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ARTICLES: VOL I – RAJAT K First Published: lambsaved.blogspot.com (June 28 / July 6 – 2011)

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These are short snippets of information that just whet your appetite on

certain subjects. The objective is to give you a glimpse to provide a

construct for future study.

1 # Christianity is not a Mystery Religion

It is a common practise to acknowledge the presence of many in-depth

teachings or mysteries hidden in ancient texts and symbols that are outsidethe ken of most people. A quick scan on the topic of religion/spirituality and

self-help exposes a plethora of secret systems to the readers each teaching

secrets never revealed in ages foregone. Based on this, secret orders and

special teachers spring up to reveal these hidden gems and for a price.

While the secret mysteries may create an aura of divine providence on

various religious/spiritual belief systems promulgating it, such a though is

anathema to Christianity, for there is no secret that has not already been

revealed to us.

“But be alert; I have already told you everything.” Mark 13:23

These are the words of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who taught at thetemple of Jerusalem and hid nothing from the people. In fact he taught

them everything with frankness without evading the subject at hand; asking

us to be on watch against false messiahs and prophets, recognizing them by

their fruits. The book of Revelation informs us about what to expect in thelast days that no secret teachings can parallel.

God’s plan to redeem mankind that even the angels were not privy to has

been revealed to us for free and with us doing nothing to earn it. This is

how Christianity works; it works because of the grace of our Lord. In ourfaith nothing is hidden and no secrets are taught to special elitist group or

cabal in secret chambers.

We don’t talk about the abomination of desolation in hushed tones but

publicly. We know who our enemy is and what stands against us: the son of

perdition. Christians don’t hide all this but talk openly and to anyone who

wishes to know about these topics.



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We have no need for any special teaching or sacred knowledge. Our book,

the Bible, has laid bare to us everything that we need to know. Besides it,

there is no secret knowledge that can even add an iota to our

understanding or help us in any way.

“Surely the Lord God does nothing, without revealing his secrets to his

servants the prophets.” Amos 3:7

Our Lord keeps no secrets but reveals to us entirely on what he plans to

do and his plans for us, this our Lord has done so far through the

prophets. By reading the Scripture we can understand what has happened, is

happening and will happen. Nothing has been hidden from us; all that we

need to know are eyes that can see and ears that can hear .

The Christian must avoid falling into the trap of running after secret knowledge, for

there is no knowledge that has been made secret to us and their knowledge is

useless, it can neither instruct nor correct or protect us from the evil one. In fact,

these secret initiates and knowledge comes from the evil one but let Christians

stand behind the words that have been breathed by God.

I conclude with a verse from the Scripture that will make Christians smile to theclarity and openness with which our Lord speaks.

“Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me.” Mark 14:18

Jesus Christ never even kept his betrayal, his sufferings, his death and hisresurrection – a plan that would make Satan fall from heaven like a lightning – a

secret!

2 # Is Yoga Demonic?

There is a lot of controversy around Christians practising yoga. Is that

activity demonic and whether Christians should practise yoga? There are

proponents both for and against it. Some state that it is a harmless physical

activity while others ascertain that it leads to demon trafficking. Let us then

roll our sleeves and work from the bottom-up.



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What is Yoga?

Yoga is not just asana involving only bodily postures. It comprises one of

the six philosophies that make up Hinduism (Sankhya, Yoga, Nyaya,

Vaisesika, Mimamsa and Vedanta). It is a philosophy subscribing to the

notions of Purusha (pure consciousness) that it classifies as the innermost

conscious self within a human and Prakriti (the world of matter). The entire

aim of Yoga is to liberate this Purusha from the Prakriti through meditation

and by practising what we call yoga that leads to self-annihilation i.e. deathof the ego to enter the blissful state of liberation.

The Threat

When yoga becomes a tool of trying to reach an altered state of reality for

liberation - it is here where it becomes dangerous, because just based on

an idea of liberation you don’t know what you are opening yourself to.

Yoga was never meant to be just a form of body exercise.

Quoting Edwin F. Bryant, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali , page xxx:

Neither the Upanishads nor the Gita mentions postures in the sense of

stretching exercises and bodily poses, asana is not mentioned as one of thesix limbs of the Maitri Upanishad, and Patanjali himself dedicates only three

brief sutras from his text to this aspect of the practise. The reconfiguring,

presentation, and perception of yoga as primarily of even exclusively asana

in the sense of bodily poses, then, is essentially a modern Western

Phenomenon and finds no precedent in the premodern yoga tradition,

although the fourteenth century Hathayoga Pradipika does dedicate one of its four chapters to asana.

Paradox

There is also a paradox today where yoga has been converted into

something that it was never meant to be: just plain exercise, and millions

are benefiting today because of practising these bodily postures looking at it

as a purely physical activity, which it actually is in the way it is performed

by these modern yoga practitioners (not to be confused with a yogi, which is

an entirely different animal after you have dismissed the marketing). This hasbrought us to an interesting fork at the road.



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My analysis of the subject after researching it is this. Any form of yoga that

subscribes to any philosophy or spiritual practise/altered state or connecting

to any kind of ancient belief system is forbidden to Christians, this includes

Yoga as it meant or understood in the mainstream. However, the modern

yoga that works just as a physical exercise created out of ignorance (not

even doing the asana as prescribed by the ancient system, but a unique

modern day creation running parallel to other body fitness systems - if I

may add) does not harm the Christian. It is just plain exercise.

Tip

Whenever accessing or going through any metaphysical or esoteric

philosophies claiming all kinds of deep knowledge, always remember this.

One important distinction between Christianity and any metaphysical

approach is that all metaphysical approaches stop at the soul, whereasChristianity makes a distinction between the soul and the spirit, a division or

a split caused by the Word of God. The other systems never get to the

spirit. Always keeps this in mind.

3 # The One World Religion!

Today, one is continuously exposed to the term ‘One World Religion’

repeatedly, thereby, causing confusion among many who try to decipher what

that word entails. Sadly, many are being enrolled in the machinations of the

One World Religion without even realizing it; they think they are practising akind of evolved/pro-human thinking when actually they are being set-up towalk down on a path that they never even signed up for. This is the great

deception.

As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

The One World Religion states that all religions pray to the same God, what

is different amongst them is the exoteric (external) form, but at the core all

worshipping the same God, the religious differences stem from understanding

the same universal energy through prisms of one’s own geographic and



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cultural conditioning. Embracing this concept will remove hatred and conflict

in humanity as all come to understanding that we are from the same

source. This concept though high-sounding has a problem - it is wrong!

“All things have been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows

the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son

and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” Matthew 11:27

None of us on our own know who the Father is, only Jesus Christ knows

who the Father is – and we know Jesus Christ. When you worship using any

belief system that does not acknowledge Jesus Christ, you don’t know what

you are worshipping. No matter how ideal sounding the scenario or the

cultivated belief is, without Jesus Christ you are out at sea, because youdon’t know who the Father is. When we believe in Jesus Christ, we are safe,

simply because he is the Son. We’re not. We can be the children of God but

only though adoption in Jesus Christ. Where does this leave you, if you think

you have alternatives?

“You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know myFather also.” John 8:19

From this verse it is certain that if you know Jesus Christ, you know the

Father. When agreeing with the concept of the One World Religion, you don’t

know who the Father is - who are you worshipping because it does not

acknowledge our Lord as the son.

Besides our Lamb, what other rock is there on which we can depend on -no one and nothing.

“I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved, and will come in and

go out and find pasture.” John 10:9.

Of late, there is a tremendous pressure on Christians to give up on the

belief that Jesus Christ is the only way and to agree upon that all religions

are equal. This is not true, for Jesus Christ is the only way.

For this belief, Christians are mauled the world over. They are considered

bigoted, uneducated, primitive etc., but it is never showcased that even after

having this belief Christians are good to people from other religions, andthose who think that they are paragons of human evolution never realize



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how bigoted is their approach against Christians who mention Jesus Christ

being the only way and refuse to participate in alternative belief systems.

This One World Religion is a trap, and we were forewarned about this by

prophets of yore. Thanks but no thanks! We are dumping the charter of the

One World Religion, we have no use for it.

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