Posted on 10/08/2019 3:38:23 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Did you know that our beloved country has a history of repurposing and repackaging things that we didn’t necessarily discover? Take our beloved Christmas tree for example. Did you know that decorating trees and giving money was a part of worship to various gods during Egyptian times? It is also part of the Germanic pagan solstice tradition.
The exchange of wedding rings did not originate in the church, and various religions worship and practice meditation, prayer, and fasting just like Christians. So should I take my ring off based on the original intent, or stop purchasing Christmas trees and decorations because the Egyptians utilized the tree first? No, I don’t, because I serve a God who can redeem anything, as He is the Creator of all.
The Bible speaks specifically about key elements used in most forms of yoga: meditation, breathing, and movement. For me, Acts 17:18 sums it up: “For in Him we live and move and exist.” So I will put truth up against philosophy any day, as philosophy is simply man’s attempt to understand God, His creations, and purpose. Joshua 1:8 reminds me to meditate on His Word day and night; Genesis 2:7 defines the source of my life: “He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person”; and numerous Scriptures speak of our bodily posture toward God. King David had a keen understanding that our outward posture is reflective of what’s going on inside, because God, the originator of the mind-body connection, knows that the way we move can positively or negatively affect the heart and mind...
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Absolutely not. It is New Age and a door to the Satanic.
No. The same goes for transcendental meditation and other Eastern forms of meditation.
It’s probably a rhetorical question, but the answer is definitely H*** No.
I’m trying to incorporate eating fast food into Christianity.
So far i’ve found nothing in the Bible to back it up.
And when I say H*** No, I’m being literal.
Hey did you guys read the rest?
Christmas gifts and christmas trees and even wedding rings are off the table too as they are NOT Christian traditions nor started by Christians but by other folks worshiping false gods.
So throw away those rings and NO CHRISTMAS FOR YOU!!! :)
Seriously?
That's because you're being idiotic in your approach. Try becoming a Democrat and attending a Unitarian Universalist church. I think that's more your crowd.
Maybe the exercises only. Once you get into the mind and chant stuff, definitely NO!
You would have made a GREAT witch hunter in the 1600s
WE NEED more religiously pompous asses in the world :)
It gets boring without them.
Remember, if they SINK, they weren’t’ witches. If they can get to the top of the water, STONE THEM
SMH
You people are too unreal :)
You need to read the whole article, the writer is a Yoga practitioner and a Christian.
If you wish to improve your spiritual life and the concept of yoga is appealing, then you’d be well advised to consider Christian Mysticism.
Yoga is fundamentally a secular discipline, and does not help you connect with G_d. Its benefits are pretty much limited compared to true, divine-oriented mysticism.
Sure, throw away all nuance. Let's all go to Mecca to bathe as well, after all it's just a bath.
Yes, seriously. Look up Steven Bancarz, Doreen Virtue and videos with Dr. Michael Heiser with Steven Bancarz.I
Not a game.
That’s just ignorant. It’s just stretching, relaxing, breathing, sweating in a broiling room.
It is not satanic.
Also, thanks to yoga, we have yoga pants to look at.
Yeah, that's the excuse Obama used to defend taking anything Christian from all law.
So I go back to my first recommendation for you again. More your crowd.
I do not care what the rest said. Christmas is not pagan or evil, but yoga and Christianity cannot mix.
Cannot be both. As stated, the exercises/stretches alone are just that. Adding the changing and mind emptying is dangerous.
The writer was not saying Christmas was evil. She was using it as a way to justify yoga despite its origins. (She herself is a yoga trainer.) I respect your conclusions nonetheless.
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