A DOCUMENT MEANT SPECIFICALLY
FOR BORN-AGAIN, SPIRIT-FILLED
CHRISTIANS.
PLEASE
DO NOT READ, IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THE BIBLE AS THE INSPIRED WORD OF GOD
TO MAN.
INTRODUCTION:
Unless there is a clean break with the past occult and religious contacts, the born-again Christian can still be troubled by evil spirits and will not be able to receive God's gift of the Holy Spirit in His fullness.
THE PLAIN TEACHING OF GOD'S WORD:
1. See Deuteronomy 7:25, 26.
"The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire: you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared. And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house, and BECOME ACCURSED like it: you shall utterly detest it, and abhor it for it is an accursed thing".
2. See also Deuteronomy 7:5
"But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars and hew down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire".
3. And Deuteronomy 12:13
"And you shall tear down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy their name out of that place".
4. God's Word is very plain on what we are to do about previous religious contacts. We are to "burn", "break down", "dash in pieces", "hew down", "tear down" and "utterly detest" and "abhor".
-but also the altars
-the pillars
-and the Asherim
b) The second meaning was "asherah", referring to a wooden pole or perhaps a tree trunk which had been set up beside an altar and used as an object of worship.
b) We must not take them unto ourselves.
c) We must not bring them into our houses at all. Instead we are to "utterly detest" and to "abhor" them.
8. Whatever that can be burnt, should be burnt. Whatever cannot be readily consumed by fire should be smashed and put through the fire before dumping into the trash-can.
All books to be burnt; practice and contacts with the occult to be renounced.
6) Physiognomy (art of judging character from features of face or form of body)
7) Satanism 8) third eye/sixth sense. Clairvoyance/Divination
9) Extra-sensory perception (ESP) or Telepathy 10) Spiritism 11) Books by Lobsang Rampa
12) Ouija board/games 13) Spirit of ink-cap (or bottle cap or coin)
14) Witchcraft (Isaiah 8:19) 15) Film "The Exorcist" 16) Yoga (see No. 26) 17) Ghost stories - in books or films
18) Reading tea leaves 19) Sai Baba 20) Spiritism resemble idols/demons/images of worship
21) Freemasonry 22) Seances 23) Necromancy (speaking to the dead 1 Samuel 28:6; Deuteronomy 18:11)
24) Transcendental meditation 25) Mindreading / power of the mind, Hypnotism
26) Books and gear on Martial Art as well as the practice of: a) Bushido b) Karate c) Kunchaku d) Tonfa
27) Acupuncture 28) Heavy-metal Rock music which glorifies satan or the devil. 29) Geomancy
ii) acknowledge you have been wrong in doing it and,
iii) promising God that you
will never return to it again.
b) If you possess a physical object of some previous worship, then you must surrender it willingly to be destroyed.
ii) Do not be concerned about the cost of the article destroyed. Absolute deliverance is worth the price.
iii) Do not secretly wish in your heart to keep it.
d) Never destroy any occultic or religious paraphernalia that belongs to someone else unless the owner gives his/her permission willingly Such actions can have serious repercussions on the exorcist/the exorcised, from the owner and/or from the demon.
e) As a general rule, do not
destroy an idol or talisman until its owner professes and confesses
faith in Jesus Christ. -Matthew 12:43-45
Here is a simple guide as to what to look for in the various religions, cults and other 'Isms' so as to make a clean break with the past when one comes to Christ.
1. Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Animism, Spiritism, Ancestor worship, Islam, Hinduism, Jehovah Witnesses, Christian Science, Mormons, Dahalism, Children of God, Moonyism. (Deuteronomy17)
2.OBJECTS FROM ROMAN CATHOLIC BACKGROUND - Including images that are worshipped and charms given for protection.
2. Crucifixes - whether worn on body, or carried on person, or set up in home, office, elsewhere.
3. Pictures or medallions of:
ii) The Blessed Virgin Mary
iii) The Lady of Fatima
iv) St. Anthony
v) St. Jude
vi) St. Christopher
5. Scapulars - articles of devotion composed of two small squares of woollen cloth fastened together by strings passing over the shoulders.
6. relics - articles belong to a saint, martyr or other holy person.
7. Holy water
8. Palm leaves
9. Adoption by the Blessed Virgin Mary
10.Making novenas
There are three reasons why these
and other objects should be removed and destroyed even though we do not
worship them.
b) Fellow Christians coming from non-Christian cultures have been accustomed to worshipping objects e.g. pictures and statues of Hindu and Chinese gods and they will face the temptation of transferring their former manner of worship to the statues and pictures of Jesus Christ.
c) Non-Christians, in our culture will be stumbled seeing depictions of Jesus Christ and the virgin Mary in our Christian homes, believing that we worship them. We must not cause them to misunderstand Christianity by such behaviour/pictures.
b. Buddhas - replicas on paper, plastic, metal, bronze, gold or jade as medals, medallions, badges, coins on shelves, in cup boards or in the bankon forks, spoons, letter-openers, other ornaments as silverware etc.
c. Chinese gods - Kwan Yin, Monkey god, Pig god, kuangkung etc. sight immortals of chung li ch'uel, chang kuo lao, lu pung pin, Is'ao kao chiu, Il l'leh kuei, han hsiang isu, lao is'al ho, ho halen ku. Seven fairies Chinese dragon - represents, the dragon god placed in charge of the rivers and seas. Represents nature's power and apparently brings prosperity to all who venerate it. The chinese dragon is distinct from the mythological dragon of the west. All these and other gods are depicted on paper, wood, metal, precious stones and used for religious and non-religious purposes. They all bear an unscriptural form and have an unscriptural world-view as they are graven images of the gods worshipped in the chinese culture and are therefore to be destroyed.
d. Charms and amulets - sticks, stones, paper, powder (in capsules, cloth, medals, medallions, bangles, necklaces, rings, needles, rosaries, beads, jade, animal organs, tooth or bone of wild animals.
e. Paper charms, "hoo chwan", these yellow coloured charms called "fu", marked with religious texts, and a picture of a god written or drawn in ink or blood. These are used either for offerings, for medicines, as an amulet, to be fixed on the wall of the house and pasted on the door during chinese new year.
f. Cloth charms - yellow or red, cylindrical or triangular
g. Flags - usually triangular, multi-coloured with a dragon on it.
h. Wrist-band of cloth, e.g. from Kusu Island.
i. Rosaries; beads used for prayer.
j. Vessels for worship, including urns, teacups, plates, vases, lamps, trays,baskets etc. - ceramic, tin or bronze.
k. Trays and baskets, plates and platters used seasonal worship.
l. "Kwee Kiah" - test tube containing two pieces of wood - one hard, one soft-with piece of umbilical cord floating in oil.
m. Cosmic symbols - eight trigrams and sixty-four hexagrams, yin and yam symbol, pat-kwa, in eight sided figure or shape used for fortune-telling.
n. Pork skin, mirrors, fans, leaves-used to ward off evil.
o. Clothing blessed at temple with temple chop; any other object blessed by the priests or mediums eg. jewelry, wedding dowry gifts.
p. Monthly or seasonal prayers at the temple on behalf of living or dead loved one.
q. Joss sticks and holders.
r. "Kemenyan" - saffron powder for burning.
s. Idol shelf.
t. Incense wood - often sandalwood
u. Oil for altar,plus container
v. Ancestral table/altar; flowers-used at the altar.
w. Food offered to idols.
x. Temple lions/the chinese dogs, associated with the lion
y. Knife for cutting incense wood.
z. Fortune-telling slips.
aa. Buddhist symbols - buddhist gods and lucky emblems found in the foot prints of buddha, lotus (and petals), wheel of the law, a vase with a cover, conch shells, twin-fish, royal canopy, state umbrella, endless knot. 8 ordinary symbols of pearl, lozenge, stone, rhino-ceros horn, coin, mirror, book leaf. All these depict Buddhist offerings. Dragon and phoenix, chinese swastika. Charms for children, rabbits foot worn on a string, multicoloured cloth cap, old coin, old coin with a square hole in centre, a triangle symbolizing the unit of heaven and earth inscribed with magic characters, trinkets on a wrist chain comprising of eight magic tigrams, a mirror, a demon dispersing sword and a bell, small silver chain with a padlock worn by babies around their necks, wrist or ankles. Jade: All green jade objects are usually from the orient and countries that are predominantly Buddhist and therefore have some historic occultic connection.
bb. Chants and prayers
cc. Adoption to gods to be renounced.
dd. Posture for prayer/meditation to be discontinued.
ee. Pictures, images of sacred snakes.
ff. Pictures of departed ones that have been worshipped.
gg. Drinking magic water/ashes.
OBJECTS FROM THE HINDU RELIGION/PANTHEISM
Renounce everything in connection
with their worship including:
2.The god pictures or idols of whatever material (paper, wood, metal, precious stones, cloth), hangings of banana leaves, palm leaves, and dead leaves.
3.All sacred animals depicted on paper, wood, metal, precious stones and cloth. Hindu sacred cow, Peacock on which sits the hindu god murugan, appears very frequently as a motif on our batik cloth. Snakes related to worship of Siva.
4.Cultic objects-all vessels and in worship eg. cups, plates, trays, oil lamps that symbolises deity, lamp stand (kolli-kudam):wicks of the oil lamps, peacock feathers of hindu peacock; idol altar, ash of cremated person that has been worshipped, pictures of departed ones that have been worshipped; incense sticks, holder, saffron holders, coconut holders; objects offered in worship e.g. betel leaves, saffron, coconut.
5.Charms and talismans of: mango leaves;pumpkins; neem leaves; stones, jewellery, peacock feathers; yantres - a multiple of triangles interwoven into an intricate design are usually engraved on small plates of gold, silver, or copper which are then rolled into a cylindrical shape placed inside metal charm holders and worn as talismans or amulets. Mantras written on paper and inscribed into a charm holder.
6.Spiritism - Indian astrology; Indian horoscope; fortune telling slips and books; objects used in hindu exorcism-betel leaves, salt, iron nails, lime fruits.
7.garuda-hindu mythological gods; hindu sacred peacock appearing on batik shirts and cloths or appearing in symbol form; elephants of hindu origin which are considered sacred; any object be it a tree, or stone, etc., that has been worshipped is not to be owned or brought into the home of a Christian.
8.Visits to temples and shrines to be renounced.
9.Animist religious objects -
wood carvings or pictures of representations of evil spirits; any charm
in any form.
2."Jimat" - sacred stone
3.Verse from Koran in steel capsule
4.Chants as magical prayers-to be renounced.
5.Visits to kramat, shrines and
bomohs to be renounced.
Generally, look out for their books, booklets, charts, magazines, periodicals, handbooks and manuals.
2.Bahaism:Manual; handbooks
3.Branhamism: books by or about William Marion Branham, magazine: "the Spoken Word" by a Mr Richard Gabn of Singapore.
4.British-Israelism (or Anglo-Israelism).
5.Buchmanism (or Moral Re-Armament)
6.Children of God
7.Christian Science: Key to Scriptures (book); Science and Health (magazine)
8.Cooneyite
9.Freemasons - Note - This organisation with strong connections into the Anglican/Episcopalian Church has deviant teachings and practices that must be strongly renounced by the committed Christian.
10.Hare Krishna
11.a. Jehovah's Witnesses: "Awake" magazine
11.b. Mormonism: a) Doctrines and Covenant b) Book of the Mormon c) Pearl of Great Price d) Booklets about Joseph Smith
12.Rosicrucianism: "Mystery of Life" - see note under 9. above.
13.Spiritualism
14.Swedenborgianism: Writings of Swedenborg
15.Theosophy: Writings of Mrs Busani, Krishnamurti and Jinarajadasa, H.P. Blavatsky, William Q. Judge and Robert Crosbie
16.Transcendental Meditation
17.Unity School: Writings of Charles Fillmore, Six magazines- unity, Unity, Daily Word, Weekly Unity, Progress, Wee Wisdom, Good Business.
18. Unitarianism
19.Moonies.
2.Books on U.F.O.s (Unidentified Flying Objects)
3.The magazine known as "The Psychologist"
as well as other books on psychology which takes a godless approach to
the study of the mind.
2.Curios from temples, mosques, hindu kovils & other places of idol worship.
3.Buddhist 'pirith' string tied to wrist. Locket (gold) with charmed metal scroll tied around neck or waist. Participation in buddhist 'alms-giving'(Dhane) on behalf of the dead.
4.Visits and participation in worship at heathen graves.
5.Extreme passion-hatred, jealousy, fear, worry, lust
6.Incense (joss) sticks - East Indian origin
7."Peace" sign-on necklace, belt-buckle, T-shirts, stickers, rings.
8.Involvement in gangsterism; tattoos on body; secret code; identifying mark on article.
9.Brotherhood of Satan - cross
10.Good luck charms/Stones sold by gypsies.
11.Objects of luck - rabbit's foot, lucky coin, horse-shoe
12.Curios of doubtful origin from Bali, Maori-land with religious significance.
13.All folklore (superstitions/luck) to be renounced, i.e. attitudes, remarks and practices.
14.Pictures of violence
15.Jesus Christ-Superstar and other anti-Christian - Music on records or tapes - viewing of anti-Christian films to be renounced.
16.New Zealand Maori "Tiki" represents evil spirits
17.Wayang Kulit shirts - the figures often represent Hindu gods
18.Hindu god riding the Garuda
19.Anti-God ideologies e.g. evolution: Desiderata, Today - a Sanskrit proverb.
20. MAD magazine and such like that make fun of authority and the establishment.
21. Cross/pictures that remind of past glories when away from Christ e.g. dragon or peacock shirts.
22. Articles with horoscopic (western or eastern) signs-such as on albums, cups, mugs, clocks etc.
23. Chain letters.
24. Immorality - fornication (premarital sexual union and petting, adultery, lesbianism, homosexuality, masturbation, incest, bestialism, prostitution.
25. Fairies, pixies etc. which represent evil spirits in the English culture/rabbit's foot from western culture.
26. Objects from Bali or Africa etc. which depicts evil spirits or gods.
27. Gambling, TV addiction.
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Updated:
September 2000