Haunted Houses and Babel

I made a comment on Mike Duran’s latest post: “What Does the Bible Say about Haunted Houses?“. Posting it here for safekeeping.

Lots of good points here, Mike. The effects of Babel echo to the present day. God doesn’t direct the nations as they are now…that’s more under the control of the Elohim council, which makes God’s direct creation and guidance of the BC Israelite nation a little more poignant. He was demonstrating something important by creating out of nowhere a nation separate from the governance of the Elohim. Since Israel ultimately failed as a nation to embrace the Messiah, that privilege of being a chosen people shifted to us as the church. The significance of that shift can’t be emphasized enough. It’s the overall reason why you and I as Christians are alive today, with a purpose.

But does that mean there can be haunted houses? The idea of a haunted house reflects a pagan view of the natural world. Maybe there was a Naphil spirit–one of the Nephilim–playing the haunted house role to deceive the couple for whatever reason. The nations are “haunted” already, but not in the sense that we think of it as modern westerners.

Either way, I don’t see anything wrong with your solution, per se. If you’re in the correct spirit you can’t go wrong with prayer and scripture in the first place. Yet, the supernatural world doesn’t work at all like the ghost stories we’re familiar with; you could have easily de-haunted the house by blessing the couple in your church office. The ritual you described was more for you and the couple than a magic spell to cure a problem.