WHAT IS THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT?
The New Age Movement is an anti- Christian religion, based primarily on secular humanism, Hinduism, and witchcraft.
“For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.”
(2 Peter 2:18)
The Apostle Paul warned that
“….in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy;
having their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats….”(1 Timothy 4:1-2)
Three clear steps our culture has taken recently:
1. We departed from the faith. In the middle of this century, America began a steady reversal of its Christian values. We took the Bible and prayer out of the schools, the courts, and most of our communications. We turned from a focus on God to a secularization of our thinking.
2. We gave heed to seducing spirits. In the moral vacuum that resulted, there came a great increase in fornication, perversion, and lasciviousness. Sex became a recreational sport, and a national obsession.
3. We received doctrines of devils. The next step was a rapid rise in the occult and demonic religions. America opened its doors to the demented and demon-possessed gurus of Hinduism and the ancient religion of eastern mysticism, the mother of satanic cults.
India, with her heart of idolatry, is a land of 3,300,000 gods, each idol represents a demonic spirit. Many Hindus literally open their spirit to demons. Hindus believe in reincarnation, which is the idea that each person will return to earth many times in many different forms. They have been deceived, because
“it is appointed unto every man once to die, but after this, the judgment”
(Hebrews 9:27)
The New Age Movement is built on many deceptions, all designed to get man to focus on himself. This can open his spirit to human or demonic manipulation. People open their spirit to evil through transcendental meditation, drugs, video games, and rock music.
The New Age Movement promotes reincarnation, which leads to a fatalistic outlook on life. There is a strong belief in astrology, which seeks to control people’s lives through suggestion and manipulation. This false religion focuses attention on the impersonal force of the universe instead of on a personal God. Because of the belief in reincarnation, they command
“…to abstain from meats,” (1 Timothy4:3)
because that cow might really be their relative. Since they have rejected God and the bible,
“the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, test the light of the glorious gospel of Christ…should shine onto them.”
(2 Corinthians 4:4)
The New Age Movement promotes itself as compassionate and humanitarian. In fact, it is diabolically anti-Christian. Part of their agenda is the destruction, or at least the devaluation, of the family. New Age also promotes various forms of moral perversion, particularly homosexuality, sodomy. The “new world order” is based on the idea that the world can achieve world peace through a socialistic, godless program of diplomacy. New Age is really a form of Satan’s old lie.
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