Spiritualism

‘Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

‘And the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.

‘A man or a woman who is a medium, or who has familiar spirits, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them.’ ”

or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.

Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented for him and buried him in Ramah, in his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the spiritists out of the land.

So Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he had committed against the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD, and also because he consulted a medium for guidance.

The dead do not praise the LORD, Nor any who go down into silence.

For the living know that they will die; But the dead know nothing, And they have no more reward, For the memory of them is forgotten.

Also their love, their hatred, and their envy have now perished; Nevermore will they have a share In anything done under the sun.

And when they say to you, “Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.

Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,

And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”