Once again, I find myself drawn to speak of semantics and how we often get caught up in them when it comes to the paranoormal world. Owning this forum, I often see people debating points on things that are just mere interpretation of words.
In this discussion, I want to highlight the great debate of spirits, entities, ghosts and demons. As I referred to in another thread, we often approach guiding people here within their belief system. But I want to point out that in all honesty, we really don't know what these "energies" really are. We make assumptions on what is written in different holy books and also past history of dealing with these things. Yet, as of this date, we still don't have "proof" of what "they" really are. Just assumptions and descriptive words. .
I've seen the tendancy to lump all of them into one catagory when we really don't know that is the case. We all use descriptive words for them, which have their own meanings, yet we are all talking about the same thing.
Sometimes, semantics gets in the way of finding the truth. I have often thought the four catagories I've named may all be different things. Perhaps dimensional beings who are like cousins to each other who drift over the dimension lines to interface with us....some good guys and some bad guys.
I'm not eliminating God/Creator in this. The Divine One may be the creator of it all but that still leaves us with possible good guy/bad guys or alternate energies of light and or darkness. Even within the Christian religion, the interpretation of this is debated denomination to denomination. From a pagan or wiccan view, it changes again. Even from a scientific only view the phenomena, as it's called, is considered valid but misunderstood. Once again, we're all talking about the same thing, just with different meanings assigned to the words.
With this in mind, and please without lengthy Bible quotes, do you feel all entities fall in the catagory of demonic or do you also recognize that some may be spirits or alternate dimensionals? (We're not out to prove a point here, simply to exchange ideas on this theory.)
In this discussion, I want to highlight the great debate of spirits, entities, ghosts and demons. As I referred to in another thread, we often approach guiding people here within their belief system. But I want to point out that in all honesty, we really don't know what these "energies" really are. We make assumptions on what is written in different holy books and also past history of dealing with these things. Yet, as of this date, we still don't have "proof" of what "they" really are. Just assumptions and descriptive words. .
I've seen the tendancy to lump all of them into one catagory when we really don't know that is the case. We all use descriptive words for them, which have their own meanings, yet we are all talking about the same thing.
Sometimes, semantics gets in the way of finding the truth. I have often thought the four catagories I've named may all be different things. Perhaps dimensional beings who are like cousins to each other who drift over the dimension lines to interface with us....some good guys and some bad guys.
I'm not eliminating God/Creator in this. The Divine One may be the creator of it all but that still leaves us with possible good guy/bad guys or alternate energies of light and or darkness. Even within the Christian religion, the interpretation of this is debated denomination to denomination. From a pagan or wiccan view, it changes again. Even from a scientific only view the phenomena, as it's called, is considered valid but misunderstood. Once again, we're all talking about the same thing, just with different meanings assigned to the words.
With this in mind, and please without lengthy Bible quotes, do you feel all entities fall in the catagory of demonic or do you also recognize that some may be spirits or alternate dimensionals? (We're not out to prove a point here, simply to exchange ideas on this theory.)
