Faith, Family & Freedom: Part 2‏ of 21

Good day friends!

Welcome back to our series.

God created and ordained three institutions to bring Him honor and to fulfill His commandments and objectives, He established:

• The Family (Genesis 1:26-27 & Genesis 2:21-25)
• Church Government (Acts 20:28, Titus 1:5-6, Ephesians 5:22-27 & 1 Timothy 3:1-15)
• Civil Government (Exodus 18:18-25, Romans 13:1-7 & 1 Peter 2:13-17)

In contrast, I believe satan is using four human institutions to wage spiritual war against God's three to destroy our nation. They are:

• Occultism/pagan spirituality (weeks 1-2)
• The apostate/false-dominate church (weeks 3-5)
• The educational establishment (weeks 6-14)
• The government corporate complex/Corporate Fascism- which includes the State itself, non-government organizations, trade unions, and the UN (weeks 15-21)

This series will outline these four institutions, who played a part in establishing them, and how each person contributed to their creation.

Today we will learn about our next inductee who, similar to her counterpart from last week's edition, has greatly influenced our world via the occult/pagan spiritual realm...

"Faith, Family & Freedom: Our American Values Under Fire"

Helen Schucman

(1909-1981)

January 1, 2008 launched a banner year for promoters of the New Spirituality. The ubiquitous TV mouthpiece promoting today’s New Age Movement used her XM satellite radio program “Oprah & Friends” to host a year-long series of teachings from A Course in Miracles by Oprah and her featured guru, Marianne Williamson. Oprah and Marianne covered all 365 lessons from this seminal work of Helen Schucman.

Schucman began writing A Course in Miracles in 1965 while practicing as associate professor of medical psychology at Columbia University in New York. Her book was based largely on her experiences channeling “a New Age Jesus” whom she believed would teach mankind how to live in these difficult times. Her “Jesus” gave her a “new gospel,” and she dictated the contents of the course over a seven-year period. Schucman took shorthand as a “voice” spoke to her; she then read the messages to William Thetford, a colleague at Columbia University, who typed the daily notes from Schucman. As in the case of Alice Bailey discussed in our last article, I contend that Schucman was hearing from a demon (or demons) as she transcribed what she was told to write. The book was released for sale in 1976. Her 600-page-plus transcription of these teachings is described by some as the “bible” of the New Age Movement.

Some telling quotes from the book and workbook include:

• “God is in everything I see.”
• A “slain Christ has no meaning.”
• “The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself.”
• “Jesus is a man, who is like all other men.”
• “The Atonement is the final lesson he (man) need learn, for it teaches him that, never having sinned, he has no need for salvation.”
• “There is no sin; it has no consequence.”
• “Sin is defined as ‘lack of love’.”
• “…sin is not real.”
• “There is no difference between your will and God’s.”
• “Do not make the pathetic error of ‘clinging to the old rugged cross’.”
• “My salvation comes from me.”

Kenneth Wapnick assisted Schucman in editing A Course in Miracles and believed Jesus was “a symbol of God’s love and not the historical Jesus of Nazareth.”

A popular saying among those who call for a liberal, ecumenical, one-world church is that “doctrine divides, but the spirit unites.” And they’re right, of course. The truth of Biblical doctrine does divide. It distinguishes true converts from false ones. A preference for un-doctrine also unties the unsaved in the spirit of anti-Christ.

Nevertheless, Oprah continues to sweep people into her congregation of New Spirituality through even more pervasive means. Helen Schucman’s teachings are found in Oprah Winfrey, the greatest promoter any thinker could hope for. The resulting stakes are high. Make no mistake: Biblical Christianity and New Age Spirituality will both lead to God. In a sense, millions of ways do lead there. It’s just that only one leads to God as Savior. All others lead to Him as Righteous Judge.

Sources:

U.S District Court Southern District of New York, 2000-07-21

Brannon Howse, Grave Influence (Worldview Publishing, 2009)

"Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind" - Romans 12:2

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