It's All Good
Are things like yoga, acupuncture, the Enneagram natural hidden gems from God or disguised demonic practices?
We should consume the good and reject the bad, like a rabbit that eats and exports.
Good Just Is
Everything is good. (Gen 1, Titus 1.) But evil is not technicaly a thing; rather, an absence the good that should be. (Hear Good and Evil by Peter Kreeft on YouTube.)
The only things that cannot be redeemed are those which are ordered against good (e.g, witchcraft).
The modern tendency is to be blind to what God is redeemed, yet the church history has always been seeking and purifying unclaimed goods.
Church History Examples
- New foreign cultures present candidates to wrestle with. For instance, the early church discovered impressive Greek philosophy as a gift from God, consumed it, and exported the false doctrines such as polytheism and random chance (randomness is only apparent chance).
- In Acts 17 we are told some Greeks were already worshiping JeEsus—anonymously. Paul even quotes the Greek religion as worshipping Jesus: "In Him we live and move and have our being."
- Spectacular examples include Christmas and Easter, which were originally pagan holidays, with mixed roots.
We tend to extremes, either we receive the bad with the new goods; or not receive the new goods. Both of these remove reliance on the Holy Spirit.
Jesus doesn't run from the goods the giants are holding. We don't either. For courage to enter your Promised Land see Land of All
"Be of good cheer. Sing. I delight to answer prayer and to make the crooked straight. It is vain to battle the spiritual elements with the natural mind. Only the man who is taught in the Spirit can war in the Spirit. Jesus on many occasions demonstrated this fact and moved directly into the front line of attack against the devil. You must do the same."
It's All in the Good Bible
- Gen. 1:31; God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.
- I Tim. 4:4; God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
- 1 Cor. 10:25; Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it."
- Rom. 14:13; I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself.
- Acts 10:15; Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.
- Col. 2:16; Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
- Titus 1:15; To the pure, all things are pure.
- Col. 3:17; And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.