Playing Chess With the Devil. Making Sense of the Most Popular Book In the World. Genesis 1. The Creation. Lesson 1

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But there has been a revival in recent years of Paganism, or the religions of antiquity that dominated Greece and the Roman Empire. Paganism teaches there is no Two-ism in the universe. There is only One-ism. The diagram below illustrates the worldview of paganism or One-Ism. All is one. This includes pantheism and modern Wicca. In One-ism, everyone and everything is part of the ONE, the one being, the one substance, the one spirit. There is no Creator and creation distinction as in Two-ism. In fact, there is no Creator at all like the one in the Bible. That God is despised. Almost everything about One-ism is the opposite of what you read in the Bible. Since everything is ONE, everything is in ONE circle – all humans, animals, rocks, trees, even God.This is the essence of Eastern religious teaching that was introduced into this country in the 60‘s, known today as neo-paganism. It is also known as New Age Spirituality, or the new spirituality. But it is also called Paganism, which many people today are proud to endorse as their religion. If you hear a person say, “I don’t go to church, but I am spiritual,” then you are probably listening to someone who believes in One-ism, not Two-ism. The Bible gives the real definition of paganism in Romans 1: 25. People who are pagans are those who “exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.”

If everything is in one circle – including divinity – and has the same nature, spirit, and substance and is not fallen creation as in Genesis 3, then everything also has divine nature too. So you are not just a human. YOU are divine.

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