Talking About the Bible with a New Ager

You might speak with someone about the following. Knowing what they’ll probably say can help you prepare a suitable response.

What Is a New Ager?

You are oblivious to many facts, including the Bible’s, if you identify as a New Age. You understand what I mean if you were a former New Ager. There are currently people who follow the teachings of several contemporary gurus and don’t identify as New Agers; they are known as the “Law of Attraction” crowd. Positivity is one thing, but there are numerous doctrines that have snuck in that are based on pagan concepts.

You are probably unaware of the flat earth fact since you belong to the New Age or Law of Attraction crowd, which is what this website is all about.
Anyway, let’s go on.

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New Agers Converts to Christianity

One thing that is taught in the New Age Movement is about Aliens and channelling through them. With flat earth believers, we not only get to know the Bible better, we we also learn that there is no such thing as Aliens from other worlds. Any messages New Agers get is really through demons. Is there any wonder why the Establishment (Mystery Babylon) says that a belief in the flat earth is a lie!

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Any sincere attempt to share the gospel with a New Ager ultimately results in a conversation about the Bible. Even if such a dialogue takes place on Christian ground, it is frequently the New Ager, not the Christian, who is ultimately happy with the exchange.
For instance:

Are you a Christian? Do you follow Jesus?

Yes, I do believe in Jesus—as well as Buddha, Ramakrishna, and my own teacher.

Christian: However, according to Jesus’ own words in John 14:6, “No one comes to the Father except through me.”

New Ager: You’re correct, _I Am_ is the only way to know the truth.

Jesus: What?

New Age: Each of us possesses the “I Am Presence” or a glimmer of divinity!

Christian: Hold on a second. Jesus was referring to _Himself_ when He said.

Yes, and we won’t understand God as fully as Jesus did until each of us is able to declare, with Jesus, “I Am.”

Christian: However, 1 Timothy 2:5 asserts that the sole Mediator between God and Man is the Man Christ Jesus.

New Ager: Oh, so our Christ Consciousness or Higher Self is the sole intermediary.

Christian: You’re misusing the Scriptures.

The issue with you fundamentalists is that you cling on to every syllable, says New Ager. A lot of the Bible is out of date since we live in the New Age! But it also contains timeless truths, and you can only see those truths if you accept the Universal Wisdom found in _all_ faiths.

Christian: According to Second Timothy 3:16, the entire Bible is God’s word and is thus useful. thus, you cannot use the Bible to support your claims.

New Age: You cite the Bible to support the Bible and then accuse me of not having sufficient evidence. My guru really uses the Bible to support her teachings because she can reveal its occult significance. However, since you fundamentalists are so fixated on literal meaning, you are unable to comprehend your own writings. [Discussion ends.]

The New Ager’s belief in mysticism and his guru has scarcely been dented in such a talk. On the other side, the Christian has scarcely been motivated to continue evangelising to New Agers.
They appear to be missing each other’s remarks because they are speaking from completely different presuppositions. How can a Christian overcome this obstacle to successful evangelization? Let me make a simple recommendation.

How much respect one should accord the Bible is at the heart of the Christian-New Age controversy. The Bible is considered by Christians to be God’s inspired, last word. Its lessons are all accurate and congruent. There is one impartial interpretation that must be found for each verse.

Consideration must be given to the verse in question, the body of Scripture as a whole, and the surrounding historical setting in order to understand the Bible’s genuine meaning. The Bible may speak for itself in this way.

On the other hand, New Agers not only discount the Bible’s claim to be uniquely inspired by God, they also fail to treat it with the deference that every work of literature merits: to be examined objectively and in its own right. This is due to the biases they bring to it, which come from the sources of authority they do respect: intuition and experience.

New Agers often only embrace those notions that seem to validate their own intuitions because they have drank deeply from the well of mystical and psychic experience and because they have immersed themselves in the esoteric teachings taken from that well. They reject a doctrine, for instance, if it contests the universal harmony of faiths and the divine unity of all things. Many New Agers, however, find it difficult to understand that the Scriptures of Christianity, one of those apparently harmonious religions, actually negate harmony and oneness; they assume that the “fundamentalists” are misinterpreting the Scriptures.

Therefore, it is quite difficult for New Agers to let the Bible speak for itself. They consistently search for its mystical or hidden meaning, utterly ignoring its evident historical significance, or its real significance. Because of this, the majority of biblical revelation has never been esoteric (cryptic and exclusive), but rather exoteric (clear and public) (Isa. 45:19; 48:16; Mark 4:22; John 18:20; Acts 26:26).
Through prophetic words and miraculous acts, the God of the Bible revealed Himself to humankind throughout history. Therefore, biblical redemption is “objective” in the sense that it is initially delivered to the mind from outside sources as it is seen through the five senses.

A person seeking the truth should never make the error that New Agers commit when they subjectively reinterpret Scripture in the style of esotericism. Without carefully weighing the validity of competing claims to the truth, they assume that their own interpretation of Ultimate Reality is the only one that can exist.

Such New Agers should be made aware by us Christians that they are also guilty of the “sin” of exclusivity. However, although we explicitly reject opposing viewpoints, they do the same by falsely confirming (i.e., redefining) them.

We are urging people to seek an impartial understanding of the Bible’s teachings, not to embrace our interpretation of it out of hand.
We additionally request that people take the claims it makes seriously before rejecting them if they discover that it does give a picture of reality that differs from their own.

We have grounds for calling New Agers to honesty when they take the Bible out of context after they agree to approach the Bible objectively. The power of the gospel will have a chance to enter their brains and hearts if people start to take the claims of the Bible into perspective.