Prophetic Gifts - Fact or Fiction?

The Omega Enterprise - where the mystery ends...

There are a couple of features of the book that are worth noting. Over the years I have been involved in christian counter-cult ministry. As a result I am quite familiar with what could be called the 'occult' style of writing that you find in both traditional occult and new age type materials.

If the style of writing can be taken as a guide, this book clearly does not belong in that genre.

The content is orderly, well structured, and the author goes to great pains to define terms so their meaning is clear.

This is a marked contrast to the vague wording you find in occult works such as the The Urantia Book, or in other so-called 'channeled ' material from spirit entities such as "Seth", received by a medium while in a deep trance state.

The book itself is in two sections. The first section contains the prophetic revelation, while the second is a collection of aphorisms relating to daily living and personal relationships.

From the limited research I have done, the first section - the 'revelation' - seems to have support from discoveries and current theories in the field of quantum mechanics. But that support is only 'suggestive'.

While there is a co-incidence of ideas and concepts, there seems to be no firm research that finally answers the question - where does the energy that drives the universe come from?

Which of course is the point of the book. The author claims that his 'revelation' answers that very question; that the source of this energy is the Lord Jesus Christ. He then goes further and attempts to describe the actual process that occurs.

It is this technical description that comprises almost all the revelation content, and it is not easy reading.

The net result is that the question as to whether the process he describes is in fact a 'truth from God' can only be finally answered by science, not theology.

And the scientific jury seems to me to be still out on that aspect.

The realm of quantum physics and sub-atomic particles contains much that challenges our concepts of reality and how we perceive it.

It can be quite disconcerting to realise that we as human beings are mostly empty space at the atomic particle level. If you took the bodies of all the human beings who have ever lived, and somehow managed to compress them so that all the atomic and sub-atomic particles were touching each other, it is quite possible you could fit the whole lot of us inside a small freezer.

TOE - The Order Explained by Tellman Publications NZ - where the mystery ends...

The New Age Movement, always ready to incorporate new ideas into its smorgasbord of beliefs, has been quick to 'borrow' concepts from quantum physics. It has put its own interpretation on the science, and come up with a diverse range of new 'spiritual insights'.

Some in that movement link the ongoing discoveries in quantum physics to the so-called "Law of Attraction' as you can see here at this website: The Law of Attraction and Quantum Physics. Their view provides an alternative view of the science, with man at the centre instead of God. And so the 'empty space' that reality mostly consists of becomes filled with themselves.

Dr Candace Pert, one of the popular writers in this field, has also embraced these concepts.

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Now in her sixties, Dr Pert, who has a scientific background of some renown, appeared in the 2004 film "What the Bleep Do We Know", These days she sees herself as someone who fuses Western science with Eastern thought.

Although Dr Pert has been described as christian by some, her view of God is a very long way indeed from the biblical one. Writing in the Candace Pert blog in 2006, she says "I talk about a "new spirituality" that has nothing to do with the Church, but is grounded in more mystical roots. The God I embrace is within me and within us all, ..." and she describes herself as a "serious scientist lending my research background to the notion that we create our own reality"

She postulates 'molecules of emotion' that can communicate instanteously with each other, sees emotions existing as both energy and matter, and human consciousness as "light".

One of the reasons her arguments appeal to new-agers is that she seemingly lends scientific support to those who want to place themselves rather than God at the centre of the universe. They want the speaker of the words - "Let there be light" - to refer to themselves as being the authors of creation, not the true God

In Dr Pert's view, God ultimately becomes a giant energy "field of all our collective hopes, emotions, and thoughts".

That view is just about as far away from the biblical concept of God as it is possible to get. Buried away in this new age idea is one of the temptations offered to Adam and Eve by satan- that we can be 'as gods' - Elohim, mighty gods; not only omniscient, but omnipotent too. (Genesis 3:5).

Dr Perts ideas are far more ancient than she perhaps realises, even though she dresses them up in a 21st century vocabulary. As you can see there is in fact a vast chasm between whom the new age sees as the ultimate creator of reality, and whom the author of the revelation sees as being its source.

You can find a fairly succinct rebuttal of the ideas popularised by the film "What the Bleep Do We Know" at the science section of the ABC website

You can also find more information on spiritual gifts and deceptions at NZ Cults and Religious Groups

Footnote 1. Spiritual Gifts- ( from Good News Bible )
1Co 12:4 But there are differences of gifts, but the same Spirit.
1Co 12:5 And there are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.
1Co 12:6 And there are differences of workings, but it is the same God working all things in all.
1Co 12:7 But to each one is given the showing forth of the Spirit to our profit.
1Co 12:8 For through the Spirit is given to one a word of wisdom; and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
1Co 12:9 and to another faith by the same Spirit; and to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
1Co 12:10 and to another workings of powers, to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; and to another kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues.
1Co 12:11 But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing separately to each one as He desires.