"someone who has nothing better to do"My Opinion on New Age Spirituality
Kanina, I was watching one of the videos of my friend in Multiply about Oprah's church and web class about New Age philosophy. I have watched it for sometime, but I haven't given a clear thought about it.
As a Christian, it is heartbreaking to see a fellow believer turn from her ways just because she thought she had seen every part and parcel of society's constructs--its dilemmas and struggles to keep peace and stability--and dismisses that her faith is an aspect of her life that hinders her from empathizing with other people. It's as if she concluded that her relationship with God is one thing that keeps her from reaching out to others. For what? For world peace and love of humankind?
Someone break the news to her: there will be no ultimate, 100% guarantee peace on earth. And I'm not being cynical here. Jesus even said Himself:
"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it." Matthew 10:34-39
Jesus came to separate those who are for Him and against Him. Peace will never happen on this earth for as long as many have complacent thoughts about life and its real purpose.
One of the most disturbing doctrines of New Age Spirituality is:
1.) Salvation comes from self.
This boils down to the idea that if a person can save himself, he ought to think that he will live forever without the help of some god or supernatural being. This doctrine also implies that as a person lives, he lives for himself and his people around him. He depends on himself.
But you know what? I think I just discovered something.
These virtues of self-reliance are synonymous to what the Theistic Satanists also possess. And it's hurtful to think that many Christians are being deceived, thinking that it is a new form of religion that will unite the earth.
In my opinion, New Age Spirituality is another deception that will entangle people into believing its supposedly 'good intentions'. More and more people will be tricked into thinking that this uprising is the solution to the divide that separates us as humans. But I urge fellow Christians to stand firm on their faith and hold on to what the Scriptures say.
PS: It's hard for me to write these things because I know some people might judge me for being narrow-minded, for being inhumane, for being self-righteous (nagpapakabanal). But tonight I just realized; what reason have I to be disheartened? I know what I believe in, and Christ is very real in my life. There's no reason for me to be ashamed for what I stand for.
As a Christian, it is heartbreaking to see a fellow believer turn from her ways just because she thought she had seen every part and parcel of society's constructs--its dilemmas and struggles to keep peace and stability--and dismisses that her faith is an aspect of her life that hinders her from empathizing with other people. It's as if she concluded that her relationship with God is one thing that keeps her from reaching out to others. For what? For world peace and love of humankind?
Someone break the news to her: there will be no ultimate, 100% guarantee peace on earth. And I'm not being cynical here. Jesus even said Himself:
"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it." Matthew 10:34-39
Jesus came to separate those who are for Him and against Him. Peace will never happen on this earth for as long as many have complacent thoughts about life and its real purpose.
One of the most disturbing doctrines of New Age Spirituality is:
1.) Salvation comes from self.
This boils down to the idea that if a person can save himself, he ought to think that he will live forever without the help of some god or supernatural being. This doctrine also implies that as a person lives, he lives for himself and his people around him. He depends on himself.
But you know what? I think I just discovered something.
These virtues of self-reliance are synonymous to what the Theistic Satanists also possess. And it's hurtful to think that many Christians are being deceived, thinking that it is a new form of religion that will unite the earth.
In my opinion, New Age Spirituality is another deception that will entangle people into believing its supposedly 'good intentions'. More and more people will be tricked into thinking that this uprising is the solution to the divide that separates us as humans. But I urge fellow Christians to stand firm on their faith and hold on to what the Scriptures say.
PS: It's hard for me to write these things because I know some people might judge me for being narrow-minded, for being inhumane, for being self-righteous (nagpapakabanal). But tonight I just realized; what reason have I to be disheartened? I know what I believe in, and Christ is very real in my life. There's no reason for me to be ashamed for what I stand for.
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