Posted on 10/09/2010 5:03:58 AM PDT by GonzoII
Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler says yoga is not a Christian practice.
In an online essay, Dr. Mohler wrote that he's surprised at the number of Christians who embrace it and is asking Christians to avoid it.
He says the stretching and meditative discipline derived from Eastern religions is not a Christian pathway to God.
Mohler said he objects to "the idea that the body is a vehicle for reaching consciousness with the divine."
"That's just not Christianity," Mohler told The Associated Press.
CBN News spoke with psychologist and author Dr. Linda Mintle about yoga and whether its emphasis on spirituality goes against Christian beliefs. Click play for her comments, following an updated report with CBN News' Mark Martin.
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good post
>> What kind of moonbat is Albert Mohler? <<
He’s only the most prominent theologian of the Southern Baptist Church.
If you take “yoga” as an exercise then no. It is when you mix in all the mystical stuff that it becomes bad.
I think Mohler is concerned that while in a yoga pose it is harder for his adherents to reach the collection plate. :)
Rolling...rolling I tell ya..on the floor laughing!!! Baaaahhaaa! All hail the muawiah, you are killing me. LOL.
Right and some folks just ought to avoid it altogether.
driftdiver wrote: “We all have flaws that we need to work on.”
..... True words, indeed.
I guess the question is not is it a religious practice, because it is. The question is can a saved man or woman use the positions as an exercise.
Paul tells us that all things are clean to a believer.. so i do not see it as a problem if the yoga positions are adapted for fitness..it is the meditation and the mantras that remain an issue
A Christian could do very much what he does right up to the point of "asks for luck" ~ because THAT WOULD BE WRONG.
It's what's in your mind, not how you flex your calves (except for the Baptists).
This dates the Bhagavad-Gita to the First or Second Century AD when Jewish missionaries were at work in India. There are, of course, OLDER MATERIALS of Indian origin in the same work, but its compilation must necessarily be later.
The Great Fish takes a big part in the oldest of Hindu thinking, as does Ma-Nu (Noah).
Hinduism does not exist totally unconnected to Western religious currents ~ (NOTE: Hindus, of course, say it's the other way around and that Western religions are not totally unconnected to Hinduism).
If each yoga pose is symbolic of something, but the person doing the posing is ignorant of that symbolism, then does the pose have any benefit or detriment beyond the physical? I think not. The effect must be on a party who does know.
“It’s what’s in your mind, not how you flex your calves (except for the Baptists). “
How very Christian of you.
Maybe he needs to also inform his flock that both Christmas and Easter were set on holy days for pagans too.
There is such a difference in Vedic Yoga and the westernized Yoga, Yoga means yoke, i e Yoked to god and in Hinduism there are over three million gods,
There is the saying, “There is no Yoga without Hinduism and no Hinduism without Yoga.”
So ...with this in mind I can understand how a devout Christian would be concerned.
In a book I read by the Dalai Lama, he said in this carnation he encouraged and discouraged people to stray from the religion they were born into because that religious belief one was born into was the lessons to be learned during this life time,
That is if you believe in reincarnation.
I started doing yoga at age 16, I can stretch with out adding a religious connotation.
Yoga is stretching, right? How could that be a sin?
Do you call upon the Hindu gods to get you closer to Jesus?
“Do you chant?”
I remember someone talking me into trying one of those “head-to-knee” poses and I let out a chant!
Was it the Hindu two letter chant or the Redneck four letter chant?
“Was it the Hindu two letter chant or the Redneck four letter chant?”
I can’t remember, but the thing that was seared in my mind was while getting out of the “pose” seeing K with her hand over her mouth yelling “stop it, there are children here”.
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