Part Four: The New Age Movement

Part 4 of the New Age Movement session-
Keep in mind that the basic premise of New Age thought is that by looking within yourself with the help of outside esoteric agents (such as spirit guides, space aliens, mediums, angels, gurus, familiar spirits, shamans, etc.) then being able to achieve altered states of consciousness, you can attain the Christ Consciousness or Universal Mind. You then will realize you are your own god: You are a God.

The same concept is found in the current goddess movement which came out of the radical side of the early women’s movement- by the 1970’s this faction embraced the occult through wicca and witchcraft--- called the female collective consciousness.

This homo noeticus vision of man evolving into god like beings, reaching the omega point of evolution, is a central theme of new age proponents- foe example, the tv show Heroes was all about promoting this concept, where various young people discover they have super human abilities- new enlightened super heroes can save the world when they accept their new found gifts and abilities.

 NAM promotes that All religions and religious teachings lead to the same goal. All are equally of merit- except historical biblical Christianity. They draw from numerous different sources as long as it is agreeable to their world view.

They say the ancient wisdom of Babylon, Egypt and Greece, not the Bible, is the basis of all truth. No one religion has the truth. One learns by experience, and then he receives a special gnosis (knowledge) leading him on his own path.

In the new age worldview Sin and evil do not exist. Peace and love are the ultimate realities. Man is not sinful but is a potential god since his true essence is divine and perfect. (this is opposed to true Bible teaching- read Roman chapter 1 and Romans chapter 7 for insight into the sin issue.

There are universal beliefs among New Ager's that are held in common. The Hindu concept of reincarnation which teaches that after death souls comes back in another body to continue their spiritual lessons of evolvement back to the source which is God. New Ager's consistently misrepresent church history, they argue without any verifiable proof that the early church suppressed the teaching of reincarnation and censored its teaching at the council of Nicea. Doctrines of Christianity are often distorted using Scripture out of context to support their occult ideas (by finding separate words or phrases to make it say what they would like it too)

New Age says to go inside your “self,” this is where all knowledge is found. If this were true then one would not have to read any books or learn from any educator, they would just go inside themselves and learn it all. We could dispense with all our education and teach people meditation and other occult techniques to learn everything we need to know. 

This belief of godhood for humanity has infiltrated every world religion and cult including some neo -pentecostal Christian denominations formed in the past 90 years that have turned away from Biblical accountability and authority- this idea in its basic form is trying to combine liberal Christianity and Hinduism knowingly or unknowingly.

Many of the occult practices and beliefs revived by the modern NAM were a part of very early pagan cultures such as witchcraft, sorcery, spiritism (contacting spirits from other worlds), divination, astrology (clairvoyance; seeing the future), necromancy (consulting the dead) mediums (channeling spirits) all of these and more are clearly and strongly condemned in Scripture (Deut. 18: 9-17; Lev.19, Isaiah 47: 9-15

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