From the chapter entitled
"One Truth," Many Theologies," in Tamara Hartzell's new on-line book
In the Name of Purpose:
Sacrificing Truth at the Altar of Unity, is a discussion on “A
Portion of Truth, Great or Small, Is Found in Every Religious and
Philosophical System.” [Excerpted
with permission]:
“In every race and
nation, in every climate and part of the world … men have found
the Path to God … The testimony to the existence of this Path is
the priceless treasure of all the great religions and its
witnesses are those who have transcended all forms and all
theologies, and have penetrated into the world of meaning which
all symbols veil.
“These truths are part of all that the past gives to
man.… They are the inner structure of the One Truth upon
which all the world theologies have been built …” —Alice
Bailey & Djwhal Khul (Emphasis added)1
“Another point which should be remembered is that in the new
generation lies hope - … hope because of the promptness with
which they recognize truth wherever it is to be found …
“The churches in the West need to realize that
basically there is only one church, but it is not necessarily
only the orthodox Christian institution; God works in many ways,
through many faiths and religious agencies; in their union will
the fullness of truth be revealed.” —Alice Bailey &
Djwhal Khul (Emphasis added)2
In his biography of Rick
Warren, Richard Abanes has a chapter titled, “A New Spirituality?”
in which he tries to show that Rick Warren is against it. In this
chapter, he defends Rick Warren’s tendency to quote “many
non-Christians and people of other religious traditions.” Abanes
points out that Rick Warren does this, not “because he agrees with
them on everything,” and not “because he is promoting them as
examples of sound Christians,” but because “he is showing that
all ‘truth’—wherever it may be found—is God’s truth” (emphasis
added)!3
This defense even challenges what Abanes had said in the beginning
of his book: “Rick Warren’s mega-bestseller seems to be helping a
lot of people find Jesus and focus on God as the only source of
truth.”4
If “all ‘truth’ is God’s truth,” then these other sources of “truth”
found in other religions (faiths) and perspectives must be given
equal authority with God’s Word. Indeed, this is increasingly
evident in those that believe this. Contrarily, the Lord God, Who is
not on the broad way and is the truth and light, definitely is the
only source of truth (light). Therefore, the truth can only be found
in God and not “wherever it may be found” on the broad way of
darkness, which is where “non-Christians” and “other religious
traditions” are that Rick Warren is supposedly quoting “God’s truth”
from!
This lack of discernment is prevalent in Christianity today, which
is why the (New Age) New Spirituality is making such broad inroads
into it. Yet God’s Word and warnings go unheeded when people only
want to hear what is “positive” rather than the whole counsel of
God, which includes a great deal of what is deemed “negative.”
The Spirit of truth, Who cannot be received by the world, is the One
Who guides us into “all truth” when we believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ (see John 8:31-32,
16:13, and 14:17). He guides us
into “all truth” through the Word of the Lord Jesus Christ, not
through the teachings of different religions (faiths) as is believed
today.
“We believe we can
learn truth -- I’ve learned a lot of truth from different
religions. Because they all have a portion of the truth.”
—Rick Warren (Emphasis added)5
It isn’t both God’s
truth and the broad way; it is either God’s truth or the broad
way. Yet the former is exactly what the Angel of light, Lucifer,
wants mankind to believe and has been teaching through his various
channelers for a long time. In the 1888 issue of the theosophical
magazine Lucifer, the popular occultist H. P. Blavatsky wrote
an article titled, “To the Readers of ‘Lucifer,’” in which she
expounded this doctrine of devils, which according to Lucifer’s
devices has twisted and changed the meaning of “absolute truth”:
“Our motto was from the first, and
ever shall be: ‘THERE IS NO RELIGION HIGHER THAN--TRUTH.’ Truth
we -search for, and, once found, we bring it forward before the
world, whencesoever it comes.…
“There is,
and can be, but one absolute truth in Kosmos. And … if it
is absolute it must also be omnipresent and universal; and that
in such case, it must be underlying every world-religion
-- the product of the thought and knowledge of numberless
generations of thinking men. Therefore, that a portion of truth,
great or small, is found in every religious and philosophical
system, and that if we would find it, we have to search for it
at the origin and source of every such system, at its roots and
first growth, not in its later overgrowth of sects and
dogmatism.
"Our object
is not to destroy any religion but rather to help to filter
each, thus ridding them of their respective impurities. In this
we are opposed by all those who maintain, against evidence, that
their particular pitcher alone contains the whole ocean.” —H. P.
Blavatsky (Emphasis added; caps in the original)6
The emerging universal
religion (the “New” Spirituality) does not seek to remove all
religious divisions. This would actually oppose its purpose of
getting people to believe there are many paths to God. Instead,
it seeks to draw people into the belief that all religions (faiths)
have drawn “a portion of truth” from the same source, the “ocean” of
the “fullness of truth.” Then they can be lured deeper into
deception.
Those who believe that
“the One Truth” underlies all religions (theologies) can easily be
led into believing that all gods are simply diverse manifestations
of “the one God” and that all religions are just a different path to
God.
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The Truth:
"Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD has spoken. Give
glory to the LORD your God, before He cause darkness, and before your
feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and while you look for light, He
turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
"But if you will not hear
it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye eye
shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is
carried away captive." (Jeremiah 13:15-17)
Endnotes:
1. Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul, The
Externalization of the Hierarchy, Section III - Forces behind the
Evolutionary Process,
http://laluni.helloyou.ws/netnews/bk/externalisation/exte1174.html.
2. Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul, Problems of Humanity, Chapter V - The
Problem of the Churches,
http://laluni.helloyou.ws/netnews/bk/problems/prob1062.html.
3. Richard Abanes, Rick Warren and the Purpose that Drives Him,
p. 88.
4. Ibid., p. 11.
5. Interview with Rick Warren, CNN Larry King Live, Aired November 22,
2004, Transcript,
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/22/lkl.01.html.
6. “To the Readers of ‘Lucifer’” by H. P. Blavatsky, Lucifer, January,
1888,
http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/ToTheReadersOfLucifer.htm.
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