reminder

"Come to me all of you that are heavy laden and I will give you entertainment." (Think Mega Churches). "You are the sugar of the earth! Let the world see you sweetness that they may glorify you. Keep sweet!" (Mormon woman are actually commanded to act sweet to the outside world.).
What I did here was take a couple of familiar Bible verses and twisted them as the world has been twisting them in the hopes of illustrating just how exactly the world lives out its ideas of 'christianity'. (which are more or less distortions and counterfeits).
One thing I would like to close with is a thought for you to ponder: The more something is counterfeited that greater the value of the original. Christianity is one of the most copied, counterfeited, distorted, put-down, mocked, supressed, maimed ideology in existence. I challenge you dear reader to investigate what all the fuss is about!

practice what you preach

To those that say there are too many people on the Earth and that all these people are consumning vital resources that deplete the planet. To those educated folks that want to reduce the population via birth control or abortion, (child killing), mercy killing, "eldercide", ect; to such people I give this simple tongue-in-cheeck reply: "You first!" Such hypocracy is so cruel, so crass, so selfish! Having people fork what is so precious (a life) without any equal sacrafice on their part is inmoral and it angers God. Need I say more??

yoga is dangerous

Here is a link to a yoga article that everyone should read:

www.ankerberg.org/Articles/new-age/NA1101W1.htm

It graphically illustrates that yoga is dangerous on many levels: spiritual, psychological, and physical. After you read that article, read this Bible passage from II Corinthians 6:14-18:

"Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? Or what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what has a believer with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will dwell in them. And walk among them. I will be their God. And they shall be My people."

Therefore "Come out from among them, and be separate says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you."

"I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.".

(Please note that yoga literally means "to be yoked"; usually to Brahman or a spirit being. ). For those of you who object and say, 'You have got it all wrong! I see white light when I do yoga! There is no darkness at all when I do yoga!' . Then I have news for you: Satan, the devil , often shows himself as an angel of light, (II Corinthians 11:14). In fact the devils name 'Lucifer' literally means 'light bearer'. I strong suggest you get away from out-dated ideas of a being wearing red tights and carrying a pitchfork. If you'll forgive my liberty, the devil wears an Armani suit. Yoga is bondage folks! The benefits that yoga may confer are very short term at best. Yoga will not bring you closer to God; quite the contrary!

visualization

About 10 years ago I was told that visualization was "unhealthy" and "unbiblical". Being simple in my logic that I am or was, well I could not find a single verse in the Bible that said 'thou shall not visualize'; so I started to ask around. I had asked some friends, and they shared with the Bible verse that warned against using 'enchantments'. It wasn't enough though. I also contacted the Christian Research Institute to ask them about visualization. There response was interesting, and frustrating-they sent me a lengthy paper that read more like a college thesis but did not really serve my purpose at all. C.R.I could not give me one clear-cut Bible verse that said that visualization was wrong. It seemed that the Christian Research Institute was more interested in impressing me with their rhetoric than answering my question. (Let this serve as a lesson to all that read this: It is better to answer questions directly rather than waste every one's time looking good.). For 10 years (yes that's right, 10 whole years) no one succeeded in showing me from the Bible that visualization was wrong. (Many Christians practice visualization that their number has only increased!). Well the good news is that God does answer such questions, even when men and women may fail. Sometimes it is just a matter of really, and I mean really studying the Bible.
Here is what the Bible says about visualization: "Little children, keep yourself from idols". IJohn 5:21 (The Greek word for Idols in this verse is were we get the word 'icon' or image. The Christian is absolutely prohibited from having any images preoccupy his life, and visualization is completely depended on images. ). There is more folks, don't go away!
Visualization also depends on the imagination, but imagination is subjected to wickedness all the time, (see Genesis 8:21). Check this out-"The heart is deceitful above all things, who can know it?". Jeremiah 17:9. (How can visualization be a good thing if our heart is constantly deceiving us?). Visualization is wrong in the fact that it is man trying to control an environment that can be beyond his control (at least in some aspects). Also shapes God in mans image, which is blasphemy of the most subtle kind. Also there is practical reasons why you should not visualize-people have lost control and have gone nuts! (I am in the process of getting documentation that shows the negative effects of yoga, visualization, meditation, and other occult practices. Trust me that practices start out pleasant, but end up being dangerous to your body and soul! This is no exaggeration!).
Folks don't paint pictures of God in your mind that limits the All-Mighty. Don't try to manipulate your world through visualization either, for that will only cause you stress and then you like many others will retreat from reality which many yoga people do.