NEW AGE MOVEMENT
Factfile: 

Beliefs: 

1. All is One – There
   is no difference between God, carrot and us.
2. All is God – God
   is in everything. There is no personal God, just an energy-life force.
3. We are God
4. Reincarnation
5. All paths lead to
   God
6. We create our own
   reality

Comparison Between New
Age Worldview And Biblical Worldview
 

 
New Age
Worldview
Biblical
Worldview

God

• Impersonal, amoral
  energy or force

• Creator, personal,
  moral, involved but distinct from creation

Man

• Man along with all
  of cosmos is made out of God

• Man is made in God’s
  image and exhibits some characteristics of God’s personality. He is
  subject to God and is in his fallen state.

Sin

• Wrong thinking,
  ignorant of “true potential”

• Rebellion against
  God.
• Broken relationship
  with God which results from our sin

Salvation

• Attain knowledge
  of “divine” unity (enlightened consciousness)

• Repentance
• Acceptance of Christ’s
  payment on the cross for our sins

Jesus

• One of many ways
  to God.

• Man’s only Lord
  and Saviour

     
Jesus is the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father
but through Him. (John 14:6)

Death

• Illusion. Entrance
  to next life

• Entrance to either
  eternal heaven or hell

Basis
for knowledge

• Man is all things.
  Truth is within “experience”

• Truth revealed in
  the Bible which is the written word of God

  
The following article talks
about Yoga, one of the many New Age Movement practices:
Dangerous
Meditations
 
Overstressed Americans are
increasingly turning to various forms of Eastern meditation – particularly
yoga – in search of relaxation and spirituality. But underlying the
meditative practices stemming from the religions of the East is a worldview
in conflict with meditation and spirituality, despite the fact that
many Christians are practicing yoga. These worldviews advocate meditation
and “higher forms of consciousness” as a way to discover a secret
inner divinity. 
Yoga, deeply rooted in Hinduism,
essentially means to be “yoked” with the divine. Yogic postures,
breathing, and chanting are designed not to bring better physical health
and wellbeing, but to bring union with God Brahman.  

Transcendental Meditation (TM),
is a veiled form of Hindu yoga, despite its claims to be a religiously
neutral method of relaxation and rejuvenation. TM initiates are given
a mantra (a Hindu holy word) to repeat while sitting in yogic postures
and engaging in yogic breathing in order to find God within their own
being.  
Despite their differences,
the various forms of Eastern meditation aim at supposedly a “higher”
or “alerted” state of consciousness. Therefore, meditation is practiced
in order to suspend normal rational patterns of thought. However, this
in fact, opens the soul to deception and even to spiritual bondage.
On the other hand, the biblical concept of prayer assumes that rational
and meaningful communication between God and man is possible. Biblical
meditation means pondering God’s revealed truths and reflecting on
how they pertain to us.   
Resource: 

http://www.christiananswers.net/evangelism/beliefs/ Questions & Answers and a biblical
perspective to various religions. 
Article on “Dangerous Meditations”
is
adapted from: Douglas Groothuis,
Professor of Philosophy at Denver Seminary.
taken from: Singapore Campus
Crusade for Christ, Metamorphosis conference, Dec 2007.