Sound harsh? Good.
Posted on 05/30/2014 4:32:27 PM PDT by Coleus
Sound harsh? Good.
, Theresa Caputo,AKA The Long Island Medium seen weekly on the TLC cable channel, is the devils own Pied Piper leading people along the devils path. Does she know it? Probably not, but she should.
Caputo is a psychic- yes they do exist. I am not talking about the Miss Cleo types who randomly make up anything to make a billion (yes, thats right) dollars. I am talking about the psychics who actually do see and hear things. They exist. The trouble is not that they see and hear things per say (many Saints had that gift), its who is behind what they see and hear and the fact that Caputo does not have the discernment to know its evil.
What do I mean by evil? I mean anything that is against Gods Will is evil. You might be a fan of Caputos who watches the shows and say to me: She helps people by making them feel better! I bet a lot of pot smokers out there would tell you the same thing about pot yet it would remain damaging to your lungs no matter how good it might make a person feel.
Associating with psychics is damaging to a persons soul. It jeopardizes a persons salvation. How?
First of all, what Caputo is teaching from her television show is heretical to Catholic teaching- to ALL Christian teaching.
Sunday, May 26th, the Long Island Medium told her audience that she had lived past lives when she went into a past life regression session to find out why she was chosen to be a psychic. Any Christian worth their salt will tell you the bible flat out refutes reincarnation completely
Hebrews 9:27 And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment"
In another episode, Caputo told a woman her dead daughters soul was now reborn into the body of her newest grandchild. Poppycock!
Reincarnation comes from Eastern religions like Buddhism- it is a heresy to ALL Christian groups, Catholic and Protestant alike. A person is ONE soul and ONE body together. A person dies when the soul separates from the body. The Resurrection is about the soul reuniting with the body for eternity- in Heaven or Hell, at Judgment Day.
That is the basis of Christian belief in the Resurrection (yes, some Christians believe in soul sleep but that is for another discussion). The Resurrection of the Body is not about an animated corpse because the soul has now been placed into yet another body and another and another. There is ONE soul for ONE body. Thats it. Period.
So what about Caputos gift? Is she making it all up? Is it a hoax? Why is it wrong to hear what a psychic has to say if it makes you feel better?
Its the devils path. The spirit world exists; there is no doubt about it. Christians know there is life after death- heaven or hell, are our final destinations, its one or the other for eternity (Matt. 25:46). We know there are angels and demons. We know there are people in Purgatory. Some people can see them numerous Saints have seen them and wrote about them they are often called ghosts.
St. Bernard, in his life of St. Malachy shares this case
Even Jesus Christ was mistaken for a ghost, not once but twice in scripture.
Here in Luke 24, Jesus clarifies that ghosts do not have bodies, they are spirit only. He tells them He still has his body. The body and soul are RESURRECTED together. This is as it will be for all of us. ONE body and ONE soul.
What psychics are doing is allowing (encouraging) their spirit guides (as Caputo and others call them) to show them things and let them hear things. These spirit guides are demonic. Guardian Angels from God would NOT direct people to believe in heresy, nor would they direct people to go against the Word of God in Scripture or against Church teaching. The angels who do this are FALLEN angels- demons. They WANT people to be deceived and to believe in the devils powers, this is how they win souls for hell.
The devil has power for now. And he uses it to deceive, trick and lead people away from God and the Truth of Christianity. This is where Caputo is leading people astray. Shes been deceived by the devil and her spirit guide to go AGAINST the Word of God. Shes been deceived into believing shes lived passed lives. The demons (AKA "spirit guides") are showing her these things and shes fallen for their deception hook, line and sinker. She actually thinks what the demons show her, are lives her soul has lived in the past- no such thing! Shes been deceived and she is spreading that deception to others. A quick look at her "Long Island Medium" Facebook page shows the horrid ripple effect of her deception spreading worldwide to ignorant people. People pleading with her to please contact the dead for them. It's retched.
I dont doubt that Caputo and others like her actually believe what they are doing is good and even helpful to people, but its not. Her "well intentions" aren't really helping anyone, it's harming people. It is jeopardizing the souls of thousands of people. It is deceiving people from the Truth, into heresy and perhaps even into occult and demonic practices. How? This stuff is addicting. Its like a drug. People go to one psychic then another, then another. They begin to want to see what they can do, so they play with Tarot Cards or Spirit boards (Ouija board) and CALL spirits to them. The spirits who answer are demonic.
The devil doesnt show himself as gruesome with horns, hooves and forked tail who would listen to or follow that?! The devil appears as an angel of light according to the Bible. This is how he tricks people.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 So it is not strange if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
Now who does that sound like to you?
In the book An Exorcist Tells His Story, Father Gabriele Amorth, an exorcist priest in the Catholic Church tells about the power of the devil and exorcisms he performed to release people from the power of the devil. On pages 40 and 41, Father Amorth shares a story of a witness who calls himself Erasmus of Bari (as published in the magazine Rinnovamento dello Spirito in September 1987). Erasmus of Bari tells how he was given gifts that he at first thought were from God- amazing gifts.
The gift of [page 40 direct quote] clairvoyance, mind reading, medical diagnosing, reading of hearts and lives of people both living and dead, and other powers. A few months later I received another faculty; the ability to take away pain merely by the imposition of hands. I could eliminate or alleviate any sort of suffering He goes on to say that he knew it was off because it wasnt from God. He wasnt living a changed life for God. He was quick to anger, slow in pardoning, easily resentful, and given to take offense at nothing. Realizing he wasnt being gifted by God with abilities, he knew the only other source was the devil himself. His gifts were not divine from God to do good but rather diabolical and from Satan! He'd been deceived! As soon as he was prayed over and asked God for help the gifts disappeared.
Dont be deceived by psychics who themselves are deceived. Some psychics are in it for the money (Miss Cleo), some for the fame (Sylvia Browne) and others like Caputo who seem to believe they are helping people, but what they are all doing is spreading deception and doing the devil's work.
Dont be led down the devils path by anyone. Trust in God. Dont go looking for answers from anywhere else. God loves you, all of you, even the psychics and He wants you to reject the temptations of the devil and put all our trust in Him. You dont need to contact anyone dead. Youre alive, live that life for God so that one day you will be resurrected, body and soul together for eternity in heaven.
Pray for Theresa Caputo, others like her and all who've fallen for the devil's trap. Most of these people are GOOD people who have been deceived, don't hate on them, just love them, pray for them and TEACH them the Truth before it's too late. And please, please, please DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS WATCH THIS STUFF!
God bless.
Julie
Catholic Catechism: #2115 God can reveal the future to his prophets or to other saints. Still, a sound Christian attitude consists in putting oneself confidently into the hands of Providence for whatever concerns the 305 future, and giving up all unhealthy curiosity about it. Improvidence, however, can constitute a lack of responsibility.
Catholic Catechism: #2116 All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future.[48] Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone.
Catholic Catechism: #2117 All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one's service and have a supernatural power over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearing charms is also reprehensible. Spiritism often implies divination or magical practices; the Church for her part warns the faithful against it. Recourse to so-called traditional cures does not justify either the invocation of evil powers or the exploitation of another's credulity.
Have any of you ever had a physic predict something that came true? I don’t want to believe but so many of my family swear all that is true.
Tell it to the Roman Catholics. It’s their thread. I’m just quoting the title of the thread.
Tell it to the Roman Catholics. It’s their thread. I’m just quoting the title of the thread.
The NYT considers itself to be the Paper of Record. As such it would seem it would have the best columnists to be had.
What do you suppose the horoscopes said on 9-11? Wouldn’t the best of the best seen that coming?
I’m going to try to remember to pray for this woman.
*Note to self: time to begin a prayer journal.*
I have dreams that come true and also things I feel in prayer.I do tell the people involved .I don’t believe in physic’s and all the other stuff-very dangerous.
Having a charism does not equate to character, and thus while the Corinthians came behind in no gift, they much came behind in character. Some Christians may have a gift but be of poor character, while many imagine they have a gift, and others deny such exist today. But thank God He is a miracle as well as character working God, and thus by faith some escaped the edge of the sword, while others of life faith were saw asunder. (Heb. 11:34-37) But assured infallibility somehow was left out of any of the lists of gifts.
Meanwhile, the devil seeks to gain the glory and honor due to God alone, and thus seeks to mimic what God does in seeking to mislead and distort God's creation and ultimately destroy man .
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, (2 Thessalonians 2:8-9)
Note that the devil copied the first three miracles done thru Moses. Faced with such, some choose to take the safe but somewhat sterile route, that of the disallowing all miracles, or at least those done through man. On the other extreme of those who open the door so wide that both souls of God as well as demons could work such in the church.
However, , God through Moses overcame them with good in showing greater power, and and gave the law. God will never be outdone by the devil, and and provides good laws for the use of things.
And in testing all things by Scripture, there are some extraordinary things which we can readily see as demonic.
Zé Arigó (pseudonym of José Pedro de Freitas; 18 October 1921 1 November 1971) was a self-proclaimed psychic surgeon. He claimed to have performed psychic surgery with his hands or with simple kitchen utensils while in a mediunic trance, therefore he was also known as the Surgeon of the Rusty Knife. During his operations he supposedly embodied the spirit of Dr. Adolf Fritz.
Zé Arigó was born José Pedro de Freitas on a farm located 6 kilometers from Congonhas, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. His family was very poor and he could only study up to the third grade of school. At the age of 14 he began working at a mine where he worked for 6 years. According to his autobiography, around 1950 he began to suffer from strong headaches, insomnia, trances, and hallucinations. One day he felt that the voice that had been pursuing him took over his body, and he had a vision of a bald man, dressed in a white apron and supervising a team of doctors and nurses in an enormous operating room. This entity identified itself as "Dr. Fritz."
After claiming to have channeled Dr. Fritz, Arigó began to perform operations using scalpels and needles. His reputation soared and spread throughout Brazil after it was alleged that he had removed a cancerous tumor from the lung of a well-known Brazilian senator. . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A9_Arig%C3%B3
Here is more on this Catholic (which did judge him to be a heretic): http://www.scribd.com/doc/16005722/Arigo-Surgeon-of-the-Rusty-Knife
There’s a book out called *The Beautiful Side of Evil* by Johanna Michaelson. She studied to become one of these psychic surgeons.
She got saved out of the lifestyle and wrote the book afterwards to warn people of dangers of false spirituality. It’s a VERY good book.
Wrong religion (wrong destination):
Sakra, the ruler of the celestials, with twenty thousand gods, his followers, such as the god Chandra (the Moon), the god Surya (the Sun), the god Samantagandha (the Wind), the god Ratnaprabha, the god Avabhasaprabha, and others; further, the four great rulers of the cardinal points with thirty thousand gods in their train, viz. the great ruler Virudhaka, the great ruler Virupaksha, the great ruler Dhritarashtra, and the great ruler Vaisravana; the god Ishvara and the god Maheshvara, each followed by thirty thousand gods; further, Brahma Sahdmpati and his twelve thousand followers, the Brahmakayika gods, amongst whom Brahma Sikhin and Brahma Gyotishprabha, with the other twelve thousand Brahmakayika gods. -- Saddharmapundarika sutra, Chapter One
Yet one would have a hard time in Bible times explaining kneeling before a statue and praising the entity it represented in the unseen world, and as having Divine powers and glory, and making offerings and beseeching such for Heavenly help, directly accessed by mental prayer.
Moses, put down those rocks! I was only engaging in hyper dulia, not adoring her. Can't you tell the difference?
That's why I asked if GOOD things were told.
It's obvious (at least to me) that Satan knows bad things he has in store for folks, so it's no problem at all to let his minions in on the ills going to befall a person...
A few years ago, a small strip mall in Nashville IN burnt a few days before Christmas.
In the mall was a fortune teller.
I’ve a picture of the store sign all smoked and charred.
OOOps!
Dan - It was about Christ coming in the Flesh (1 John) when we declare born of a virgin woman not your over reaching opinion. I saw it with my own eyes. Peace in Christ.
Dan - It was about Christ coming in the Flesh (1 John) when we declare born of a virgin woman not your over reaching opinion. I saw it with my own eyes. Peace in Christ.
Why are you arguing against what i did not say? That Mary was a virgin who gave birth to the Divine incarnated Christ was not at all disputed, but that of extrapolating from this the demigoddess status ascribed to Mary. That unScriptural status is the only over reaching opinion of here.
There is no wrong info. She’s fishing, the people are giving her the info. I could say your wife is showing me a piece of jewelry you got her for a special occasion.
How many freepers would say that they have gotten their spouse a piece of jewelry for a special occasion?
Yep, exactly. She is not getting right or wrong info from the great beyond.
but she is a vampire of the worst kind.
A vile, lowlife, and a fraud preying on people hurting.
Was Solomon wise or just guessing here?
Ecclesiastes 7:14
In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.
Ecclesiastes 10:14
A fool multiplies words,
though no man knows what is to be,
and who can tell him what will be after him?
Ecclesiastes 11:6
In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
She reminds me of Tony Soprano’s wife.
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