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their new life at inception (John 9:3, Rom 3:10), they must be all be loved equally
               as neighhbours (Mat 22:39). The circumstances of an individual that are beyond
               their control reflect the interaction of God's preaching and the basic spirit of the
               individual (Rom 8:28). Reincarnation can involve multiple species (Eccl 3:18-21).


               Angels sin (Job 4:18) and devil spirits vary in their desire for salvation and
               repentence and can have good motives in part (Acts 16:17). All angels and devil
               spirits are ultimately saved (Phil 2:10). The basic spirits of dead, unsaved, people
               can attach to the living as familiar spirits (1 Sam 28:7-8) where God deems this
               appropriate as part of preaching process of 'prison' (1 Pet 3:19) for the dead and as
               part of the preaching process for the living.


               Prophets that are born-again, like all Christians, are ‘greater’ than Old Testament
               prophets including John as they are saved (Mat 11:11, Luke 7:28).  The basic spirit
               mind knows and understands the totality of a Man’s thoughts (1 Cor 2:11, 14-15)
               but this does not mean that it agrees with the overall or ‘conscious’ mind and the
               carnal mind (Rom 8:7) or flesh mind (Eph 2:3).  The basic spirit of the non
               Christian can prompt the conscious mind (Job 20:3). The spirit mind is all that we
               really know (1 Cor 2:15) but the overall (conscious) mind is what we know
               consciously, in short what we think we know (Jude 10).  Even for a Christian
               knowing God is only possible as He reveals Himself (John 3:8). Thus only the
               spirit mind of a man understands the man (1 Cor 2:11) along with God of course (1
               Cor 13:12). People know about or of salvation in their basic spirit (John 1:1, 9-10,
               Rom 1:20) but need to consciously respond to it, that is to become aware of this
               knowledge and accept it, that is to come unto it (1 Tim 2:4, Heb 10:16-18).


               We Christians are all, by the operation of the mysterious Holy Ghost within,
               mysteries to ourselves (John 3:8).

               Communication With The Dead


               The dead, as default, have no stake in the physical universe and therefore no
               communication with this world (Eccl 9:6).


               Those dead that are saved, whether after life on Earth or whilst on Earth, are
               invisible and silent witnesses to what Christians encounter on Earth given that they
               are alive in Heaven (Heb 12:1). They are only seen and heard in exceptional
               circumstances such as Jesus’ transfiguration which was Jesus being seen as the
               Heavenly being that He was as if by a window into Heaven (Mat 17:2).  As such it
               was natural for Heavenly dwellers to appear (Mat 17:2-5, 9).  Men have also,
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