The Second Coming of the New Age: The Hidden Dangers of Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America and Its Churches

by Steven Bancarz

Ontological distinction: Put them in fear, O Lord! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah (Psalm 9:20) The Egyptians are man, and not God, and their horses are flesh, and not spirit.” (Isaiah 31:3) Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God: “Because your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,’ yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god…. Because you make your heart like the heart of a god, therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations;… Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who kill you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who slay you?” (Ezekiel 28:2, 7, 9) On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and delivered an oration