by Avalon » Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:58 pm
It gets creepier. While not directly connected with our discusssion of the 9/11 film, this is a whole lot of "Onward Christian Sorcerors, Marching as to War..." that I have not encountered before. <br><br>On his blog Cannonfire, Joe Cannon mentioned this:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>You may want to check out this testimony: "Saturated in Abuse at YWAM Maui," as well as this expose of YWAM's connections with the controversial Binny Hinn. Jaded heathen though I may be, I was certainly struck by these words: "When "Christians" start marching around cities, making little icons (voodoo dolls?) of churches and pastors to "visualize" them better..."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Cannonfire<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/09/is-spooky-cult-behind-path-to-911.html">cannonfire.blogspot.com/2...o-911.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"Joy Dawson Of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) <br>Joins Forces With Benny Hinn" by Sandy Simpson<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/hinnywam.html">www.deceptioninthechurch....nywam.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>After mentioning the "little icons," Simpson goes on to say:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>YWAM's endorsement and advocation of new unbiblcal evangelism methods, where they send people back to pray in their Mosques and Hindu temples after they make a profession of belief in Christ, is anti-Gospel. They are also the main organization in the world, at this time, spreading materials, books, and neo-pagan teachings about "spiritual mapping" and "binding of territorial spirits".</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>David Stamen defines the territorial spirits this way: <br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>the modern teaching concerning what is called “territorial spirits”.<br><br>In a classic of goofy religious analogies, Gary DeVeau describes spiritual mapping this way: <br><br>According to this teaching there are specific, evil spirits that rule over a community, village, town, city or country; that is, they rule over a geographical area, and so are called “territorial spirits”. It is further taught that these territorial spirits have power and authority to keep the people in their geographical area in darkness, bondage and sin. Even more significantly than this, the promoters of this teaching tell us that these territorial spirits have such a hold on the local community or city, that the Gospel itself cannot be effective, gain entrance or spread in this area until these territorial spirits are first identified and then bound, overcome and rebuked in prayer. They teach that people will not turn to the Lord, be converted and delivered from sin, darkness and bondage in any significant numbers unless we first identify and then bind and rebuke the power of these territorial spirits. This is what they say and teach.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.bibleguidance.co.za/Engarticles/Spirits.htm">www.bibleguidance.co.za/E...pirits.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>In a classic of goofy religious analogies, Gary DeVeau describes spiritual mapping this way: <br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Area transformation relies on spiritual mapping much the same way a doctor uses a x-ray to diagnose why the patient feels the way they do. Intercession without spiritual mapping is likened to playing "spiritual warfare piñata", you have this massive "bat" of prayer but, being blindfolded, your success is limited at best.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.isaiah54.org/ap2.htm">www.isaiah54.org/ap2.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Leane Payne's Pastoral Care Ministries, who are also concerned about Harry Potter, gay bishops, and Jungian Gnosticism, say:<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Spiritual Mapping: A Misguided Focus on the Demonic<br><br>For the last three decades we in PCM have had to deal with the extraordinarily grievous effects that misguided practices of spiritual warfare have had upon Christian leaders, communities, and families, and most particularly upon children growing up in homes where an all-consuming focus on the demonic has crippled the formation of their minds and imaginations. The dark myths out of which these ideologies and practices are spawned form the milieu in which fear, paranoia, and a tragic absence of the good of what it means to be truly human is missing in their lives. <br><br>These effects include even dissociative identity disorders as well as other emotional and spiritual illnesses. To see evangelical leaders such as C. Peter Wagner and others dress up these unscriptural ideas and methods in pseudo-technical language and then give to them a universal platform has been and continues to be for us among the gravest of concerns.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.leannepayne.com/articles/displayarticle.php?articleid=1">www.leannepayne.com/artic...rticleid=1</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>And here we have the Manifest Sons of God interecting with Benjamin Creme's teachings<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://watch.pair.com/rain.html">watch.pair.com/rain.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>The Manifest Sons of God concepts of the Latter Rain movement hold that <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> that "anointed" ones can enter into sonship and hence become divine (Holy Laughter link). The belief that humans can become gods is highly controversial because it blurs the line between creator and created. Latter Rain supporters think the doctrine of sonship is aligned with Scripture (1 Corinthians 15:45-47 and Romans 8:19) so that "sonship is an actual gaining of the image and likeness of Christ".</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/Latrain.html">religiousmovements.lib.vi...train.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>My head is swimming with trying to absorb all these radical heresies. Back in the good old days they wouldn't have dared to co-opt pagan and shamanic ideas with their own twisted take on them. <br><br>Good fences make good neighbors.<br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
