This age old trick that the devil uses to tempt man to be "Like God" originates all the way back to the Garden. It is scary how this "lie' has manifested itself through the ages and today we find ourselves right there facing the same lie and refusing to acknowledge the 'otherness' of God... as Stott puts it.
Today's new age message like books from Eckhart Tolle, connecting with you inner 'spirit' and all of the other things that are blasted on television and fill the shelves at Borders or Barnes may look like a harmless, self-help messages...a message of self cultivation but it is really the same "lie" told by the serpent in the garden and man falls for it again and again.
Even as I profess to be a Christian, I am constantly having to guard my very proud, weak and sinful heart because I can easily find myself immersed or begin to turn an ear to these messages out there that are masked so well...and then the mind begins to think... and that can lead to scary things. Makes me so thankful for the GRACE of salvation.
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What a thoughtful reflection this was Christine. I really enjoyed reading it. It made me think that the principle sin behind the desire to be like God is that of wanting to run our lives without God's interference... a freedom which only God has, since he is not restricted by anything exception himself.
So you're right Christine, even as a Christian we are constantly wanting some part of our lives to remain "untouched" even by God. And that is a sin that originated in the Garden and led to the fall of mankind. The sin to want to be like God -- the freedom to do want we want without God's interference -- is still the main problem with us.
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