Can a Christian be a Spiritualist?

Can a Christian be a Spiritualist? The answer to this question is a resounding yes. Just because Spiritualism doesn’t preach that one must belong to a certain denominational church or believe in Christ as savior, confess their sins to God doesn’t mean that individual Christians can’t be Spiritualists. Oh you say, yes, Spiritualists do believe in God, and Christ but not as savior, per sa. When Modern Spiritualism was just getting started in the mid 1800s, all Spiritualism was known as Christian Spiritualism. This was because the people involved in Spiritualism were originally members of denominational Christian churches. Spiritualists in the early days believe in the teachings of the church and even used them in their churches. Until recent years, all Spiritualist churches had a Bible on their pulpits. They know that Jesus was one of the most gifted mediums of his time. “Medium” yes medium. There is the story in the Bible where Jesus was talking to a woman of Samaria at a well where he told her all about her life and what was happening at the time he met her. Gospel According to Saint John 4:19 “The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet”. Webster’s dictionary says that a “prophet an authoritative person who divines the future”. Is a Spiritualist also a prophet? In many ways the answer is yes. They often do give people information about future events in their lives. However, a “Spiritualist mediumship” in no way gets involves with fortune telling. The work of a medium is to prove the reality of survival after so called death and to pass on practical help and understanding when needed. The information a medium gives a person is meant to help them make their own decisions in their life, not make them for the person.

The question is, what happens to the Spiritualist when he/she dies? Christianity says that non-Christians sleep in the grave until the “great day of judgment”. When a Christian dies he/she is then “absent from the body and present with the Lord”. We answer this by saying that we go to be with the same Lord and heaven that Christians go to when we die. However, what Christians don’t know is that we also believe that the criminal, etc. will go to a lower spirit world where they will be given an opportunity to make restitution for their wrongs, and then be able to progress to higher spirit worlds. You can’t accept that, ah? That’s ok. You see it has been proven by thousands of mediums that life continues after the change called death and that is the only think that Spiritualists are really saying. Yes, we also believe that we can communicate with the so-called dead, as a proven fact. Did Jesus go into the grave and sleep when he died? No. He was very much alive and came back many times to teach and be with his disciples.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s scientists and highly educated men and women investigated Spiritualist phenomena and came to the conclusion that it was real, not a fakery or even fraudulent in any way. However, their were a large number of people who took advantage of the “darkened séance room” to defraud the sitters. That is one major reason the scientist went to extreme measures to assure that no fraud was possible with the people they were investigating. [See Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s books “History of Spiritualism” Volume I and II.]

All Spiritualist churches and associations make sure that the people who attend their activities are not asked to set aside any of their own religious beliefs or even stop attending their denominational church. The director of the church I attend is a Jewish woman who is married to an Anglican Priest and her best friend is a Catholic nun.

One of the main things that I want the reader to know is that God has provided for each and everyone of His spiritual children no matter what wrong choices, sins, they had made or are making here on this earth plain. Something Christians just can’t accept are non-Christians because their Bible and denominations refuse to believe in them and their teachings. People who were not born and raised in their particular denomination are lost.

When one reads the Bible one finds dozens of examples of Spiritualist phenomena, especially in the Old Testament. Jesus was not only a special son of God, but one of the greatest men who ever lived. There is no doubt about it. Jesus was a gifted healer, teacher and prophet. One only needs to read to Bible to know this.

Is God a God of wrath and does he hate sin? No, God is not a God of wrath, God is a God of love but He does hate sin. Because he hates sin he has provided a way for all his children in this physical world to make restitution for their sins. Whether you believe that Jesus is the only way or not makes no difference. God is a God of love and loves every man, woman and child in this world. Even all non-Christians who have lived here from the beginning of time? The bible tells us that God is perfect and His creation is perfect and He created "He them in His own image." So why would a perfect God create a human being in His image, and then have to send a son to be killed by them? The answer is that God in His infinite wisdom gave man total free will; free will to choose between right or wrong. Can it be that only the church can determine what is right and what can be considered as wrong? Can perfection produce non-perfection? Can it be true that humanity could only become Christian after the death of Jesus? What about the billions, trillions who came into this world long before Jesus did? Were they lost to eternal hell fire and brimstone?

One of the biggest things that people in this world do is judge each other. It doesn’t matter whether or not a person has been told from birth “don’t judge others.” They judge others just the same because that is what their parents and grandparents did. If you were a non-Christian before you became a Christian, was their any hope that you could be saved? You say yes, but how do you really know this? You were no doubt told by a Christian that you were called by God to be saved and that is why you are. Choice. That is what you were given. A choice to choose between what Christians considered right over wrong.

I could go on for pages talking about all the things mentioned above and would not exhaust the subject. Whether a person believe in Jesus or not doesn’t mean that they are lost for all eternity. If it were so, God would not be a God of love.