Category: Apologetics
SAVING FAITH
When a person accepts the Lord as their Savior, and their human spirit is infused with the Holy Spirit, regenerating or quickening their human spirit, as a result that spiritual faith God originally embedded at Creation in the human spirit of all mankind is likewise quickened or activated or made operable in the life of that Born Again believer!
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A List of Prominent New Spirituality Proponents to Avoid
The New Spirituality is a paradigm for devotion and spiritual formation that utilizes unorthodox forms, liturgical rites and rituals, para-religious paraphernalia, and philosophical approaches originating from corruptions of Bible concepts and from so-called “ancient” traditions and extrabiblical sources. It emphasizes individualistic spiritual autonomy and focuses on personal ostensible “spiritual” experience rather than on proven and accepted, i.e., orthodox, scriptural doctrine. It is rooted in Dark Ages mysticism, particularly early-Catholic mysticism paganism, and the occult though insidiously cloaked in common Christian terminology. The fundamental premise of The New Spirituality is pantheistic (God is all) and panentheistic (God is in all). It advocates and actively promotes an all-inclusive ecumenicism achieved through wildly liberal doctrinal syncretism.
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A Brief Primer on the Contemplative Prayer Deception
Editor’s Note: It has been astounding to me over the past two decades or so to see that virtually none of those who identify as “leaders” within the Charismatic realm, including the elite, eminent super-apostles of the International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders (ICAL), and the like, have spoken out to warn the Pentecostal-Charismatic stream concerning the panoply of deceptions that have been promulgated by the so-called “emerging” or “emergent” church during that time; and, they are many. Frankly, I have been waiting and watching, hoping that someone with a national voice would step forward with such some prophetic warnings against these dastardly but insidious “doctrines of demons” (1 Tim. 4:1). However, the silence has been ear-piercing as well as dumbfounding, to say the least!
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Incursion of Mysticism Into the Pentecostal-Charismatic Stream
As a former Catholic, it’s hard for me to fathom the evangelical church buying into the religious occultism of Roman Catholicism. It makes no sense. Visit any country where that religion is taken seriously. What becomes obvious is a people who are in the bondage of superstition. On the other hand, I shouldn’t be surprised. Apostasy is growing rapidly, the religion of the Antichrist is taking shape, and mysticism, whether it’s the Catholic variety, the Sufism of Islam, yoga and the gurus of Eastern mysticism, the Shamanism of native religions, or otherwise, is a common yet powerful magnet that draws all religions together. We need to be watchmen on the wall as we see this evil invading the church, warning especially — should our Lord delay His return — our next generation of believers. They are the clear targets of this mystical seduction.
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