End-Time Events Part V
True Discipleship of
the True, Biblical Christ
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Schuller’s
“Religious Inclusivity”
In Schuller’s
2001 autobiography, My Journey:
From an Iowa Farm to a Cathedral
of Dreams, Schuller wrote:
“’As the
century, as well as the millennium,
drew to a close, I was astounded to
see how much my perspective had
shifted. In my early years, my world
was Sioux county, Iowa, and the Dutch
Reformed Church, but now I had a
global awareness. Going
‘somewhere’ from
‘nowhere’ had begun to take
on a whole new meaning. I was
moving further and further into a
mindset of religious inclusivity. This
was another ‘edge,’ to be
sure – but I had by now grown
comfortable living on that edge. In
fact, I liked it!…
“’And
I’m dreaming a bold impossible
dream: that positive thinking [note:
Remember Norman Vincent Peale’s
Power of Positive Thinking?]
Believers in God will rise above
the illusions that our sectarian
religions have imposed on the world, and
that leaders of the major faiths will
rise above doctrinal
idiosyncrasies, choosing not to
focus on disagreements, but rather to
transcend divisive dogmas to
work together to bring peace and
prosperity and hope to the
world.’” [Schuller, My
Journey, pp. 492, 502]
Schuller Attacks
Sectarian “Illusions,” and
“Doctrinal Idiosyncrasies,”
Calling Upon All to “Transcend
Divisive Dogmas”
And now you see the
essential connection between
pantheism and ecumenism. Notice how
Schuller speaks disparagingly of the
“illusions that our sectarian
religions have imposed on the
world.” Was Martin Luther driven
by “illusions?” That is
what Schuller would have you believe.
What about the study of John Knox and
the Scottish covenanters who stood up
for their faith against the
king’s dragoons? Was that an
illusion? Now you can see that Satan
is driving this kind of evil
disparagement of the great men of God
who launched the Protestant
Reformation. What about William
Miller? In addition, is the
seventh-day Sabbath a “doctrinal
idiosyncrasy” to Schuller? And
then Schuller calls for all to
“transcend” “divisive
dogmas.” Clearly, none other
than the New Age Christ is driving
the purpose of Schuller.
Loaded Language
The New Age laden
terms being used to introduce
pantheism are “Transcend,”
“Force,”
“Daring,”
“Enlarge,”
“Dream,” “Think
globally; act locally,”
“Passion,”
“Purpose,”
“Oneness,” etc.
Neale Donald Walsch
and his New Age ‘God’ are
proposing a 5-Step PEACE Plan to help
“transcend” the
differences.
New Age PEACE Plan
Introduced One Year After 9/11
New Age P.E.A.C.E.
Plan Advanced After 9/11
“One year after
the events of September 11th,
2001, New Age leader Neale Donald
Walsch’s new Book The New
Revelations: A Conversation
with God was published. In this
book, Walsch announced that
‘God’ was now offering
humanity an opportunity to avert
self-destruction and achieve world
peace by accepting the principles of
New Age Spirituality. Walsch
explained that ‘God’ was
proposing a post-September 11th
‘PEACE Plan’ that would
help to bring the world’s widely
varying religions and belief systems
closer together. Walsch’s
‘God’ was calling his PEACE
Plan ‘The Five Steps to
Peace.’ And both Walsch and
his ‘God’ were citing Robert
Schuller as the kind of
‘extraordinary minister’
who could help make the PEACE
Plan and the New Age Spirituality
work for everyone.
Walsch’s New Age
“God” Quotes
Schuller’s “Self-Esteem:
The New Reformation” And
Suggests a Universal Standard
“Walsch’s
‘God’ quoted a statement
that Schuller had made in his 1982
book, Self-Esteem: The New
Reformation. [Note: The reader
may recall how the message of
“self-esteem” swept through
the churches including the Structure
in the 1980s after Schuller wrote
this book.] Schuller had written that
‘theologians must have their
international, universal,
transceedal, transcultural,
transracial standard.’ [Neale
Donald Walsch, the New
Revelations: A Conversation with God,
p. 282; Robert H. Schuller, Self-Esteem:
The New Reformation, p.
38] Walsch’s ‘God’
suggested that this universal
standard be the statement: ‘We
Are All One.’ [Walsch, op.
cit., 282].” Warren Smith, p.
59.
Here is the New Age
reinforcement of Rome’s
alignment of all religions behind
herself in a war against the last
remnants of true Protestantism in the
Culture War, propounded by Peter
Kreeft, a professor at the Jesuit
Boston College in 1996 in his Ecumenical
Jihad and again in another book, How
to Win the Culture War, in 2002.
Rome’s Culture
War, which has captured the White
House, the House of Representatives
and the Senate, and now the Supreme
Court, with the appointment of
Justices Roberts and Alito, is the
political/religious arm of the
movement of alignment behind Rome.
Walsch is providing
the New Age dimension of pantheistic
spiritualism. It is a gathering of
the same elements that drove Nazi
Germany – Rome, the Occult, the
Jesuits, New Age, and Eastern
Religions, all over again – only
this time on a far more sophisticated
and global basis.
“Transcending”
Belief Systems
In The New
Revelations: Conversations
With God Walsch warns that:
“The world is in
trouble. Bigger trouble than it has
ever been in before.
“This book
provides an explanation of the crisis
we are facing in a way that not only
clarifies the crisis, but clarifies
how to resolve it….
“This is a
life-altering book. It contains New
Revelations. It provides the tools
with which to pull ourselves out of
despair, lifting the whole human race
to a new level of experience, to a
new understanding of itself, to a new
expression of its grandest
vision.” [Walsch, vii, viii.]
New Age Call to
“Transcend” Beliefs –
Modify and Enlarge, Combine
“Old” and “New”
‘’God told
Walsch that people are not being
terrorized by other people. They are
being terrorized by other
people’s ‘beliefs.’
[Walsch, p. 38]. In language and a
tone reminiscent of the serpent in
the Garden of Eden, Walsch’s
‘God’ explained that people
don’t have to change their
individual beliefs; they just need to
‘transcend’ them. He
said that ‘transcending’
does not mean that you have to
abandon your beliefs completely, but
rather just modify and
‘enlarge’ them.
‘’
Transcending’ does not mean
always being ‘other than,’ it
means always being ‘larger
than.’ Your new, larger
belief system will no doubt retain
some of the old – that part
of the old belief system that you
experience as still serving you
– and so it will be a combination
of the new and the old, not a
rejection of the old from top to
bottom.’ [Walsch, p.
8].” Warren Smith, 60. (Emphasis
mine)
Structure Is Combining
“Old” With “New”
This is exactly and
precisely what is happening to the
Structure. Certain co-operating
ministries provide evangelists who
still put forward the “old”
belief system, the 28 Fundamental
Beliefs [along with their problems]
are still in place, while meanwhile
the belief system of the Structure is
being enlarged to take in Jesuit
Spiritual Formation training,
Spiritual Directors, Schuller’s
self-esteem,” Rick Warren’s
“purpose Driven Life,” the
New Age, occultic Message bible,
Celebration, NLP, youth ministries
Teilhardian pantheism and
universalism. On and on we
could go. New Age Spirituality is
defining what is happening in the
Structure belief system which has now
‘transcended” the old
belief system which was “other
than.”
John Paul II Had the
Same Concept
Pope John Paul II
propounded the same concept as
described by Malachi Martin in The
Keys of This Blood.
“The Provincial
Globalists (which includes
Seventh-day Adventists) of our age
are destined to undergo a series of
severe shocks and mutations as, they adapt
themselves to the new globalism
emanating from the powerful groups. There
is no way that any of them will be
able to maintain itself in any
vibrancy and progressive strength unless
it allows-or suffers-its
provincialism to be enlarged
beyond the confines it traditionally
observed. Individuals
among them may for a while maintain
themselves within those confines.
However, inevitably, as groups they
will have to face dire
alternatives. Either they will
become thoroughly and
realistically globalized and
therefore capable of collaborating in
the building of a geopolitical
structure. Or, as groups, they
will remain in place, diminish in
numbers and influence, and finally lose
their identity as operative parts in
a new world order.” –Malachi
martin, Keys of This Blood,
291, 292.
God’s people,
however, have a means of
comprehending what is going on. It is
called prophecy, and it is
being fulfilled before our very eyes
in a most shocking manner.
What the pope
propounded in the 1980s, what Rome
organized in the 1990s with
Ecumenical Jihad, and what New Age
has advanced in 2002, is now being
implemented in all the denominations
worldwide.
New Age Plan of
“Adding To” Belief Systems
Walsch’s
“God” advised that most
people couldn’t and
shouldn’t abandon all their
beliefs because it would make
everything suddenly seem
‘wrong.’ It would
make their scriptures and traditions
seem wrong. It would make their lives
seem wrong. ‘God’ told
Walsch:
“’ In fact, you
don’t have to declare that you
were ‘wrong’ about
everything, because you
weren’t. You simply didn’t
have a complete understanding. You
needed more information.
“Transcending
current beliefs is not an outright
rejection of them; it is an ‘adding
to’ them.
“Now that you
have more information that you can
add to what you presently believe,
you can enlarge your beliefs-not
completely reject them, enlarge them-and
move on with your lives in a new way.
A way that
works.’ [Walsch, p. 9]
New Spirituality
Necessitates “A Willingness To
Compromise” And “Give
Up” Most Sacredly Held Beliefs
“But then there
is a ‘catch.’ Walsch’s
New Age ‘God’ warned that
the New Spirituality would
necessitate a willingness to
compromise. To achieve world
peace, people will have to sincerely
dialogue about their perceived
differences and perhaps even
‘give up’ some of their
most sacredly held beliefs.
‘God’ explained to Walsch:
‘’ It will
take an unprecedented act of courage,
on a grand scale. You may have to do
something virtually unknown in the
annuls of human history…
“’ You
may have to give up some of
your most sacred beliefs.’
[Walsch, 175] (Emphasis mine)
New Age:
“Self-centered” Belief in a
Personal Savior Not conductive to
World Peace
“Walsch’s
‘God’ explained that in the
near future established religions may
still retain the general nature of
their individual identities. However,
he severely warned that a
‘self-centered’ and
‘exclusivistic’ belief in a
personal Savior would not be
conducive to a world seeking peace
and harmony. In other words, he was
telling Christians that, in the days
of the New Spirituality, Jesus can be
your friend but not your Lord and
Savior. In a statement that should
sober every Christian believer on the
face of the earth, Walsch’s
‘God’ warned:
“Yet let me make
something clear. The era of the
Single Savior is over. What is needed
now is joint action, combined effort,
collective co-creation.’
[Walsch, 157]. –Warren Smith,
61, 62, 63.
Walsch’s
“God:” Build a Bridge
“’God’
then described his solution for how
humanity can learn to live together
through ‘combined effort’
and ‘collective
co-creation.’ By cleverly
removing the word ‘Age’
from ‘New Age
Spirituality,’ Walsch’s
‘God’ called his repackaged
New Age solution the ‘New
Spirituality.’
“’ Not
something to completely replace the
old, but something to refresh it.
“’ Not
something to reduce the old, but
something to expand it.
“’ Not
something to subvert the old, but
something to support the best of it.
“’ It is now
time to present the world with new
theological thoughts and ideas, a new
spiritual model.
“’ The world
must have something new to hold on to
if it is to release its grip on
the old. If we were in the middle
of a raging stream, would you let go
of a log?…
“’ Build,
therefore, a bridge.’
Walsch’s
“God” PEACE Plan
“Prior to directly
suggesting that Robert
Schuller’s theology of
self-esteem could be the kind of
‘bridge’ that could help
humanity transition into the New
Spirituality, Walsch’s
‘God’ formally presented
his 5-Step PEACE Plan. The PEACE Plan
is the proposed spiritual process
that will help everyone move past
‘outmoded’ beliefs and
prepare the way for the New
Spirituality…
THE FIVE STEPS TO
PEACE
Permit
ourselves to acknowledge that some
of our old beliefs about God and
about life are no longer working.
Explore the
possibility that there is something
we do not understand about God and
about Life, the understanding of
which could change everything.
Announce that
we are willing for new
understanding of God and life to now
be brought forth,
understanding that could produce a new
way of life on this planet.
Courageously
examine these new understandings and,
if they align with out personal inner
truth and knowing, to enlarge
our belief system to include them.
Express our
lives as demonstrations of our
highest beliefs, rather than as a
denial of them. (Emphasis added)
