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“They are teaching YOGA in my child’s school.”
loretta:
--- Quote ---Yogi Bear and his good pal Boo-Boo would put themselves in any position to get honey.
--- End quote ---
Ah, honey, isn't that what we're all after?! :)
I have permission of the mods to share these links, not to scare anyone really. I am not scared anymore, now that I know the truth. But I believe that yoga and other eastern spiritual practices are of Babylon, and we are told to 'come out of her'. Just my opinion.
http://www.probe.org/site/apps/nlnet/content.aspx?c=fdKEIMNsEoG&b=4282487&ct=5507689¬oc=1
http://www.yogadangers.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X1HC-3s3uI
http://praisemoves.com/about-us/why-a-christian-alternative-to-yoga/
Dennis Vogel:
You never told us Loretta if the school is teaching a full-blown religion or just some physical exercises?
loretta:
I don't know how you would describe, a full-blown religion, Dennis. I used to be an HIV/AIDS activist and we knew there was no such thing as full-blown AIDS. You either had HIV infection or AIDS, which meant you were seriously ill.
Likewise, the yoga starts off innocuous enough, standing on one leg, which my little one finds funny. :)
Eventually in the higher grades, they move onto teaching the fundamentals of yoga, chanting OM etc, which has caused other believers to pull their kids out of the program altogether.
Here is my testimony, for what its worth.
More than a decade ago, while I was working outside the home, my shoulder muscles would get taut as soon as I started working on the computer, which would take about 20 mins to relax. I realised that I needed to strengthen my back muscles, so I began to do some back exercises. This one in particular involved lying on my stomach and raising my torso causing my back to arch and it brought tremendous relief. I was at the time seriously considering signing up for yoga classes. Soon after my conversion though, I came across a coffee table book on yoga and I saw that the posture I described above was used in yoga to worship the snake god (a position similar to a cobra rearing its head). Other postures included worship of the sun god ( surya namaskar - meaning bowing to the sun ) and many other of hinduism's billion gods . I promptly stopped doing the exercise and believe me, I've never had those muscle tautness since.
2 Thessalonians 1:11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
Now, post BT, I believe that God was confirming to me, at the time, not that the exercise per se was wrong, but that yoga and all that it involves does not bring glory to God. All that I've found out in my research about yoga in subsequent years as a Christian, has confirmed this to me.
Dave in Tenn:
I'll just leave this here:
1Co 8:1 But concerning the sacrifices to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1Co 8:2 But if anyone thinks to know anything, he still has known nothing as he ought to know.
1Co 8:3 But if anyone loves God, he has been known by Him.
1Co 8:4 Then concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.
1Co 8:5 For even if some are called gods, either in the heavens or on the earth; (even as there are many gods, and many lords);
1Co 8:6 but to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we by Him.
1Co 8:7 But the knowledge is not in all; but some being aware of the idol eat as an idolatrous sacrifice until now; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
1Co 8:8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither if we eat do we excel, nor if we do not eat are we lacking.
1Co 8:9 But be careful lest this authority of yours become a cause of stumbling to the weak ones.
1Co 8:10 For if anyone sees you, the one having knowledge, sitting in an idol-temple, will not the weak one's conscience be lifted up so as to eat things sacrificed to idols?
1Co 8:11 And on your knowledge the weak brother will fall, he for whom Christ died.
1Co 8:12 And sinning in this way against your brothers, and wounding their conscience, being weak, you sin against Christ.
1Co 8:13 On account of this, if food offends my brother, I will not at all eat flesh forever, so that I do not offend my brother.
On account of this, if I had a daughter I would teach her first the knowledge.
onelovedread:
On your last comment, Dave, it's never too late. :-X
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