“Christian Meditation” Is Actually YOGA, People, From Such Turn Away!
Posted by Job on March 7, 2007
Look, Yeshua HaMashiach warns against vain repetitions. And Paul’s letters to the Corinthians were all about warning them against how losing spiritual control inevitably leads to evil spirits taking advantage of the situation. So this “Christian meditation”, where you start to “imagine” and “visualize” and “alter consciousness” and “chant”, etc. is clearly after the same demonic arts of yoga, self – hypnosis, etc. When did we start allowing all of this nonsense in the church, including this utterly sinister “Christian meditation for kids” book aimed at FILLING YOUR CHILDREN WITH DEVILS? Oh, and there is this “Christian talk show” on an Atlanta area Christian radio station that teaches you the Scientology method of “auditing”, claiming that Christians are wracked with guilt because religion teaches them “self – condemnation”, but that Jesus came to free us from sin and the “self – condemnation” that comes with it which brings stress, sickness, family problems, etc., so you just do the following “mental exercises” …
So yes, now you have Scientologists, yoga people, and New Agers claiming to be Christians.
Laz said
I recently attended a conference where one exercise involved reading out loud a prayer displayed on a screen. The exercise also involved repeating said prayer 5 times, what do you make of this?
healtheland said
First off, what type of conference was it, who ran it, and who were some of the attendees? Second, nothing wrong with reading out lout a prayer displayed on the screen. Repeating it five times as an “exercise” when Yeshua HaMashiach SPECIFICALLY SAID not do do such a thing? I mean, what kind of exercise was it? Now I have had personal experience in spiritual deliverance where we have to repeat the same thing over and over again, like references to the Name and Blood of Yeshua HaMashiach and to binding and rebuking the demon in His Name and saying certain Psalms over and over again to weaken a demon’s resolve until it will FINALLY leave a person, and others who have experience in spiritual deliverance report the same thing. But then again, spiritual deliverance, casting a demon out of someone, isn’t praying, and it CERTAINLY isn’t an “exercise.” Even then, to keep myself from getting into the “vain repetition” territory I purposefully try to change things up, like maybe switch from reading the same Psalm to reading a different one and reading Revelation. The issue is that praying and worshipping God isn’t an “exercise” where you do something over and over again until you can do it from memory without thinking. That is what is called “ritualism”, and there is a demon associated with it. As Yeshua HaMashiach said, prayer and worship must be done in spirit and truth. It must be A) sincere and B) require the person doing the praying and worshipping to be actively engaged mentally AND spiritually. We really do have to compare what we do in church and our conferences against the experiences of not only the early church in the Bible, but also of the Jews in the Old Testament. The Bible warned over and over again regarding allowing strange practices and rituals in the church; references to the Nicolataines, Jezebel, Balaam, etc. and then back then you also had all of that gnostic nonsense going on that seems to be making a comeback today. This whole “Jesus was born again in hell” or “Jesus was not perfect until He received the Holy Spirit when he was baptized” that Word of Faith teachers are spreading today, on the “People To People” radio show yesterday (http://www.realanswers.net) the Bible teacher stated that the gnostics were spreading that exact same heretical nonsense during the time of Paul! These Jezebel, Balaam, gnostic, etc. spirits do not die, they just bide their time and resurface again, and that is why we Christians have to be careful.