Consider the following scriptures before you listen to Doreen Virtue’s video:
Acts 19:18 Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. 19 And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. 20 So the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily.
1 Corinthians 10:31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
From the YouTube site, Doreen Virtue
Doreen’s first point in her video:
Although the Christian life has many freedoms, we are not permitted to sin against God, rebel against His commands, or to do things that might cause others to stumble.
We are exhorted to glorify God in all that we do, as in 1 Cor. 10:31 above.
***No Christian should own: occult / New Age paraphernalia: tarot cards; angel cards; ouija boards; crystals / crystal balls for divination; books on fortune telling or divination [see definition on divination at end of post]; wicca; or witchcraft.
Scripture warns against practices that involve divination, sorcery and seeking guidance from sources other than God.
Such are gateways into spiritual deception or idolatry.
Such go against the principle of trusting only God [as in Proverbs 3: 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.]
End of point one.
Quote from a post in this blog on Yoga / Holy Yoga… that explains divination and why God prohibits TM, Hindu meditation…:
Who practices eastern meditation? (Eastern meditation is also known as transcendental meditation; TM; entering the silence; Hindu or yogic meditation….) Those of the New Spirituality (formerly New Agers); Reiki healers; Yogics; Wiccans; and now, Christians.
What is the goal of this meditation? Encountering the “higher self,”the deity within (one or more spirit guides).
For what reason would one want to encounter his higher self? Christian practitioners are seeking “fresh”, revelation from God, or “rhema” (In Christianity, rhema is used in Bible study to signify Jesus Christ’s utterances.[citation needed] from Wikipedia); Reiki healers seek these spirits to impart healing to their patients; yogics want to merge with God; Wiccans seek a deeper connection with the earth and blessedness. Some likely only seek mental refreshment; alleviation from stress; altered consciousness…but the truth is that this meditation opens up a channel to unknown spirit beings.
The steps practiced to enter the silence: 1. PURGATION: is emptying the mind or stopping the stream of thought by repetition of a word or phrase (mantra). 2. ILLUMINATION: acquiring truth via unknown spirit contacts and 3., UNION WITH GOD.
[Breath prayers, centering prayers…are like mantras, they are uttered with the intention of stilling the mind, to stop one’s thoughts; those who recommend them are moving practitioners towards eastern meditation. God gave us reason and imagination, both have their purposes in the functioning of our minds; a chief function of reason seems to be that of gatekeeper, especially regarding imagination. If we permit our imagination to dictate to our reason, then we invite evil into our minds as there is no accounting for where our unchecked imaginations might take us. Stephen Charnock, in his little treatise, Sinfulness and Cure of Thoughts, addressed this in the process of explaining the cure he proposed.]
Why is this meditation unbiblical? In the Bible, God divides knowledge into three categories: 1. general revelation (the created universe); 2. special revelation, (scripture); and 3, unrevealed secret knowledge belonging only to God (see Deuteronomy 29:29). “Divination” is a biblical term describing any process used to get unrevealed spiritual knowledge (see Deut. 18: 9-12, e.g.); “familiar spirits” are those entities encountered in divination or in eastern meditation (Lev. 19:31 e.g.).
God forbids divination. Those who use divination are opening themselves to evil because they cannot know what kinds of spirits they are encountering (Eph. 5: 1-21; 6: 10-18). Anyone familiar with the 4 gospel accounts of Christ’s earthly ministry has read about Christ casting demons out of people who had been possessed by them. If you are a Christian who is dabbling in eastern meditation, then please reread the gospel accounts of these exorcisms, and consider practicing biblical meditation instead. As God protects Christians from such beings if they stay within the boundaries set by scripture. There are videos on YouTube about people who practiced yoga and were possessed by evil spirits, check them out for yourself. I studied psychic phenomena in one of my philosophy classes, and I remember studying how people had been possessed via using a ouija board; I have read of possessions occurring via TM…please don’t think that it cannot happen to you.
What is biblical meditation? It is the filling of the mind with scripture to understand and apply it, as in, e.g.: Joshua 1:8 “Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do.” Also see Psalms 1 and 119; and 1 Tim. 4:15 e.g. (Sources: Faith at Risk 4 and 5, Twin city fellowship; A Time of Departing by Ray Yungen; Is That You Lord by Gary Gilley.)
Link to post from which excerpt derived:
Christian Yoga / Christian Holy Yoga / Yoga in the Church / Eastern Meditation
From the YouTube site, Doreen Virtue: narrative and links that accompanied the above video at YouTube:
Dec 21, 2024
Here are 8 items that no Christian should own, and the biblical reasons why it’s important to get rid of them. We’re called to glorify God in all that we do; to live according to God’s teachings, principles, and commandments; and to not cause others to stumble from our example.
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