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This Is Disturbing

August 13, 2008 in Apostasy, Christianity by Isaiah | 6 comments

From Herescope:

Evangelicals and New Agers

We want to call our readers’ attention to a recent article by Constance Cumbey posted at www.newswithviews.com entitled “The Family and its Hijacking of Evangelicalism: Part 1“.

This is a must-read article from the Michigan attorney who first brought the “New Age Movement” to the attention of the evangelical world in the early 1980s in her landmark book The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow (Huntington House, 1983).

In this new article, Cumbey links New Age leaders with evangelical leaders in ways which have heretofore have been undisclosed. Based on the groundbreaking research on the evangelical secret society called “The Family” (or “The Fellowship”) made public by Jeff Sharlet in his recently released book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, Cumbey connects the dots to the Institute of Noetic Sciences. And she adds important pieces to the perplexing puzzle of interconnections between key evangelical leaders and ranking New Agers.

Read more here…

Here’s a good example of how such New Age doctrines are making their way into our churches, courtesy of folks like Patricia King and an introduction to Ekstasis “worship”.

On a related note, I’ll like to draw your attention to Vee’s blog where she shares her salvation experience and deliverance from when she herself was “… mixed up with a Christian Spiritualist”.

I pray that it will warn you of the dangers of this movement, and help you discern against such occult practices.

Todd Bentley: Messenger of God?

June 6, 2008 in Apostasy by Isaiah | 6 comments

From FinalTrumpet at YouTube:

Todd Bentley has been a leader in the “Lakeland Revival” currently being heralded as a great move of God. Analysis of Bentley and what he preaches show that he is not what he claims.

The analysis this video provides is in relation to his explanation of a supernatural encounter he had. Critical analysis of the encounter shows that he not only did not use biblical instruction to “test the spirits” but that the encounter was not of God. His “encounter” matches UFO abduction testimonials and seems to be more of a “close encounter” than one with God. And those have proven to be satanic/demonic at their core.

So the big question is can a man who has occultic/demonic encounters and claiming they are of God be teaching Truth? I think these videos will show that his message is not of God as is this “revival” of false signs and wonders.

This is part 1 of a series of five videos so far:

You can catch parts 2, 3, 4 and 5 at FinalTrumpet’s page on YouTube, which suggest, along with video evidence, how Todd Bentley is actually practicing Kundalini.

Last Week’s Best Reads

March 30, 2008 in Christianity, Humor by Isaiah | 10 comments

I’m back with another installment where I share with you my favorite blog posts in the past week:

Have You Been To The Church Of “O”?

Oprah WinfreyAre you a Christian woman or man who is intently following Oprah Winfrey’s series on The New Earth or even A Course in Miracles? Well, stop!

You’re listening to a woman who “took God out of the box” and thinks that God is “jealous of me” in her own words! Instead of finding out for herself what that word ‘jealous’ means, she goes on a search for something “more than doctrine” then lands herself right smack into the occult teachings of people like Marianne Williamson and Eckhart Tolle.

She’s just full of herself, really. As my wife pointed out, if she could interpret “jealous God” as “God is jealous of me”, we all know just who she is centered on! And now, she’s misleading millions down a slippery slope that ends in a plunge into the bottomless pit called HELL.

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My Wife’s Testimony — An Ex-Roman Catholic’s Journey From Darkness to the Light

March 25, 2008 in Christianity, Marriage, Roman Catholicism by Isaiah | 30 comments

From Darkness to LightForeword: I thought I’d give a little background into how this testimony came about, because it simply demonstrates how often God works wonderfully in us and there’s only goodness when we submit to His will.

For some days now, my wife has told me that she hasn’t been able to sleep well because God has prompted her time and again to write her testimony down.

She asked me why, and I told her testimonies were a good way for us to glorify God through telling others what He has made anew in us. As to why God is telling her to do so I am not sure, yet we need trust that the Lord has need for her to do something that has not been revealed, but it’s all good.

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:28

We had retired rather late to bed last night. Just 15 minutes later, she was out of bed, and the study light came on while her computer whirred to life. When I popped into the study to ask why she wasn’t in bed, she was quite in tears, telling me that God had admonished her for not submitting to His will, right after prayers.

She had been fighting the burden in her heart to write her testimony down, believing wrongly that it’s rather pointless.

It was the first time she had experienced such a prompting, so I gently told her that that’s what God does with me many, many times over — a feeling so heavy in one’s heart that you go on your knees and cry out saying, “Father, Lord, I’ll obey and do it!”

I made coffee for us and stayed up with her while she completed her testimony which we are now sharing with you. May it encourage and bless you as it has us.

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Everybody Wants Kung Fu Fighting

March 11, 2008 in Christianity by Isaiah | 19 comments

Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonThe ’slain in the Spirit’ phenomenon is new and strange to me even though I had spent some time in the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement years ago. I can say for sure that I didn’t witness it before and it was only recently that I’ve been seeing more and more of it being practised in churches.

What is being ’slain in the Spirit’?

That’s when Pentecostal/Charismatic pastors say that they feel God’s anointing and, by touching the forehead of one or even in some extreme cases, a sweep of their arm, people in the congregation fall backwards having being ’slain’ and receive the same power that the pastor has been imbued with.

Sounds a little like those special powers some martial arts practitioners possess in Chinese kung fu movies, doesn’t it?

Now, don’t get me wrong — I am not saying that God cannot do that. Oh, our God can do more than that, but my point is that our God is not a “I’m happy so I wave my wand” God.

There also seems to be no Scriptural basis for this phenomenon from what I have searched so far. Nothing in Acts tells us of the Apostles laying hands on someone to have him ’slain in the Spirit’, nor are there records of how, with a sweep of his hand, Paul or Peter or John or even James did that.

So, if there isn’t any Scriptural basis for this practice, what is it then?

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Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: New Age Nonsense

March 1, 2008 in Christian Worldview, Christianity by Isaiah | 8 comments

James TwymanOn April 5, The Moses Code, a film by James Twyman, will be opening in a theater near you.

What is the Moses code anyway?

Well, the trailer claims that “35 hundred years ago, God spoke to Moses and gave him a code that became the foundation of the Law of Attraction and the Laws of Manifestation”.

Huh?! Which part of the Bible says that there was such a code?

Well, remember the words spoken by God to Moses when the latter asked for His name?

Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

Exodus 3:13-14

Now that you know, watch the trailer and barf:

Slice of Laodicea has more on this movie, including (get this) how there will be many prayer groups all over the world holding prayer vigils in tandem with the release of the movie:

If you don’t read anything else on Slice today, please read this post. Following in the footsteps of The Secret and its teachings on the Law of Attraction, a movie is opening April 5 called“The Moses Code”. Please read about it, watch the trailer, and realize that 1000 prayer groups all over the world are holding prayer vigils like this one (see April 5) as they screen the movie. In the trailer when the actors in the movie come out with the blasphemous “I AM” statements, it sums up perfectly the New Spirituality we’ve been warning about. These are folks who believe that THEY are God. These people are praying for this evolutionary “shift” in the consciousness of the planet. So while these Satanic prayer vigils are going on, what is the evangelical and emerging churches doing? Helping things along by holding hair and fashion shows like Victory Church in Amarillo last Sunday instead of preaching the powerful Word of God; by holding yet another Christian sex event like Mark Driscoll, the foul mouthed preacher boy, who is now holding “Song of Solomon” conferences where he gets to talk about breasts and oral sex and justify it because, it’s in the Bible, after all. You can see Driscoll’s disgusting video right here. (Why is it that when these guys talk about sexuality it always carries a feeling of grime?) While Christian pastors obsess about sexuality and serve as ringmasters at their evangelical circuses, the enemy is holding prayer vigils. When is the last time you heard about one of those in a Christian church?

I am guessing there’s a feeding frenzy now on on all things New Age, with New Age priestess Oprah Winfrey’s recommendations to millions of her viewers to study “A Course in Miracles” by Marianne Williamson, watch “The Secret” DVD and promoting the latest “Get Ready to be Awakened” series of online courses by Eckhart Tolle on one end, and movies such as these on the other.

And I don’t think I exaggerate when I say that I’ve never ever seen occult practices pushed so blatantly in mainstream media! Until now…

Indeed, I am convinced all the more that we are living in the end of days, when such self-love and foolishness shall be prevalent.

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 3:2-7

HT: Slice of Laodicea.