Why New Age is really just old lies

Special-SPECIAL note: Location is moved to my property, because I don't think anyone besides me is coming this time. I will have it again next week, 6:30pm on Friday evening, and I may hold another one on Sunday afternoon so that it is more convenient for people who want to come out to the country on a Sunday afternoon (after my practice in Austin.) Please know that God and Yeshua/Jesus loves all of us and I thank Him so very much for blessing me and my family!

Special note:
Next Bible study is 6:30, Friday, October 19, 2007, location will be Crosswalk Coffeehouse and Café, Wi-Fi hotspot at Crosswalk Coffeehouse & Cafe, 489 Main Plaza, New Braunfels, Texas 78130. Phone: 830-620-7200. Open to all. Perspective is Messianic Jewish/Christian/end times.

If you're involved in the New Age movement or you believe in karma, you're probably doing it for the best of motives--you really care about other people and you want the best for everyone. And I respect that motive.

However, you owe it to yourself to hear the truth about what New Age and karma is really all about. Did you know that 3 of the biggest principles of New Age and karma are really just old lies from the Bible, from Genesis 3?

You're busy, I know, so I'll keep this short. But if you'll give me about 60 seconds, I'll explain. Is that a deal?

Here goes...


#1: New Age dismisses most of the Bible, saying it's not true and that it is not what God says, assuming there is a God. In a nutshell, New Age says, "Did God really say that? I think not..."

Truth:
Way back when, in the Garden of Eden when everything was hunky-dory and Adam and Eve were happy and sin-free...the snake/serpent sidled up to Eve and asked her about that ONE TREE that God had forbidden her and Adam to eat from.

Genesis 3:1: "Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the women (Eve), 'Indeed, did God really say, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden?'"

So we see from scripture that way back about 3,500 years ago--when Genesis was written by Moses' hand, dictated by God--that Satan was twisting words and trying to put the idea in Eve's mind that God didn't really say what He said...or didn't mean it.

#2: New Age and karma are based on reincarnation--the notion that we never really "die", we just come back as something else. This is very attractive to people, since most of us are scared of dying...and it appeals to our sense of justice that if we wrong people in "this life", we just "come back" as something appropriate, right? The problem is, it's not about us, or what we think, or what sounds fair...it's about what God says, since it's His universe, we just live in it.

Truth:
Going back again to the Garden of Eden in the Book of Genesis from the Bible...after the snake questioned Eve as to whether God really said to leave that one apple tree alone (see above), the conversation went like this:

Genesis 2-5: "Eve said to the snake, 'From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; (3) but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it or touch it, or you will die."

(4)"And the snake said to Eve, 'You shall surely not die!

(5) For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

So there is the lie of reincarnation...the snake (or serpent)'s lie to Eve that she and Adam would not die if they sinned by disobeying God and eating from that apple tree. So Eve ate an apple, and gave Adam some.

Hey, has anyone seen Adam or Eve walking around lately?

No?

Well, I guess they DIED. So it looks like the serpent was wrong and he lied. Big shock, huh, since the snake was sent by Satan, the father of all lies and sin.

#3: Hey, look, there's another lie...take a close look at Genesis 2:5 above. The snake is telling Eve that she can be like God. Does that sound like the New Age hogwash that "we all have God within us and we can all reach our human potential and we can all be little gods?"

Now you know the truth.

Please people, repent of your sins, including your unbelief in the one true God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and His Son and Messiah, Jesus Christ/Yeshua (Jesus' Hebrew name), and your idol worship and other sins, and accept Jesus/Yeshua's wonderful sacrifice of His life on the cross for all of our sins (yes, me too, I am no better than anyone else), and then you can be reconciled to God and go to heaven!

Time is short. You don't have time to waste. Jesus is coming back really soon. Repent and accept Him NOW, and you'll save yourself a whole lot of misery eternally. Fail to do this and God promises that you will burn forever in the Lake of Fire if you fail to accept Him.

(And no, it's not about "the God I know would never let us suffer..." Who IS the God you know? Is he the real God? Is he the One True God of the Bible, who sent His son and Messiah, Jesus Christ? If not...then you don't know God and you're talking out your hat. It's not about your concept of who you think God is...it's about who He really is. He is the great "I AM!")

Do it NOW...pray something like this:

Lord, I am truly sorry for my sins, and I repent of them. I gratefully and joyfully accept Jesus/Yeshua's gift of His life on the cross as atonement for my sins, and I want Jesus to live in my heart forever as my Savior! I love you, God and I want to be with you in heaven and be your child forever. Thank you, God!

Then...go forth and do your best not to sin, and keep the Feast Days as commanded in the Old Testament (Exodus and Leviticus), and follow God's laws. They're in the Bible. Read it. Just start at the beginning, do a little every day.

Make no mistake--you are saved by the grace of Jesus/Yeshua...but then after that you should also go forth and spread the good news about salvation, and do good works for charity and help others.