Zemirah wrote:
What is described is blatant ancient heathenism/paganism.
God is separate and apart from His creation.
God is spirit, but He has personality. He has intelligence, wisdom and emotions. The God of the Bible is never described as an impersonal force.
The Biblical example of the Bereans makes this clear, for they are described as having noble character...
¨...they received the Word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily, to see whether these things were so.¨ Acts 17:11 (IOW they practiced spiritual discernment.)
In modernity, it equates only with the New Age Religion and with Eastern Religious Mysticism, i.e., Hinduism, Buddhism - a vast syncretism (or mixing) of numerous religious and philosophical ideas. This has been going on since the creation, and is in direct opposition to the only living God. Eastern religion and mysticism moved West, while Greek philosophy and reason moved East. Today the same process continues, but on a global scale in particular with the internet.
It has some similarities to ancient Gnosticism adopting both its methods and its individual nature. Most often rejecting reason and science, New Age religion more than anything is emotional, filling in for an inner void left by a secular cultures denial of their Creator, and discontent with traditional religious beliefs caused by a rejection of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Modern environmentalism (the Greens) could be broadly classified into New Age religion because of its treatment as a pseudo-religion and deification of Nature. This is part of the continuing process of syncretism moving toward the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.
Madame Helena P. Blavatsky (1831-1891) co-founder of the Theosophical Society in the 19th century is considered the grandmother of the New Age movement. New Age religion is anti-science and anti-reason. It is traceable to Satan in the Garden of Eden, and the Satanic promise, ¨You will be as God,¨ for they teach progressivism, that they are each progressing toward godhood.
In today's New Age cultish language, Madame Helena P. Blavatsky became the main "channeler" for the Theosophical Society, which, within a few decades, stimulated an ever-splintering amalgam of groups and cults..." all reminiscent of the 4,000 plus year old paganism of Sumer and Akkadia in Mesopotamia.
For as Solomon said, ¨there is nothing new under the sun.¨
The New Age Movement, unlike most formal religions, has no holy text, central organization, membership, formal clergy, geographic center, dogma, creed, etc. They often use mutually exclusive definitions for some of their terms.
Daniel 11:38 describes the god of forces or more accurately the god of fortresses as the god of the anti-Christ.
The god of forces IS not the God of the Bible.
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