“Nice to be here”—paraphrase of St. Peter’s words on the Mount of Transfiguration
The necromancy of the New Testament is staggering. In the Old Testament, we are warned against this practice:
There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you.
(Deuteronomy 18:9-12, NKJV)
And yet, the New Testament violates this practice. For instance, in Matt 17 and Mark 9, we read of how Jesus communicated with Elijah and Moses, the latter who, according to Deut 34, died:
And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. Then Peter said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
There you have it—not just the living communicating with the dead, but the dead communicating with the dead is part-and-parcel of New Testament theology! Necromancy, nothing more, nothing less!!!
Furthermore, some commentators have argued that Paul asked for Christians to pray for a then-deceased member of their community, Onesiphorus, in 2 Tim 1:16-18 (see here, for instance).
(this is a spoof piece of a lousy and laughable attempt at exegesis by a self-professed Mormon Studies """scholar"""--pictured busy at work below)
