A
Theological Analysis of the New Age Movement
Conclusion
The God of the
Bible has a plan. His plan is
unfolded in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, who died and rose from the dead
(1 Corinthians 15:3,4) that all men might receive eternal life.
This
is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be
saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony borne at the
proper time. (1 Timothy 2:3-6).
The good news of salvation in Jesus
Christ is meant for all, but mankind rebels against God and His plan.
He falls victim to the deceptive plan of Satan—a plan that promises
secret knowledge, godhood and eternal life apart from God’s Word and God’s
Son. The New Age movement is such a
plan. It offers a new beginning and
rejects the old outmoded ways of seeing, thinking, doing, and living.
In their place it substitutes “new” values, views and lifestyles even
offering a new spirituality. New
Agers contend that the world is in a parenthesis between the Old Piscean Age and
the New Aquarian Age. Humanity is
poised to make a quantum leap forward and upward into the higher consciousness
of the New Age.
The leaders of the
occultic core of the New Age movement went public with at least some aspects of
this plan in 1975. Their goal is to
establish a one world order with a one world religion and a one world
Christ/leader. This diabolical plan
claims to guarantee world peace, but cannot fully deliver the Golden Age until
biblical Christianity is somehow destroyed or “withdrawn” from Earth.
A critical mass of people living in 1975 is targeted to be the initiated
leadership of this unifying global system.
When the religious and political climate is right (biblical influence
destroyed or neutralized), the Maitreya Christ will be revealed and will
initiate his leadership of the world.
Many in cloistered
Christian circles have not begun to grasp the magnitude of this world-wide
desire for a new age. Nor have they
correctly assessed the influence of this multifaceted movement.
Gradually and subtly these concepts are invading even Orthodox
Christianity. A materialistic value
system and insidious attitudes of self-reliance and spiritual complacency have
left the Christian community vulnerable to this deception.
In the words of Dr. Alan Streett:
It is not difficult
to understand why the western world refused to recognize the reality of the
occult, and still refuses to recognize it today.
We live in an age devoid of the supernatural, an age wrapped in the
blankets of materialism, humanism, and rationalism.
Man has become so self-sufficient that he denies the existence of any
powers greater than himself. This
error in thinking could possibly pave the way for another individual to harness
the powers of evil in an attempt to control world destiny[1]
This thesis has
attempted to document the major theological concepts and stated goals of the
occultic core of the New Age movement to the end that Christians will be alerted
to the present intensification of spiritual warfare. Christians must realize their need to be clothing themselves
with the full armor of God (Ephesians 6:10-17) and to be carrying the gospel of
the Lord and Savior Jesus to a world which is deceived and separated from God.
“You are My witnesses,” declares
the Lord,
“And My servant whom I have chosen,
In order that you may know and believe Me,
And understand that I am He.
Before Me there was no God formed,
And there will be none after Me.
I, even I am the Lord;
And there is no savior besides Me” (Isaiah 43:10,11).
This same Lord of the Old Testament
in the person of Jesus Christ said:
“I am the way,
the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me” (John
14:6b).
New Agers are not
the enemy of Christianity, they have been deceived and are victims of the true
enemy, Satan. But in Matthew Jesus
said:
“For many will
come in My Name saying I am the Christ and will mislead many.” (Matt. 24:5).
But as those who have hope we can
rejoice in that:
“You are from
God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in
you than he who is in the world” (I John 4:4).
Therefore, Jesus said:
“All authority
has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
“Go therefore and
make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and
the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded
you; and lo, I am with you always,
even to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:18-20).
And there is
salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been
given among men, by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12).
[1] Alan Streett, In High
Places, p. 43
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