It’s the only interpretation that jives with scripture. God’s prophecies are always 100% correct and reliable. The fact that the spirit he contacted gave incorrect information should be a huge red flag telling you it wasn’t something from God. God also says not to attempt communicating with the dead. The reason for this is that you actually can’t communicate with the dead. The Bible is very clear in that the dead are “asleep” and don’t have any awareness or thinking capacity. They rest in the grave until the second coming outside of a very few exceptions that God raised early for typological significance. When you try to do a ritual to communicate with a spirit, the only thing you will contact is a fallen angel pretending to be the person you are trying to contact. Those things are only entertaining your nonsense in order to fool you and drive you away from God.

Edit: Sorry, Samuel not Saul. Saul was trying to contact Samuel. I’m terrible with names.

It’s the only interpretation that jives with scripture. God’s prophecies are always 100% correct and reliable. The fact that the spirit he contacted gave incorrect information should be a huge red flag telling you it wasn’t something from God. God also says not to attempt communicating with the dead. The reason for this is that you actually can’t communicate with the dead. The Bible is very clear in that the dead are “asleep” and don’t have any awareness or thinking capacity. They rest in the grave until the second coming outside of a very few exceptions that God raised early for typological significance. When you try to do a ritual to communicate with a spirit, the only thing you will contact is a fallen angel pretending to be the person you are trying to contact. Those things are only entertaining your nonsense in order to fool you and drive you away from God.