New age?

I wanted to tackle a slightly different subject today... I also need to catch up on some things here I guess. (each of my other Blogs have more than 20 posts this is this site's 6th.)
Anyway today I wanted to talk about the "new age" religions.
Did you know that the Bible actually talks about the "new age" religions? Yeah it's true. See "new age" religions are really just older religions dressed up to SOUND new. In reality these religions have existed for a long time, some maybe even monger than Christianity. BUT the Bible tells us we ought to stay away from these religions.
We are supposed to follow the one true God.
But they do sound tempting don't they? they speak of personal power and how "We are all part of God, God is in all of us, so we are wonderful." The problem with that is God made it very clear in the old testament that he is the only God.
"I am the Lord your God you shall have no other gods before me", and he also makes it clear in the person of Jesus in the New testament. " I tell you the truth no one comes to THE father [God] but by me."

See there? God is the only god. Jesus is the only messiah. and the admonishment in the Bible is against us trying to follow any one (or anything) else.

If you want you can even read in the old testament about how God defeated those religions/beliefs before, and he proved them to be false.

There is one aspect though that "new age" thinking kinda gets close to right. I attribute this to the point that a lie is stronger with a little truth mixed in.

When You accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior he promises us that the Holy spirit will "indwell" us. that means that the Holy spirit will come to live in us to guide us.
The Holy spirit is the third component of the trinity of God so it is part of God, in that way you could say that God was "in us" but that does not make us God.
We are made in God's image but THAT does not make us God either.

I liken it to a piece of furniture My Grandfather once made for me.

It was shaped somewhat like a short, little man, painted blue, with bolts and wing nuts for joints, and rumor had it that Grandpa had used his own feet to make a pattern for the feet of this creation of his.

If I wanted to I could loosen the bolts that were this guy's "hips" and fold him over re tighten those and then loosen it's arms at the shoulder and elbows so they hung down straight then re tighten those, and voila a table. or I could position it upright with the arms extended and hey presto a clothes hanger, or... well you get the point.
Anyway it was made to LOOK somewhat like a man and even it's feet "supposedly" were made "In Grandpa's image" BUT that thing was NOT my Grandpa.

I am quite certain that when Grandpa made it for me he did so with some level of care or even love. But that didn't make it grandpa either. (no matter how much of him he put in it.)

We dear friends are kind of like that. No matter what God puts in us, no matter how much we look like God, we are not he. We will never be he. And to say otherwise is to go against who he really is.

please do not fall into the trap of the "new age"