By Dave Hunt
Argues that the way forward for Christianity is challenged via non secular cults, self-help philosophies, and the recent age stream. The spreading fantasy -- luck and sorcery -- Paganism in smooth gown -- symptoms of the days? -- An legit international faith? -- the arrival apostasy -- Roots of seduction -- Sorcery, scientism, and Christianity -- The temptation to energy -- Shamanism revived -- psychological alchemy -- Christianized idolatry? -- mental salvation -- Self-idolatry -- the next day the area! The Bible essentially states nice Apostasy needs to ensue earlier than Christ’s moment coming. this present day Christians are being deceived via an international view extra refined and extra seductive than any sooner than. What are the hazards within the growing to be reputation and perform of— optimistic and risk pondering therapeutic of stories self-help philosophies holistic medication The seduction of Christianity won't seem as a frontal attack or oppression of our spiritual ideals. as a substitute, it's going to come because the most up-to-date trendy philosophies delivering to make us happier, more fit, larger informed, or even extra religious. A compelling examine the days we are living in. a transparent name to each believer to select from the unique and the counterfeit. simply then do we desire to flee The Seduction of Christianity
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Their union as "Christian psychology" creates an unequal yoke that brings into the church the seductive influence of secular psychology. And now with the leading psychologists and psychiatrists so heavily involved in selfism and sorcery, Christian psychology inevitably succumbs to some of the same delusions and brings them into the church. A good example is the "Training in Spiritual Direction" seminars that began in a Protestant church in Austin, Texas. The brochure reads in part: The experiential focus utilizes relaxation, guided fantasy..
On that basis, by far the most successful pastor in the world is Paul Yonggi Cho, who heads the world's largest church, with about 400,000 members. Cho teaches that positive thinking, positive speaking, and positive visualizing are the keys to success. Anyone can literally "incubate" and give birth to physical reality by creating a vivid image in his or her mind and focusing upon it. In the foreword to Yonggi Cho's book, The Fourth Dimension, Robert Schuller writes: I discovered the reality of that dynamic dimension in prayer that comes through visualizing....
It] is deeply anti-Christian. . [yet] is extensively supported by schools, universities, and social programs financed by taxes collected from Christians.... "25 And now in the 1980s, psychology has attained the status of a guru whose "scientific standards of behavior" are relieving consciences of obedience to God's moral laws. In this way, as well as through its introduction of sorcery as science, psychology is the major change agent in transforming society. As investigative journalist Martin L.