Christian mysticism and global oneness: The Global Oneness Commitment Project and the biblical God

Is it possible to reconcile the biblical God with the God described by the Global Oneness Commitment Project? That is an important question to be honestly answered.

In a nutshell

The global initiatives steer towards global integration. There is however one area that can never be integrated and that is occultism with true biblical based Christianity. Just as darkness and light can not be integrated there is no integration possible between Lucifarianism and Christianity. The strong drive towards integration has so far managed to dim the borders between christian spirituality and occult spirituality, creating the illusion that spirituality is all the same thing.

Putting God in a box

Paula Rinehart once described how human nature wants to fit God within a spiritual box and longs to construct a picture of Him accordingly. We want a hold on God. We grab to formulas and spiritual gurus or “know-how’s” to give us more definition and we continuously strive towards tangible evidence to set us at ease that things will work out the way we want them to.

Slowly the walls of the box starts to dissolve as life happens, disappointments occur, and God seem to not stay within our mental box. This causes discomfort, confusion even deep upset and anger with God. This can be very frightening.

Someone may realize that if the thing you feared had happened, then almost anything else is possible too, and that makes one feel terribly unsafe. Out of control. And o how our human nature wants to have control.
“Can't I just return to the days when faith seemed sure and simple? Can't I just go back to where I was?” These are the kind of questions
that often gets asked. We are uncomfortable with the tentative feel of faith.; But when we reach that place, there is no going back. We find that our manageable belief system no longer works so well and the walls of the box has crumbled. God may begin to feel strangely absent, as though He has left us on our own to sort things out.

Paula says: “Yet, in reality, what we are experiencing is this pain and confusion of letting go, not of God, but of the safe, secure, confines we built to house our concept of Him. God is not a concept to be mastered, a set of prescriptions we can control. He shows Himself to be much different than we thought - more loving, more exacting, more faithful”

Her conclusion can be compared to what A.W Tozer said : “Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image”. Oswald Chamber puts this a bit harsher: “If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in His presence. The people who are flippant and familiar are those who have never yet been introduced to Jesus Christ”.

What we need is more Truth about God, not to put Him yet in another box, but to reveal more of who He reveals Himself to be, by the Spirit of Truth.; Tamara Hartzell puts it bluntly by explaining how Truth becomes the sacrifice, when absolutism is out, and relativism is in; When obedience is out, and pragmatism is in: When teaching is out, and dialogue is in: When thus saith the Lord is out, and consensus of opinion is in: When using Scripture to judge right and wrong is out, and unity with tolerance at all costs is in: When the narrow way is out, and the broad way is in.

Perhaps Tamara has a point. Let us further investigate.

Over the years religious organizations, including Protestants and Catholics have put the Christian religion to shame. Brutal wars, immorality, greed, dishonesty and stiff-neck pride among leaders and organizations wearing the label “Christian” has made millions to run away from Christianity into the arms of Eastern religion gurus and teachers, who embraced them with beautiful words and promises of love.

There are no excuses to be made. The name of Christ had been dishonored. And the type of Christianity displayed at large has but very little to do with Jesus Christ, His life and what He came to establish. If one is however an honest truth seeker, we have to look past those offenses, of “so called” Christians, and give “True Christianity” in the authentic sense of what it is and was meant to be an honest look. This is what is intended to be done in this document
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KW Kenyon put it well: "Christianity is not a religion. It is not a system of ethics. It is not a set of rules to guide man's conduct, but it is a union with Deity" If this is the truth, then surely, those living in the deepest of darkness, claiming to be “Christian” had nothing to do with Christianity, in this sense. As the God of the bible, is Holy. And to be in union with Him, could never mean to live still in such deep darkness.

“The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God himself”. A.W. Tozer.

The question to be asked is : Can we know God ourselves. Personally. Intimately. Or are these just words? And does the True Christian religion has this to offer? And how does this compare to what Eastern religion practices lays on the table?

The truth alone can set people free!

We have found that it is one thing to know doctrines of truth. It is quite another thing to have Truth in the innermost man.
: Christianity and the Global Oneness initiative

Christianity and the Bible

As a Christian, taking the Bible as being true about everything to which it speaks, and it speaks to everything, it is the duty of the Christian believer to weigh everything against Scripture.
"When the Jews at Berea were confronted with the Gospel, “they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” (Acts 17:11) They were commended by God for examining the Scriptures themselves in order to “prove all things.” (I Thess. 5:21) Like the noble Bereans, those who desire to know the truth today will study the Scriptures to determine which Bible faithfully preserves the doctrines of the Christian faith.

2 Timothy 3:16 says “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (NKJV); The goal of the Global Oneness Commitment Project

The details of one Global Oneness Commitment Project can be found at the website : Global Oneness co creating a happy world, http://www.experiencefestival.com/ . The Project’s goal are outlined as follows: “The Global Oneness Commitment is an eight-year project with the goal of uniting people around the globe to mutual actions in order to not only save what we have, but to transform the planet thru an increase in spiritual awareness – a new consciousness creating a joyful home for all its inhabitants and sincere respect for all forms of life. The project is synchronized with the twin Venus Transit of 2004 and 2012. It starts with the first Venus transit of June 8th 2004 and ends with the second Transit June 6th 2012”

For other sites about Golbal Oneness initiatives see Globalonenessproject.org & Care2: Globaloneness & Oneness Spirituality & Interview Oneness

Berit Kjos explains how there can be no integration between Christianity and Global Oneness in his book, Under the spell of Mother earth, 1995 “Those who are joined to Him through the cross, know His Word, and follow His ways can enjoy genuine and unbroken oneness of mind and purpose. "We have the mind of Christ," wrote Paul. If we allow Him to be our wisdom and guide, He will build a community of caring people, "likeminded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose" (I Corinthians 2:16; Philippians 2.2). Those who seek oneness through counterfeit gods, spirits or forces will eventually find the opposite: confusion instead of harmony, and hatred instead of love. The "mind" people follow will determine their destiny” He also warns Christians to prepare for persecution!; The nature of God as per the Global Oneness Commitment Project

In the article provided by the Global Oneness Commitment Project to Define the Nature of God (Definition of Metaphysics : Nature of God, By Times of India)
it is described how, since God is self-reliant and the world is a manifestation of God’s energy, we could call God: “Self-energetic Beingness”. It is also concluded by them that it is a blissful state of Being.

The important question to ask now is, is this definition of the Nature of God in line with the way He reveals Himself in Scripture (in the Bible?), or is this a man-mind definition of God? Surely the important thing is what does God think about this definition of Him. Would HE agree? Just because something sound goods or wise or impressive or soothing to the ear doesn’t make it true.

Is there any place is Scripture where God reveals Himself as “self-energetic Beingness?” There is no scripture in the bible whatsoever that reveals God as that.

It is indeed clearly stated in Scripture that God is Spirit (John 4:24), but He is not a mere force, neither is He a pantheistic totality and unity of all that exists. He is indeed distinct from His creation and is a true Person. Would the Global Oneness Commitment Project agree with this?

The Person of God, as not being a collective force, is confirmed by Scripture in many places, such as Isaiah 1:18, God has intellect “Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord” (KJV)

God also has the ability to feel affection with one’s spirit as shown by Exodus 4:14 “And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses” and also in Ephesians 4:30 “And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God…”.

God also has a will. He chooses a course of action. In Genesis 1:3 He says “let there be light” and there was light.

God appreciated the works that He made in Genesis 1:31 “And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good” In Isaiah 53:10 God was pleased to bruise His Son for our sin and our iniquity.
God is also creator of heaven and earth (Genesis 1:1 and Col 1:16).

He is the one that promised in Hosea 14:4 to heal the backsliding of those that turned from Him. He is a patient God. Nehemiah 9:17b “..but You are God, ready to pardon, Gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, abundant in kindness, and did not forsake them. Even when they made a molded calf for themselves, and said, “This is your god that brought you up out of Egypt” (NKJV) Surely God today still patient with so many people who made golden calves, mental constructs in their mind, and worshipped that in stead of Him, the True God.

Didn’t Scripture warn us in 2 Timothy 4:3,4 “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things…”; Idealism philosophy in the Global Oneness Commitment Project

In another article provided by the Global Oneness Commitment project, “Definition of Metaphysics: Idealism” by Times of India, an argument is made that everything that exists are mental and nothing can be immediately known except what is in the mind. At the end the conclusion is reached that “We can never truly judge whether something, with which we are not acquainted, actually exists!”
Again the question is, is this a valid argument and world-view? Idealism is a philosophy that emphasizes mind over matter and claiming that behind all reality is a divine mind, moving the world toward good. Christian Science has strongly promoted this philosophy and for example will argue that no sickness is real, it is only real in the mind and for decades Christian Science was the matriarch of the Mind Science family.

When we look at the philosophy of Mary Ann Borse Baker (better known as Mary Baker Eddy), we do not find a Scriptural account of who God is. As per Walter Martin it is important to remember that Eddy never believed in a personal God. Her theology only permitted an “it” for a god and apart from adoring this pantheistic impersonal deity, Eddy and her followers expounds this principle as the master key to resolve all human misery. Paradoxically, however, they deny misery exists in the first place but always try to convince anyone, who will listen, that Christian Science can remove this ‘error of mortal mind” through “prayer”. However, this prayer is not to a personal God. Eddy many times reaffirmed her convictions that prayer to a personal hindrance is not a help, but a hindrance. It seems that to them, the only true prayer is the affirmation of Principle Alertness the identification of one’s self with this pantheistic Principle.

Whenever they encounter evil they deny its reality; whenever they behold misery, they affirm its nonexistence; and even when death comes to a loved one, they simply assert that is an “illusion”, since Principle (God) is All, and “It” is good. Walter Martin exposes the deceit of Christian Science, how most illnesses “cured” by Christian Scientists are imagined illnesses that lack medical documentation and are seldom thoroughly verified by anyone other than the follower of Eddy or their sympathizer and also explains how towards the end of her life she allowed Christian Scientists the right to use anesthetics, surgery and the services of orthopedists for breaks and fractures etc. She herself also made use of doctors for her spasmodic attacks of hysteria.; It will appear that the philosophy of Christian Science and that of the Global Oneness Commitment Project with regards to the concept of “Idealism” corresponds, but this image of God and how He expects us to live can not be reconciled with Scripture and with the Biblical God. God is not pantheistic in any sense. Romans 1:25 “Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lust of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen”
The bulk of what is typically labeled “Body, mind, soul” could be traced back to a combination of Gnosticism and Mysticism. Mysticism includes a wide range of categories. For a more detailed look at the different varieties included in this category see the website of the Global Oneness Commitment Project

It includes categories as: Aura reading, Chakra awakening, Consciousness teachings, Dream interpretation (there is also a Christian dream interpretation but it differs vastly from the occult counterfeit), Enlightenment (Illuminism), Feng Shui, Hypnosis, Karma teachings, Kundalini (False Holy Spirit), Yoga, Astrology, Palm reading, Reincarnation teachings, Occult art music and dance, occult healing (including crystal healing), Theosophy (theosophy is openly associated with the Occult)

Different forms of Mysticisms are embraced as all forming part of the category “mysticism”. There is Hindu mysticism, Chinese mysticism, “Christian” mysticism (which is not Christian in this context!!!), Islamic mysticism, Jewish mysticism (Cabbala) and Other mysticism, to make room for everybody under the Gnostic Mysticism umbrella.

This all forms part of the Global Oneness initiative, to unite all and all religions into one mysticism religion.
As indicated in the earlier diagram, that everything that relates to spirituality and a feeling of Oneness with the divine, are not necessarily from the same source. Everything that is rooted in the occult (demonic) has it’s origin from the Kingdom of Darkness
. Even when it seems to have an appearance of wisdom or an appearance of good, it has nothing to do with True Christianity, as can be seen from the testimonies provided of people being delivered out of the occult towards true Christianity by the power of the Holy Spirit. Everything that looks good is not necessarily good.In Proverbs 14:12 the bible says “There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death"; C.W. Leadbeater (33 degree Freemason and Lucifarian) and Madame Blavatsky travelled together to spread the teachings of Theospohy globally.
Jesus said that He did not come to bring peace, but the Sword. A “Jesus” that is mainly interested in joining everybody into one global religion, is definitely not the Jesus of the bible, and would fit in perfectly with the goals of the Illuminati The Sword of His Word brings a divide, and separates darkness from light.