And I had no idea so many of you had let such seething hatred seep so deeply into your souls that you would jump at any chance to damn other believers in Christ because they understand differently than you do, and have gotten into doing some pretty strange (to us) stuff. Poor Balaam if you had ever found out he talked with a donkey....... you might have stoned him on the spot.
Perhaps you never saw when I exegeted the passage on Balaam’s donkey. Balaam is a false prophet, about to curse the Israelites for money. But, the donkey balks, so Balaam beats him. Finally, the donkey talks and then the angel of the Lord, who is blocking the way is revealed.
This was no commission by a donkey to a believer. It was, in fact, God stopping his people, from whom the Messiah would come,of being cursed. Balaam was not “poor!” He was in it for the profit only, even after God told him not to do it.
You charismatics just love to mishandle this text! Or use it as a proof text that anything bizarre has the potential to be directly from the mouth of God. But, this is the ONLY time this happens in the Bible! God had strong reasons for stopping Balaam from earning ill gotten gains, and it was not to protect Balaam, but rather the people of God. It is bad hermeneutics to use this passage and infer that it is about a Christian, or that it justifies anything done in the name of God, no matter how absurd.
Again, try reading your Bible before you spout these wrong comments about what the Bible account actually tells us.
As for hatred, that is kind of a straw man. When you stand up for truth, against this kind of pure and unadulterated New Age garbage, that is not hatred. Nor are those people believers in Christ, plain and simple. The jargon could have come out of any Alice Bailey or Helena Blavatsky Manuel on how to become an ascended master JUST LIKE JESUS!
The true Christ is simply not being preached by these people, and they are probably seducing many people with their New Age lies. I was in that movement, and it is a disgrace to the name of Jesus Christ what these people are doing. That is not hatred, but the truth! God called me out of the New Age Movement in 1980. Praise him! But, after 10 years in this loosely affliated group, I can tell you that it is evil and from the pit of hell. And reading that website shows me not much has changed in all that time. Even the jargon is the same. I praise God every day for saving me out of such a demonic cult!
Try and stop being afraid of becoming a legalist again, by swinging to the opposite pendulum of “anything goes.” Something in the middle is much more Biblical and God-fearing! (Or should I say God-loving? Both, I think!)