She’s charming, she’s whacky, and she’s got funny hair and crazy fingernails- she’s also working for the devil.
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 devil’s own Pied Piper leading people along the devil’s 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, that’s 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), it’s 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 God’s Will is evil. You might be a fan of Caputo’s 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 person’s soul. It jeopardizes a person’s 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 daughter’s 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. That’s it. Period.
So what about Caputo’s “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?
It’s the devil’s 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. She’s been deceived by the devil and her “spirit guide” to go AGAINST the Word of God. She’s been deceived into believing she’s lived passed lives. The demons (AKA "spirit guides") are showing her these things and she’s 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! She’s 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 don’t doubt that Caputo and others like her actually believe what they are doing is ‘good’ and even helpful to people, but it’s 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. It’s 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 doesn’t 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 exorcism’s 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 wasn’t from God. He wasn’t 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 wasn’t 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.
Don’t 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.
Don’t be led down the devils path by anyone. Trust in God. Don’t 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 don’t need to contact anyone dead. You’re 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.
The Obamacare costs must hurt like hell. I admire you business owners who put up with that torture.
I am going to turn off my closed captioning.
Better not to understand ANYTHING, than be subjected to pore spelin’!
With this form of preaching/teaching today it does appeal to the masses because they are already primed to respond to “sensationalism” via every form of communication and visual stimulation that is out there.....whatever appeals to the emotions and moves them, good bad or somewhere in between.
The idea is “feeling” based....”Signs and wonders” and anything to “touch” the spiritually dead and entice them to “another way” of spirituality rather than through Christ Alone.
Unfortunately many churches are feeding this stuff to Christians who are unfamiliar with Gods word and “eat at the table” of whatever Pastor is preaching that tickles their ears..... They rarely “dine” one on one with Jesus exclusively and intimately....or even dare to consider He'd welcome that.
She is a paid fraudster like a hundred others out there like her....and the many who preceded her. She's the “flavor” of the moment is all.
I agree they are scum...and any who put even a bit of thought into what they are professing have fallen for the oldest lie of all times....and it never changes.
Both Caputo and TLC have been criticized for profiting from what some consider a "charlatan" whose claims are "not true."
It's Showbiz and that's all it is...and she's laughing all the way to the bank......In 2012, the James Randi Educational Foundation awarded Caputo a Pigasus Award for being the "psychic" performer who fooled the greatest number of people with the least effort in the preceding year.
Remember how important our creeds are in life. It is a confirmation of true faith. She stumbled on born of the Virgin Mary. She could not declare it in the personal pronoun for herself. Very important to know about. She declared "There are many gods"instead of born of the Virgin Mary. One of the most positive declarations I ever witnessed for 1 John 4. It was awesome and scary at the same time. Peace in Christ
Scripture is not complimentary about those who seek after signs.
Jesus condemned the Jews for it and said that it’s an evil and adulterous generation which seeks after signs. That’s quite a condemnation. And He didn’t specify that it was HIS generation. Just *A* generation.
....”Scripture is not complimentary about those who seek after signs”....
Well that’s putting it softly Metmom, I’m afraid I wouldn’t have said that so kindly. Of course you picked it up in your next paragraph ;)
I do think ‘this’ generation is in a whole heap of trouble....deception is ruling many and easily accepted where only a few years ago it would not have been so easily taken in. Most are so easily swayed because they have no foundation of faith except in that which is ‘in’ the world.
It’s written ....False Christs and false Prophets will arise and perform ‘great’ signs and wonders, so as to lead astray,.... if possible, even the elect.
We see much of that today. And we know the Anti-Christ will do likewise. So what we see today in this generation is the “softening-up of the masses” for the ultimate deception.
Well, yeah.
After all, there is that miraculous healing of the sword wound of the anti-Christ.
With a generation primed to accept any healing of any kind as being from God, they will of course believe that the healing of the anti-Christ is from God and will willingly follow a man who performs that kind of *miracle*.
I never saw it so clearly before, but the situation in which we find ourselves today is just one more indicator that we are in the end times and that this generation is being primed by the enemy for the great deception.
Look at Obama, he didn't have to do anything but appear charming to the masses of his followers, and they went bonkers over him...and still do...though now they are in massive defensive for him because he's proved us all right of who he is and about. It's quite striking the extremes they will go to "protect" Obama and worse completely be blinded to the truth about him....and this was on an International scale when he first ran.
Imagine those who will be defending the anti-Christ!
Yes, I know her act. I’m saying, if she is legit, and she’s not, where does her wrong info come from?
Do you make all the proper tax payments & filings?
All the "worker's" you got, it must be truly hell for your accountants.
Oh wait...there are enough part-timer's on your payroll inside the IRS one could guess.
The "fix" is in..?
I don’t really know what to believe about ‘psychics’. All I know is my grandmother will on occasion predict things that come true. She predicted my grandfather’s stroke. She looked in his palm one day ánd told him that he would have a sickness come upon him that she saw his face being ‘drawn down’- but it was not as bad as he thought it would be- just very scary. It happened just like that. She once predicted a neighbor’s death in an oilfield accident. Very creepy.
I always tell her don’t ever tell me nothing!
Did she and Joseph EVER have sexual relations?
Then you'd get tossed into that darned ELSIE category: Folks who play smashmouth basketball if blowing in the ear doesn't work.
See!
I told you!!
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