The following is part five of Jan Markell’s Chapter “Religionist Deceivers Rampant,” an exclusive preview of Terry James’ book “Deceivers: Exposing Evil Seducers & Their Last Days Deception.”
So Protestants Are Now Catholics?
In more recent years, I began hearing about mystical Christianity. I learned that many churches, and most of them evangelical churches, were promoting labyrinths, icons, chanting, candles, centering prayer, and contemplative prayer. The latter is a distant relative of Buddhism, so I wondered how much stranger things could get. Protestants began taking on Catholic traditions. They were heralding ancient Catholic mystics. I guess we didn’t need the Reformation.
Some just called this “the new spirituality,” even though they were tapping into practices that were very old—so old that it went back to the desert fathers and borrowed their practices. I could not believe what I was seeing and reading.
These folks all talked about a new kind of meditation that sounded quite dangerous. It did not sound like true biblical meditation, but was more aligned with Zen. The Christian college from which I graduated years ago brought in a Buddhist to encourage the students to zone out and meditate, but not on the Bible!
Men who didn’t have sound theology, such as Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, and Thomas Merton, started being quoted in church pulpits. What was going on? The more I looked into these mystics, the more I trembled for the Church and the sheep who were going to be slaughtered and eaten by wolves. There was just no end to the last-days’ deceptions.
These mystics thought they could sanctify yoga and decided to call it “Christian yoga.” You can’t put a smiley face on millions of demons who are a part of the yoga experience, but these folks thought you could!
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