Why don't our loved ones contact us or try to stay in touch with us after they've passed away?

From beyond the grave

One can read in Mark 12:26-27

But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning book passage, how God spoke to him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.?

27 " He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken."

One can read in Luke 16 verse 19-31
This is the story of the rich man and Lazarus.

Contact from Beyond the Grave

Here are some opinions and ideas:

• Here is what happened to Adam (the first man) at his death. God told him: "You will return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return." (Genesis 3:19) Think of what that means. Before God created him from the dust, there was no Adam. He did not exist. So, after he died, Adam returned to that same state of nonexistence. Simply stated, death is the opposite of life. The Bible shows this at Ecclesiastes 9:5,?10. According to the Authorized or King James Version, these verses say: "For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not any thing." This means that the dead cannot do anything and cannot feel anything. They no longer have any thoughts, as the Bible states: "Do not put your trust in nobles, nor in the son of earthling man, to whom no salvation belongs. His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish." (Psalm 146:3,?4) At death man's spirit, his life-force, which is sustained by breathing, "goes out." It no longer exists. So man's senses of hearing, sight, touch, smell and taste, which depend upon his being able to think, all stop working. According to the Bible, the dead enter a state of complete unconsciousness. So, that is why they dont "keep in touch"

• When a person is in a very deep sleep, he remembers nothing. It is similar with the dead. They have no feelings at all. They no longer exist. But, in God?s due time, the dead who are ransomed by God will be raised to life. (John 5:28)

• Dead people are DEAD. They can't contact anyone.

• Dead people can and do contact us in our dreams.
  

• I would assume that like any thing in any life there are rules, there are rules here, not just human rules, nature has rules and 'laws' as will life
  and i think that just like us contacting them is debatable as to whether its right or wrong, if there is life after death,
  then there is probably a good chance that they have the same kind of rules so therefor they may not be 'allowed' to contact us as it could be breaking some rules or laws of their land. or maybe when they do contac people its for a specific reason maybe they dont have any reason to contact you maybe you have to ask in a specific way, this could bespecific to the rules 'there' specific to your loved one, specific to your beliefs. being a practicing pagan on my cats 6 month anniversary of his death, i wrote down on a piece of paper what i wanted to say to him, what i wanted him to know, asking the 'powers that be' to pass it on to him and if its possible could he let me know he got my message and thanked the powers and use candle magic and nutmeg and burned it up to ash and i spread it out the window.within 2 wks of this i had a dream about him, one ive never ever had before about any dead relative,
  i asked him if he knew i loved him and he said yes, we showed our affection to eath other and i woke up.i swear i never had any dream of that kind before, my dreams are usually varied, crazy, dead people alive, alive people dead but nothing like that has happened before, and i didnt ask for it to. i am half skeptical in life and about this dream itself so i dont know if it was him or was just my mind giving me the peace i need and want so i wont tell you it was but its your choice what you take from that then of course there is the possibility that there is no afterlife or ghosts so of course they cant contact you then.
  it all depends on what you believe, what you are willing to believe and what you want to believe.
  

• I have on several occasions had relatives to say goodby to me on their way out. A wise man I knew visited me several times after he withdrew from the physical. Most people have not yet developed the sensitivity to detect these things, but it is available.

• I doubt the "dead" are focused on the living at all. "For it is appointed once for man to die and THEN then judgment." 1-Our loved ones in spirit do try to vist us all the time but the signs are very subtle. They can also vist us in our dreams. Unless you have natural mediumship abilities or are willing to got to a spiritualist church and sit in circle and develop your mediumship you will not be able to see or hear them. So the best way in that case would be to vist a medium. Our loved ones in spirit are only a thought away, so though you can not hear them, send them a thought as they do hear you. 2 -When we die, we automatically go into the spirit world regardless of beliefs. There is no devil or hell. The Bible uses this fear to control people. We are spirit and when we leave our body ( the shell) we have a carbon copy. Energy cannot be destroyed. People that say life after death is rubbish are ignorant. They cannot prove there is no life after death. Their opinion comes from others that are also ignorant. There are very many eminent scientists through history that have investigated life after death survival and agree this is true. Not one scientist that has researched it has said there is no life after death. So therefore anyone that tells you there is no life after death can not prove it nor have they investigated it, therefore cannot make the claim they are an expert in this field.

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