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FW: [WORSHIP] Celestial Prophecy
>Penny Carleton asked...
>Now someone is beginning to ask
>questions about 'Celestial Prophecy' and has a book they want everyone
>to read. Now this church isn't closed to anything Biblical, but they
>are understandably cautious to the new and unfamiliar. I was asked if I
>knew anything about this 'Celestial Prophecy' and I don't; so I was
>wondering if any of you wonderfully knowledgeable people could help me
>out so I can be of some help to them.
Penny (& Steve)...
I wonder if you might mean the "Celestine Prophecy"? I don't know much
about it, except that there's a best-selling book (a novel, I think)
that purports to reveal some new prophecy discovered in a jungle or
something like that. Discusses "energy" and stuff like that. It's
spawned sort of a "movement", not unlike what happened with "A Course In
Miracles" a few years ago.
From what little I know (not much, to be fair), it's sounds fully
engaged in the "new age" movement, and I'm inclined to stay far away
from it. It has nothing whatever to do with prophecy in the Scriptural
sense. Lycos turned up these links among others:
Straight from the horse's mouth - "The Celestine Prophecy Home Page":
http://www.newciv.org/TCP/index.html
A critical opinion from "The Skeptics Dictionary":
http://wheel.ucdavis.edu/~btcarrol/skeptic/celest.html
I don't mean to be over-critical or judgemental, but if that's in fact
the "prophecy" that someone "wants everybody to read", I'd strongly
advise the pastor to decline the invitation, and have a private
converstaion with this person. And if my pastor recommended that
everyone read it (perhaps form a bible study group around it), I'd have
no hesitation about finding another church.
Grace & Peace...
- Paul