UPDATED: January 25, 2025
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Genesis 3:1-5
Watch this documentary on this very familiar account of the fall of man and original sin. The serpent promises enlightenment but delivers death as he causes men to doubt God. This is an excellent documentary. Everyone, including those like Eve, gets sucked into the serpent’s lies.
“Ye shall be as gods,…” Serpent Genesis 3:5
Below is one of the best Christian Apologetics sites CARM tagged to the article. This movement is far larger than most of us care to know. Don’t stick your head in the sand. Inform your family and friends.
What is the New Age Movement?
What is the New Age Movement? | Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry
What is the New Age Movement? The New Age (NAM) movement has many sub-divisions, but it is generally a collection of Eastern-influenced metaphysical thought systems, a conglomeration of theologies, hopes, and expectations held together with an eclectic teaching of salvation, of “correct thinking” and “correct knowledge.” It is a theology of “feel-goodism,” “universal tolerance,” and “moral relativism.”
In the NAM Man is central. He is viewed as divine, as a co-creator, and as the hope for future peace and harmony. A representative quote might be: “I am affected only by my thoughts. It needs but this to let salvation come to all the world. For in this single thought is everyone released at last from fear.” (A Course in Miracles, The Foundation for Inner Peace, Huntington Station, N.Y. Lesson 228, p. 461.)
The New Age Opposed to Christianity
Unfortunately for the NAM, the fear from which they want to be released might very well be the fear of damnation, of conviction of sin, and it is even, sometimes, fear of Christianity and Christians. Though the NAM is tolerant of almost any theological position, it is opposed to the “narrow-mindedness” of Christianity that teaches that Jesus is the only way and that there are moral absolutes.
The NAM is difficult to define because “there is no hierarchy, dogma, doctrine, collection plate, or membership.” It is a collection of different theologies with the common threads of toleration and divergence weaving through its tapestry of “universal truth.” – Visit Warren Smith New Ager Saved by Amazing Grace Teachings Books and Videos
What Does the Term New Age Mean?
The term “New Age” refers to the “Aquarian Age,” which, according to New Age followers, is dawning. It is supposed to bring in peace and enlightenment and reunite man with God. Man is presently considered separated from God not because of sin (Isaiah 59:2), but because of a lack of understanding and knowledge concerning the true nature of God and reality. The evil New Age doctrine of Separation! Correctly understood, this is a denial of God’s Holiness.
What is the New Age Doctrine of Separation?
Warren Smith discusses the New Age and its explosive growth in the Church. Oprah, Joel Osteen, Brian McLaren, and Rick Warren have all helped further the dreams of occultist Alice Bailey to use the Church to herald the coming of the New Age by using “…occultism awakening the mystical faculties”
The woman who coined the term New Age, occultist Alice Bailey (believing that we were on the threshold of a new spiritual awakening), said that this new enlightened age would come, not around the Christian church, but rather through it. She said the outer layers would be initially kept intact (i.e., Christian terminology would still be used), but the changes would take place obscurely from the inside.
Terms that Have Taken Root in Churches all over the World:
- The Awakening: We have the Awakening Foundation with KLOVE, The Great Awakening vs. The Great Reset, a political movement that has too many outright cults involved, and much more. A Four-Part Series.
- Shift: The Aquarian Conspiracy, Marilyn Ferguson introduced this concept of the “shift,” connecting it to the mystical ideas of Teilhard de Chardin – the father of the New Age movement.
UPDATE: Is this not what we see in many Churches and Pulpits that have unwittingly embraced New Age principles and doctrines documented at Naseaum over and over here and many other discernment ministries? Some are just deceived, others hopefully are repenting, and many, way too many, are willing to deceive the flock of God!
New Age Doctrine of Separation
Walsch also says, “Separation is not believing that you are a part of God, the recognition of God is the recognition of yourself. There is no separation of God and His creation.” “The fundamental regression is self-centeredness, or the illusion that you are separate from God.”
A list of 20 New Age practices that all Christians should Avoid and rebuke: by Doreen Virtue
The New Age Movement is a religious system with two basic beliefs: Evolutionary Godhood and Global Unity.
What is Evolutionary Godhood?
What is Evolutionary Godhood? It is the next step in evolution. It will not be physical but spiritual:
Taking a Quantum Leap… THE Evolution ConSpiracy
For the most part, the NAM espouses body and spirit evolution. Man is developing and will soon leap forward into new spiritual horizons. Many New Age practices are designed to push one ahead into that horizon. Some of them are astral projection which is training your soul to leave your body and travel around; contacting spirits so they may speak through you or guide you; using crystals to purify your body’s and mind’s energy systems; visualization, where you use mental imagery to imagine yourself as an animal, in the presence of a divine being, or being healed of sickness, etc.
Evolutionary Godhood also means that mankind will soon see itself as god, as the “Christ principle.” The NAM teaches that Man’s basic nature is good and divine. This opposes God’s Word which says…that we are sinners: “Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned” (Romans. 5:12). And that our nature is corrupt: “All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath” (Ephesians 2:3).
Do New Agers Believe They are God?
It teaches that since man is divine by nature, he then has divine qualities.
This is an essential part of NAM thinking. Because the average New Ager believes himself to be divine, he can create his reality. If, for example, a person believes that reincarnation is true, that’s fine because that is his reality. If someone he knows doesn’t believe in it, that is alright too because that is someone else’s reality. They can each have a reality that “follows a different path.”
In contrast to this, the Bible says that God alone is the creator: “This is what the LORD says — your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself” (Isaiah 44:24).
The New Ager who believes in his divinity and ability to create usurps the authority and position of God. He also is still listening to the lie of the devil who spoke to Eve and said she would be like God (Genesis 3:5).
Truth or Consequences: The Critical Importance of Spiritual Discernment
ReincarnationThough not all New Agers adhere to reincarnation, most believe in some form or another. And, many believe the Bible was changed to remove any verses that might have taught reincarnation. However, this accusation only shows the limitations of their knowledge. The Bible never had any references to reincarnation. Reincarnation opposes the Word of God, which says that it is appointed for man to die once, and after this comes judgment (Hebrews 9:27).
The New Age & Global Unity
The second major element of the New Age Movement is Global Unity, which consists of three major divisions: Man with Man, Man with Nature, and Man with God. Man with man. The NAM teaches that we will all learn our proper divine relationship with one another and achieve harmony, mutual love, and acceptance through the realization and acceptance of this divine adequate knowledge. Within this hoped-for harmony is economic unity.
The average New Age is looking for a single world leader who, with New Age principles, will guide the world into a single harmonious economic whole. So, how is the New Age in the Church today?
What is The New Age Hope?
It is also hoped that this leader will unite the world into a spiritual unity; that is, a one-world religion.
The New Age hope is reminiscent of the Scriptures that speak of the coming Antichrist:
2 Thess. 2:3-4, “Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.” See also Revelation. 13:17,14:9,11; 16:2; 19:20
Man with nature Since the NAM says that God is all, and all is God, nature is also part of God. Man must then get in tune with nature, learn to nurture it, and be nurtured by it. In this, all people can unite. American Indian philosophies are popular among New Agers because they focus on the earth, on nature, and man’s relationship to them.
New Age philosophy generally seeks to merge with those that put man and nature on an equal level. We are no more or less important or different than our cousins, the animals, birds, or fish. The general philosophy of the New Age is that we must live in harmony with them, understand them, and learn from them.
Gee, there does seem to be this big worldwide push for the environment. Don’t get me wrong, but God does want us to live responsible lives as stewards of the gifts He has given us. It’s quite another thing to Worship the Environment, as Gaia is just Neo-Paganism’s new attempt to usurp God’s Creation.
This is opposed to the Scriptural teaching of man’s superiority over animals (Genesis. 1:26-27; 2:19). This does not mean that Man must abuse that which he is over, but Man is given the responsibility of caring for and being stewards of God’s creation (Gen. 2:15). God will hold Christians responsible for the stewardship that has been entrusted to them.
New Agers & Earth Worship of Mother Earth (Gaia)
The New Agers have a name for the earth: Gaia. Gaia is to be revered and respected. Some New Agers even worship the world and nature.
This contradicts Scripture, which says we should not have any other Gods before God (Exodus 20:3).
Man with God
Since the NAM teaches that man is divine by nature, all people will be helped in their unity of purpose, love, and development once they see themselves as such. The goal is to realize our goodness fully. This contradicts the Scriptures, c.f., Rom. 3:10-12: “As it is written: ‘There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away and become worthless together; no one does good, not even one.”
Additional beliefs of the NAM view of God are: He (it) is impersonal, omnipresent, and benevolent — therefore he (it) won’t condemn anyone.The New Age god is impersonal. An impersonal God will not reveal himself nor will he have specific requirements as to morality, belief, and behavior. This is why reincarnation appeals so much to them. With it, there is no judgment, there is a second chance, a third chance, and fourth, etc.
It should be noted that because the New Ager seeks to elevate themselves to godhood, they must lower the majesty and personhood of the true God. In other words, the universe isn’t big enough for one true God but big enough for many little ones. Oprah has called herself a Christian and has had many so-called Christian leaders like Rick Warren, Joel Osteen, Rob Bell, and many more who all espouse the same damnable lies in gullible spiritual terms.
No Moral Absolutes in NAM
There are no moral absolutes in the New Age. Therefore, they claim to have a spiritual tolerance for all “truth systems.” They call this “harmonization.”There is an obvious problem here. To say that there are no moral absolutes is an absolute in itself, which is self-contradictory. Also, if morality is relative, stealing may be right sometimes, along with lying, adultery, cheating, etc. Living in a world of moral relativism would not bring a promising future.
It would follow that driving a car would be difficult if reality is relative and the truth is, too. After all, if one New Ager thinks the light is red and another thinks it’s green, their different realities will come crashing down on them when they collide. What is most interesting about New Agers is that they don’t live what they believe. That is because, in reality, New Age thinking doesn’t work.
The New Age movement does espouse honesty, integrity, love, peace, etc. It just wants to do it without the true God. It wants to do it not on His terms, but on its own.
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