Singularity with the Cosmos
Again, I ask those who aren’t religious but confess and
profess being “spiritual”, to what spirit are you being spiritual with? What
spirit are you nuzzling up to and having a relationship with? You do realize
that the devil can appear as an angel of light (truth and knowledge) and that Satan’s
workers of inequity can present themselves as ministers of righteousness, don’t
you?
Who better to fall victim to the false than someone nowhere close
to the truth?
“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an
angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be
transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to
their works.” (2 Corinthians 11:14-15)
Often those claiming to be spiritual claim a relationship
and singularity with the cosmos. They claim they are,
“One with the universe”. This is extremely shortsighted in that their belief
system and capacity to think ends with a composite, something material, finite
and made.
God is unoriginated. He is the first cause and essential
cause of everything. God is not a composite but the composer. His divine being
is his essence and nature. God is the creator of all creations. The spiritual
person is in love with one of God’s creations. They are duped by the devil by
its size, scope, and magnitude. The spiritual person is limited in their
thinking. They can only think of space, time, and matter in the finite. The
spiritual person believes in cause and effect, but only when cause is random chance
without purpose or premeditation. Their faith and belief system are based in vacuous
and uninspired accidents.
The feeling of awe and wonder over the universe is being interpreted
to be a spiritual feeling. Please note the frequent use of the word “feeling”,
for this is what the spiritual person experiences, a feeling and nothing more.
Feelings are a great tool of the devil. He uses the feelings
of the unprotected unregenerate to accomplish his goals.
Do the children of God feel? Of course they do! But God’s
children are not guided by feelings. They are guided by truth and righteousness.
The reprobate is guided by feelings. To discern and weigh feeling against truth
is the role of God’s judgment and is why a Christian cherishes His judgment so
much. It separates the tare from the good wheat. Truth, righteousness and
judgment are what saves our lives from damnation. Feelings are a one way ticket
to Hell.
And for further clarification about feelings. By grace, God
will allow the intercession of His Holy Spirit with the spirit of His elect. The unction it creates and the revelation of
truth will urge, inspire and encourage us towards God’s will and truth. This expression
and motivation of God’s intent for us can be called a “feeling” due to the strong
stirring it creates within.
The strength of spiritualism is in the blindness it creates.
A spiritualist sees the complex but not the simple. God is the epitome of
simple for nothing has been or can be added to, nor subtracted from Him.
Thomas Aquinas said, “In thinking of divine things, men were
made victims of their imagination” (Summa Contra Gentiles 1:20:37)
Everything hates a vacuum. A void will always be filled.
Where God isn’t, the devil is. What man does not know or understand will be filled
with his imagination and speculation. The devil can do nothing with the truth,
he can do plenty with imagination.
God is by faith, but so is spiritualism. Faith is a choice, therefore an act of the
will. Those who are spiritual but not of God have done so as either an act of
rebellion to God or through ignorance. It’s our responsibility to make everyone
aware of the good news of Jesus Christ. It is out of our hands once the clarion
call for salvation has been made. It becomes their choice as to what to do
next.
Worship requires three things. First and foremost, it
requires God as the object of the worship. Anything else is blasphemous idol
worship. Jesus Christ explains the next two things needed in His encounter with
the woman at the well.
Jesus said, “…the hour cometh, and now is, when the true
worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father
seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must
worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23-24).
God is by faith, but so is spiritualism. Faith is a choice, therefore an act of the
will. Those who are spiritual but not of God have done so as either an act of
rebellion to God or through ignorance. It’s our responsibility to make everyone
aware of the good news of Jesus Christ. It is out of our hands once the clarion
call for salvation has been made. It becomes their choice as to what to do
next.
Worship requires three things. First and foremost, it
requires God as the object of the worship. Anything else is blasphemous idol
worship. Jesus Christ explains the next two things needed in His encounter with
the woman at the well.
Jesus said, “…the hour cometh, and now is, when the true
worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father
seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must
worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23-24).
1. God is a spirit.
2. People must worship
God in the spirit
So far, all of this is consistent with those that are
spiritually one with the universe. But here’s where the problem begins.
We must worship God in spirit and in truth. Jesus Christ is
the truth. We must be in Christ and in the spirit to truly worship God the
Father.
The Greek root word for true is “Alethes”.
It not only means true, but means opposed to what is fictitious, counterfeit, and
imaginary. It contrasts realities with their semblances. (Thayer's Greek
Lexicon)
Those who are spiritual with the universe as their deity are
worshiping a counterfeit God. This is in direct opposition to what Jesus taught
us. They are worshipping the universe, a creation of God and not God the
Creator.
Bill Hitchcock
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