My personal opinion is that using Ouiji Boards and doing other things to 'call up' ghosts can have an effect on the spiritual world, and you can call up things. I think stories like yours, Chris, prove something is going on. However, I do not believe that the dead can be raised. So I would attribute the experiences people have as a result of these things to demons, especially as they so often seem to be characterised by fear and panic. I would say that if you mess around with spiritual stuff, you're going to call up things that are bad for you. It's like opening your door to a complete stranger; you're inviting in something you know nothing about, and my personal belief is that bad things will take advantage of that.
Not to condemn you or anything, Chris. This is just my personal ideas. The Bible strictly warns against seances and such, and my faith means that I believe it has a good reason for doing so. So I wouldn't get involved in anything like that.
I have had spiritual experiences that I attribute to God. There was a time when i was a teenager that something was really worrying me, that was upsetting my life, causing me loads of stress, and one day the answer just appeared before me perfectly, in he most natural circumstances, and I believe it was provided by God. Other similar things have happened at other times with smaller issues.
Another time I was having a really hard time believing in God, a 'crisis of faith' and I didn't understand why it was happening, and then one evening I felt myself inspired to look at a part of the Bible that I had never really looked at before, and through it I came back to God. I believe he was involved in those situations, guiding me and helping me.
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