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New Age

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

THE STORY

  • The 1960's
  • They combined other religions into one
  • Elements originate in the 19th
  • Hippies
  • They used drugs to start the religion

THE FOUNDERS

  • Emanuel Swedenborg
  • Franz Mesmer
  • Helena Blavatsky
  • George Gurdjieff
  • Swami Vivekananda

THEIR BOOKS

  • They have no book
  • They have works by their higher followers

THEIR PURPOSE

  • To become one with nature
  • To find god within themselves
  • All faiths will be accepted into the New Age One World

AFTERLIFE

  • They have a positive view on death
  • They believe in reincarnation
  • "Death is a doorway to the next life"
  • They grieve the same as we do

BELIEFS

  • Evolutionary godhood and Globally united
  • All religions lead to God.
  • Being spiritual is based in mysticism and its techniques.
  • Your spiritual life is based on feelings and emotions.
  • There is a higher knowledge available to the spiritual elite.

BELIEFS CON.

  • Humans can attain perfection and are divine.
  • Evil is a misperception of reality.
  • All judgments and values are relative… not truth.
  • Change is always good.
  • Jesus was a good man and prophet but not the Son of God

CHRISTIANITY AND NEW AGE

  • There are many who are unaware of the New Age Movement.
  • Most do not know how to detect the signs of this spreading belief system.
  • This is truly dangerous because ALL people are being directly affected today.