It Is Not Proof by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 9, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 32.

It Is Not Proof.

By Editor

One writer asks why it is that when Spiritualism offers us demonstrative proof that there is existence beyond the grave, the devout should not "accept this offered demonstration of their constant tenet with great gladness." We reply: Spiritualism offers no proof. The spirits, when there are spirits that appear and speak, are not the spirits of the dead, but lying demons, spirits of darkness. The Word declares, "The dead know not anything." The Word declares that Satan would do just the work in these days that he is doing through Modern Spiritualism. Modern Spiritualism thus bears undesigned and unwilling evidence of the truth of God's Word. There are spirits—good, the angels of God; bad, the messengers of Satan. But the dead humans live only by a resurrection. What are the proofs of this?—The resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the living Word of truth, which by faith raises men from a death in trespasses and sins to a new life, a pledge of the future resurrection to immortality.