"CHRISTIAN" MYSTICISM [SHAMANISM] ? LET'S BE HONEST.
Please read the linked sources and scriptures provided showing why this practice is an abomination in God's eyes...
As shown in the post those trying to use
JOSHUA 1:8 and
PSALMS 119:78 to teach new age occult meditation and mysticism is
WRONG in my opinion! I believe the passages teach no such thing. The reason is that the Hebrew word used does not have the same meaning as new age mystic meditation that we have today. The Hebrew word used here is H1897 הגה; hâgâh it means to ponder, to
study and understand the laws meaning and to speak about it. We are to do this with all of the scriptures as it is written "
Study to show yourself approved to God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" *
2 TIMOTHY 2:15.
I believe this is what many are
not doing by trying to justify the occult teachings of mysticism that have their origin in witchcraft and occult teachings.
All the Roman Catholic Church has done in new age mystic meditation applied to the above scriptures in relation to God's law is to
change Gods law in fulfillment of
Daniel 7:25 [25],
And he (the Roman Catholic Church) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
I believe this is evidenced in the change of God's 2nd commandment in
EXODUS 20:4-5 in relation to "IDOL worship" [4],
You shall not make to you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. [5],
You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me
As shown elsewhere christian mysticism is not biblical. Mysticism has it's origin in occult teachings such as those used in the
WITCHCRAFT of
SHAMANISM linked and many other religions that pre-date Christianity. Putting the name "christian" in front of the word "occult" does not make the "occult" christian anymore than calling a pig a horse.
SHAMANISM has it's orign in
WITCHCRAFT and the "occult" as shown in the linked sections of this post.
A
shaman (
/ˈʃɑːmən/ SHAH-men) is someone who is regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of
benevolent and malevolent spirits, who typically enters into a
trance state during a
ritual, and practices
divination (
Wikipedia).
It is defined as a practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with what they believe to be a spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world (
Wikipedia). They seek to achieve this with
many techniques that include going into trances through meditation.
SHAMANISM is practiced in many religions around the world (
Wikipedia).
Now I believe anyone putting the word "christian" in front of the word "sharman" and applying what a "Sharman" practices in meditation that leads to a trance to contact familiar Spirits while praying to the dead - MARY and the SAINTS does not make it any less witchcraft than Saul seeking out the familiar spirits from the Witch of Endore.
This is simply the occult practice of witchcraft. You may as well call it "christian witchcraft". Now you claiming that you use it to contact the dead spirits of the saints or to pray to Mary and the Saints is only doing exactly what the bible forbids.
What does the Bible say about "divination" and consulting familiar Spirits and the dead (Sharmanism)?
DEUTERONOMY 18:10-12 [10], There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. [11], Or a charmer, or a
consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a
necromancer. [12], For all that do these things are an
abomination to the LORD: and because of these
abominations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you.
The MOSAIC law commanded God's people not to contect those with familiar spirits of necromancers and these people were to be put to death...
Commandments of God from the Mosaic law.
LEVITICUS 19:31: Regard not them that have
familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be
defiled by them; I am the Lord your God.
The Hebew word used here for defiled is טמא; ṭâmê' (H2930) A primitive root;
to be foul, especially in a ceremonial or moral sense (contaminated): - defile (self),
pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce)
unclean, X utterly.
LEVITICUS 20:27: A man also or woman that hath a
familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be
put to death; they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them
I believe that in
DEUTERONOMY 18:11-12 the Hebrew words for
necromancer have application to
prayers to the dead which can includes Mary and the saints because praying to the dead is seeking to have contact with the dead because it is the dead you are praying to and asking or inquiring which is the meaning of the Hebrew words.
Another words trying to contact the dead through prayer could be viewed as performing the duty of a necromancer because by praying
to the dead your trying to communicate to the dead.
Looking at the Hebrew word meanings what is the difference between someone praying and trying to communicate to the dead and a necromancer when that is the role of a necromancer?
The scriptures are saying if someone is dead then we are not to try and communicate to them.
Praying to the dead goes against the scriptures in God's WORD. As shown above it is an abomination to God and also goes against these scriptures below from the NEW Testament...
JOHN 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.
1 TIMOTHY 2:5 For there is one God, and there is
one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus
1 TIMOTHY 2:5-6
For there is one God, and there is
one mediator between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
MATTHEW 6:9-13 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
ACTS 4:12 And
there is salvation in no one else, for
there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
ECCLESIASTIES 9:5-6 For the living know that they will die, but
the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever
they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.
On top of these scriptures brother did you know that praying to the dead has its
origin from the pagan cultures of the world?
Finally where in God's WORD are we told to pray to the dead (Mary and the saints)? This is an abomination in God's Word directly forbidden in the scriptures. Yet this is the very teachings of the Roman Catholic Church (not the people) who is described in REVELATION 17 and 18 as the Great Mother Whore of BANYLON who God is calling all his people out from *REVELATION 18:1-5.
I believe there is no such thing as "Christian Mysticism" it has it's origin in the occult teachings of witchcraft, not christianity and is forbidden in the scriptures..
[GALLERY=media, 9269]Christian Sharmanism by 3rdAngel posted Feb 24, 2020 at 2:47 PM[/GALLERY]
Hope this helps
