A British married couple associates faith with gods, new age, evolution and aliens in their ”new” worldview. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.
Joel Kontinen
When people reject classical Christianity, they espouse ideas that are often rather irrational.
Glenn and Jill Harrison market an exotic ideology in which they mix Christianity, other religions, new age, spiritism and evolution into a thick soup.
Glenn Harrison says that his wife Jill is an avatara, who receives messages from beings they assume are archangels. Their doctrine is based on these messages.
A spirit being called Metatron has revealed that mankind’s goal is to ”further the evolution of the universe. The Creator learns from the development of the different species.”
This thinking is far from classical Christianity with its omniscient (all-knowing) and omnipotent (all-powerful) Creator God.
They think that the followers of all religions worship the same god. They believe that man’s problem is not sin but negative thoughts that we should get rid of.
This has nothing to do with Christianity. Jesus says He is the only way to God.
The Apostle Paul warned his readers of a false gospel:
”But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!” (Gal. 1:8).
At some point one begins to suspect that the Harrisons have read too much Dan Brown: They seem to believe that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, who had to flee persecution to France. There Mary gave birth to twins, Evangeline and Sarah.
In addition to Gnosticism and evolution, a good new age soup also needs a UFO connection. Accordingly, the Harrisons will tell us that aliens visit us regularly in order to save us from destruction.
The Harrisonian new age soup is nothing new. Of the fathers of evolution, Alfred Russel Wallace was a spiritist and some time later Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit priest, tried to build a quasi-Christian belief system based on evolution.
In our days, Deepak Chopra, who is known for his alternative medicine, and pastor Michael Dowd have creatively combined religion and evolution.
” The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge” Solomon said in Proverbs.
But when one replaces the Lord with questionable human philosophies, one gets a bizarre new age soup.
Rationality and credibility remain outside the bowl.
Source:
A New Belief. com.
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