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Can someone believe and fear witchcraft and be a true Catholic?
Doesn't it contradict? I have numerous relatives that claim to be Christians but also believe people can be witches and wizards and inflict harm on others. It's a real fear to them and when you explain that someone likely died to some undiagnosed illness rather than someone cursing them, they only refute the idea and say that I won't understand it til I see it myself. But to be Christian is to believe God has power over all and you don't need to see a blatant miracle to believe, so it just seems hypocritical to me to live in such fear, and with such disrespect to scientific facts and at the same time say that God leads us over green pastures. as a Catholic, I dont see how science and my religion contradict. My religion is the morals and science is the process to me, and both have room to grow in interpretation. The breakthroughs in both science and religion give me a better appreciation of God. But if someone died of undiagnosed cancer I just don't see how it's logical to say it was due to witchcraft when it can be clearly proven as cancer. That's just some kind of wishful thinking. But I'd appreciate any advice, it's annoying when someone thinks you're cursed by another human being with mystical powers for no provable reason, and nobody believes you when you refute it.i it's also scary for the people accused of being witches or wizards cause how could they refute it? Even if they are evil in heart, make shrines and wish others harm I don't believe that actually means they have any more power than anyone else. I don't go forcing my religious beliefs on others of other faiths, but how can someone say a belief in witchcraft is doesn't contradict Catholicism when that isn't in any doctrine Im aware of? It's like me saying everyone who isn't catholic will go to hell, when Catholicism says only God truly knows. People in my family talk about witchcraft so absolutely like that and it's weird that I'm the only one I know in my family that isn't so quick to jump on a bandwagon that is not only unprovable but also of negative influence. Hypothetically, if there's no god, church still helps me into becoming more disciplined and functional in society. A belief in witchcraft only creates fear and other negativity.
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First of all, I would like to straighten out a piece of information many uninformed people get wrong. Pagans, Wiccans and Witches are a quite different thing from Blackmagic, and Satanisn. With the former, their creed they live by is "And it harm none, do as you will. So in essense, if what you do does no harm to yourself or anyone else, then it's okay to do. That is not the intent however of people involved in Black-magic and Satanism.
That said, now I have a question for you to really think through. If you believe we are made in Gods image, what exactly does that mean to do? God obviously does not have a mortal body, thats only to house our soul. So, it stands to reason, as Gods children our souls are made to carry his traits. But do all children behave perfect from the moment they are born? NO, they have to learn and they learn by choosing to copy God. At baby hood, even though we have legs, we can't walk yet like adults. Same for our souls, we have traits, abilities within us just like Gods spirit. So being made in his image is not so much looks now but capabilities and traits. The point I am getting at is that our souls do in fact have, (to a lesser extent tho) the ability to create, as God does. The power of the mind and intent is very awesome. Even Jesus said we would go on to do greater things than him.
The point I am getting to is that regardless of what belief a person labels themself or claims to adher to, we all have the ability to choose to do good and be very successful at it, or to do the opposite and also have success at it.
In the end, can both Christians and Blackmagic practicers have success with their intentions? Yes, pretty much if they understand how this works. Because an intention starts as a mind thought, it's the focus and visualization that help it along. So prayer and practicing spells actually have something in common. In prayer, our intent is to see someone healed but we do not focus on it, we simply ask God to do His will. He will is for all of us to come to love Him and to love every soul on earth as their greater extended 'family'. In spell work, a person has the same intent, to see someone healed who is ill. The focus instead is shifted. Such a person recognizes that God gave them the ability to be able to do the sameas he did, and one of those things is Heal. There are natural energy healers, like Reiki, where the person uses symbols they draw in the air, use visualization, to bring about a good result in healing. While they may not claim to be witches, the process is exactly the same. I know as I do energy healing, have lots of pagan friends, the kind loving good ones, and grew up in church. Just because someone is a witch or pagan doesnt mean they worship Satan and in fact, they generally do not believe in the devil. but do acknowledge that there is evil intent and presences out there.
And so, they will protect themselves, much like a Christian does, using the armor of God to put on. they just call it different, as it actually is, God is Light, so they visualize a bubble of Gods light surrounding them, a force field that nothing of evil intent can go through.
We are made up of energy and our energy field extends quite a ways beyond our body if you haven't heard about that.
So all in all, is there anything to fear? No. Because you can protect yourself, you can call on your angels, yes they believe in angels too. But you want to keep focusing on visualizing your protection in place not once a week but on a daily basis.
We have an energy crisis on earth because we use up the energy source we have...gas...and think on finite terms when energy is actually an infinite thing, always flowing, never runs out. In human terms, we can find other ways to create energy that keeps regenerating energy, not using up. In spiritual terms, energy is always there, we simply need to take the steps to harness it and focus our intent to use it, either for good or evil. So, there is such a thing as witch craft, or the craft as it is called, that is of good intent. As you'll find in life, there are rotten apples to be found in every walk of life. Its not restricted to a particular race, choice of profession, religion, etc....
I do still pray or 'talk to god all the time, the same God as I knew from Christian life in the church, however I now believe also a broader spectrum, knowing that almost every faith out there has at least a nugget of truth in them, Gods truth, just worded a little different, but also, every faith also has their misconceptions, misinterpretations and outright lies.
You are right that what your family is doing is not right, for they are practicing Black magic. And a person can not intentionally practice such a thing and still claim to be children of light, of God. They are no more Christian than a mouse found in a cookie jar can be called a cookie.
They are choosing to believe what they want, that someone dies of a curse. But even if you haven't used protective visualization or angels protections, if there is something you must need to remain on the earth for, then angels will still step in and prevent a person from doing a spell to harm you. I knew such a person once, he got so angry at me that one night he tried to do a spell to harm me. He was astounded when an angel appeared to him and said, I can not allow you to do that. God gives us a free will, and so whether for good or evil, we have free rein to do whichever and God won't interfere and force us to stop our bad intents, but He sure as heck can protect a person if they haven't remembered to reset their own protection. And thats what my angel did. this person was so surprised, they actually told me a couple days later.
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