Today, daytime television is full of New Age proponents. Sylvia Brown is frequently a guest on the Montel Williams show. Ms. Brown has formed her own church. She teaches there is no hell, no resurrection, and no salvation needed. She believes in reincarnation. Oprah Winfrey endorses many New Age teachers on her shows. Her guests include Neal David Walsh, Marianne Williamson, Rhonda Byrne and many others.
Oprah has publicly stated she is a Christian, but she is the kind of Christian that believes Jesus just came to give us the Christ consciousness. We have seen this is the very same belief the apostle Paul excommunicated the heretic Alexander for.
We have seen in previous chapters that we must believe and obey the teachings of Jesus Christ as presented in the Bible or we will die and go to hell.
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6
Hindus, Buddhists, Wiccans, Kabalists, Sufis, Sheiks, and Muslims refuse to accept Jesus and His teachings. According to Jesus they are all headed to hell.
A New Age teaching denies there is a hell. It states there are many ways to God; God is in all of us (known as Lucifer’s lie of emanation). And the practice of meditation will bring answers to all of our other questions.
We have learned Jesus told us specifically not to practice meditation like the heathen do. Basically, New Agers are calling Jesus Christ a liar.
Most New Agers are outside the church, or in other cases have been excommunicated by their denominations for heresy.
In the book Ancient Prophecies Revealed, we dedicated an entire chapter to the apostasy of the Church.
The ancient church fathers listed 100 ways the church would fall into apostasy and become the harlot church as described in the book of Revelation.
About the end times, Jesus said many people would start thinking they are a “Christ” or have the Christ consciousness in themselves:
“And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”
Matthew 24:11,24 NKJV
False teachings and sorcery do not simply go away. Revelation shows us that during the time of the Antichrist and the seven-year Tribulation period, sorcery is at an all time high. Even though people suffer incredibly because of their practice of sorcery, they refuse to repent of it.
“Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.”Revelation 9:21
Even after the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, some people will still refuse to follow Him.
Revelation states that outside the holy city will be those who still practice sorcery.
“Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.”Revelation 22:15
Oprah Winfrey
The Secret
Oprah wrote an endorsement on the front cover of the new edition of Discover The Power Within You, saying:
“This book changed my perspective on life and religion. Eric Butterworth teaches that God isn’t
“up there.” He exists inside each one of us, and it’s up to us to seek the divine within.”
Rhonda Byrne, author of The Secret, espouses the idea of a God/Christ consciousness, and that hell
does not exist.
“You are god in a physical body… You are all power… You are all inelegance… You are the creator.” Rhonda Byrne, The Secret,
Neal David Walsh claims God came to him and had him write his “Conversations with God.” What Walsh’s god told him completely contradicts what the God of the Bible tells us. One of them must be lying. According to the Bible, Walsh’s god is no more than a demon.
“The twenty-first century will be a time of awakening, of meeting the creator within. Many beings will experience Oneness with God… There are many such people in the world now… These messengers and visionaries are heralds of the New Age.” occultic, meditative type of massage therapy, similar to Therapeutic Touch, a form of meditation required for you to contact your Reiki spirit guides.
Eckankar is a small cult that prides itself on practicing a version of astral projection they call “Soul Travel.” I was able to attend a seminar they put on once in Olathe, Kansas. The main speaker talked about the superiority of their Soul Travel over standard astral projection. He also remarked that it was
important to develop your psychic powers through meditation.
During the break I spoke with him and asked him a few questions. I mentioned that some studies I have read have found a link with meditation and mental illness. One example was a person with epilepsy.
Studies show epileptics can have a seizure by staring at a blinking red light, while others could actually bring on a seizure by certain forms of meditation. He had heard of those studies and did not seem to want to dispute them.
This being the case, my question to him was:
“If I begin to meditate, how do I know that what I am seeing is real or, possibly, a hallucination brought on by some short circuit I am causing in by brain? More importantly, how do I know can I be assured I will not damage myself by triggering some form of epileptic seizure?”
His answer surprised me. Instead of giving me a scientific reason for why I would be safe if I did it his way, he simply said:
“That’s the risk every mystic takes.”
Transcendental Meditation
I had a similar experience when I visited the center for TM studies in Kansas City. After speaking to the representatives there, they encouraged me to master the standard TM and then advance to the TM-Sidhi program where I would develop my psychic powers. The thing I noticed was both representatives seem to have been on drugs sometime in their lives. Both were very slow to think and answer, much like a normal human when first awakened from a deep sleep. My first thought was why would someone trying to sell a product pick people who appeared to be damaged by drugs, to sell their product. My second thought was maybe it wasn’t drugs that did that to them, maybe it was the meditation!
Beware of groups using New Age terms. These are a dead give away that something is wrong. Check for any of the following terms:
Your higher self, higher consciousness, higher wisdom, ego, id, subconscious, super-conscious, higher plane, planetary transformation, paradigm shift, planetary conversion, global religion, global shift, centering, channeling, creative visualization, attuning, inner guidance, holistic health, human development, human potential, law of attraction, law of rebirth, mystery schools, mysticism, new thought, perennial wisdom, radiance technique, secret wisdom, self relaxation, transcendence, transpersonal, universal oneness, etc.
These terms refer to things that, in reality, do not exist. Stay away from people and groups that use terms like these. These are just confusion sent by Satan.
Word Faith Movement
Some New Age ideas have crept into the church with the Word Faith Movement. In its extreme form Word Faith taught the following:
1. We are becoming little gods because of Jesus’ gift
2. We are developing the magic power of faith, whereby we can simply command God to do things for us or by our own faith power name things into existence.
Even though this was bad enough, they still taught orthodox Christian doctrine in that:
1. They did not meditate (practice sorcery)
2. They did not say God is in everyone and all faiths will lead to salvation.
3. They believed in the Resurrection, not reincarnation.
4. They taught Wiccans, New Agers, Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims would die and go to hell because they rejected Jesus Christ.
Rodney Howard-Browne
Robert Tilton
God In Your Midst
Many New Agers and some of the Word Faith proponents will misquote Jesus when he said the Kingdom of God is within you.
“nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or, ‘There it is!’ For behold, the kingdom of Godis in your midst.”Luke 17:21 NASB