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To: spirited irish
spirited irish: "It’s true that certain Catholics, Protestants and Eastern Orthodox embrace Darwinism.
Many embrace the Hindu-pantheism of the Hermetic alchemist Teilhard de Chardin and tout the self-avowed spiritist Alfred Russel Wallace as the co-discoverer of Darwin’s theory."

The term is "theistic evolutionism", meaning: evolution guided by God.
All Christian churches which do not specifically condemn evolution theory teach "theistic evolutionism".
That means well over 90%, perhaps 99% of the world's two+ billion Christians.

As for "Hindu-pantheism" and all the rest -- there you go again with your vacuum cleaner.
In fact, the number of Christian churches which have anything at all to say about such things is doubtless limited to geographical areas with large populations of Hindus.
It would be a way for Christians to relate to people raised in a Hindu tradition, imho.

So, overall, we're talking about a very small percentage of all Christians who might be influenced by such teachings.
We certainly hear nothing like that in my little church's services.

spirited irish: "All of this is heresy reframed as science and evolution, and when syncretized with the Bible results in paganized Christianity.
It will not get you to heaven."

Indeed, it's irrelevant which is why all your, ahem, spirited condemnations of science in general and evolution specifically, it's all inappropriate -- has nothing to do with what's important spiritually, in this life & beyond.

1,304 posted on 11/27/2013 2:32:24 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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To: BroJoeK

“As for “Hindu-pantheism” and all the rest — there you go again with your vacuum cleaner.”

Spirited: Your reaction bespeaks either an uninformed mind or one that refuses to know truth.

Teilhard is lauded by secular-pantheist Transhumanists and occult spiritual New Agers alike as one of the most important fathers of New Age and modern Mystery Religion. That liberal Catholics embrace his teachings places them in league with occult pantheists and modern Mystery Religion initiates who seek either reincarnation/reabsorption or apotheosis.

Teilhard rejected Christ’s offer of salvation and sought an alternative salvation by way of reincarnation and reabsorption rather than resurrection unto Paradise. Upon the death of his body, he discovered to his horror the eternal consequences of his choice.

Over on the evolutionarychristian website Michael Dowd describes himself as the evangelist of evolution. In league with certain prominent scientists, atheists, and theologians Dowd describes their project as the overhauling of Christianity on behalf of a New Theism: evolutionary pantheism, reincarnation/reabsorption.

Dowd also boasted that New Theists are moving into all denominations where they’ll teach and preach evolutionary pantheism.

All unbiblical systems, and this includes Teilhards and Dowds among others, are grounded in evolutionary and pantheist conceptions stretching back to Nimrod. Evolutionary pantheism is at bottom materialism and refers to the mechanical reincarnation of soul over time within different kinds of bodies as it ever so slowly evolves up the Great Chain of Being ending either in reabsorption or apotheosis. It’s meaning remains substantially unchanged despite that liberal Christians embrace it.

The book of Revelation has something rather dire to say about Babylon, Mystery Religions and idolatry (i.e., pantheism).

It is not possible for one person to save another who chooses to dance on the edge of a cliff. All a person can do is try to warn and edify the foolish dancer who will either heed the warning or laugh off the warning and ridicule its’ bearer. At the beginning of this post I said your reaction bespeaks either an uninformed mind or one that refuses to know truth. If you have read this post then you have been edified and warned. Thus far your choice is to laugh and ridicule.


1,305 posted on 11/27/2013 3:31:23 AM PST by spirited irish
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