Yoga was made as a bunch of poses done in service to false gods. Whether you believe they are bad or not, you are still practicing something dangerous to yourself, and weird. Yoga = YOKE-a. Don't let demonic "yokes" get put on your back!
"but muh excerises!!" Don't be lazy. Invent new and useful positions that have NO occult/pagan meaning. Try different excersises. Eat right.
Does anyone wish to elaborate? Or prove me wrong on any of my statements?
This is the most sure way to get spiritually deluded (prelest). One of Christ's apostles got demonically possessed but somehow you are in the clear? Makes total sense.
We have to fight sin and the demons until our very dying breath because they will attack you the moment your guard is down. Even saints had to fend demons off and you think you're above them?
Read Screwtape letters by C.S. Lewis.
Through divine revelation which was preserved throughout history by His Church.
Word concept fallacy. Yes, Christ translates to "anointed one". The prophesized Messiah of the OT named Christ is a particular person. Here's what you did: "Cyrus is king but Christ is also king - they must be the same thing". In typical gnostic fashion you collapsed the contextual meaning of the word which led you to wrong interpretation.
This is why you need a tradition of interpretation, because your mind can made up whatever it feels like when you read the Bible by your own in your closet, thinking you've acquired special gnosis through spiritual pathways. This leaves you confused and being overtly skeptical of everything that supposedly came from outside sources (exoteric), ignoring the glaring absurdity of your inner enlightened epiphany (esoteric) which is only backed up by your feeble deluded mind (which you believe to be an illusion btw, so there's no "you" in the equation).
Of course, your "epiphany" didn't really come from within you but you've red this gnostic new age garbage elsewhere and made up some idiosyncratic belief system that borrows from many sources which you happened to like - it's a philosophical pick-and-choose all-you-can-eat buffet. This is exactly what you do with the Christian tradition. You pick narratives and ideas that appeals to you and discard the rest. But the Christian worldview is holistic and can't be subjected to reductionism and piecemealing. While gnosticism and esotericism is ancient, this new age form of gnosticism is a very modern, individualistic and consumerist approach to worldviews. This is what makes it so appealing to the fragmented, uprooted, ahistorical and confused individual consumer in todays society, who is desperately craves truth and meaning in this clown world.
The result is a fragmented and incoherent mess that only makes sense to you and is not verifiable and proven in any way - why would anyone care for your individually-tailored system when anyone can do the same and get their own tailored system that is similar, yet different and made to match the tastes and preferences of the individual consumer? You reject objective universal truth in the person of Christ who is God. Great, so why should I care about "your truth" at all when I can have "my truth"?
Hope you read this with an open and critical mind and think about it. You said there are many possible perspectives right? Try this one.
Every one of those claims is justified within the system and is dependent on it. They don't exist in a vacuum - all facts and data is interpreted through a paradigm (Thomas Kuhn). I don't have to prove separate claims if I can prove the truthfulness of the worldview itself. And I can do it through the transcendental argument for the existence of God (TAG).
Again, how do you know that? Was that information given to you during your NDE? If so, how do you know you weren't told a lie by the entity that told you that?
And you believe your notion of what/who God is is not man made? Tell me this and be honest: did you come up with your belief system all by yourself in a vacuum through your NDE or did you read a bunch of man made texts and pick and choose different ideas and opinions about God?
Was Christ's apostle already born again? The Holy Spirit was given to us after Christ's death and resurrection.
C.S. Lewis is considered by many born again believers to be a heretic. I think that's dangerous to take guidance from him.
My point is, Christian liberty extends as far as being able to do some sanitized physical exercises. Give God more credit. No, it does not mean we have liberty to "live like the world" and be worldly and wicked. I would never agree to that (despite what people claim Protestants believe).
The Holy Spirit was sent to the Apostles at Pentecost (tongues of fire), which is when the Church was established (the 12 Apostles became the new Israel which was previously the 12 tribes). The Holy Spirit, while not limited to it, indwells the Church which is the Body of Christ, where the fullness of grace is to be found in the sacraments.
"Born again" is an ahistorical heretical movement that originates from evangelical protestantism. While I agree Lewis was not Orthodox and favored branch theory, I don't think you're in a position to call him a heretic. He had valuable insights that every Christian can find useful and I believe his heart was in the right place.
No sorry, being "born again" are the direct words of Jesus Christ when telling Nicodemus how to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Moreover this transformation via the Holy Spirit is documented throughout the Book of Acts.
It's just pulled directly from scripture, and if scripture conflicts with man-made tradition, stick with scripture.
Three question:
Where did Scripture come from historically and who decided what the Biblical cannon was?
Does Scripture interpret itself, or is there a tradition of correct interpretation that is passed throughout history?
What happens when there are multiple possible interpretations of Scripture? How is the correct one determined?