The Positive and The Negative of a One World Religion
The Positive and The Negative of a One World Religion
They tell you its all good, they tell you it’s all about peace, love and joy. They tell you the message they are spreading is one of change, transformation. We have to under no uncertain terms create peace on earth – no uncertain terms. We need to save the earth, because we as a human race are going to be living in this world for a long, long time. And we can’t continue fighting amongst each other. The main culprit for all the conflict is religion. And the only way to fix this problem is to merge all the major faiths together. But they had to find the central common denominator of each religion to be able to unite them together. It’s Christ.
They say that the Christians await their Christ, Jews are still awaiting the Messiah, Hindus are anticipating the coming of Krishna, Muslims are expecting the Imam Mahdi and Buddhists await the Fifth (Maitreya) Buddha. They say all these ‘Christ’s’ are actually one and the same. Therefore ALL religions lead to the same God – So what are we fighting about?
Roman Catholicism and a One World Religion
Besides the multiple horrendus problems with the above so called brilliant concept there is one BIG factor that needs to be taken into consideration. The Christians they speak of here are Roman Catholics who are not genuine Christians. Their Christ is the Eucharist Christ who is permanently nailed to a cross, never coming off and being sacrificed repeatedly, the mother is Mary or Isis (Goddess of Fertility) and their God is Mithra the Sun God. The born again Christians await Jesus Christ the Son of God – The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. So technically yes, the Roman Catholics do await their Christ which is the same Christ as all other religions out there – EXCEPT truly born again Christians….
The genuine Christian’s Saviour is Jesus Christ the Son of God, King of Kings as written in the Bible and IS NOT the same Christ we are called to accept by the ‘new’ one world religion that is taking over this earth (or should I say has already overtaken the earth). We are told we are in a New Age, a New Dawn, everything is Emerging and merging. We are told that we can turn this world around. If we come together as one global community we can make this change. There will be peace, love and joy. We need to understand that we are all connected. We are brothers and sisters. If one is suffering then we are all suffering. If Africa is suffering then it’s a ‘measuring stick’ that the rest of the world is not in good shape.
Sharing (or service to humanity) IS all a One World Religion needs
We need to share. But it’s not about sharing the truth, the Gospel of Jesus Christ as per what is written in the Word of God. It’s not about saving souls for Jesus Christ anymore; it’s now ALL about sharing and giving to your brother and your sister. We need to show love and compassion by doing good works; feeding the poor, giving blankets to all who are cold, provide housing to everyone that they may have a roof over their heads, dig wells to provide water and stop emitting carbon so as to reverse climate change. We have to do this, because this is our world, our ‘mother’ earth.
But we can’t do this on our own, we need help. Help from The Christ himself. We do this through contemplative spirituality. The message of salvation where you need to repent of your own individual sin and accept Jesus Christ the Son of God by believing that He died for us, that our souls will be saved thereby receiving eternal life no longer applies. There is also no such thing as sin anymore, and preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ which wholly includes the message of repentance of sin is now completely taboo.
This Christ comes bearing gifts for all; knowledge, health, love, peace, joy, food, water, education, a message of hope for mankind. A message that we can be higher than what we think we are. We can achieve so much more than we think. This message however is now where to be found in the Bible, unless of course you take the Word of God and twist what it says for your own ideologies.
Instead the new gospel is a one pager on how to connect with the Christ inside you. It will tell you how to go about choosing a place where you feel content and a place where you will achieve silence. The choosing of a mantra or sound etc., that you will repeat over and over again which will allow you to enter into a trace, the posture you will sit in so as to allow maximum energy flow between the charkas, a technique on how to breath efficiently and how to clear your mind of all thoughts, especially negative ones – you will never be able to hear God if you are thinking, walk a labyrinth, stop thinking!
This will help you in your quest to join a One World Religion:
- Transcend the world (transcend human/physical boundaries and move to a higher spiritual level)
- Experience more happiness in your life
- Recognize the divinity within all people (you will be able to recognize The Christ in other people – They say you will be able to recognise ‘Jesus’ in other people)
- Remember your divine nature (meditation will help you remember that you are not really human but have a divine nature, god-like)
- Use the business of the world to awaken (you will use earthly things and ideas to help awaken humanity to their destiny of being gods and having the power to create a Kingdom of God on earth)
- Develop more consistency with your spiritual practices (once you connect with your inner god-self (the god in you) you will find yourself reaching higher levels of spirituality much easier with less effort.)
- See the world through God’s eyes (you will see the world through ‘Gods’ eyes because you youself are a god)
- Understand the connection between being and creation (You will understand that the earth, animals, plants and humans are all connected and if one of them is suffering then mankind as a whole is suffering)
- Fulfill your life’s purpose (your life’s purpose is to help create the Kingdom of God on earth and rule as a god, you can be a king in your kingdom)
- Experience your divine innocence (being a god means that there is no such thing as sin, for a god can’t sin. You are therefore innocent and free)
- Recognize your holiness (you are holy because you are a god)
- Discover your divine gifts (gods always come with divine gifts; healing, compassion, love, etc.,)
- Uncover your heart’s desire (you will find that your heart’s desire will be entirely focused on peace and building the Kingdom of God on earth)
- See the presence of God in all things (God is all, and all is in God – pantheism, panentheism)
- Experience Oneness (you are a god, you are one with the universe – cosmic Elohim. Note this ‘Elohim’ is NOT the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob)
- Live heaven on earth (instead of being evacuated from earth as the Word of God speaks about constantly, you no longer need to believe this because earth will become your domain. You will rule the earth as a god.)
- Strengthen your creativity (become very creative at finding clever ways to network (using the businesses of the world) so as to help spread the message and teach employers and their staff the techniques of finding inner peace)
- Let go of unnecessary rules on your spiritual path (let go the Word of God, throw it away for the Bible is completely unnecessary. But you will take on the Golden Rule: Positive connotation – do to others what you would like to be done to you, Negative connotation – do not do to others what you would not like to be done to you)
- Develop more consistently with your meditation practice (again, the more you practice the more you get closer to hearing the voice of God. So the more you practice the more you will transform and reach higher levels of enlightenment, like climbing a ladder.)
- Experience Enlightenment [1] (all of the above, you progress in levels, until you reach the ultimate enlightenment, ultimate illumination)
Instead of preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ we are to now to make friends with everyone and drink coffee until we are bouncing off the walls. We need to build relationships because that’s what Christ did; well that’s what the One World Religion-ers tell us. They tell us Jesus went around building relationships. He debated, He never rebuked anyone. He never once asked anyone to repent of their sin. He never once got angry and turned over the tables in the temple. In fact there was so much love going around that they were not even sure he was crucified and if he was crucified is was not anything as bad as the Bible makes it out to be. Some Emergent (New Age teachers) even say that Jesus’ body was eaten by dogs. Some say that Jesus was an illegitimate child, Mary was a whore and was raped by Roman soldiers – as Jesus grew up he could not explain the fact that he did not have a father so made up a story that his father was God.
The blasphemy, the absolute disgusting, evil words that spews out of people’s mouths.
They mock and insult Jesus Christ, our King of All Kings, our Lord and Saviour, the God who will bring JUDGEMENT on mankind for their wickedness. The people of this world will gather at Armageddon in an attempt to try show God what they are supposedly made of, but in the process are wiped out so quickly they won’t even know what hit them.
The One World Religion followers just can’t understand why we (genuine Christians) don’t want to attend their gatherings and bowling evenings. When we don’t accept the invitations we are told we are being negative, and negativity is just not a good thing. Negativity breeds hostility.
So my question is: What do you call HOSTILITY towards the One and Only Living God who sent His ONLY begotten Son to save the world?
It’s laughable!
A One World Religion and it’s positives and negatives
It’s only positive when the One World Religion followers say it’s positive. Otherwise it’s 100% negative. Insulting Jesus Christ is considered positive.
Positivity as per the New Age dictionary = love all who follow a message other than the Word of God. Reject Biblical teaching thereby denying Jesus Christ. Negativity as per the New Age dictionary = those who cause division instead of unity and follow the Word of God and refuse to deny Jesus Christ
James 4:4
4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Resources:
[1] http://www.thevoiceforlove.com
First off, I said nothing about socialism. Like any system, all are fallen. However, you said this:
Now run along and go have coffee with your emerging buddies so you can contemplate what your next plan for world domination will be as you try to erdicate capitalism and replace it with slavery.
You seem to think that capitalism is the way of Christ since you appear to pit it against socialism, which you mock as “slavery.” As far as which “system” is more true to the Biblical witness I would argue socialism trumps American capitalism. Read up about the year of Jubilee and the Sacred Portion and the Fields of the fatherless in Israel’s day. And of course you know how the early church sold their belongings and held “everything in common.” That may not be socialism but it certainly is not capitalism.
All this to say: Just because someone is not a raging capitalist does not make them an enemy of God. It might actually make them more a friend than you seem to realize.
peace.
Chad
I did read it. And I said nothing that should have warranted your deletion of my comments. And I have no idea what you mean by “trickster.” Of course, it is very convenient for you to label me as such when you will not post what I wrote. So much for transparency, huh?
For the record, I am sorry to hear about the threats you received last year which required you to close your blog. Hatred and callous words should be avoided at all times by those who profess to follow Jesus, the Servant of all and the one who told us to “love our enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” I think it goes without saying that your comments to others, whether you perceive them to be “genuine” Christians or not, are quite arrogant and lack the humility and love of the Savior you profess to follow. Prophetic speech is necessary and sorely lacking in the Church today but it must never come off as arrogant, mocking or condescending. You will never accomplish the task you feel God has given you but merely sound like a “clanging gong” if you do not walk in love. And please, do not change the definition of “love” to suit your own rhetoric. That only serves you and does violence to the biblical witness of love (love is this: laying down one’s life for another).
Lastly, while I sympathize with your plight of threats and hate mail, please do not compare that to the suffering and persecution of Paul. Paul was imprisoned and tortured because he dared to announce to the world that the one whom Rome had killed was actually alive and well and is the true Lord of heaven and earth, not Caesar. That is why he was in prison, for confessing Christ a Lord. Not because he was an arrogant, pompous ass who offended everyone around him. And just so you know, emergent Christians confess the same thing: Jesus is Lord. You have more in common with them/us than you may care to admit.
peace.
Chad Holtz
Chad
You said: And I said nothing that should have warranted your deletion of my comments….Of course, it is very convenient for you to label me as such when you will not post what I wrote….So much for transparency, huh?
I NEVER DELETED YOU COMMENTS. They have all been approved by me. Trickster = Liar
I have updated my About this Blog page to include people who lie!!!
[Edited: Regarding supposed 2 deleted comments: 2009/07/02 at 3:49pm
Chad
You said: Lastly, while I sympathize with your plight of threats and hate mail, please do not compare that to the suffering and persecution of Paul.
This pathetic lying comment of yours regarding my About This Blog Page: NO WHERE, EVER did I EVER say something like this, NEVER would I ever even INSINUATE this, EVER.
But I have updated my About this Blog page, just for liars like you and your friends from the Emergent movement who have come onto my blog like raging bulls.
Chad
You said: just so you know, emergent Christians confess the same thing: Jesus is Lord. You have more in common with them/us than you may care to admit.
You wish. I do not confess Jesus is Lord and then write comments and articles where I mock, insult and ridicule Jesus by reducing Jesus Christ onto the level of man – like Emergents do.
You mock Jesus with your arrogance and complete lack of humility. I see no heart in any of your responses – only disdain and hatred. That is very sad.
Where do emergents “mock, insults, [or] ridicule” Jesus Christ? Can you give one example?
Thanks.
I am many things but I am not a liar. And you do not know me well enough to make such a judgment.
If I misread your comments and posts than forgive me. However, I was sure you wrote that you rejoice in your suffering for the gospel’s sake, referencing your hate email and death threats as your “persecution.”
In any event, you deny that your suffering is in the same vein as Paul’s? If so, great! We are in agreement then.
Why not just tell me what you mean by calling me a “trickster”? I stand by everything I write. There were 2 comments I made yesterday that have not been posted. If they are, please direct me to them. I don’t see them.
Thanks in advance.
Chad Holtz
United Methodist Pastor
(hint: I signed one of them in that way)
If I did, then apologies. Re-post, I am sure you can remember what you said.
Chad
You said: You mock Jesus with your arrogance and complete lack of humility. I see no heart in any of your responses – only disdain and hatred. That is very sad.
Speak for yourself.
One of the comments was in the “God Does Not Exist, Man Does” post. I even have the email confirming that I wished to receive notifications of follow up comments which contains the name of that post. I just looked and do not see my comment there.
Chad
You said: However, I was sure you wrote that you rejoice in your suffering for the gospel’s sake, referencing your hate email and death threats as your “persecution.”
Liar, no I did not.
You said: In any event, you deny that your suffering is in the same vein as Paul’s? If so, great! We are in agreement then.
Trickster = Liar
How about an apology for calling me a “trickster” and a “liar”?
Shall I send you the 2 emails I got confirming that I did comment and yet those comments are not there?
[PLEASE DO SEND THOSE 2 EMAILS CHAD. BUT YOU CAN’T BECAUSE YOU ARE A LIAR. MY BLOG DOES NOT SEND CONFIRMATIONS. IF YOU SIGN UP TO RECEIVE COMMENTS YOU WILL ONLY RECEIVE THE AUTHORS COMMENTS ND NOT YOUR OWN]
Busted!
[Edited: Regarding supposed 2 deleted comments: 2009/07/02 at 3:49pm
Again, I am not a liar. A liar is someone who knows what the truth is and yet speaks the opposite. Even after I apologize if I have misrepresented your views you call me a “liar.”
How do you justify this behavior as “genuinely Chrisitan”? I really am curious.
Eugene, Nic Paton found DTW guilty of breaking THE LAW. Again.
But when he says things like the following, the emergents like Roger, applaud him:
Your assurance to Christians that the hard working emergents are really lovable fundamentalists at heart, rings hollow when one reads their actual words. Are you sure you want to portray centering prayers as being still and knowing that God is God?
Centering Prayer Guidelines
Come on, Eugene. That information is freely available. I think you are playing a game where you try to get sheep to cuddle up to wolves.
Here is Rob Bell presenting the Good News in Christianity Today:
That ‘gospel’ cannot save anybody. Now that may be emergent, but it is not Christian. Eugene adviced me to ask and not to assume. I have asked an no emergent has answered yet, so may I ask you? Will a good Muslim go to heaven? Are all saved (universalism)?
No Nic, it’s got nothing to do with you. I hit over 100,000 hits in 6 months last year. Gods make sure His message and warnings get out loud and clear.
Hi Chad
Thanks for entering the conversation here; it’s a bit like meeting an old friend in a WW I trench.
Let me affirm with you in the face of every kind of insult, misrepresentation, and twisted braid of logic, that Jesus Christ is in fact Lord. That you, myself, Deborah, Amanda, and everyone reading this are all either part of or becoming part of one family – the family of God.
I’m in a Evangelistic mood. Halleleujah!
Deborah
I must congratulate you on how well your marketing strategy is working. You must be growing at 1000 hits per day – that’s waaaay better than I have ever done on blogs.
Your blog is linked to your name.
Chad
>> How about an apology for calling me a “trickster” and a “liar”?
No, because this is not why I called you this. You are a trickster because you appear ‘sweet, loving, caring with so many good fruit intentions’ but you are not that at all.
Regarding your comments I might have accidentally deleted. I told you to repost them. You hold me accountable for accidentally deleting your posts? Shame, sad, sad, you. You come on here all high and mighty with your weak arguments detracting from the topic of the article that Steve (your friend) who insinuated that born again Christian thinking will lead to Inquisitions of the past but all you can complain about is me deleting a post or two. If I deleted it purposefully I would have edited it and said so!
Thank goodness you are not in control of Home Affairs.
Chad
Then re-post it!
I repeat *NEON LIGHTS* RE-POST IT! *NEON LIGHTS*
Oh wait you can’t repost it because there never were these comments to begin with.
[Edited: Regarding supposed 2 deleted comments: 2009/07/02 at 3:49pm
Chad
You said: How do you justify this behavior as “genuinely Chrisitan”? I really am curious.
What, you mean your behaviour? Where you agree with your New Age friends, and their New Age teaching and their New Age One World Religius beliefs?? How do you justify this ‘Chrisitan behaviour’. Yes…I am curious!
You said: A liar is someone who knows what the truth is and yet speaks the opposite.
Yes you know who you are
Amanda,
I’m assuming you are asking me about this.
First, what is it about the Rob Bell quote that you disagree with? Which part, particularly, and why? Do you disagree that the tomb is empty? Do you disagree that history is moving somewhere? Do you disagree that God is actively engaged with God’s world in a myriad of ways to bring about the salvation of all of God’s creation? Which part is unnerving to you?
Thanks.
Chad
Amen, Nic!
Actually, you give plenty of fodder to complain about.
I don’t really care about the posts you deleted. Thank you for finally admitting that you may have deleted them. It would have been nice to have at least heard an, “I’m sorry.” Perhaps I am asking far too much.
You say:
You are a trickster because you appear ’sweet, loving, caring with so many good fruit intentions’ but you are not that at all.
On what grounds do you make such an accusation? Honestly. Do you KNOW me? Have you ever attended the church I pastor? Have we ever sat down to a meal together? Ever shared Eucharist together? Please. How on God’s good earth can you make such a judgment call without the slightest clue what you are speaking of?
I have been nothing but cordial towards you and have even attempted to find common ground among us. You seem determined to divide and conquer. Friend, that is not the way of Jesus. I hope you will reconsider your motives and responses to fellow brothers and sisters in Christ (heck, even to people you consider pagans. You should at least be charitable if you really live what you profess to believe).
I invite you to read with me 2 Cor. 5:18-19. The entire chapter, really, It is an awesome picture of what God has done (and is doing) through the person and work of Jesus Christ and now through us. We have been reconciled to God, Paul says, and because of this our mandate is to be “ministers of reconciliation.” Do you know what reconciliation means? it means to help others coexist in harmony and in peace. It is about restoring relationships, not tearing them down. This is our task as Christians, Deborah (if that is your name). I am not here to make an enemy of you or to be named your enemy. I’m here hoping to strike a chord of peace and charity. You can mock the emergent ethos of inclusivity and peace and hope and love, but when you do so you are mocking the very spirit and ministry of Christ and the ministry of all Christians everywhere, regardless of stripe.
Deborah, can you honestly say you are a minister of reconciliation?
grace and peace,
Chad
Chad
There is no such thing as reconcilliation between people who follow after new age teaching and server another Christ and those who obey the Word of God, dottng i’s and crosing t’s and serve Jesus Christ the Son of God.
Jesus spoke that in the last says there will be a great apostasy (a falling away from the Gospel of Jesus Christ) to another gospel, another Chirst. This ‘imitation’ Christ is the Man Of Lawlessness.
God and Satan can never reconcile. Neither can God’s children reconcile with people who love wickednesss.
Satan the Trickster – Embracing the Emerging Snake:
Deborah,
Even if what you said were true (which it is not) you are attacking the wrong people. Scripture also shows us that it is only by the Spirit of God that one can profess and proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord. The people you rail again, while you may disagree with them on some doctrinal issues (which is fine) are not anti-Christ. They are Christians. You are segregating a subset of God’s Church which you obviously do not fully understand, making judgment upon them and then determining you have no need to love or reconcile with them since YOU have named them your enemy.
But on the other hand, I disagree with you that we are not to be ministers of reconciliation towards any and ALL, regardless of creed. Romans 5, Paul tells us that Christ died for us NOT when we were acceptable and making proper mental assents to the proper doctrines but he died for us WHILE we were weak, WHILE we were sinners, WHILE we were even ENEMIES of God’s. Thus proving God’s love towards us. It is in this same spirit that Paul calls us, those who follow the risen Lord, to be ministers of reconciliation.
You do not get to name who your enemies are and then treat them with contempt and disdain. Not if you call yourself Christian.
So again I ask you: Deborah, do you consider yourself a minister of reconciliation? Yes or no?
peace,
Chad
Chad
We are called to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, so that people will be born again of God’s Holy Spirit that we will receive eternal life!
Repeat: There is no such thing as reconcilliation between people who follow after new age teaching and server another Christ and those who obey the Word of God, dottng i’s and crosing t’s and serve Jesus Christ the Son of God.
Jesus spoke that in the last says there will be a great apostasy (a falling away from the Gospel of Jesus Christ) to another gospel, another Chirst. This ‘imitation’ Christ is the Man Of Lawlessness.
God and Satan can never reconcile. Neither can God’s children reconcile with people who love wickednesss.