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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
It’s like this, the Bible writer said it was Samuel. Not a demon, not a lying spirit. Not much you can do with a verse that doesn’t play around and comes out and tells you numerous times that the awoken dead guy has a name, and it is Samuel. Hey, I would love to read the parchment which says she brought up a demon, angel, or lying spirit who feigned itself as Samuel. But I don’t have it available. Samuel was brought up for one sole purpose, and one sole purpose only. No other instance in the Bible do we see a recreation of something similar. Saul needed to have Samuel tag him for the last time. It would have made no sense for a demon to do the job, and a lying spirit seemingly told the truth that night. Saul had become the enemy of God, and God put Saul on silent. Samuel was awoken to tell Saul that Saul was finished.
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You got a really good point. Do you think the Narrator was there witnessing what happened or just wrote exactly what witnesses testified?
Sometimes I wonder if the problem is the translations, and our modern understanding of the ancient writings and their styles.
What if it wasn’t Samuel per se but a vision God gave the witch? If it is a vision do you think the writer would have written all he wrote much different?
After all, Saul asks the witch “what do you see” while he couldn’t see it, typical of a vision.
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