10 Ways You Might Be Letting the Devil Slip In Without Even Realizing It

[Michie]

Yearning for the supernatural is inborn but entering through the wrong door leads to spiritual harm.

Albert Anker, “Fortune Teller,” 1880 (photo: Public Domain / Public Domain)
God is the ultimate power, so the devil need not be feared, but he should be always be avoided for our own spiritual well-being. Hearing people say, “It’s no big deal,” is music to the devil’s ears. He likes to work undercover to ensnare people in his traps.

Here are 10 things considered harmless by many that are ways that the devil has slipped into the culture.

1. Horoscopes. They are in newspapers and magazines. I bet you even know your zodiac sign. Horoscopes claim power to know the future that is not from God. Catholic Answersexplains that the pagan world was once dominated by belief in astrology. It is still a pagan practice that goes against the First Commandment.

2. Mediums. On the TV reality series, Long Island Medium, Theresa Caputo claims to speak with the dead. She also fills stadiums across the country with shows where people pay from $50 to $150 a ticket.

Psychics, fortune tellers, mediums and the like, are either shysters or drawing their power from the devil. The Old Testament in Deut. 18:10-11 and Isaiah 19:3 condemns conjuring up the dead. That is not the same as not praying to saints asking for their intercessory prayers. Mediums claim to conjure up spirits and manipulate the spiritual realm.

3. Paranormal Tourism. Visiting haunted houses has become popular. There are an estimated 1,200 haunted houses generating around $500 million annually in the U.S. where would-be ghost hunters use paranormal equipment that taunt spirits to get a response.

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10 Ways You Might Be Letting the Devil Slip In Without Even Realizing It

 

[BrAndreyu]

3. Paranormal Tourism.

There's no doubt in my mind that I've been to haunted places, as I've visited both St. Augustine (founded in 16th century) and New Orleans. I've never seen a ghost or even sensed one's presence though. That's something that my father claims to be able to do, and I'm pretty sure that it's his own MI that he refuses to have treated and denies that he has.

I'm willing to bet that a lot of Church chapels are haunted, specifically because they are used for funerals. I've seen things happen in chapels that made little sense, but I chalked them up to my MI causing hallucinations/delusions.

I've never done the "ghost hunting" thing though. That's how you end up with a poltergeist.