In this essay, I will discussing New Age Spirituality, and its origins. There was no founder-figure, like Jesus or Buddha; however, there were several people who were involved in discovering the new religion. There is no church or meeting place and no text like the Bible or the Quran. It is an evolving Spiritual movement. In 1875, Madame Blavatsky created the Theosophical Society. This focused on the ‘hidden insights’ of Buddhism, Hinduism, and wester occult beliefs and traditions. There was one man who was influenced by the Theosophical Society called Walter Griffin. He believed in Geomancy. This is a belief that there are lines of energy that run all throughout the universe and connect to things. He believed that they create ’harmonious space …show more content…
A few of the new age beliefs include Astrology and methods of foretelling the future, a belief that crystals are a source of healing or energizing power, and a belief that the tarot cards are a reliable way of helping you make life decisions and foretelling the future. One in four people believe that there is a God but have a new age view on who or what he is. For example, some believe that God is “A state of higher consciousness that a person may reach”, others believe in God as “The total realisation of personal, human potential”, and others that everyone is God. The new age is not a single religion; it is a mixture of many different religions and philosophical ideas. Most often than not, however, it does not agree with reason or science. It about the supernatural. A few other beliefs that people from the new age have are, Monism. This is a belief that everything that exists comes from a ‘single source of divine energy’; there is also reincarnation and karma. One of their main beliefs is called Pantheism. This demonstrates that all that exists is God; God is all that exists. This then leads to the idea that we are all God. They do not try to find God through scriptures or text, like many other formal religions; instead, they find God through themselves and by finding out who they are and why they are here. The main aim of the new age movement is to transform the world into …show more content…
Each religion has a different view on God, what faith is, sin, and many other aspects. New Age spirituality believe that God is a universal law, and a universal consciousness or energy. They believe that there is more than one God. This contrast with what Christians believe because they say there is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit all in one God. They also believe that God exists over creation and within it at the same time. New Age believers say that God is evil in his nature, and he is the creation, no the creator. Christians believe that God is Holy and righteous, and that he is the creator. Christian believe that God created man in his image. , and that we were created innocent, but have become evil in true nature. They also believe that we will never become like God ad that we are made of spirit, mind and body. New Age believers say the opposite. They believe that man is fully God and only a divine spirit. Innocence and perfections is the true nature of man. New Age believers say that Jesus Christ is a crystal avatar of God, and a guru or an enlightened master. They say that Jesus was a man who realised and used his divine nature. They also believe that he did not rise from the dead; instead, he reincarnated and came back as a higher spirit, God. Christians, however, believe that Jesus is fully man and fully God. They say that he is the path to finding God and he rose on the third day to
They both took up a belief in millennialism. The Christians claimed that 1000 A.D. would be the end of it. Of course that never happened, so they moved on to believe that in 2000 A.D. would be the date of the apocalypse, now they are somewhat undecided as to when the apocalypse will occur. The same plight occurred within the Zoroastrian faith. When Zoroaster died, they waited patiently for the apocalypse to come....
They believe that the Goddess is imminent in the world around us. Goddess permeates every living thing, and most of them define rocks, soil, water, air, fire, and the plant as living things. " The God of Wicca is the Horned God, the ancient God of Fertility: the God of the forest, flock, and field and also of the hunt. " He is Lord of Life, and the Giver of Life, yet he is also Lord of Death and Resurrection. http://www.interlog.com/spawn/gods.html Wicca is considered to be a radical faith in spite of significant numbers of goddess devotees who are extremely conservative in their lifestyles and the tenets they hold.
Christianity and New Spirituality are both very different worldviews. A worldview can be defined as a pattern of ideas but also a patterns of beliefs, convictions, and habits that help us make sense of God, the world, and our relationship to God and the world. A religion can also be a worldview but a religion is also very different from a worldview. It can be defined as a system of belief that attempts to define the nature of God and how human beings can understand and interact with the divine; any system of belief that prescribes certain responses to the existence (or nonexistence) of the divine. The Christian religion includes the Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox churches. Meanwhile, New Spirituality is defined as a heterogeneous
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The Christian worldview emphasizes on one absolute God who is eternal and sacred. The origins that Christians follow is written in Genesis 1, proclaiming God spoke and created the world. God then created man in the image of God.
People are in search of understanding life and the happenings that surround them. When things go wrong, people turn to God for hope and understanding. As we look at the Jewish and the Christian faiths, both of which trace their origins back past Abraham and Moses, to the original stories of the Garden of Eden, we notice basic similarities and major differences between the two religions. The three main differences between Jewish and Christianity is the concept of God, judgment, and salvation. The most eminent difference between both religions is the concept of God. Christianity believes that God is trinity which means three persons in one the father, the son and the holy spirit. However Judaism sees God as a single entity, and viewsTrinitarianism as a violation of the Bible's teaching that ...
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Christians. Hindus believe in reincarnation, they believe the soul is immortal and takes birth time
McNallen (1995), Asatruars believe in Gods and Goddesses that are real just like the God christians worship (4). They pray to their gods and goddesses in a different way, they “commune and honor them while seeking their blessings through formal rites and informal mediation” (5) and they use items to remind them of their gods and goddesses. They also believe that their gods and goddesses “can become “charged” with a certain aspect of divine energy” (5). They also believe that “good and evil are constants” and that the result of a situation or instance “may or may not be “good” or “evil”, but it will still be the right action” (6). They believe that there is an afterlife and that the way one lives his or her life here on earth will determine how their life in the afterlife will be. If one lives a good life then good life awaits them in the afterlife, and if one lives a bad life vice to virtue their life in the afterlife will be doomed to dullness. Even with their knowledge about the afterlife they are not worried about it, they live in and focus on the
...’t believe in the New Testament and the Christians believe in both the New and Old Testament. But in both books they talk about that they are the true path to God. Christians and Jews are not really that different; I mean Christianity did come up from Judaism.
Judaism does not accept the thought of original sin, the idea that people are bad from birth and cannot remove sin by themselves. An act of grace provided by the sacrificial death of Jesus as resentment for all of humanity's sins. For Christians, there are no other forms of salvation other than through Jesus.
Their entire goal is to, “reconstruct the practices of their ancestors, drawing from their lore for inspiration. Maintaining this sacred link to the past is a very important part of Heathen belief today. In many respects, it is the lifeblood of the faith” (Krasskova,
Christianity teaches that there is merely one God in all existence and that God created the universe. It also teaches that Jesus is the only way to be set free from the coming judgment of God and that Jesus desires his values and his standards to abound. Moreover, Christianity is the only religion that
Identical to Muslims, Christians also believe that their God is the creator and sustainer of the universe. The Bible begins with the creation of the Earth by God in seven days. Another similarity between these two religions is their belief in life after death.... ... middle of paper ... ...