New Age Spirituality
Part of What's the Difference?
January 29, 2023

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New Age Spirituality

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”
John 10:10

New Age Beliefs - % Of Americans that believe
1. Spiritual energy can be located in physical things - 42%
2. Psychics - 41%
3. Reincarnation - 33%
4. Astrology - 29%

New Age Beliefs - % Of Christians that believe
1. Spiritual energy can be located in physical things - 37%
2. Psychics - 40%
3. Reincarnation - 29%
4. Astrology - 26%

62% of All Americans accept at least one New Age belief

61% of Christians accept at least one New Age Belief

A New Age worldview is Pantheism/Monism.
Pan = all
Theism= God
All is God

Monism/Pantheism
- God is everything and everything is god
- God is not a person but a world soul
- Therefore, “since I am a part of everything, I am part of God. Since I am god, I can control my own destiny

A Christian woldview is Monotheism.
Mono = One
Theism = God
There is one God

Occult Practices

  • Contacting the spirit world/channeling
  • Crystal work- spirit energy in objects
  • Tarot card reading
  • Psychics
  • Astrology

Humanistic practices

  • Self-sufficiency
  • Self-improvement
  • Development of the “god element” within the self
  • Meditation
  • Yoga
  • Creating a positive environment (energy)
  • Communing with nature.

New Age meditation is focused on Self
Faith based meditation is focused on God

“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world but to love the world through him”
John 3:17

New Age Core Beliefs:

1. Law of attraction
“They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised.”
Romans 1:25

2. Oneness/Deity of Man

  • “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God not by works, so that no one can boast.”
    Ephesians 2:8-9

3. Universalism

  • “This is what the Lord says, Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.”
    Deuteronomy 6:4

  • “Jesus answered, “I am the way the truth and the life, no man comes to the father except through me.”
    John 14:6

  • “They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised.”
    Romans 1:25

4. Relative Truth

  • “Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.”
    Proverbs 28:26

5. Mysticism

  • “When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord; because of these same detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you. You must be blameless before the Lord your God.”
    Deuteronomy 18:9-13

  • “Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed what they had done. A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas. In this way, the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power.”
    Act 19 :18-20

Guarding Against False Beliefs

1. Worship God Alone


2. Read the Bible


3. Seek God Daily

“Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”
Psalm 139:23-24