Post by Johnny Gotham on May 7, 2005 12:27:22 GMT -5
From www.culthingych.com/newage.html
"This is the belief that God is the universe. This is different from the Christian belief that God created the universe (Colossians 1:16) and holds the universe in existence (Hebrews 1:3). The result of believing pantheism is worshipping a finite created thing instead of an infinite uncreated God (Romans 1:25). But why should we offer our ultimate worship to that which is not ultimate?
The NAM teaches that you are actually one with the universe a bit like 'the Force' in the Star Wars movie. "You are God," they say, "it's just that you need to remember it." You can come to know that you don't change. But there is the problem. New Age teachers are claiming you have to go through a process (change) of learning to find out that you don't actually change. But if you really didn't change (i.e. if you were God) then you wouldn't have to learn that you didn't change because learning is a process of change! Another self-refuting belief of the NAM.
The NAM teaches that pain and suffering don't exist, that they are just an illusion. This aspect of pantheism doesn't even attempt to offer a solution to the problem of evil, it just says there isn't a problem at all! A whole belief system in denial. To which we respond with the famous poem, "If pain is an illusion tell me why it is that when I sit on a pin and it punctures my skin, I dislike what I fancy I feel?" If pain is just illusion why is it so persistent, why does it hurt so much, and why doesn't it go away? How much better is a faith in Jesus Christ that can help you through the difficult times and offer hope for the future (see Romans 5:1-11)."
Pantheism is another "feel-good" New Age cult that offers no real answers, just promises of positive feelings. It has an important part in creating the one world religion of Revelations 17. See our New Age/Occult/Wiccca page for more.
www.crossroad.to/text/christian_persecution/story3.html
www.allabouthistory.org/pantheism-faq.htm
www.crossroad.to/articles2/2003/unfinished/satanism.htm
"This is the belief that God is the universe. This is different from the Christian belief that God created the universe (Colossians 1:16) and holds the universe in existence (Hebrews 1:3). The result of believing pantheism is worshipping a finite created thing instead of an infinite uncreated God (Romans 1:25). But why should we offer our ultimate worship to that which is not ultimate?
The NAM teaches that you are actually one with the universe a bit like 'the Force' in the Star Wars movie. "You are God," they say, "it's just that you need to remember it." You can come to know that you don't change. But there is the problem. New Age teachers are claiming you have to go through a process (change) of learning to find out that you don't actually change. But if you really didn't change (i.e. if you were God) then you wouldn't have to learn that you didn't change because learning is a process of change! Another self-refuting belief of the NAM.
The NAM teaches that pain and suffering don't exist, that they are just an illusion. This aspect of pantheism doesn't even attempt to offer a solution to the problem of evil, it just says there isn't a problem at all! A whole belief system in denial. To which we respond with the famous poem, "If pain is an illusion tell me why it is that when I sit on a pin and it punctures my skin, I dislike what I fancy I feel?" If pain is just illusion why is it so persistent, why does it hurt so much, and why doesn't it go away? How much better is a faith in Jesus Christ that can help you through the difficult times and offer hope for the future (see Romans 5:1-11)."
Pantheism is another "feel-good" New Age cult that offers no real answers, just promises of positive feelings. It has an important part in creating the one world religion of Revelations 17. See our New Age/Occult/Wiccca page for more.
www.crossroad.to/text/christian_persecution/story3.html
www.allabouthistory.org/pantheism-faq.htm
www.crossroad.to/articles2/2003/unfinished/satanism.htm