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The Fundamentals “They shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils” (Lev. 17:7; Deut. 32:17; Psa. 106:37). “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? [See R. V.] To the law and the testi mony : if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” (Isa. 8:19, 20). From the foregoing we see in the Old Testament, that 1. Spiritualism is sternly forbidden by God. 2. I t is defiling. 3. Its followers GOD would destroy. 4. Its mediums, THE PEOPLE were commanded to stone to death. 5. I t is no new thing. Satan and his myriads of demons have been busy at their work of deception ever since the Fall. 6 . I t is not an advance on Christianity, as some affirm, but a backward movement to the worst features o f heathenism. Isaiah 8:19, 20 is especially conclusive; plainly showing that it is wrong for the living to seek the dead, rather than God Himself. Spiritualism is the setting aside of God Him self, hence of morality, uprightness, and every true principle. 2. NEW TESTAMENT CONDEMNATION “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit in the wilderness to be tempted of the devil” (Matt. 4 :1 ) . This proves that there is a personal devil. Indeed, only one person is called in Scripture the devil, the Greek word meaning the accuser. Demon is really the correct description of the myriad fallen spirits who own Satan as their prince. (Matt. 12:24.) “They brought unto Him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed [Greek: daimonizomai—demonized or demon-pos sessed] with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and He healed them” (Matt. 4 :24 ).
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