Christians and the New Age
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The document discusses key aspects of the New Age movement, including its origins in the 1960s counterculture, beliefs about the dawning of the "Age of Aquarius," and tenets related to spirituality, the occult, and social change. It contrasts New Age views of God, reincarnation, salvation, and the identity of Jesus Christ with biblical teachings. While the New Age incorporates some spiritual practices, it differs significantly from Christianity in its central beliefs.
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- 1. Christians and the New Age New Age Flora by Ythren Dr Alex Tang
- 2. The Age of Aquarius • Counter-cultural 1960s • End of the Age of Pisces • A New Age of hope for the world, human freedom and spirituality
- 3. The Age of Aquarius ‘When the moon is in the seventh house And Jupiter aligns with Mars Then peace will guide the planets And love will steer the stars This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius The age of Aquarius, Aquarius
- 4. The Age of Aquarius Harmony and understanding Sympathy and trust abounding No more falsehoods or derisions Golden living dreams of visions Mystic crystal revelation And the minds true liberation…’
- 5. Ramtha Spiritual walking, Transcendent Meditation
- 6. Columbia University psychologist, Dr. Helen Schucman, (1909-1981), over an 8 year period ACIM We are all one. There's enough. There's nothing we have to do. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way
- 7. Rhonda Byrne The law of attraction gratitude and visualization
- 8. ‘may the Force be with you’
- 9. ‘I try and understand this deep connection the people have with the forest. She talks about a network of energy that flows through all living things. She says all energy is only borrowed and one day you have to give it back.’
- 10. Aspects of the New Age Movement Occult aspects Spiritual aspects Social aspects
- 11. Occult Aspects • Channeling • act as a channel of information from sources other than their normal selves • sources described as being God, gods and goddesses, ascended masters, spirit guides, extraterrestrials, angels, devas, historical figures, the collective unconscious, elementals, or nature spirits
- 12. Spiritual Aspects • individual development • biofeedback, yoga, homeopathy, massage, meditation, visualisation, nutritional therapy, psychic healing, pyramid power, herbal medicine, healing using crystals, metals, music, and colours, Tarot, astrology, and reincarnation therapy
- 13. Social Aspects • social change to One World Government • new politics that gave special weight to such topics as consciousness, ecology, personal and spiritual development, community empowerment, and global unity
- 14. Spiritualism Emanuel Swedenborg Dr Franz Mesmer Occult aspects Spiritual aspects Social aspects
- 15. Spiritualism Nature is alive Creative imagination Experience of transmutation Theosophy Occult aspects Spiritual aspects Social aspects
- 16. Spiritualism Theosophy New Thought and Science Occult aspects Spiritual aspects Social aspects
- 17. Spiritualism Theosophy New Thought and Science Eastern religions Occult aspects Spiritual aspects Social aspects Hinduism (TM), Buddhism, Taoism, Sufism, Kaballah, Paganism, Folk religions…
- 18. Central Tenets of New Agers • Belief in Deity • Reincarnation • Universe and Life • Salvation • Jesus Christ
- 19. Belief in Deity • God is the impersonal life force, consciousness, ultimate truth and reality, the incorporeal, formless cosmic order personified within all people and matter • God is all and all are God.
- 20. Belief in Deity 24 “This is what the LORD says— your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the LORD, the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself, Isaiah 44:24
- 21. God is a Person • God speaks and has a self-given name: "I AM" (Exodus 3:14) • God is long-suffering (Psalm 86:15; 2 Peter 3:15) • God is forgiving (Daniel 9:9; Ephesians 1:7; Psalm 86:5) • God hates sin (Psalm 5:5-6; Habakkuk 1:13)
- 22. Channeling Leviticus 19:31 31 “ ‘Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God Leviticus 20:6 6 “ ‘I will set my face against the person who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute himself by following them, and I will cut him Witch of Endor (Nikolay Ge) off from his people. 1 Sam.28:3-25
- 23. Reincarnation • continual rebirth-no death-as life is spirit • souls rest for a time before deciding on a new body (or bodies) • heaven and hell are states of consciousness, self-imposed, due to ignorance of God as all • all in the universe are embodiments of God
- 24. Reincarnation 27 Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, Hebrews 9:27
- 25. Universe and Life • The universe, life, and matter were not created by God but "are" God • The universe and life emerged out of the creative power of the eternal universal life force • Man are gods
- 26. Universe and Life 3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. 1 Thessalonians 2:3-4
- 27. Man is not divine but a sinner (Romans 3:23) • He is deceitful and desperately sick (Jer. 17:9) • He is full of evil (Mark 7:21-23) • He loves darkness rather than light (John 3:19) • He is unrighteous, does not understand, does not seek for God (Rom. 3:10-12) • He is helpless and ungodly (Rom. 5:6) • He is dead in his trespasses and sins (Eph. 2:1)
- 28. Salvation and Self-spirituality • Salvation lies in the realization of oneness with the impersonal life force • Awareness can be heightened through methods that induce altered states of consciousness • Some believe the salvation of humanity will occur when a critical mass is reached, when people converge • This will bring a New World Order or new Planetary Order, resulting in oneness of civilization and one-world government, peace, and harmony
- 29. Salvation and Self-spirituality • Holistic Health • crystal healing, homeopathy, iridology, massage, various meditation methods, polarity therapy, psychic healing, therapeutic touch, reflexology • Human Potential Movement • Esalen Growth Center programs, EST, Gestalt Practice, Primal Scream Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Transcendental Meditation,Yoga
- 30. Salvation • Salvation is not correct thought but deliverance from the consequence of our sin (Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:8-9) • Salvation is God's deliverance from damnation (Eph. 2:8-9; Rom. 1:18; 2:5; 5:9) • This salvation is found in no one but Jesus alone (Acts 4:12)
- 31. New Age Jesus The Jesus of the New Age is differs from the Biblical Jesus The New Age separates Jesus from Christ Jesus was one of many Christs or teachers, who came to show the way Christ is seen as office being held by an avatar or teacher.
- 32. Jesus Christ in the Bible Jesus is God incarnate, God the Son born of a virgin, who came into the world and died on a cross. Jesus is the only means of salvation
- 33. Central Tenets of New Agers • Belief in Deity • Reincarnation • Universe and Life • Salvation • Jesus Christ
- 34. New Age is not • Contemplative spirituality • Mysticism • Spiritual formation
- 35. Christians and the New Age New Age Flora by Ythren
- 36. Kairos Spiritual Formation www.kairos2.com More sermons here <http://www.kairos2.com/sermons_archives.htm>
Notes de l'éditeur
- MacLaine has claimed that, in a previous life in Atlantis, she was the brother to a 35,000 year old spirit named Ramtha channeled by American mystic teacher and author J. Z. Knight. She has a strong interest in spirituality and metaphysics, the central theme of some of her best-selling books including Out on a Limb and Dancing in the Light. She has undertaken such forms of spiritual exploration as walking the Way of St. James, working with Chris Griscom, and practicing Transcendental Meditation
- Conversations with God (CwG) is a sequence of books written by Neale Donald Walsch. It was written as a dialogue in which Walsch asks questions and God answers.[1] The first book of the Conversations with God series,Conversations with God, Book 1: An Uncommon Dialogue, appeared on bookshelves in 1995, and quickly became a publishing phenomenon, staying on the New York Times Best-Sellers List for 137 weeks. The succeeding volumes in the nine book series also appeared prominently on the List. In an interview with Larry King, Walsch described the inception of the books as follows: at a low period in his life, Walsch wrote an angry letter to God asking questions about why his life wasn't working. After writing down all of his questions, he heard a voice over his right shoulder say: "Do you really want an answer to all these questions or are you just venting?"[2] Though when he turned around he saw no one there, Walsch felt answers to his questions filling his mind and decided to write them down. The ensuing dialogue became the Conversations with God books. When asked in a recent interview how does he ‘open up’ to God these days, Neale argued “I am reaching out to touch others with this information. When I reach out and touch others with this information I reconnect immediately with the divine presence.” CwG's basic messages In Friendship with God, Walsch writes that God presents four concepts which are central to the entire dialogue: We are all one. There's enough. There's nothing we have to do. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way. Existence is essentially non dual in nature. At the highest level there is no separation between anything and there is only one of us; there is only God, and everything is God. The second statement, following from the first, means that we, in this seeming existence, lack nothing and if we choose to realize it, we have enough of whatever we think we need (or the means to create it) within us. The third statement combines the first two to conclude that God, being all there is and is thus always sufficient unto Itself, has no need of anything and therefore has no requirements of humanity. The final concept puts an end to our need to always be right. Given that we have and are everything, and there's nothing we have to do, there are an infinite number of ways to experience this, not just the one way we may have chosen so far. According to the books, God recommends many economic and social changes if people want to make a more functional, adaptable, and sustainable world, it recommends that more attention should focus on the environment. The conversations also speak of reincarnation and the existence of life on other planets
- The Secret posits that the law of attraction is a natural law which determines the complete order of the universe and of our personal lives through the process of "like attracts like". The author claims that as we think and feel, a corresponding frequency is sent out into the universe that attracts back to us events and circumstances on that same frequency. For example, if you think angry thoughts and feel angry, it is claimed that you will attract back events and circumstances that cause you to feel more anger. Conversely, if you think and feel positively, you will attract back positive events and circumstances. Proponents of the law claim that desirable outcomes such as health, wealth, and happiness can be attracted simply by changing one's thoughts and feelings. For example, some people believe that using the Secret can cure cancer The Secret highlights gratitude and visualization as the two most powerful processes to help manifest one's desires. It asserts that being grateful both lifts your frequency higher and affirms that you believe you will receive your desire. Visualization is said to help focus the mind to send out the clearest message to the universe. Several techniques are given for the visualization process, as well as examples of people claimed to have used it successfully to manifest their dreams. As an example, if a person wanted a new car, by thinking about the new car, having positive and thankful feelings about the car as if it were already attained and opening one's life in tangible ways for a new car to be acquired (for example, test driving the new car, or making sure no one parks in the space where the new car would arrive); the law of attraction would rearrange events to make it possible for the car to manifest in the person's life.
- Correspondence: Everything in Nature is a sign. The signs of Nature can be read. The microcosm and macrocosm interplay. Synchronicity exists, and can be found as signs from Nature and may lead to the understanding of the divine. Nature is Alive: It is not just correlations between pieces of matter. It is a living entity that will, and does, surge and evolve through its expanding self, replete with dynamic flows of energy and light. Imagination and mediations: Imaginations as a power that provides access to worlds and levels of reality intermediary between the material world and the divine.[25] Experience of Transmutation: The Gnosis and illuminations of self and mind performing a transmutation of consciousness. The birth of an awareness, a second new life becomes born. Practice of Concordance: Primordial Tradition. Studying traditions, religions etc. seeking the common one Root from which all esoteric knowledge grows. Transmission: Master-Disciple, master-Initiate, initiation into the Occult. The three characteristics of theosophy are listed below. Theosophy: Divine/Human/Nature Triangle: The inspired analysis which circles through these three angles. The intradivine within; the origin, death and placement of the human relating to Divinity and Nature; Nature as alive, the external, intellectual and material. All three complex correlations synthesize via the intellect and imaginative processes of Mind. Primacy of the Mythic: The creative Imagination, an external world of symbols, glyphs, myths, synchronicities and the myriad, along with image, all as a universal reality for the interplay conjoined by creative mind. Access to Supreme Worlds: The awakening within, inherently possessing the faculty to directly connect to the Divine world(s). The existence of a special human ability to create this connection. The ability to connect and explore all levels of reality; co-penetrate the human with the divine; to bond to all reality and experience a unique inner awakening.