According to Warren’s website, his church will host a 52-week course to stress losing weight and becoming healthier. The kick-off event will include Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr. Daniel Amen, and Dr. Mark Hyman. All three have Eastern spiritual connections.
Dr. Mehmert Oz is a follower of Emmanuel Swedenborg according to The New Church website. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and is Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Columbia University.
He is inspired by Emmanuel Swedenborg, a cult leader who died in 1772 in Sweden. Swedenborgianism has up to 50,000 members worldwide according to the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry website. They deny the atonement, the trinity, and the deity of the Holy Spirit.
They believe all religions lead to God and that Christianity must go through a rebirth. Also, they do not believe in a personal devil. They believe the Bible is not inspired and that when people die, they become an angel or an evil spirit.
Emmanuel Swedenborg had a vision in 1745 where he supposedly saw creatures crawling on the walls. He believed God then appeared to him as a man and told him that he would be the person to promote the new teachings to the world.
The other two speakers are Dr. Daniel Amen and Dr. Mark Hyman. Dr. Amen teaches tantric sex, a Hindu mystical approach to sex. He teaches Eastern religion meditation and energy-based Reiki, a New Age practice. Dr. Mark Hyman promotes mystical meditation based on Buddhist principles.
Christian Investigator President Steve McConkey says, “It is troubling for a top pastor in the United States to promote false teachers. We are living at an all-time low spiritually in the United States with weak leaders. We need to teach basic Bible principles without legalism.”
Steve McConkey is the President/Founder of 4 WINDS which offers the news/apologetics site ChristianInvestigator.com (CI). Also, CI produces articles that are distributed worldwide on important issues. CI is the first news/apologetics site offered by a sports ministry. Steve and his wife have been in world-class track and field ministries since 1981. 4 WINDS was started in 1988 and encourages athletes to grow in their Christian faith.
Mr. McConkey should be better informed before he writes on a subject. I am speaking of the errors in this short piece regarding the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg.Here are some brief corrections, quoting from Swedenborg's text:
ReplyDelete1. The Holy Spirit is the Divine Proceeding, and this is the Lord Himself....That it is the Lord alone who is meant by Father, Son and Holy Spirit in Matthew 28:19 is evident there from the verses that precede and follow. In the preceding verse the Lord says; All power is given unto me in heaven and on earth; and in the verse following: Lo I am with you always even unto the consummation of the age. Thus He speaks of Himself alone; and therefore he used these words so the Disciples might know that the Trinity is in Him. from the Doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning the Lord, paragraph 46, section 6
2. the Sacred Scripture, or Word, is the Divine Truth itself....By means of the Word those also have light who are outside the Church and do not possess the Word, or sacred Scripture. from the Doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning Sacred Scripture, paragraphs 1-118.
well put! many are criticising but they havent taken the time to read for themselves. We all know there is only one God....this God is known as the Lord God Jesus Christ. We all know that the cardinal law is this: Love the Lord and love your neighbor as yourself. We all know that the Lord alone is both creator AND savior. this is straight from New Church teachings. and regarding the rebirth of Christianity....read 2 Thess. chap. 2....tell me, who can fall away except those who first know the Lord? surely the world is already fallen, tehrefore it cant fall away....this cahpter plainly talks about the falling away of the church prior to the coming to the Lord. By the way, who ever said the second coming was a physical coming? Is it not a spiritual coming? for those who have had a spiritual encounter with God ...did you not experience the Lord himself? therefore he has already come back for you. All glory to Jesus, the One God of heaven and earth.
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