They made [the LORD God] jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols. They sacrificed to demons, which are not God–gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your fathers did not fear. You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

The LORD saw this and rejected them because he was angered by his sons and daughters. “I will hide my face from them,” he said, “and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful. They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. (Deuteronomy 32:16-21)

Creating The Mystic Mush God

For those who have eyes that see it will become clear that a major error of the contemporary new evangelical Ecumenical Church Of Deceit (ECoD), rooted as it is in the emerging Gnostic mysticism of contemplative spirituality as taught by Living Spiritual Teacher Richard Foster, is an over-emphasis on the New Testament revelation of God. The postmodern Christian agnostics who dominate the leadership of the neo-pagan cult of the Emergent Church are particularly guilty of this glaring mistake. In my view it’s really little wonder because the actual holy and just, as well as loving and merciful, Yahweh Elohim–LORD God–revealed in the Old Testament has a tendency to keep getting in the way of the heavily compromised ECoD, and specifically to this article, their pet doctrine of seeking “common ground” with other religious “traditions.”

The opening text above is impeccably clear that these other “gods” which are worshipped in these so-called traditions are not really gods at all, but rather in actual fact they are demons. 1 Corinthians 10:20 literally informs us – the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. I also don’t intend on doing a full apologetic here concerning the unchanging nature of God and the literal fact that the Bible also teaches that Christ Jesus of Nazareth is the LORD God of the Old Testament Himself in human form. This information is readily available elsewhere. My intention is to once again focus attention on the sappy caricature of a god which has now been developed by the spiritually spineless leadership within new evangelicalism. The disastrous effect of Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Schuller, Satan’s own twin towers of sentimental selfishness masquerading as self-esteem, has all but crippled the Christian Church in America with their psychobabble theology centered on pleasing man.

Hey, God Is Just Like Me!

What has been happening is that new evangelicalism has been successful in creating a god who is just like us and even thinks like us. Well how convenient for the leadership of the ECoD, now we can be friends with all the other religions and never have to endure any conflict with the world. They think: “After all, since I’d never want anyone to come into conflict with me and I want to be friends with everyone, why that’s how God must be.” So using the carefully selected teachings of Jesus that they happen to like new evangelical preachers have created the mystic mush god of ecumenicism who accepts whatever beliefs people have spiritually as legitimate if they approach him/her sincerely. This is the “message” they have deceived themselves into seeing in the preaching of Jesus about the Kingdom of God.

And this is all directly related to the Gnostic mysticism that has once again come emerging from its satanic shadows in virtually the same forms as the ancient Church itself encountered. For a more thorough examination I refer you to my article The Emergent “ONE”. The central issue we must deal with is known in Guru Foster’s Quaker theology as the “Inner Light” and in classic mysticism as “the divine spark.” It means the exactly same thing: God already dwells within every human being by way of creation. Once you understand this you will have reached “enlightenment” to be able to understand why Emergent Guru Brian McLaren can have such a “generous orthodoxy.” This concept of an alleged “great underground river” of divinity inside of mankind is also found in the mystic musings of Meister Eckhart as well.

God’s Global Family Of Love

Undoubtedly as a Friend himself Guru Foster is also well versed in the meandering mysticism of George Fox who started the Quakers. I have previously pointed out that Fox also taught about this “great underground river” present within all men, although he called it the “Inner Light.” As a matter of fact in his book Streams Of Living Way (SLW) Foster discusses what we might call his generous ecumenicism as he enlightens us about his vision that various faith traditions allegedly flowing from Christ are coming together now in one mighty river of the Spirit. Further, Ray Yungen points out in his own work A Time for Departing that in SLW:

Richard Foster emanates his hoped-for vision of an “all inclusive community” that he feels God is forming today. He sees this as “a great, new gathering of the people of God.”

On the surface this might sound noble and sanctifying, but a deeper examination will expose elements that line up more with Alice Bailey’s vision [of the New Age] than with Jesus Christ’s. Foster prophesies:

I see a Catholic monk from the hills of Kentucky standing alongside a Baptist evangelist from the streets of Los Angeles and together offering up a sacrifice of praise. I see a people.

The only place in “the hills of Kentucky” where Catholic monks live is the Gethsemane Abbey, a Trappist monastery. This also, coincidentally, was the home base of Thomas Merton (139).

What we are witnessing right now is an invasion of things taught by demons because the god of this age, the chief demon himself, is already on record having boasted: “I will make myself like the Most High” (Isaiah 14:14). And the most amazing thing is that while Satan impudently walks right into the inner sanctuary of the Church of Jesus Christ and attacks the very heart of the Gospel by obliterating the need for man to believe he needs to be regenerated cowardly evangelical leaders continue to say nothing. Men and women, if God already indwells mankind then there would be no need for anyone to be “born again” because the mystics would be right. “Christian” mystics are beginning to openly teach once again that all mankind needs to do is begin practicing Contemplative Prayer (i.e. transcendental meditation for the Christian) together and–through this Gnostic mysticism–he’ll come to the secret knowledge that we are already one big Global Family of God.

The problem with their mythical “family of love” is that this fanciful idea is diametrically opposed to what the Bible teaches about mankind’s current relationship to God apart from Christ. In closing I point you to the following truths from the Bible. The “Inner Light” (i.e. the Spirit of God/Christ) that George Fox once taught–and Quakers like Guru Foster still teach–which is supposedly in every man is easily refuted from the Words of Christ Jesus of Nazareth, Who just happens to be the Creator and the LORD God Himself in human flesh. While our Lord is preparing His Apostles for His departure from His planet He makes a statement quite germane to our current discussion – “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My Name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you” (John 14:26).

God Does Not Dwell In All Of Mankind

Since God the Son is telling us here that God the Father will send God the Holy Spirit, it then becomes quite obvious that He had not yet been sent. So if the Holy Spirit had yet to be sent, and must be sent in Christ’s Name, we now also know that all men do not have this alleged “Inner Light” of the Quakers. This itself is also in line with what Jesus of Nazareth teaches a little further on in John’s Gospel when the Master says of God the Holy Spirit – when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all truth (John 16:13). When He comes tells us the Spirit had not yet come, and therefore was not already present within all mankind. And let me also point out that elsewhere in John’s Gospel our Lord informs us of some other vital information about God the Holy Spirit.

What is more Christ’s Words here forever douse the “divine spark” idea of some alleged divinity within mankind when He says – The world cannot accept Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. So mystics like Fox have already struck out because they did not pay attention to God’s infallible and inerrant Word in the Bible. However, of the true Christian believer regenerated by God’s grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, the Master tells us – But you know Him [the Holy Spirit], for He lives with you and will be in you (John 14:17). These truths from Holy Scripture also tell us in no uncertain terms why interfaith worship is actually impossible.

Again we have seen the “Inner Light,” or “the spark of the divine,” within all men roundly refuted by the Words of Holy Scripture. And the Bible very clearly tells us elsewhere as well that the only people who are actually worshipping God–no matter how sincere they may appear to be, no matter how much social activism they may be involved in, not even how mystical they might actually be–the only people who have any hope at all of pleasing God are those who have been born again in Christ. The absolute Truth is that all other human beings are dead spiritually and as such are in the flesh. It is the job of the true Christian to implore these people to be reconciled to God through Christ because there is simply no way around the absolute Truth that:

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of Him Who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He Who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you (Romans 8:8-11, ESV).

I tell you in the Lord that if you truly love someone who is involved in another faith, you do that person an eternal disservice if you withhold what the LORD God Almighty, Creator of all there is has said about Jesus Christ of Nazareth – “And there is salvation in and through no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by and in which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12, Amplified)