Truths from the New Age

I watched a video that my daughter wanted me to see on quantum physics and our mind. It was purporting to establish the New Age self-god philosophy. I could see a great deal of truth in the presentation, much more than most Christians want to believe. I thought back over the overall plot line and reasoning and realized that they teach that because God is behind good and bad, because of the lies about hell, because of all the lies about God taught in Christian churches (they didn't label them as lies of course) then the solution lies in believing that we are god collectively. There is no good or bad. They contradicted themselves several times but that goes unnoticed by most observers. They said we shouldn't create a god in our own image, inferring a god who is good and evil like ourselves. That statement is true, and unfortunately that is what Christians have indeed done. But then they turn around and create god in their own collective image.

They said they didn't endorse sin, violence and aggression but they offered no cure for it except to say that you can escape it by simply changing your thoughts. They teach that there is no reality outside and separate from us, that all reality is a creation of our brains. They teach that the internal reality is more real than the physical world around us. They demonstrate through the plot line of the story that the evil consequences of falling into sin (in their illustration getting drunk and waking up nearly naked the next morning with all its implications) are just bad emotions and feelings that can easily be eliminated by simply choosing to think differently about yourself thereby changing your reality. They correctly point out that your life unfolds according to the choices you are making and the root problem is how you think and perceive yourself. However, they strongly avoid the existence of sin and of a God distinct from us to whom we have to be accountable. They insist there is no judgment or condemnation, that evil is something to be avoided by simply changing what we believe about ourselves.

This is very strong delusion mingled with very strong truths. A very large part of the reason it is so tremendously attractive and deceptive is that it builds itself on the foundation of many of the lies about God. It sets those out as facts of religion and then presents itself as the only viable alternative to all the negative effects those lies have produced. This is spiritualism in its pure form. And this philosophy is the heart and soul of Babylon, fallen Babylon, the unholy alliance between Catholicism, corrupted Protestantism and New Age spiritualism predicted in Revelation. Protestantism is the compromising link between the legalism and God-lies on which Catholicism is founded and the seemingly best answer promoted by spiritualism. It won't take much adjusting to create an overwhelming magical spell of deception from this lethal mix. The result in the soul is intense attraction but underlying confusion which is the meaning of the word Babylon.

What is our reaction to be if we are to escape the magic and the deception? Certainly not more infusion of intellectual knowledge, though that is usually what is attempted. While it is important to not be ignorant of Satan's schemes, we do not have to dissect them, analyze them and disassemble them to determine what is true and false. Eve tried that and started us on the road to where we are now.

The only hope and safety we have is to know the real truth about God and allow Him to transform us to be spectacular demonstrations of grace that will draw hungry, empty souls to the real source of life. Satan's lies about God had to be accepted and become presumptions before his lies about how we should live could take hold in our souls. That is why it is crucial to first focus on undermining his lies, not by lengthy exposés and dissections of what is wrong with error, but with ever-expanding revelations of the truth of God's beauty, consistency, faithfulness, compassion, justice and the truth about consequences. This cannot have real effect against the enemy if it is only a “religious” activity. It has to be a heart-transforming demonstration of inward power effected by the Spirit of God. The confusion of Babylon will never be overcome by force, by unmasking all the errors and uncovering the conspiracies like so many Christians are addicted to doing. Babylon will fall, will collapse in ruin, when its foundation of lies are exposed by the overwhelming revelation of the beauty and glory of God, not only in the beliefs but in the lives of the people who allow Him to dwell in them richly.

There were many fascinating insights and truths in this video that greatly strengthen the truth about the real God of heaven and how he created the universe and us. Many of these truths are rejected by many Christians for various reasons. Some because of their tenacious clinging to the lies about God deeply rooted in religious traditions, and others because we tend to reject any new insights if they are discovered first by our opponents. This puts us into a seeming quandary. If we study into New Age ideas to extrapolate genuine truths about God we are not immune to becoming infected with subtle deceptions along with them. If we avoid knowing anything about these things because they are promoted by deceivers it appears we will take much longer to discover them for ourselves. But this logic itself smells of a possible subtle deception. It assumes God is not eager to share the truth about Himself with us directly. The real obstacle is not so much our access to information as it is our prejudices and pride that prevent us from integrating new truth and insights into our current beliefs about God and reality.

If we were to release our prejudice but still screen every idea through the objective filters of the Word of God in the Scriptures and the Spirit of God dwelling within us, we would grow much faster in our perceptions of God and reality. Many of our prejudices are rooted in strong opinions about Bible translations or traditional, unchallenged assumptions about what the Bible means by various passages. When we allow the true Spirit of God to unlock our hearts as well as our minds when we study truth from His Word, we will be amazed and delighted to see lie after lie unmasked as truth emerges more and more perfectly interlocked and synchronized with creation and reality. As we focus on connecting our hearts in vital communion with the heart of God – the real and only source of life and truth – we will be filled with not only amazing knowledge about how reality works in the physical, mental and spiritual worlds but will become a living exhibition of the glorious results of that transformational truth. This is my desire and choice. I choose to open myself to the Source and draw heavily on those resources of life. I want to be made an exhibition in the trophy train of Jesus' captives. I want to become a slave of love completely swallowed up in the life of the Lover who stopped at nothing to redeem my life from deception and death. I give my permission for God to do anything and everything He needs or wants to do to bring about this end. Make my life a flaming passion for the glory of God.