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The New Age Movement

New Age • A free-flowing spiritual movement • A network of believers and practitioners • Who share somewhat similar beliefs and practices • Which they add on to whichever formal religion they follow.

• 70% believed in a god or some form of higher power. • 29% believed in the devil. 69% don't. • 44% prayed once a week or more. • 71% believed in the existence of the soul. • 53% believed in an afterlife. • 43% believed they have been contacted by the dead.

• 17% had more belief in star signs than Christianity. • 22% had experienced fortunetelling • 21% had 'experienced' astrology. • 18% had experienced tarot cards. • 16% each psychics/palm reading.

New Age Roots Astrology Channelling Hinduism Gnosticism Spiritualism Taoism Theosophy Wicca Paganism

What do New Agers Believe? • God is the impersonal life force, consciousness, ultimate truth and reality, personified within all people and matter. God is all and all are God. The universe, life, and matter were not created by God but "are" God. The universe and life emerged out of the creative power of the eternal universal life force.

• No original sin, no Satan, and no evil. Most believe people make "mistakes" when they are ignorant of the power of goodness, which is God, within themselves and others. Some believe evil is perpetuated through accumulation of past-life wrongs and spiritual ignorance.

• Salvation lies in the realization of oneness with the impersonal life force. Awareness can be heightened through methods that induce altered states of consciousness, e. g. , hypnosis, meditation, music, drugs.

Divination • The practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means.

Divination (Spiritual Tools) • Palm Reading • Tea leaf reading • Horoscopes • Fortune telling • Tarot cards • Ouija Board

Healing • Reiki • Charms • Yoga • Meditation • Crystals

Humanist Society

Angels

Crystals

Magazines • • • Womans Weekly Bella Chat Take a Break Daily/Weekly Newspapers

Witnessing • Ask questions about their faith • Tell them about your faith • A. W. Tozer said that, “the most important thing about you is what you believe about God. ”

Treat Seriously • Evil Powers Exodus chapters 7&8 • Charms Deuteronomy 18: 9 -12 • Divination Ezekiel 21: 21/Isaiah 8: 19 -20

Scripture • • • Acts 8: 9 -13 Simon the magician 2 Timothy 3: 12 -17 Word of God Genesis 40: 8 Dreams Daniel 2: 27 -30 Astrologers etc Leviticus 19: 31 Mediums Jeremiah 27: 9 Fortune tellers

Scripture • • • Proverbs 3: 5 -6 Trust God Luke 16: 19 -31 Abraham & Lazarus Matt. 6: 30 -34 Not to know tomorrow Rev. 22: 14 -15 Sorcerers etc outside Rev. 21: 7 -8 Sorcerers

How do you measure religion?

Canon of Scripture • Greek word kanon. • Primary meaning: reed or rod • Secondary meaning: • A)measuring rod or standard. • B) list or index

New Age • A free-flowing spiritual movement • A network of believers and practitioners • Who share somewhat similar beliefs and practices • Which they add on to whichever formal religion they follow.

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