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LTRP Note:<\/strong> Recently, a Lighthouse Trails reader sent us a link to a group called “Awaken the Christ Within.”<\/a> To the discerning eye, it will be quite obvious that this is a New Age “Christian” website with one main basic message: christ consciousness<\/em> (meaning that every person has God (i.e., Christ) already within him- or herself). Unfortunately, because this website uses numerous Bible verses and contains “Christian” language, it is going to draw in many undiscerning Christians or seeking-truth people. Interestingly, the main figure of the Awaken the Christ Within group, Aaron Abke,<\/a> grew up in a Christian home and graduated from a Christian university. Also worth noting is Mike Adams of Health Ranger (who became very well known during the Covid years and is followed by many Christians) is involved with this group. The article below by the late pastor, Larry DeBruyn, explains the difference between the biblical Jesus Christ and the New Age false christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The False Imagining of the False Christ<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Larry DeBruyn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And he [God\u2019s Son] is before all things, and by him [God\u2019s Son] all things consist. Colossians 1:17<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In 1971, John Lennon came out with the hit song Imagine<\/em>. The lyrics project Utopian vision of the world in which, because there is no heaven or hell, no countries or religion, no possessions or greed, nothing to kill or die for, all the people will be one.1<\/sup> Internationally, Lennon\u2019s song about the new world remains most popular. Increasingly, political, religious, and media ideologues are suggesting that for Lennon\u2019s dream to become a reality, a one-world community must become committed to one-world spirituality.
 
As these societal movers and shakers might imagine, the new Utopia will necessitate the dawning of a new spiritual consensus. Such messianism envisions christ to be mental, not personal, and that being the case, asks people to \u201cshift\u201d their consciousness to a one-world spirituality in order to build a one-world community. Utopia would, it is theorized, be based upon spiritual unity<\/em>. Religion will no longer divide, but unite. There will be no heaven or hell, no countries or religion to die for. Terrorism will become obsolete. As John Lennon imagined, the world will be as one. But, under what guise might this spiritual shift be coming?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its core belief appears to be this: In essence, the cosmos consists of a panentheist (God in all) or pantheist (God is all) christ spirit permeating everything.2 <\/sup>Thus, everything, animate and inanimate, becomes \u201csacred.\u201d This sacred christ is the one reality which comprises both the center and circumference of the universe. That\u2019s why it\u2019s called the cosmic christ. Christ is whatever constitutes time, matter, and space. Christ is Source. Christ is Moment. Christ is Energy. Christ is Thing. Christ is Presence. Christ is Being. Christ is Consciousness. Christ is Oneness. Christ is you. Christ is me. Christ is . . . In all of this, and unlike His portrayal in Holy Scripture, there is no sense in which Christ is personally before, above, without, or outside the world. This christ is co-existent and co-extensive with the universe. Because the New Age christ permeates nature, it is<\/em> nature. If the universe didn\u2019t exist, this christ wouldn\u2019t exist. According to the math of the twin deceptions of New Ageism and the New Spirituality, christ minus the universe equals nothing. Arbitrarily, they take whatever is, assign divinity to it, and call it \u201cchrist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After stating that a god-essence<\/em> resides \u201cin every creature, every flower, every stone,\u201d New Age guru Eckhart Tolle <\/a>theorizes, \u201cAll that is, is holy.\u201d Then he adds, \u201cThis is why Jesus, speaking entirely from his essence or Christ identity, says in the Gospel of Thomas: \u2018Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up a stone, and you will find me there.\u2019\u201d3 <\/sup>Similarly, Matthew Fox<\/a> wrote that God and Christ are in all things. As the \u201cpattern that connects,\u201d Fox sees his cosmic-christ as offering hope \u201cby insisting on the interconnectivity of all things and on the power of the human mind and spirit to experience personally this common glue among all things.\u201d4<\/sup> In his book Quantum Spirituality<\/em>, emergent-evangelical Leonard Sweet advocates monism that nuances panentheism. Investing the cosmos with \u201cchristness,\u201d he states, \u201cThe world of nature has an identity and purpose apart from human benefit. But we constitute together a cosmic body of Christ.\u201d5 <\/sup>Even Rick Warren\u2019s reference to the New Century Version <\/em>of Ephesians 4, and verse 6 (\u201cGod . . . is in everything\u201d), plugs into the growing popularity of monistic spirituality.6<\/sup> So what might a Christian believer think about this redefinition of Christ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Differing from the mystical spirituality of New Ageism, Holy Scripture presents a far different Christ than the one the New Spirituality imagines. The christ of New Ageism (pantheism\/panentheism) and the Christ of the New Testament (theism) are worlds apart. While \u201cthe christ\u201d of the New Age is the world, the Christ of the New Testament is the Word (See John 1:1-3, 14; Philippians 2:6-7.). In a one-time act of the divine incarnation, the Word became flesh, thereby delivering the Christian faith from the theological extremes of deism and transcendentalism on the one hand, and pantheism and immanentism on the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a balanced way, again and again, the New Testament affirms the otherness<\/em> of Christ from His creation and the togetherness of Christ with His creation. For reason of His incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection, Christ is present amidst His creation. But for reason of His incarnation, ascension and glorification, Christ remains transcendent above<\/em> His creation. Paradoxically, but really, Christ is now physically present in heaven (Hebrews 1:3) while, at the same time, He is spiritually present on earth (Matthew 28:20). Though Christ is before and above time, matter, and space, He also is involved with time, matter, and space. But for reason of pantheistic or panentheistic monism which denies the otherness of Christ from the world, New Ageism neither needs nor wants Jesus\u2019 personal, historical, and exceptional Incarnation, Substitutionary Death, Resurrection, or Second Coming<\/em>\u2013redemptive events based upon the original separation of the Word from the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, amazingly, and disingenuously, New Ageism quotes and spins the words of the Bible to prove their anti-Christian point of view. One text they use is Colossians 1, verse 17, which reads, \u201cAnd he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” New Ageism reads the second half of the verse to mean that nature is saturated by a christ spirit which forms the essence of the cosmos.7<\/sup><\/sub> But does this text even hint, let alone teach, the permeation of a christ-spirit in nature? For a number of reasons, it does not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First<\/em>, we observe that Paul makes two emphatic statements about God\u2019s Son.8<\/sup> One, the Son \u201cis before all things.\u201d And two, \u201cby him [i.e., the Son] all things consist\u201d (Colossians 1:17). The two clauses express two distinct relationships the Son possesses to \u201call things\u201d: He is precedent before all things <\/em>and also provident over all things<\/em>.9<\/sup> That God\u2019s Son is \u201cbefore all things\u201d indicates that He is separate from all things. Scripture presents the eternal Christ as being before creation. There never was a time when the Son was not (John 1:1-2). He is the uncreated Creator of everything (John 1:3; Colossians 1:16; etc.). Christ does not derive from the cosmos. Rather, the cosmos derived from Christ.<\/em> For reason of its commitment to pantheistic\/panentheistic permeation, New Ageism denies this biblical understanding of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second<\/em>, in light of this, what does the second half of the apostle\u2019s statement (\u201cby him all things consist\u201c) mean? Literally, the Greek text reads: \u201call things in Him stand together.\u201d10<\/sup> While all things are in Christ, Christ is not in all things. The Son is therefore, the agent by whom all things hold together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Christ did not continually preserve His creation, the universe would disintegrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To guard against this heresy of christ-consciousness<\/em>, both in his day and in ours, the apostle Peter assured believers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. (2 Peter 1:16)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Though the Word entered the world, the Word is not the world. And against any supposition to the contrary, Paul writes that we are to cast down \u201cimaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,\u201d and to bring \u201cevery thought to the obedience of Christ\u201d (2 Corinthians 10:5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concerning our relationship to all the christ-imagining being advocated by the gurus and promoters of New Ageism and the New Spirituality, the apostle Paul warns:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. (Colossians 2:8).
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Larry DeBruyn’s archive website is: Guarding His Flock Ministries<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haunted Souls: From Meditation Into Hallucinations<\/a> by Larry DeBruyn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be Still and Know That You are Not God!\u2014God is Not \u201cin\u201d Everyone and Everything<\/a> by Warren B. Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(images from istockphoto.com; used with permission; design by Lighthouse Trails)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Endnotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.<\/strong> I am grateful to Warren Smith<\/a> for his input into this article and drawing my attention to Lennon\u2019s lyrics. The words of Imagine<\/em> are available online at https:\/\/eduteach.es\/songs\/j-m\/john-lennon.html<\/a>. For a detailed commentary on the relevance of Lennon\u2019s song to the spirituality of Eckhart Tolle, see Berit Kjos, \u201cOprah and Tolle Fuel New Age Revival,\u201d https:\/\/www.crossroad.to\/articles2\/08\/tolle.htm<\/a>.
2.<\/strong> Readers will note that \u201cchrist\u201d is spelled with a lower case \u201cc.\u201d I will not dignify the \u201cchrist\u201d of New Age imagining to the level of the Christ of Holy Scripture. Though slight, the terms pantheism and panentheism differ. The pantheist ascribes divinity to everything. If I kick a tree, I\u2019ve kicked God. The panentheist invests the tree with divinity for reason that it harbors the divine soul. Thus, if I kick a tree, though I\u2019ve not directly kicked Him, I have kicked an object in which God resides. In their attempt to invest nature with sacredness, both views commit idolatry for reason of betraying the biblical God\u2019s holiness or separateness from His creation (See Isaiah 40:18-*25; Romans 1:20-23.).
3. <\/strong>Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment <\/em>(Novato, CA: New World Library, 1999), p. 134. Tolle places awareness of \u201cthe God-essence\u201d in feeling. Of that \u201cintense present-moment awareness,\u201d he writes \u201cyou become conscious of the Unmanifested both directly and indirectly. Directly, you feel it as the radiance and the power of your conscious presence\u2013no content, just presence. Indirectly, you are aware of the Unmanifested in and through the sensory realm. In other words, you feel the God-essence . . .\u201d (Power of Now<\/em>, p. 133). It is obvious that the basis of Tolle\u2019s pantheism rests upon a fantasy of mystical \u201cfeeling,\u201d an illusion which is delusion.
4. <\/strong>Matthew Fox, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ <\/em>(New York: Harper Collins, 1988), p. 133.
5.  Some emergent-evangelicals may object to the association of Leonard Sweet with the Episcopalian priest Matthew Fox, a former Roman Catholic Dominican dismissed from that order in 1992, by then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI). But to support his statement regarding \u201ca cosmic body of Christ,\u201d Sweet approvingly cites Fox\u2019s book The Coming of the Cosmic Christ<\/em>. See his online version of Quantum Spirituality<\/em>, pdf pages 89, 195, and footnote 66 (https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030720050215\/http:\/\/leonardsweet.com\/Quantum\/quantum-ebook.pdf<\/a>).
6. Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life <\/em>(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2002), p. 88.
7. Fox employs Colossians 1:15-17 to demonstrate that his christ is \u201cthe pattern that connects.\u201d See Coming of the Cosmic Christ<\/em>, p. 133.
8. Greek grammarians note that the pronoun \u201cis used emphatically\u2013He Himself, in contrast to the created things . . . Here it means \u2018He and no other\u2019 . . .\u201d See Cleon L. Rogers Jr. and Cleon L. Rogers III, The New Linguistic and Exegetical Key to the Greek New Testament <\/em>(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1998), p. 461. The NRSV carries the emphasis into its translation which reads, \u201cHe himself is before all things . . .\u201d (Emphasis mine, Colossians 1:17a).
9. The preposition \u201cbefore\u201d (Greek, pro) can carry a temporal or a rank meaning. Wallace suggests both are appropriate. He writes, \u201cJesus Christ takes priority over and is before all things.\u201d See Daniel B. Wallace, Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics <\/em>(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1996), p. 379, Footnote 67.
10. Between the Logos of the Bible and the logos of Stoicism, and based upon Colossians 1:17, a scholar observed this contrast: \u201cHe [i.e., the biblical Christ] is not in all things but all things are in him. The Logos of the Stoics gave unity and order, and meaning to all things because it permeated all things as dia-existent principle; the Colossian hymn praises him in whom all things begin, continue, and conclude because they are in, through, and unto him as a pre-existent being.\u201d See David E. Garland, Colossians and Philemon<\/em>, The NIV Application Commentary, quoting Fred B. Craddock (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1998), p. 89, Footnote 29. From Craddock\u2019s observation, the similarity between the philosophical christ of Stoicism and the spiritual christ of New Ageism is apparent. While not viewing Christ as \u201ca pre-existent being,\u201d the New Spirituality does embrace christ as \u201cdia-existent principle.\u201d

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