THE SECRET A Necessary Critique

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THE SECRETA Necessary Critique

• Dr. Jobe Martin
• Biblical Discipleship Ministries
• www.evolutionofacreationist.com
• www.biblicaldiscipleship.org

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• The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, 2006
• (Atria Books 1230 Avenue of the Americas NY, NY
  10020/Beyond Words Publishing, Inc. 20827 N.W.
  Cornell Road Suite 500, Hillsboro, OR 97124-9808)
  www.beyondword.com.
• Rhonda Byrnes little book The Secret is an
  unprecedented international success.
• The Big Question is Why?

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• This Power Point presentation, The Secret, can be
  viewed and downloaded free of charge (I think)
  at www.slideshare.net (it may be .net.org or
  .net.com.
• Write Jobe Martin in the upper right hand
  corner search box of their title web page.

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PROVERBS 1412

• There is a way which seemeth right unto a man,
  but the end thereof are the ways of death.

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For as he thinketh in his heart, so is
he. Proverbs 237
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• What are some of the anti-Biblical worldviews
  promoted by the god of this world, Satan, that
  are popular on the campuses of the world?

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Summit.org Secular Humanism Marxism/ Leninism Cosmic Humanism Biblical Christianity
Sources Humanist Manifestos I, II Writings of Marx and Lenin New Age writers Ferguson, Bailey Bible
Theology Atheism Atheism Pantheism Theism
Philosophy Naturalism Dialectical Materialism Non-Naturalism Supernaturalism
Ethics Relativism Proletariat Morality Relativism Absolutes
Biology Evolution Evolution Evolution CREATION
Psychology Self-actualization Behaviorism Collective Consciousness Mind-Body Dualism
Sociology Non-Traditional Family Abolition of Home Church and State Non-Tradition Home Church and State Traditional Home Church State
Law Positive Law Positive Law Self-Law Biblical Law
Politics World Gov. (Globalism) New World Order New Age Order Justice, Freedom Order
Economics Socialism Socialism Enlightened Production Stewardship Private Prop.
History Historical Evolution Historical Materialism Evolutionary Godhood Historical Resurrection
Postmod
Islam
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EVERYBODY HAS A WORLDVIEW

• Your worldview is your basic set of beliefs.
• Your worldview is the position you hold in the
  foundational issues of life.
• What are the issues that construct the basic
  building blocks of life (and your worldview)?

Theology Philosophy Ethics Biology Psychology
Sociology Law Politics Economics History
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• Theology
• Philosophy
• Ethics
• Biology
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Law
• Politics
• Economics
• History

All of these 10 areas are sacred! All are
Biblical!
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• Theology
• Philosophy
• Ethics
• Biology
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Law
• Politics
• Economics
• History

All 10 areas are perverted and twisted to
some extent in Satans world system.
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ART, MUSIC, CULTURE

• Theology
• Philosophy
• Ethics
• Biology
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Law
• Politics
• Economics
• History

ART, MUSIC, CULTURE EMERGE OUT OF THE BASIC
BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE WORLDVIEW.
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MATHEMATICS

• Theology
• Philosophy
• Ethics
• Biology
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Law
• Politics
• Economics
• History

ALL OF THE BUILDING BLOCKS ON THE LEFT HAVE THEIR
OWN SYSTEM OF MATHEMATICS.
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• Theology
• Philosophy
• Ethics
• Biology
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Law
• Politics
• Economics
• History

ART MUSIC MATHEMATICS PUT ALL OF THIS TOGETHER
AND YOU HAVE CULTURE of a WORLDVIEW.
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• Culture is the corporate display of the
  predominant worldview of a group of people. This
  can be shown at the national or state or city or
  village or school or church or family level of
  society.

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THE CULTURE OF A WORLDVIEW INCLUDES

• Art
• Music
• Foods
• Clothes
• Religion
• Entertainment
• Etc., etc,. etc., etc.

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• Our troubles began at the Fall of Adam.
• Gods creation order God is above all and the
  man, Adam, is in submission to God.
• The woman, Eve, is in submission to her husband.
• The animal kingdom is in submission to mankind.
• This Creation Order when obeyed makes things
  work best for us and the planet.

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• At the Fall the Creation Order got
  flip-flopped.
• The animal (serpent) took dominion and the woman
  (Eve) submitted to the animal (ate fruit).
• The man (Adam) then submitted to the woman, his
  wife, and ate the fruit.
• This arrangement puts God at the bottom and
  animals on the top and animals became more
  important than people, women rule, and men went
  passive in their spiritual leadership. (see
  Genesis 36 and 316)

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SATANS DECEPTION

• If evolution is true then Jesus is not the
  Creator.
• If Jesus is not the Creator then He does not have
  the authority and right to be the Savior.
• If Jesus is not the Savior, then the Bible is not
  true.
• If the Bible is not true, then let us eat, drink
  and be merry for tomorrow we die.
• If tomorrow we die, then all we have is the lust
  of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride
  of lifewhich is of the world. 1 John 216

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SATANS DECEPTION

• Replace Biblical Creation with worldviews that
  teach millions of years and evolution, and, next,
  it is easy to get God out. (Evolution we can be
  here via evolution with no need for God.)
• When evolution is in and Creator Lord Jesus is
  out, the world, the flesh and the devil rule and
  Satans deception is complete, in all its
  rebellion.
• The rebellion begins in the home Pride and
  selfishness rule (example husbands dont lead,
  children know better than parents how to run
  their lives, etc.).

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POSTMODERNISTS CLAIM

• There are no truths which apply to all of us.
• There are no absolute moral standards.
• There are no absolute ethical concerns.
• There is no God.
• There are personal opinions.
• There are personal perspectives.
• See the writings of Nietzsche, Derrida, Lyotard,
  Ricouer, Foucault, Rorty, Baudrillard, etc.
• Most Postmodernist thinkers are/were
  disillusioned Atheist Evolutionist Marxists.

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MARXISTS AND POSTMODERNISTS ARE ATHEISTS.

• Atheism is the theological belief that there is
  no God, no supernatural Creator, no Divine moral
  law giver, and no ultimate Judge of mans
  actions. It is the theological backbone of not
  only Secular Humanism and Marxism, but it is also
  the predominant theological view of classical
  Postmodernism
• (David Noebel, Understanding the Times, p. 77).

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POSTMODERNIST RICHARD RORTY

• I might have written an account of how even
  atheists like myself are impressed, improved and
  morally instructed by reading Pilgrims Progress.

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ROMANS 119-22

• 19 Because that which may be known of God is
  manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto
  them. 20 For the invisible things of him from
  the creation of the world are clearly seen, being
  understood by the things that are made, even his
  eternal power and Godhead so that they are
  without excuse 21 Because that, when they knew
  God, they glorified him not as God, neither were
  thankful but became vain in their imaginations,
  and their foolish heart was darkened. 22
  Professing themselves to be wise, they became
  fools,

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• Disillusioned Marxists became PostModernists and
  now gain strength through Multiculturalism and
  its stepchild, Political Correctness, which is
  rightly labeled, Cultural Marxism.
• Marx and Lenin taught that, given the chance,
  European workers would overthrow capitalist
  governments and replace them with communism.
• But after the Russian revolution of 1917 the
  Western European workers did not support the
  Communist revolution or ideas.
• Why not?

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• Christianity and its moral and ethical absolutes
  was the roadblock to the expansion of Marxism.
• This roadblock was noticed by two Marxist
  theorists in 1919 Italian, Antonio Gramsci and
  Hungarian, Georg Lukacs.
• These two men decided that the spread of
  Communism could only be accomplished if Western
  Christian culture was destroyed.
• So Lukacs introduced sex education into the
  public schools of Hungary,1919, believing that if
  children knew more about sex their lust for it
  would overpower their Christian morals!

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• So Gramsci and Lukacs laid the groundwork to
  change communism from economic terms (ownership
  of private property is evil) into cultural terms.
  (tolerance, sex-ed, drug-ed, the need for social
  and cultural change, etc.)
• Then in 1923 at Frankfurt University in Germany
  the Institute for Social Research was
  establishedThe Frankfurt School.
• The Frankfurt School moved to New York City in
  1933 when Hitler came to power.
• Theorists like Wilhelm Reich, Eric Fromm, Max
  Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, etc.

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• The Frankfurt School invented Critical Theory
  which had the goal of demonizing all traditional
  institutions such as family, fatherhood,
  patriotism, women as mothers, Bible-believing
  churches, etc.
• The Frankfurt School published Studies in
  Prejudice which taught that anyone who believes
  in traditional Western Christian culture is
  prejudiced, a racist or sexist or fascist
  or is mentally unstable.
• Mixing Freud with Marx, they perfected the
  technique of psychological conditioningthus, for
  example, TVhomosexualitynormal.
• TVChristians are crazy, intolerant , bigoted
  fools.

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• Herbert Marcuse, working with Hollywood friends,
  became a leading evangelist of Cultural Marxism
  (Political Correctness) especially on the
  university campuses of USA.
• In his book Eros and Civilization, he argued
  that by freeing sex from any restraints, we could
  elevate the pleasure principle over the reality
  principle and create a society with no work, only
  play (Marcuse coined the phrase, Make love, not
  war). Marcuse also argued for what he called
  liberating tolerance, which he defined as
  tolerance for all ideas coming from the Left and
  intolerance for any ideas coming from the

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• Right. In the late 1960s Marcuse became the
  chief guru of the New Left, and he injected the
  cultural Marxism of the Frankfurt School into the
  baby boom generation, to the point where it is
  now Americas state ideology.
• The next conservatism should unmask multicul-
  turalism and Political Correctness and tell the
  American people what they really are cultural
  Marxism. Its goal remains that Lukacs and Gramsci
  set in 1919 destroying Western culture and the
  Christian religion. see Wm. Lind, Cultural
  Marxism The Schwarz Report, vol. 46, No. 4, p 4.
  www.schwarzreport.org

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PSALM 197-9

• The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the
  soul the testimony of the Lord is sure, making
  wise the simple.
• The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the
  heart the commandment of the Lord is pure
  enlightening the eyes.
• The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever
  the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous
  altogether.

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• Who determines what is true
• Man
• Or
• God?

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JOHN 8 32

• And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall
  make you free.

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JOHN 1717-19

• Jesus said
• 17 Sanctify them through thy truth thy word
  is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world,
  even so have I also sent them into the world. 19
  And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they
  also might be sanctified through the truth.

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• Something remarkable is underway. It is moving
  with almost dizzying speed, but it has no name
  and eludes description.
• Marilyn Ferguson,
  The Aquarian Conspiracy, p.18

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• Its all about
• YOU!!!!

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• The earth turns on its orbit for You. The oceans
  ebb and flow for You. The birds sing for You. The
  sun rises and it sets for You. The stars come out
  for You. Every beautiful thing you see, every
  wondrous thing you experience, is all there, for
  You. Take a look around. None of it can exist
  without You. No matter who you thought you were,
  now you know the Truth of Who You Really Are. You
  are the master of the Universe. You are the heir
  to the kingdom. You are the perfection of Life.
  And now you know The Secret.
• May the joy be with you!
• The Secret, p. 183

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• Were really now moving into a new era. Its the
  era where the last frontier is not space, as
  Star Trek would say, but its going to be Mind.
  Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, The Secret, p. 181

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• Why would a little 199 page book achieve
  international attention and skyrocketing success
  within a few weeks of its entrance on the scene
  of books in print?

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• What does The Secret say and teach that generates
  so much excitement and vigorous approval among
  its readers?

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• Even Oprah Winfrey has helped to spread the
  secret. Oprahs first program on The Secret
  received such a huge response that eight days
  later she aired an unprecedented follow-up show
  called One Week Later The Huge reaction to The
  Secret. The book and DVD have also been
  featured on a variety of network talk shows,
  including CNNs Larry King Live and The Ellen
  DeGeneres Show.
• James K. Walker and Bob Waldrep, The Truth
  Behind The Secret (Eugene, Oregon Harvest House
  Publishers, 2007), p. 10

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• Subject "Oprah and Friends" to teach course on
  New Age Christ
• Jan. 1, 2008 
• Many have tried to tell me Oprah is a Christian
  and, if it is so, she has been VERY deceived!  In
  either case, we need to pray for her and the
  millions who will believe this because SHE does!
• "Oprah and Friends" to teach course on New Age
  Christ
• Best-Selling Author Marianne Williamson to Host
  Daily Show on XM Radio's 'Oprah and Friends'
  Channel
• "Marianne Williamson on A Course in Miracles"
  Kicks off January 1
• CHICAGO and WASHINGTON, Dec. 18
  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Spiritual teacher and
  internationally acclaimed author and lecturer
  Marianne Williamson will host a new daily show on
  XM Radio's popular "Oprah and Friends" channel
  beginning January 1, 2008, it was announced today
  by Harpo Radio and XM. "Marianne Williamson on A
  Course in Miracles" will offer listeners
  practical advice on how to live a more loving and
  peaceful life, drawing from her experience with
  the self-study program for spiritual reflection,
  A Course in Miracles. The new daily programming
  expands Williamson's current weekly show on
  "Oprah and Friends."
• "I'm delighted to have the opportunity to do this
  show. I know how powerfully the ideas of the
  Course can affect people's lives, and I look
  forward to sharing them on a daily basis," said
  Marianne Williamson.
• In "Marianne Williamson on A Course in Miracles"
  Williamson will offer sensible counsel on how to
  apply the Course to everyday life through
  listener- involved discussions about
  relationships, career and health issues, among
  others. To complement the daily program,
  supplemental materials for further personal study
  will be available online at http//www.oprah.com/x
  m, along with audio excerpts from the show and
  information on how listeners can submit their own
  questions directly to Williamson herself.
• "For more than 20 years, Marianne has authored
  best-selling books and given thousands of
  lectures based on spiritual literature and
  principles -- including A Course in Miracles --
  that have had a profound impact on millions of
  lives. With her new daily show, Marianne and her
  unique insights will be accessible every day to
  help countless others across the country," said
  John Gehron, general manager, Harpo Radio, Inc.
• A Course in Miracles is a complete self-study
  spiritual thought system which teaches that the
  way to universal love and peace -- or remembering
  God -- is by undoing guilt through forgiving
  others. The Course focuses on the healing of
  relationships and is a universal spiritual
  teaching, not a specific religion.
• "Marianne Williamson on A Course in Miracles"
  will air weekdays at 3 p.m. ET on XM's "Oprah and
  Friends" channel (XM 156) beginning January 1,
  with additional encores airing throughout the
  day. More information, including complete
  broadcast schedules, is available online at
  http//www.xmradio.com/oprah and
  http//www.oprah.com/xm.
• Marianne Williamson is an internationally
  acclaimed author and lecturer, who has published
  several books, including New York Times
  bestsellers A Return to Love and Everyday Grace.
  Her latest book, The Age of Miracles Embracing
  the New Midlife, will be released in January
  2008. A popular guest on numerous television
  programs such as "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and
  ABC's "Good Morning America," Williamson has
  lectured professionally since 1983. In 2006, she
  began hosting her own weekly show on XM Radio's
  "Oprah and Friends" channel. In January 2008, her
  program will transition to a daily, hour-long
  format.
• A Course in Miracles is owned by the Foundation
  for A Course in Miracles and is used with
  permission. For more information about A Course
  in Miracles, please visit The Foundation for
  Inner Peace at http//www.acim.org/.
• Received this from a Precept leader. 
•  
• I checked on XM radio and it will start on New
  Years at 3-4pm CST.  Pretty sad.  True.  Here is
  the press release from XM radio.
• Judy
•  

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• Many centuries ago the following words were
  written

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EZEKIEL 283-5

• Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel there is no
  secret that they can hide from thee With thy
  wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast
  gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and
  silver into thy treasures By thy great wisdom
  and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy
  riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of
  thy riches.

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• We often get distracted with this thing called
  our body and our physical being. That just holds
  your spirit. And your spirit is so big it fills a
  room. You are eternal life. You are God
  manifested in human form, made to perfection.
• Lisa Nichols, The Secret, p. 164 (emphasis mine)
• 2006

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APRIL, 1984
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Susan Taylor, Editor in Chief, Essence, April
1984

• Get quiet, and ask the power within for ways to
  change stressful conditions in your life. Then
  listen to your inner intelligence.With this
  inner power we are also masters of ourselves.
• You are a child of the universe, part of a divine
  process. The degree to which you accept your
  divinity determines how much It can work for you.
  Get busy practicing the Presence within. Be still
  and know that you are God. (emphasis hers)

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PSALM 4610

• Be still, and know that I am God I will be
  exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in
  the earth.

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• But Rhonda Byrne writes
• You are God in a physical body. You are Spirit
  in the flesh. You are Eternal Life expressing
  itself as You. You are a cosmic being. You are
  all power. You are all wisdom. You are all
  intelligence. You are the creator, and you are
  creating the creation of You on this planet.
• The Secret, p. 164.
• (emphasis mine)

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• Twenty-two years after Essence, The Secret is
  teaching the same occult deceptions.
• And much of this is sounding more and more like
  the faddish Emerging and Emergent Church. (more
  on the Emergent Church later), also go to
  www.lighthousetrails.com.

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• Rhonda Byrne says (The Secret, p. 173)
• You must focus on the presence inside of You.
  Take a moment and sit still. Focus on feeling the
  life presence inside you. As you focus on the
  presence within, it will begin to reveal itself
  to You. It is a feeling of pure love, and bliss,
  and it is perfection. That presence is the
  perfection of You. That presence is the real You.
  (emphasis hers)

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Susan Taylor, Editor in Chief, Essence, April
1984

• Get quiet, and ask the power within for ways to
  change stressful conditions in your life. Then
  listen to your inner intelligence.With this
  inner power we are also masters of ourselves.
• You are a child of the universe, part of a divine
  process. The degree to which you accept your
  divinity determines how much It can work for you.
  Get busy practicing the Presence within. Be still
  and know that you are God. (emphasis hers)
• Also sounds like Helena Blavatsky, Alice Bailey
  (Djwhul Khul, Morya), Sri Chinmoy, Annie Besant,
  Meister Ekhart, Donald Keyes, Maurice Strong,
  Norman Cousins, Robert Muller, etc..

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What Does God Himself say? Isaiah. 4310f

• Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and My
  servant whom I have chosen that ye may know and
  believe Me, and understand that I am He before
  Me there was no God formed, neither shall there
  be after Me. I, even I, am the Lord and beside
  Me there is no Savior.

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• Divine Mind
• is the one and only reality.
• Charles Fillmore, The Secret, p. 161

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• All that exists is the One Universal Mind, and
  there is nowhere that the One Mind is not. It
  exists in everything. The One Mind is all
  intelligence, all wisdom, and all perfection,
  and it is everything and everywhere at the same
  time. If everything is the One Universal mind,
  and the whole of it exists everywhere, then it is
  all in You. The Secret, p. 160.

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Colossians 125-27

• Whereof I am made a minister, according to the
  dispensation of God which is given to me for you,
  to fulfil the word of God Even the mystery which
  hath been hid from ages and from generations, but
  now is made manifest to his saints To whom God
  would make known what is the riches of the glory
  of this mystery among the Gentiles which is
  Christ in you, the hope of glory.

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• How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son
  of the morning! how art thou cut down to the
  ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou
  hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into
  heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of
  God I will sit also upon the mount of the
  congregation, in the sides of the north I will
  ascend above the heights of the clouds I will be
  like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought
  down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
  Isaiah 1412-15

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• So your purpose is what you say it is. Your
  mission is the mission you give yourself. Your
  life will be what you create it as, and no one
  will stand in judgment of it, now or ever.
• The Secret, p. 177

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HEBREWS 926b-28

• But now once in the end of the world hath he
  appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of
  himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to
  die, but after this the judgment So Christ was
  once offered to bear the sins of many and unto
  them that look for him shall he appear the second
  time without sin unto salvation.

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JOHN 844-47

• Jesus said, Ye are of your father the devil, and
  the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a
  murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the
  truth, because there is no truth in him. When he
  speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own for he is
  a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell
  you the truth, ye believe me not.
• Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say
  the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is
  of God heareth Gods words ye therefore hear
  them not, because ye are not of God.

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ARE YOU DECEIVED?

• There is a way which seemeth right unto a man,
  but the end thereof are the ways of death.
• Proverbs 1412

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II CORINTHIANS 1113-15

• For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
  transforming themselves into the apostles of
  Christ. And no marvel for Satan himself is
  transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it
  is no great thing if his ministers also be
  transformed as the ministers of righteousness
  whose end shall be according to their works.

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WHAT IS THE HUMAN ROOT OF THE SECRET?

• In the early pages of The Secret Rhonda Byrne
  acknowledges several people who were
  inspirational to her understanding and writing of
  The Secret.

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FOR THEIR INSPIRATIONAL TEACHINGS

• Jerry and Esther Hicks and the teachings of
  Abraham,
• The Secret, p. xv

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Esther Hicks and Abraham

• It appears that Esther Hicks is a medium or
  transchanneller for an entity (demon) named
  Abraham. She is the amanuensis (secretary) for
  Abe.
• According to Hicks, Abraham is an entity, or
  more accurately, a collection of several
  nonphysical entities who have been in contact
  with her for over two decades. The
  Truth Behind the Secret, p. 28

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• Whereas Rhonda Byrne discovered the secret in
  2004, Esther and her husband Jerry have been
  teaching the Law of Attraction for over 20 years.
  They currently travel the country in a 1.4
  million luxury tour bus conducting Law of
  Attraction workshops in hotel ballrooms and
  charge 195 for each ticket. TTBTS, p. 28

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• The secret can be summarized in this simple
  phrase Thoughts become things. Whether
  positive or negative, good or bad, whatever a
  person thinks about, concentrates on, or
  visualizes will eventually become reality.
• The Truth Behind the Secret (TTBTS), p. 16

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• Thoughts become things is a simple way of
  describing The Law of Attraction.
• If you think bad thoughts, bad things will come.
• If you think good thoughts, good things will
  come.
• This is nothing new! Positive Mental Attitude was
  taught by Andrew Carnegie to Napoleon Hill to
  Earl Nightingale and Robert Schuller (Possibility
  Thinking, create your own reality).
• The idea is Whatever the mind can conceive, man
  can achieve.
• for more info here go to www.bereancall.org

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Whatever the mind can conceive, man can achieve.

• Jesus said, I am the vine, ye are the branches
  He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same
  bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye can
  do nothing. John 155
• The Holy Bible King James Version. Oak Harbor,
  WA Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1995, S.

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2 Corinthians 35

• Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to
  think any thing as of ourselves but our
  sufficiency is of God.

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Esteem Yourself, Take Control of Your Life,
Become a God!

• O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in
  himself it is not in man that walketh to direct
  his steps. Jeremiah 1023
• Thus saith the Lord Cursed be the man that
  trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and
  whose heart departeth from the Lord.
  Jeremiah 175

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• There is a very important reason why humans are
  not and cannot be little gods as The Secret
  teaches.
• The Secret teaches a wrong view of man.
• Satan wants us to think that we are good and we
  are gods. If we are gods we are not sinners. If
  we are not sinners we do not need a Savior.
• If we do not realize our sinfulness and need for
  a Savior we are on the fast track to an eternity
  separated from the one true God in Hell.

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Demonic Literature Teaches Every Day in Every
Way You are Getting Better and Better!!

• Jesus said, That which cometh out of the man,
  that defileth the man. For from within, out of
  the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,
  adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,
  covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness,
  an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness All
  these evil things come from within and defile the
  man. Mark 720-23

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• So the Lord Jesus, The Creator (see John 1
  Colossians 1 Hebrews 1), disagrees with Rhonda
  Byrnes idea that man is good, man is a god.
• The Creator says that man is evil from the inside
  out. Out of the heart proceeds the evil!

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• But the ancient writing of Ezekiel continues

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• Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Because thou
  hast set thine heart as the heart of God Behold,
  therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the
  terrible of the nations and they shall draw
  their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom,
  and they shall defile thy brightness. They shall
  bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die
  the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of
  the seas. Wilt thou yet say before him that
  slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man,
  and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
  Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by
  the hand of strangers for I have spoken it,
  saith the Lord GOD. Ezekiel 286-10

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• Ezekiel 2814-19
• Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth and
  I have set thee so thou wast upon the holy
  mountain of God thou hast walked up and down in
  the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast
  perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast
  created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the
  multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the
  midst of thee with violence, and thou hast
  sinned therefore I will cast thee as profane out
  of the mountain of God and I will destroy thee,
  O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones
  of fire.

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• Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty,
  thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy
  brightness I will cast thee to the ground, I
  will lay thee before kings, that they may behold
  thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the
  multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of
  thy traffick therefore will I bring forth a fire
  from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and
  I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the
  sight of all them that behold thee. All they that
  know thee among the people shall be astonished at
  thee thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt
  thou be any more. Ezekiel 2814-19

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RHONDA BYRNE QUOTES MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH

• And you can break yourself free from your
  hereditary patterns, cultural codes, social
  beliefs, and prove once and for all that the
  power within you is greater than the power within
  the world. The Secret, p. 167

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1 JOHN 44-6

• Ye are of God, little children, and have
  overcome them because greater is he (Lord Jesus
  via His Holy Spirit) that is in you, than he that
  is in the world. They are of the world therefore
  speak they of the world, and the world heareth
  them. We are of God he that knoweth God heareth
  us he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby
  know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of
  error.

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When asked if he and his followers are Christian,
Beckwith says

• No, and yes.No, if by Christian you mean the
  acceptance of Jesus as the only savior and
  Christianity as the only path to God and eternal
  salvation. Yes, in the sense that New
  thought-Ancient Wisdom history includes the
  Gnostic teachings of the earliest Christian
  mystical sects, as well as the founders of the
  uniquely American New Thought Movement including
  Emmanuel Swedenborg, Ernest Holmes, Howard
  Thurman, and trancendentalists such as Ralph
  Waldo Emerson.

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• To learn more about New Thought, Ancient
  Wisdom, Gnostic thought and New Age Thinking
  please go to www.biblicaldiscipleship.org
• and read this writers Masters Thesis A
  Theological Analysis of the New Age Movement.
  There is nothing new in the teachings of The
  Secret.

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HOW DOES THE BIBLE DESCRIBE A CHRISTIAN?

• And this is the record, that God hath given to
  us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He
  that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not
  the Son of God hath not life. These things have I
  written unto you that believe on the name of the
  Son of God that ye may know that ye have eternal
  life, and that ye may believe on the name of the
  Son of God. 1 John 511-13

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• That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
  Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that
  God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be
  saved. For with the heart man believeth unto
  righteousness and with the mouth confession is
  made unto salvation. For the scripture saith,
  Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
  Romans 109-11

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• And almost all things are by the law purged with
  blood and without shedding of blood is no
  remission. Hebrews 922

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JOHN 129

• The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him,
  and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh
  away the sin of the world.

89
1 PETER 118-21

• Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed
  with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from
  your vain conversation received by tradition from
  your fathers But with the precious blood of
  Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without
  spot Who verily was foreordained before the
  foundation of the world, but was manifest in
  these last times for you, Who by him do believe
  in God, that raised him up from the dead, and
  gave him glory that your faith and hope might be
  in God.

90
REVELATION 512-13

• Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb
  that was slain to receive power, and riches, and
  wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and
  blessing. And every creature which is in heaven,
  and on the earth, and under the earth, and such
  as are in the sea, and all that are in them,
  heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory,
  and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the
  throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

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• ROMANS 57-10
• For scarcely for a righteous man will one die
  yet peradventure for a good man some would even
  dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward
  us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ
  died for us. Much more then, being now justified
  by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath
  through him. For if, when we were enemies, we
  were reconciled to God by the death of his Son,
  much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by
  his life.

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THE SECRET SAYS

• Wouldnt it be a good idea to begin to use the
  two most powerful words, I AM, to your advantage?
  How about, I AM receiving every good thing. I AM
  happy. I AM abundant. I AM healthy. I AM love. I
  AM always on time. I AM eternal youth. I AM
  filled with energy every single day. (I AM in
  capitals in original) Rhonda Byrne, p. 168

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• There is only one I AM and He is the God of the
  Bible! He is the Trinity, God the Father, God the
  Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
• I AM introduces Himself in Genesis 11 in the
  plural (God is Elohim, a Hebrew plural noun)
  and in the singular (the verb created is a 3rd
  person singular verb in the Hebrew text).
• In the beginning God created.

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• And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come
  unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto
  them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto
  you and they shall say to me, What is his name?
  what shall I say unto them? And God said unto
  Moses, I AM THAT I AM and he said, Thus shalt
  thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath
  sent me unto you. And God said moreover unto
  Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of
  Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of
  Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,
  hath sent me unto you this is my name for ever,
  and this is my memorial unto all generations.
  Exodus 313-15

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I AM is Lord Jesus

• For whosoever shall call upon the name of the
  LORD shall be saved delivered.
• New Testament Romans 1013
• And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall
  call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered
  saved Old Testament Joel 232.
• LORD is Jehovah is Yahweh is LORD JESUS. Call on
  the name of Jesus to be saved! (OTNT)

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HEBREWS I8

• But unto the Son he saith (The Heavenly Father,
  God the Father, says to God the Son, Jesus), Thy
  throne, O God (Theos), is for ever and ever a
  sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy
  kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated
  iniquity therefore God, even thy God, hath
  anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy
  fellows. And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast
  laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens
  are the works of thine hands

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MATTHEW 46-7

• And Lucifer, Satan, the devil saith unto him
  Lord Jesus, If thou be the Son of God, cast
  thyself down for it is written, He shall give
  his angels charge concerning thee and in their
  hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time
  thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said
  unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not
  tempt the Lord thy God.

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• According to the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus Christ
  is Messiah God, He is Jehovah God.
• Lord Jesus is Creator of all. This gives Him and
  Him alone the right and the authority to be the
  Savior (Redeemer) of all!
• It was the blood of Jesus, the Creator, that was
  shed for the remission (forgiveness) of the sins
  of His creation, the race of Adam.

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JOHN 1033

• The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work
  we stone thee not but for blasphemy and because
  that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
• The Jews attempted to stone Jesus because He was
  God in the flesh and I think they knew it.
• (see 1 Corinthians 151-22).

100

• MATTHEW 123
• Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall
  bring forth a son, and they shall call his name
  Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with
  us.

101

• With all respect to Rhonda Byrne, we are not God,
  nor are we gods, nor are we I AM.
• God is God. He is the Great I AM and there is no
  other.

102

• JEREMIAH 1010-12
• But the LORD is the true God, he is the living
  God, and an everlasting king at his wrath the
  earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be
  able to abide his indignation. Thus shall ye say
  unto them, The gods that have not made the
  heavens and the earth, even they shall perish
  from the earth, and from under these heavens. He
  hath made the earth by his power, he hath
  established the world by his wisdom, and hath
  stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

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REVELATION 223-5

• And there shall be no more curse but the throne
  of God and of the Lamb shall be in it and his
  servants shall serve him And they shall see his
  face and his name shall be in their foreheads.
  And there shall be no night there and they need
  no candle, neither light of the sun for the Lord
  God giveth them light and they shall reign for
  ever and ever.

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ROMANS 1012-13

• For there is no difference between the Jew and
  the Greek gentile for the same Lord over all
  is rich unto all that call upon him. For
  whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord
  shall be saved.
• Jesus Christ of the Bible is Lord!