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Mortalist denominations such as Seventh-day Adventists generally teach that the story is but one example of ancient witchcraft or sorcery in the bible, which is founded on an unholy belief that people can communicate with the dead.

Adventists believe that the bible teaches repeatedly, but most specifically in Ecclessiastes 9: 5, 6, " For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

" Seventh-day Adventists believe that communication with the dead is a form of magic, divination, sorcery, necromancy, and spiritualism which are all condemned in scripture.

Adventists assert that since the scriptures teach that the dead know not anything, Saul was not communicating with the prophet Samuel, but with Satan.