Essay On New Age Religion

When we think of religion we often think of going to Church on Sunday to listen to hymns performed by the choir and preaching. The true definition of religion is that it’s an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate to humanity to an order of existence. In other words it’s where a group of likeminded believers join to express and share what they believe in collectively. Throughout the world there were five major religions Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism. Today there are roughly 4,200 types of religions with New Age being the fastest growing religion today . New Age is known to be what I call the melting pot of all religions. It has taken some of what we consider traditional religion and modern religion to formulate their own beliefs. New Age is anything but organized religion as it has no creed, membership, founders, headquarters etc. The practices of most New Age can be categorized as alternative and spiritual religions. New Age religion can be summed up as being a religion that is emotional that fills the void or those that are discontent with traditional religious
Pantheism is the view that God is everything and everyone and that everyone and everything is God. Many cults and false religions have this same belief that God is everything such as an animal, a rock, the sun, a tree, you me etc. Pantheism is not taught in the Holy Bible of the Christians as we believe God’s omnipresence. In the book of Psalm 139:7-8 declares, “Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.” This is where New Agers get confused yes God is everywhere at every time but it does not make him a tree or a person. New Agers believe that we are part of one substance as Power, Mind, Force, Principle and Universal