created to be received " (1 Tim. 4: 1-3).
Where is this latter-day activity to be found but in Spiritualism? The large amount of trickery in Spiritualism answers to speaking lies in hypocrisy, as well as in demons purporting to be the spirits of the departed. The whole thing is deceit on this side and on that side. " Forbidding to marry " is the trait of Spiritualism, which sets aside honest marriage for " spiritual affinity." " Commanding to abstain from meats," is fulfilled in the fact that mediums are largely vegetarian; the eating of meat militates against their occult powers.
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