Guys, please don't use any kind of magic, even the white magic. White magic is just as bad as black magic - it just gives you the illusion that you have the power, but it's demonic powers either way.
Quote:'Witchcraft Killed My Dad': Ex-Witch's Horrific Journey Out of Terror to Christ
Julie Lopez says she was walking in “darkness” until her father’s horrific suicide snapped her and her family out of generations of witchcraft and into relationships with Jesus.
“I basically come from five generations of witchcraft,” she recently told CBN’s Faithwire. “I think it actually goes [further back], but … it ends in me. I cut that generational curse.”
“Witchcraft is, basically, when you are controlling and manipulating people … through rituals and through things,” she said, noting that there are different types of practices.
While some believe they are practicing “white magic” — a supposedly “good” tradition — she said there’s no such thing as safe or appropriate magic. This white magic often takes the form of healing rituals and other such methods.
The opposite, which is black magic, looks quite different.
“Black witchcraft [is] more about manipulating people, sacrifices, and doing certain things to have our way,” Lopez said. “Witchcraft is always going to try to make you think that you have the power.”
She likened this dynamic to what New Age practices promise people: Control to declare and “manifest” things into existence. Lopez said witchcraft makes people feel they’re the only ones with power.
“I was introduced to this concept of, ‘You need to be careful with the things that you declare. You need to start declaring positive things. You can change your atmosphere,'” she said. “It was apparently all good, [but] as I always say, it doesn’t matter if it’s white or black witchcraft; what is important is: who is the source? Who is guiding this experience?”
Lopez now believes it was demons guiding her, regardless of the type of magic she was pursuing.
Her family used both white and black witchcraft, with Lopez being introduced to the latter around age 15.
Much of the activity she engaged in was with the help of a so-called spirit guide, which she also now believes was demonic, though it didn’t present that way.
“They don’t come to you as demons … they come to you as … angels and they proclaim that they’re angels of light,” Lopez said. “And so you think, ‘Oh, wow, I have an angel.’”
Over time, Lopez began to cut herself, which eventually turned to suicidal inclinations. The intensity of the spiritual anguish led her to feel as though she should ultimately become the sacrifice, she said.
“I went like really deep, really dark … they were asking me to do bigger things, and, by that point, it was like, ‘Cut yourself.’ And I was just cutting myself,” she said. “I was kind of trying to cut myself to give them blood and wanted my life to be like a sacrifice for this. So, I, I felt at some point — I never shared this — but, ‘At some point, I have to be the sacrifice. I have to die. I need to do it.'”
Tragically, death eventually did strike the family. Lopez faced the ultimate horror when her father committed suicide. She believes the witchcraft led to his death — and to the familial chaos that followed.
Lopez initially struggled. She was angry and confused, though she eventually started attending church and learned there was another way to live.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
