Part Three: The New Age Movement

The New Age Movement and it's influence on 21st century churches.

2 Cor. 4:4 “in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”
 
 A new age theological example is the current Emergent Church Movement which came out of this syncretistic mindset:the Core principle is the deconstruction of Scripture, seeking experience through “mystery” (ancient Babylonian mysticism). The goal was to replace sound exegetical Biblical doctrine with heretical teaching and occult experiences.

This postmodern theological deconstructionism was based largely on the works of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) he was a Nazi party member who taught existentialism and what it really meant “to be.” The hippy movement of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s was all about this idea of re-defining human meaning and what it meant to exist beyond the so called establishment’s view of reality. “We are anti- establishment”  in the US that simply meant that they were against traditional Christianity morals and Western capitalism.

Heidegger said the Nazi movement was the physical representation of his philosophy. He claimed you must question all philosophies and religions, deconstruct them and find your own reality as he saw Hitler do.  For example, Hitler re-interpreted scripture and declared he was the Christ and would reign for 1,000 years. He was deeply involved in the occult and Babylonian mysticim.
Heidegger was, and is a key figure in the Emergent Church  (whether these false teachers realize it or not). People like Rob Bell. Doug Pagitt, and Brian McClaren to name a few. 

This is part of the earlier social experiment called Transformational Marxism that came out of a Hegelian Dialectic mindset- and in turn was picked up by the New age leaders that eventually influenced today’s mainstream and emergent church pastors. 

They encouraged doctrinal compromise to bring peace between liberals and conservatives within the Christian church. And now we see many western churches going as far as denying key historical doctrines in the name of preserving denominational and community unity.

The mantra of “let’s agree to disagree” came into fashion as leaders pushed the agenda to overlook biblical teaching for the sake of maintaining relationships above truth. Be Willing to compromise and then achieve consensus to resolve conflict. Combining Christian leaders with New Age change agents to embrace worldly philosophies in hopes of corrupting the true Gospel and affecting, in their words “social and global Change.” 

In John 15: 18 Jesus says, “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. 

  verse 26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. 27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.”

  The deconstruction of Biblical doctrine in the past 100 years has destroyed the foundation of former Gospel preaching denominations.

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