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The New Age Movement

The New Age Movement. New Age. A free-flowing spiritual movement A network of believers and practitioners Who share somewhat similar beliefs and practices Which they add on to whichever formal religion they follow. 70% believed in a god or some form of higher power. 

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The New Age Movement

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  1. The New Age Movement

  2. New Age • A free-flowing spiritual movement • A network of believers and practitioners • Who share somewhat similar beliefs and practices • Which they add on to whichever formal religion they follow.

  3. 70% believed in a god or some form of higher power.  • 29% believed in the devil. 69% don't.  • 44% prayed once a week or more. • 71% believed in the existence of the soul. • 53% believed in an afterlife.  • 43% believed they have been contacted by the dead. 

  4. 17% had more belief in star signs than Christianity. • 22% had experienced fortune-telling • 21% had 'experienced' astrology.  • 18% had experienced tarot cards. • 16% each psychics/palm reading.

  5. New Age Roots Astrology Channelling  Hinduism Gnosticism Spiritualism Taoism Theosophy  Wicca  Paganism

  6. What do New Agers Believe? • God is the impersonal life force, consciousness, ultimate truth and reality, personified within all people and matter. God is all and all are God. The universe, life, and matter were not created by God but "are" God. The universe and life emerged out of the creative power of the eternal universal life force.

  7. No original sin, no Satan, and no evil. Most believe people make "mistakes" when they are ignorant of the power of goodness, which is God, within themselves and others. Some believe evil is perpetuated through accumulation of past-life wrongs and spiritual ignorance.

  8. Salvation lies in the realization of oneness with the impersonal life force. Awareness can be heightened through methods that induce altered states of consciousness, e.g., hypnosis, meditation, music, drugs.

  9. Divination • The practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means.

  10. Divination(Spiritual Tools) • Palm Reading • Tea leaf reading • Horoscopes • Fortune telling • Tarot cards • Ouija Board

  11. Healing • Reiki • Charms • Yoga • Meditation • Crystals

  12. Humanist Society

  13. Angels

  14. Crystals

  15. Magazines • Womans Weekly • Bella • Chat • Take a Break • Daily/Weekly Newspapers

  16. Witnessing • Ask questions about their faith • Tell them about your faith • A.W. Tozer said that, “the most important thing about you is what you believe about God.”

  17. Treat Seriously • Evil Powers Exodus chapters 7&8 • Charms Deuteronomy 18:9-12 • Divination Ezekiel 21:21/Isaiah 8:19-20

  18. Scripture • Acts 8:9-13 Simon the magician • 2 Timothy 3:12-17 Word of God • Genesis 40:8 Dreams • Daniel 2:27-30 Astrologers etc • Leviticus 19:31 Mediums • Jeremiah 27:9 Fortune tellers

  19. Scripture • Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust God • Luke 16:19-31 Abraham & Lazarus • Matt. 6:30-34 Not to know tomorrow • Rev. 22:14-15 Sorcerers etc outside • Rev. 21:7-8 Sorcerers

  20. How do you measure religion?

  21. Canon of Scripture • Greek word kanon. • Primary meaning: reed or rod • Secondary meaning: • A)measuring rod or standard. • B) list or index

  22. New Age • A free-flowing spiritual movement • A network of believers and practitioners • Who share somewhat similar beliefs and practices • Which they add on to whichever formal religion they follow.

  23. Links • http://www.swamij.com/yoga-meaning.htm • http://reiki.org/reikinews/whatislg.html

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