The term “ghost” did not appear in the Greek New Testament, because there is no word for ghost in the Greek language.

The Greek word “PNEUMA”  is translated “ghost” twice by King James Version [Matthew 27:50 & John 19:30] and as “spirit” 268 times.

The Hebrew word ‘NEPHESH” (spirit) is translated “ghost” twice by KJV [Job 11:20, Jeremiah 15:9], and as “spirit” 230 times, and as  “wind” 90 times.

The title “Holy ghost’ occurs 86 times by KJV and “ghost” twice in Matthew 14:26 and Mark 6:49.

Ghost [PHANTASMA is “a thing seen only in one’s imagination”, a supposed appearance of an absent person – in a shadowy form.

Ghost as define by the dictionary is the spirit of one who is dead, who is supposed to live in another world and appear to living people as pale, dim, shadowy form.

Unbelievers are dichotomous [soul and body] without human spirit. Only the believers have human spirit [body, soul and spirit]. Therefore, unbelievers cannot have ghost.

The Holy Spirit is not a ghost, because He is not a dead person, He is not a PHANTASMA. The Holy Spirit is not a ghost because he is not human spirit.

Ghost stories were created by pagan religious fanatics who capitalize on such superstition to support their false and heretical doctrines as a tool or machinery for manipulating the ignorant.

The human body [soma, is the material organism animated by soul and by human spirit [if believers]. The spirit may be separated from the body while the soul  can only be distinguished.

When a person died, his soul directly go to heaven or hell –it has no capacity to stay on earth. The Greek verb to breathe out, and out the soul, to expire [Mark 15:37,39, Acts 5:5, 12:23] denotes the fact that the soul of a dead person has no part in the world of the living.

The traditional religion teaches that the soul person stays for 40 days on earth before departing to purgatory or heaven. Such teaching is fictional and heretical.

At the point of physical death, the soul and human spirit [if believer] separate from the body and go directly to heaven [Luke 16:22] and go directly to hell if unbeliever.

The demons are playing on people who believed in ghost, and they are using the features, voices and characteristics of the dead people to deceive the living.

Ghost stories are designed to create terror and fear in the hearts and minds of the ignorant. The demons are good impersonators –they take the physical form of the dead. They pretend as the ghosts of the dead.

Ghosts are no fiction but genuine demons disguising as spirits of the dead roaming the world of the living.

The KJV had committed serious error by translating “Spirit” to “ghost”.

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