Doctrine Matters

The Religious Nature of Yoga | Apologetics

The Religious Nature of Yoga | Apologetics

Source: The Religious Nature of Yoga | Apologetics

Well, here I go again, being all hateful and stuff!

I saw an Ad on Facebook for one of the various audiobook distributors. It featured as a graphic a book about self-discipline with the image of someone in a Yoga pose. I replied that I really only needed the Bible and indwelling Holy Spirit to learn proper discipline and didn’t need a false religion to help me. If course I received some backlash. I can understand that sort of thing from the pagan world, but not from professing Christians. I probably wouldn’t have replied at all but I noticed that a few Christians I know had ‘liked’ the Ad. In answer to the backlash that accused me of going around looking for stuff to hate that I was only providing information I thought might be useful. I had after all mentioned that although many in the West do not think of Yoga as a religion, it’s originators really do and have accused the West of co-opting their religion.

The last thing I left my ‘Christian’ friend who thinks I am a hater is the link you see in this post. Of course this is FYI only and not meant to judge anyone. I think it’s important to be well informed.

Evangelicals should be deeply troubled by Donald Trump’s attempt to mainstream heresy – The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/01/03/evangelicals-should-be-deeply-troubled-by-donald-trumps-attempt-to-mainstream-heresy/?utm_campaign=buffer&utm_content=buffer9fa92&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=.f92e7a69df0a

Overcoming Our Enemy

Waldron’s Cascade Argument – The Confessing Baptist

Waldron’s Cascade Argument – The Confessing Baptist

Source: Waldron’s Cascade Argument – The Confessing Baptist

If you are unfamiliar with the ‘cascade’ argument, the term refers to the cessation of charismatic gifts in the church. The article presents a really good explanation of that argument and there is also a link to a debate concerning charismatic gifts between Sam Waldron and Michael Brown. A similar debate between Sam Waldron and Matt Slick can be found here.

Stop the Christmas Wars

If Christians want to stop the ‘Christmas wars’ they could just stop fighting. After all, it takes two opposing parties to start a war. Maybe we didn’t start it, but we sure are complicit in it’s continuance

What if the atheist/humanist side’s real issue is being exposed to the God the Bible tells us they hate the God they know exists (the Bible tells us that too).

If thats true (See Romans 8:7 & Romans 1), perhaps they need to stop hating the God they know.

One way for that to happen would be for Christians to stop ‘warring’ with them and pray a simple prayer that God would open hearts to receive the Gospel and that he would send someone to share that message.

And BTW, if you are one of His children through faith, having turned your back on sin and turned to Christ, sharing the message of the cross is actually the best gift you could give anyone who doesn’t know Jesus as Savior and Lord.