Divination? Divination is condemned in Scripture (Deut. 18:9-14; 2 Kings
17:17-18) and therefore a very negative term. But, divination in the
evangelical Church? Has Plumbline crossed over the line or gone out of
kilter on this topic? To put it in current parlance, this must be way
"outside the box." Nevertheless, as you read this entire newsletter, I
think you will come to agree that divination is definitely "inside the box,"
alive and well in many of our churches.
It will be necessary to define divination very carefully. In this issue I have
invited Pastor Bob DeWaay to do this "heavy lifting" and focus on a
correct, biblical definition of divination. In this introductory article I will try
to give some historical context to the current expressions now making the
rounds in churches. It is all basically one phenomena with minor
differences and mutations.
Divination generally refers to attempts to learn "hidden things" that
cannot be known by normal means. Divination falls into two broad
categories: mechanical and internal. Mechanical divination uses
physical means to acquire hidden knowledge. Examples of this include
such things as gazing into crystal balls, examining the livers or other
internal organs of animals, interpreting the way arrows land after being
thrown into the air, and reading Tarot cards. The internal category,
sometimes called "soothsaying," involves conjuring up a spiritual entity
during a trance or an altered state of consciousness. Sometimes this
spirit entity will appear as a person, no longer living, who returns and
speaks words of wisdom. Sometimes the spirit who is "called up" speaks
"through" a medium. In Acts 16:16 the slave girl had a "spirit of
divination." (It is interesting to note that, because there was often
trickery involved, in the first century the word used for divination was also
broadly used for the act of ventriloquism.)
Whatever the category or method used, divination is an attempt to ferret
out hidden (occult) information. The incursion of divination into the
Church is of the internal rather than the mechanical category and its
focal points are the visualization techniques employed in "inner-healing"
and imaginative prayer.
Visualization techniques have a long history reaching back to ancient
Egypt, where tradition taught that the physical could be transformed
through mental imagery; they appear in Hindu/Buddhist practices both
ancient and modern; they find expression in the contemplative prayer of
the early Christian monastic movement. These imagery techniques are
also well documented in current occult and New Age literature. In New
Age circles it is widely held that the most effective and most widely use
method to contact spirit entities or guides is called "imaginative
visualization." Leading occult writer David Conway, in his book Magic: an
Occult Primer, states the absolute necessity of visualization for
performing ritual magic:
"....the technique of visualization is something you will gradually master,
and indeed must master if you are to make any progress at all in
magic..." (1)
Among Christian practitioners who are teaching and experiencing inner-
healing and imaginative prayer, there would be a heated protest to our
use of the term "divination." But what else does one call the imaginative
visualization (conjuring up) of a spirit entity, which presents itself to the
person as Jesus himself? Let's call a spade a spade - this is divination!
Nevertheless, all over the country specialists in healing of the memories
are leading entire congregations to visualize Jesus as present at each
person's birth, at some traumatic childhood episode, or even prenatal
events. Purportedly, this visualized Jesus utters words of forgiveness
and actually changes the historic event. Imaginative prayer functions in
a similar manner. Those who are practicing and teaching these
visualization do acknowledge, as they must, that similar techniques are
also current in occult circles. Their defense to the charge of using
occultic technique is that the occult world is only counterfeiting a truth
that finds its source in God. But their defense is a lie - visualization is not
taught anywhere in the Scripture; there is nothing biblical for the occult to
counterfeit. Remember that divination is seeking to learn hidden spiritual
knowledge, and is condemned in Scripture.
A recent example of the increasingly popular inner-healing and
imaginative prayer is from the pen of Gregory A. Boyd. Boyd was reared
in the United Pentecostal Church. Until two years ago he taught at
Bethel College but is now pastor at Woodlands Hills Church in St. Paul,
Minnesota, a church of 5,000 to 6,000 people. Along with other self-
professed evangelicals such as Clark Pinnock, Richard Rice, and John
Sanders, Boyd has espoused the controversial teaching called "Open
Theism"(2) which challenges the very foundation of biblical theism by
denying that God has the knowledge of the future. Boyd now proposes
that the church needs to embrace the techniques of inner-healing and
imaginative prayer in his book, Seeing is Believing: Experience Jesus
Through Imaginative Prayer. (3)
That this book should be offered to us by Baker Book House is a dismal
commentary on the current discernment deficiencies within
evangelicalism. It more than suggests a lack of biblical integrity; it also
proclaims that good old, pragmatic profitability is alive and well in
American Evangelicalism.
In a web interview posted by Christianbook.com Boyd states his reasons
for writing this book and talks about his practice of experiencing Jesus
through imaginative prayer, and in the following statement tells why he
feels this prayer technique is needed:
"The overall point of the book is to show people a way of transformation
that they might not be aware of...So what I put forth in this book is an
application of a very traditional form of prayer that is very transforming. It
is called cataphatic prayer or in more popular terminology, imaginative
prayer... That is prayer that intentionally opens up our minds and our
imagination so that the Holy Spirit can move and impact us in that way. I
find that a lot of the reasons why many people [Christians] do not
experience in any consistent, dynamic way the reality of Jesus Christ and
Christianity are because they've never learned to use their imagination in
the prayer life."
According to Boyd, many Christians do not (apparently cannot), without
this prayer technique, experience the "reality" of Jesus and Christianity.
This is the tempting, traditional bait used to hook Christians: the
teaching and application of Scripture - God's word - to our lives by the
Holy Spirit is not "working well," thus we need the added boost of these
imaginative prayer techniques and experiences. Christians, beware!
Using these techniques means assuming Scripture to be deficient rather
than sufficient.
In tracing a genealogy of Christian inner-healing and imaginative prayer,
it is the atheist psychologist Sigmund Freud whose teaching is
foundational. It was Freud who taught that there is in everyone a deep
unconscious mind, and that the answer to emotional health is to uncover
this hidden unconscious mind, endeavoring to reveal it and heal it.
According to Freudian doctrine everyone represses the traumas of
childhood. In this repression we forget events because they are just too
horrible to contemplate. We cannot remember these forgotten events by
the normal process of conscious memory. If, however, we can regress
the person by certain psychological techniques, we can find that cause of
many of our current problems that secretly have stemmed from these
buried memories. It was this Freudian teaching that gave rise to the
current practice of psychotherapy and hypnotherapy.
During the 1920's and 1930's Carl Jung, originally as associate of Freud,
disagreed with Freud about the interpretation of spiritual and occult
phenomena. Jung, rather than being an atheist, had since childhood
been attracted to spirit mediumship. Jung proceeded to overlay his
occult thinking onto a Freudian base. He writes of his special spirit
guide, whom he called Philemon and whom he credits for many of his
teaching points. In the 1940's Agnes Sanford blended Jung's
psychologized occult views with her own occult experiences and
introduced them to the church. Sanford and her writings and seminars
became the Christian source of Jungian occult teaching. Her views were
directly passed on to a succession of "Christian" writers including Francis
McNutt, Ruth Carter Stapleton, John and Paula Sanford, Thomas Merton,
Morton Kelsey, and Richard Foster.
"Christianized" inner healing internally regresses a person into his/her
past and, by various mystical and outright shamanistic procedures, then
introduces the "actual, real, living Jesus" within the person's altered state
of consciousness. By this procedure the past mystically becomes the
present. This conjured Jesus figure will not only heal the past, but will
change the facts of history in order to bring about the desired healing.
Richard Foster in his popular book Celebration of Discipline, in the
chapter on "Meditation," reflects the influence of Agnes Sanford and
promotes a form of visualization prayer. Brooks Alexander observes:
"In his study guide (1983) Foster adds a decidedly unbiblical ending. He
suggests that the imagery we have created can come alive to us and
become a point of contact for a literal encounter with the Living Christ."(4)
Foster leaves no doubt that Jesus can be "called up" by imagination
(occultic) techniques. He states:
"It can be more than an exercise of imagination. It can be genuine
confrontation. Jesus Christ will actually come to you."(5)
Alexander also observes:
"Clearly that [imagination prayer] alters our approach to God. Petition
becomes manipulation. Seeking His will becomes detailing our own. The
technical replaces the personal and the mechanical replaces the ethical.
It is not, to put it bluntly, a biblical approach to prayer."(6)
Inner healing and imaginative prayer both begin with the assumption that
the rational mind must be by-passed so the hidden interior soul can be
contacted. But, since the rational mind resists this, various procedures
must be used to get past it. I attended a presentation in which
"centering" was taught. Centering is a singular mental focus on a mental
picture of Jesus. People are told to "hold" that picture of Jesus in their.
At first it is like a still photo, but at some point the picture of Jesus begins
to move and then speak. At this point the student is instructed to begin a
journal to record all the spoken words of Jesus.
It is this conjuring technique of visualization, borrowed from the
occult both ancient and modern, that most specifically represents
divination in the Church.
On the website "Student Books Online", an unnamed reviewer describes
Boyd's own experience of changing reality by imaginative prayer:
"...and the process that Dr. Boyd provides us with constructs an
"alternate reality" in his imagination that is disassociated with the
objective historical record. He constructs a lie and he claims it "real." He
implicates his imagined "spiritual Jesus" into his lie and claims it to be
true and Scriptural, because it works. I am not exaggerating. Dr. Boyd
gives the factual historical truth of an incident in his life. He had a cruel
grandmother that didn't give him a present and called him bad which he
recounts on page 117, 'No Greggie is a bad boy, and bad boys don't get
presents.' This incident brings pain to his life. Dr. Boyd discovers the
techniques of imaginative prayer and applies them on pages 118 through
122... Dr. Boyd claims that Jesus personally leads him through this
process. As the process unfolds we see that what is happening is that
Jesus Himself is changing the objective historical record witnessed by
Boyd's sisters to a different story that never happened. The story
evolves into the following account on page 121, ‘But this time, instead of
seeing the angry wrinkled face of my grandmother, I saw the radiant,
joyful face of Jesus. He leaned over the bag and peeked in with a wildly
excited smile on his face. Instead of hearing my grandmother say 'No,
Greggie is a bad boy,' I heard Jesus exclaim, 'Oh, of course Greggie
gets a present. He is such a good boy!'...Scriptures tell us of a different
path to forgiveness which doesn't consist of my creating inspired
"subjective reality." When I realize that I am utterly sinful and
undeserving, with a monumental debt toward God I am incapable of
paying, destined to damnation - and God comes and dies for me and
forgives my mountainous debt and gives me eternal life instead, the
antithesis of anything I deserved or merited - the gratitude that whelms
up in my heart and mind at this realization enables me to forgive the puny
debts that grandmothers owe to me. This is the gospel. This doesn't
require spirits to create freestyle historical records so I can forgive. It
simply believes in the work that God, as a tangible man did for me on the
cross. This is where we find the true and real power to forgive, in
objective history that was seen by witnesses and written down for us to
read and understand."
Plumbline is plumb on this topic. Divination, in dangerous
disguise, has infected the Church and is flourishing there! The
prescription: a big dose of biblical discernment.
(1) David Conway, Magic an Occult Primer, p. 59 (Referenced by Dave
Hunt in
Seduction of Christianity; Harvest House Publishers: Eugene OR, 1985,
p. 142.)
(2) God of the Possible, Baker: Grand Rapids, MI, 2000
(3) Baker: Grand Rapids, MI, April 2004
(4) SCP Journal, Vol.9:3, 1990, p. 18.
(5) Celebration of Discipline, New York: Harper and Row, 1978, p. 26.
(Referenced by Dave
Hunt in Seduction of Christianity, Harvest House Publishers: Eugene
OR, 1985, p. 164.)
(6) SCP Journal, Vol.9:3, 1990, p. 16
The Plumbline
Dr. Orrel Steinkamp
74425 County Road 21
Renville, MN 56284
orrelsteinkamp@hotmail.com
(Editor: Jane Lee)
17:17-18) and therefore a very negative term. But, divination in the
evangelical Church? Has Plumbline crossed over the line or gone out of
kilter on this topic? To put it in current parlance, this must be way
"outside the box." Nevertheless, as you read this entire newsletter, I
think you will come to agree that divination is definitely "inside the box,"
alive and well in many of our churches.
It will be necessary to define divination very carefully. In this issue I have
invited Pastor Bob DeWaay to do this "heavy lifting" and focus on a
correct, biblical definition of divination. In this introductory article I will try
to give some historical context to the current expressions now making the
rounds in churches. It is all basically one phenomena with minor
differences and mutations.
Divination generally refers to attempts to learn "hidden things" that
cannot be known by normal means. Divination falls into two broad
categories: mechanical and internal. Mechanical divination uses
physical means to acquire hidden knowledge. Examples of this include
such things as gazing into crystal balls, examining the livers or other
internal organs of animals, interpreting the way arrows land after being
thrown into the air, and reading Tarot cards. The internal category,
sometimes called "soothsaying," involves conjuring up a spiritual entity
during a trance or an altered state of consciousness. Sometimes this
spirit entity will appear as a person, no longer living, who returns and
speaks words of wisdom. Sometimes the spirit who is "called up" speaks
"through" a medium. In Acts 16:16 the slave girl had a "spirit of
divination." (It is interesting to note that, because there was often
trickery involved, in the first century the word used for divination was also
broadly used for the act of ventriloquism.)
Whatever the category or method used, divination is an attempt to ferret
out hidden (occult) information. The incursion of divination into the
Church is of the internal rather than the mechanical category and its
focal points are the visualization techniques employed in "inner-healing"
and imaginative prayer.
Visualization techniques have a long history reaching back to ancient
Egypt, where tradition taught that the physical could be transformed
through mental imagery; they appear in Hindu/Buddhist practices both
ancient and modern; they find expression in the contemplative prayer of
the early Christian monastic movement. These imagery techniques are
also well documented in current occult and New Age literature. In New
Age circles it is widely held that the most effective and most widely use
method to contact spirit entities or guides is called "imaginative
visualization." Leading occult writer David Conway, in his book Magic: an
Occult Primer, states the absolute necessity of visualization for
performing ritual magic:
"....the technique of visualization is something you will gradually master,
and indeed must master if you are to make any progress at all in
magic..." (1)
Among Christian practitioners who are teaching and experiencing inner-
healing and imaginative prayer, there would be a heated protest to our
use of the term "divination." But what else does one call the imaginative
visualization (conjuring up) of a spirit entity, which presents itself to the
person as Jesus himself? Let's call a spade a spade - this is divination!
Nevertheless, all over the country specialists in healing of the memories
are leading entire congregations to visualize Jesus as present at each
person's birth, at some traumatic childhood episode, or even prenatal
events. Purportedly, this visualized Jesus utters words of forgiveness
and actually changes the historic event. Imaginative prayer functions in
a similar manner. Those who are practicing and teaching these
visualization do acknowledge, as they must, that similar techniques are
also current in occult circles. Their defense to the charge of using
occultic technique is that the occult world is only counterfeiting a truth
that finds its source in God. But their defense is a lie - visualization is not
taught anywhere in the Scripture; there is nothing biblical for the occult to
counterfeit. Remember that divination is seeking to learn hidden spiritual
knowledge, and is condemned in Scripture.
A recent example of the increasingly popular inner-healing and
imaginative prayer is from the pen of Gregory A. Boyd. Boyd was reared
in the United Pentecostal Church. Until two years ago he taught at
Bethel College but is now pastor at Woodlands Hills Church in St. Paul,
Minnesota, a church of 5,000 to 6,000 people. Along with other self-
professed evangelicals such as Clark Pinnock, Richard Rice, and John
Sanders, Boyd has espoused the controversial teaching called "Open
Theism"(2) which challenges the very foundation of biblical theism by
denying that God has the knowledge of the future. Boyd now proposes
that the church needs to embrace the techniques of inner-healing and
imaginative prayer in his book, Seeing is Believing: Experience Jesus
Through Imaginative Prayer. (3)
That this book should be offered to us by Baker Book House is a dismal
commentary on the current discernment deficiencies within
evangelicalism. It more than suggests a lack of biblical integrity; it also
proclaims that good old, pragmatic profitability is alive and well in
American Evangelicalism.
In a web interview posted by Christianbook.com Boyd states his reasons
for writing this book and talks about his practice of experiencing Jesus
through imaginative prayer, and in the following statement tells why he
feels this prayer technique is needed:
"The overall point of the book is to show people a way of transformation
that they might not be aware of...So what I put forth in this book is an
application of a very traditional form of prayer that is very transforming. It
is called cataphatic prayer or in more popular terminology, imaginative
prayer... That is prayer that intentionally opens up our minds and our
imagination so that the Holy Spirit can move and impact us in that way. I
find that a lot of the reasons why many people [Christians] do not
experience in any consistent, dynamic way the reality of Jesus Christ and
Christianity are because they've never learned to use their imagination in
the prayer life."
According to Boyd, many Christians do not (apparently cannot), without
this prayer technique, experience the "reality" of Jesus and Christianity.
This is the tempting, traditional bait used to hook Christians: the
teaching and application of Scripture - God's word - to our lives by the
Holy Spirit is not "working well," thus we need the added boost of these
imaginative prayer techniques and experiences. Christians, beware!
Using these techniques means assuming Scripture to be deficient rather
than sufficient.
In tracing a genealogy of Christian inner-healing and imaginative prayer,
it is the atheist psychologist Sigmund Freud whose teaching is
foundational. It was Freud who taught that there is in everyone a deep
unconscious mind, and that the answer to emotional health is to uncover
this hidden unconscious mind, endeavoring to reveal it and heal it.
According to Freudian doctrine everyone represses the traumas of
childhood. In this repression we forget events because they are just too
horrible to contemplate. We cannot remember these forgotten events by
the normal process of conscious memory. If, however, we can regress
the person by certain psychological techniques, we can find that cause of
many of our current problems that secretly have stemmed from these
buried memories. It was this Freudian teaching that gave rise to the
current practice of psychotherapy and hypnotherapy.
During the 1920's and 1930's Carl Jung, originally as associate of Freud,
disagreed with Freud about the interpretation of spiritual and occult
phenomena. Jung, rather than being an atheist, had since childhood
been attracted to spirit mediumship. Jung proceeded to overlay his
occult thinking onto a Freudian base. He writes of his special spirit
guide, whom he called Philemon and whom he credits for many of his
teaching points. In the 1940's Agnes Sanford blended Jung's
psychologized occult views with her own occult experiences and
introduced them to the church. Sanford and her writings and seminars
became the Christian source of Jungian occult teaching. Her views were
directly passed on to a succession of "Christian" writers including Francis
McNutt, Ruth Carter Stapleton, John and Paula Sanford, Thomas Merton,
Morton Kelsey, and Richard Foster.
"Christianized" inner healing internally regresses a person into his/her
past and, by various mystical and outright shamanistic procedures, then
introduces the "actual, real, living Jesus" within the person's altered state
of consciousness. By this procedure the past mystically becomes the
present. This conjured Jesus figure will not only heal the past, but will
change the facts of history in order to bring about the desired healing.
Richard Foster in his popular book Celebration of Discipline, in the
chapter on "Meditation," reflects the influence of Agnes Sanford and
promotes a form of visualization prayer. Brooks Alexander observes:
"In his study guide (1983) Foster adds a decidedly unbiblical ending. He
suggests that the imagery we have created can come alive to us and
become a point of contact for a literal encounter with the Living Christ."(4)
Foster leaves no doubt that Jesus can be "called up" by imagination
(occultic) techniques. He states:
"It can be more than an exercise of imagination. It can be genuine
confrontation. Jesus Christ will actually come to you."(5)
Alexander also observes:
"Clearly that [imagination prayer] alters our approach to God. Petition
becomes manipulation. Seeking His will becomes detailing our own. The
technical replaces the personal and the mechanical replaces the ethical.
It is not, to put it bluntly, a biblical approach to prayer."(6)
Inner healing and imaginative prayer both begin with the assumption that
the rational mind must be by-passed so the hidden interior soul can be
contacted. But, since the rational mind resists this, various procedures
must be used to get past it. I attended a presentation in which
"centering" was taught. Centering is a singular mental focus on a mental
picture of Jesus. People are told to "hold" that picture of Jesus in their.
At first it is like a still photo, but at some point the picture of Jesus begins
to move and then speak. At this point the student is instructed to begin a
journal to record all the spoken words of Jesus.
It is this conjuring technique of visualization, borrowed from the
occult both ancient and modern, that most specifically represents
divination in the Church.
On the website "Student Books Online", an unnamed reviewer describes
Boyd's own experience of changing reality by imaginative prayer:
"...and the process that Dr. Boyd provides us with constructs an
"alternate reality" in his imagination that is disassociated with the
objective historical record. He constructs a lie and he claims it "real." He
implicates his imagined "spiritual Jesus" into his lie and claims it to be
true and Scriptural, because it works. I am not exaggerating. Dr. Boyd
gives the factual historical truth of an incident in his life. He had a cruel
grandmother that didn't give him a present and called him bad which he
recounts on page 117, 'No Greggie is a bad boy, and bad boys don't get
presents.' This incident brings pain to his life. Dr. Boyd discovers the
techniques of imaginative prayer and applies them on pages 118 through
122... Dr. Boyd claims that Jesus personally leads him through this
process. As the process unfolds we see that what is happening is that
Jesus Himself is changing the objective historical record witnessed by
Boyd's sisters to a different story that never happened. The story
evolves into the following account on page 121, ‘But this time, instead of
seeing the angry wrinkled face of my grandmother, I saw the radiant,
joyful face of Jesus. He leaned over the bag and peeked in with a wildly
excited smile on his face. Instead of hearing my grandmother say 'No,
Greggie is a bad boy,' I heard Jesus exclaim, 'Oh, of course Greggie
gets a present. He is such a good boy!'...Scriptures tell us of a different
path to forgiveness which doesn't consist of my creating inspired
"subjective reality." When I realize that I am utterly sinful and
undeserving, with a monumental debt toward God I am incapable of
paying, destined to damnation - and God comes and dies for me and
forgives my mountainous debt and gives me eternal life instead, the
antithesis of anything I deserved or merited - the gratitude that whelms
up in my heart and mind at this realization enables me to forgive the puny
debts that grandmothers owe to me. This is the gospel. This doesn't
require spirits to create freestyle historical records so I can forgive. It
simply believes in the work that God, as a tangible man did for me on the
cross. This is where we find the true and real power to forgive, in
objective history that was seen by witnesses and written down for us to
read and understand."
Plumbline is plumb on this topic. Divination, in dangerous
disguise, has infected the Church and is flourishing there! The
prescription: a big dose of biblical discernment.
(1) David Conway, Magic an Occult Primer, p. 59 (Referenced by Dave
Hunt in
Seduction of Christianity; Harvest House Publishers: Eugene OR, 1985,
p. 142.)
(2) God of the Possible, Baker: Grand Rapids, MI, 2000
(3) Baker: Grand Rapids, MI, April 2004
(4) SCP Journal, Vol.9:3, 1990, p. 18.
(5) Celebration of Discipline, New York: Harper and Row, 1978, p. 26.
(Referenced by Dave
Hunt in Seduction of Christianity, Harvest House Publishers: Eugene
OR, 1985, p. 164.)
(6) SCP Journal, Vol.9:3, 1990, p. 16
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Renville, MN 56284
orrelsteinkamp@hotmail.com
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Forty Days: False Gospel
Forty Days: A Closer Look
Forty Days: Which Jesus?
PDL: God's Wisdom
PDL: Exalting the Fallen Creation
PDL: A Purpose-Shaped
Worldview
Antichrist
Will Antichrist Be Revealed
Before the Tribulation?
Staging the Worship of Antichrist
The Great Harlot
"Mystery" Babylon
"Emerging" Church
Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell - Part 1
Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell - Part 2
The "Not-so-Secret" Jesus of
Brian McLaren
Church Growth Movement
Schuller, Hybels & Warren
Review of Schuller's "Self-Esteem"
False Apostles, False
Prophets, False Revival
River of Seducing Spirits
Spiritual Warfare Script
Deception of Spiritual Warfare
Flags & Banners...Spiritual Power
Tools?
Davidic Warfare/Worship?
Jesus of the "Signs" Now the
"Christ" of Apostolic Government
Mystical Christianity?
Tenney's Mystical Deity Chase
Richard Foster: Quaker Mystic?
Willard and "The Way of Jesus"
What Oswald Chambers
Might Have Thought About
Todays "Christianity"
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