Anglican Paranormal Belief

Anglican Paranormal Belief is as referenced in “The Book of Common Prayer” which replaced the bible for Anglicans.“The Book of Common Prayer” states, that is forbidden that believers attempt contact with malevolent spirits that pretend to be spirits of the dead, as stated in Deuteronomy 18:11 and that the dead should not have contact with the living.

It is believed that this contact results in contact with spirits that are not of the dead but malevolent spirits which are deceitful and pretending to be such and as such are commanded by Satan and are named as demons, evil spirits and unclean spirits.

Anglican paranormal belief believes that these spirits are familiar with the recent dead and is the reason why they have knowledge with intimate name details, places, situations and circumstances.

It is believed by Christians that the plan of demon spirits to become interested in all that they do especially the wonders they seem to b e able to perform and thus affect people and move them away from their relationship with God.

Often those interested in the paranormal including ghosts and end up experimenting with other activities such as Ouija boards, tarot cards, astrology, fortune telling etc. The search for spirituality often results in delving deeper into the occult which results in an ever increasing downward slope into the occult.

As stated in the bible it is believed that Satan will have then "blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." (2 Cor. 4:4).

Christians believe in God and in the Devil and believe that God is stronger than the Devil

God created everything that is perfect, and anything that Satan created is not perfect. It is quite clear then that sin itself would have been created by Satan, and not God, it is also then quite clear that God can do anything-God is perfection. God is love.

Satan is not.

The term Anglican Religion refers to adherents to the Church of England, which was created by Henry VIII during the Protestant Reformation. Henry VIII wanted a divorce, the Roman Catholic Church would not grant it, so he broke off and started his own church in the 15th century.

The word Anglican is a derivative of the Latin word for England “Anglicanus”.

The Anglican churches of the world can be considered as a fellowship of churches, in many different countries where the British were influential and dominated politically. These churches are independent of each other as the Church of England does not rule the Church of Ireland, the church in Wales or the church in Australia.

The Anglican Church hierarchy is different from the Roman Catholic church, in that the Pope and the Vatican provide directives, whereas his counterpart the Archbishop of Canterbury offers only consensus governance. The Archbishop of Canterbury is a spiritual leader only.

However, the Church of England in various ways is still close to the Roman Catholic Church having retained basic medieval practices, an Episcopal polity and many theological beliefs.

This is because the split was not caused by theological differences, but rather because of personal and political differences between King Henry VIII and Pope Clement VII. This resulted in the Church of England being under the direct control of the king rather than the pope.

Over the years many Anglican priests and bishops have converted to the Roman Catholic Church, because they were more comfortable with the doctrine. Queen Elizabeth 1, in the early 19th century tried to rectify this with the Oxford Movement and the Anglican Church we know today is the result.

Many members of the Anglican Church wanted to return to the Catholic Church and other Protestants wanted to rid the Anglican Church of Roman Catholic influence. Elizabeth was not in favour of either and her choice was to find a compromise.

The compromise was “The Book of Common Prayer” which had a combination of Biblical teachings, religious traditions and modern philosophical and religious ideas. It was vague in nature and remained true to Christian traditions while being uniquely English. It was written in order to please as many people as possible and became known as the Elizabethan Settlement.

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