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A few questions:
1. If it was really Samuel, what body does he have? He appears as "an old man in a robe/mantle", and speaks, so obviously he has a body. So what body is it? The resurrection hadn't occurred between his death and his appearance at Endor, so it can't be the resurrection body. So, what body did he have?
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It says she sees gods elohim, or theos coming from the earth. from what the narrator tells us, it is part of her vision of an old man in a mantel.
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2. How come nobody saw him except the witch? Was he hiding in the pantry? Or was she having a vision?3. If she was having a vision, who gave it to her? The familiar spirit? Or God?
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Narrator tells us that see is asked to bring up Samuel. When she does she is frightened by what happens next. No one else in the vicinity sees or experiences what she does. Who gave her the vision? We aren't told that by the writer.
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4. If she was having a vision, then doesn't that mean it was a vision, and not the actual dead Samuel back for one more round?
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Again, all we have is what the narrator is telling us the reader. It was Samuel. Whether she had a vision, got a letter (as in Elijah) or had bad gas. We are told by the guy with pen and scroll, that it WAS SAMUEL. He could of written down they thought it was Samuel? A demon came to her as Samuel? Or, even have a second character in the verse say it was Samuel and not the Bible writer. As in the divining cup of Joseph which allows us to get around Joseph using Egyptian divination. But we don't have that, we have the author of 1st Samuel narrating the story to us the reader, and the author telling us it was Samuel. It is a one time event. An event to bring the prophet and the king together for the last time. To tell the fear filled hypocrite king, that he and sons will be dead. It has no power or gravity that Saul gets informed of this by a woman with case of bad gas.
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