Satan's New Thought

Satan has always been at work in this world.

Recently he has adapted and updated his methods, though they remain based on the same premise. Cult leaders have long known how to convince people to worship them. Today false teachers use a streamlined and cunning version of this same idea; instead of manipulating people into worshiping them, they convince people to worship themselves, a lesson that is much easier to swallow than the old trend. The cult of ‘I am’ has infiltrated the Church, plain and simple.

People possess an innate compulsion or desire to worship, this much has always been clear, in every generation and in every culture the world has ever known. People want to worship something.

Atheists invented and mastered the art of self-worship long before false teachers learned to deceive and indoctrinate Christians with this new-age idolatry.

The pleasing-sounds of hallow—and unbiblical—platitudes that ring out from today’s pulpits are more akin to metaphysical philosophies and the blasphemous New Thought ideology than to Biblical truth. A quick education on New Thought: New Thought promotes the concept of Infinite Intelligence (that God is a source of knowledge and power everywhere that can be tapped into for our own purposes), that spirit is the totality of real things, that human selfhood is divine, that sickness originates in the mind, and that divine thinking has a healing effect and that words themselves hold sway over the universe.

This last Thought is precisely what countless ‘success’ and ‘self-help’ books are based upon, of which a few are listed below: The Power of Positive Thinking, Think and Grow Rich, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Awaken the Giant Within, and of course, the two most famousest bestsellers, The Secret and The Power of I am. Most books of this ilk sprinkle the terms: spiritual, effective, successful life, self-mastery, step-by-step guide to success, and other pretty motivators into their synopses to lure you in much in the same way the Serpent lured Eve with his cunning and his pretty words. ‘No, no, God lied to you. You will not die. Your eyes will be opened and you will possess great wisdom! Go ahead, reach out and take that scrumptious-looking fruit, then you will be as wise and knowledgeable as God.’

Different times, same principles.

Don’t be fooled. Every one of the books listed above is based on the principles of the New Thought movement. The Bible specifically warns against such drivel in:

1 Timothy 6:5 - They suppose that godliness is a means to material gain.

1 Timothy 6:9 – Those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in destruction.

2 Peter 2:1 – But there were false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and will bring on themselves swift destruction.

2 Peter 2:3 - By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words.

2 Peter 2:18 – For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh . . . While they promise liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption.

The purpose of New Thought is to glorify and advance the self.

The purpose of God’s Word is to glorify God.

By placing ourselves on a pedestal and by believing in the power of self, we neglect our duty to God, and condemn our eternal souls in the process. But by worshiping God as the King eternal, immortal, invisible, who alone is wise (1 Tim 1:17), we will know how to and can receive His great grace and find ourselves in paradise when this temporary life is over.

‘Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden in the Messiah in God. When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, you also will be revealed with Him in glory,’ (Colossians 3:2-4).

In order to justify their declarations, the New Though proponents must blithely skip over verses like the one above, or reinterpret them, which is exactly what Satan tried to do during his temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. 

Now, if any of this is opinion, then you can simply disregard it. (Who cares about some random blogger dudes’ opinions anyway?) But if these statements align with God’s word, then you would be wise to listen. I only hope and pray to open the eyes of my fellow believers to Satan's schemes. We sheep, after all, are so easily led astray. But through knowledge of God's truth, we are protected from Satan's lies.