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I would not recommend that writer's work; it is too sloppy and non-Christians, or Course followers, would destroy that piece.

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Evil is seductive, more than we care to accept in public. But there is differences of opinion within the Body of Christ that causes discomfort sometimes, and then there is "Danger Will Robinson, Danger!" kind of spiritual warfare going on and it isn't to be taken lightly.

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ORIGINAL: gralan

Evil is seductive, more than we care to accept in public. But there is differences of opinion within the Body of Christ that causes discomfort sometimes, and then there is "Danger Will Robinson, Danger!" kind of spiritual warfare going on and it isn't to be taken lightly.

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ORIGINAL: vmginny

My sister is a minister in a church that establishes itself on the teachings in a book called The Course In Miracles. I don't see my sister very often so didn't know she was an ordained minister in a church. Last year we were together in the Intensive Care Waiting Room waiting to see my dying dad. During a conversation on faith my sister started sharing hers. Many of her statements sounded New Age to me and when she said Jesus wasn't the only way to Heaven I told her this was false.

Here is an article I found on this belief system. It shares what I saw in talking with my sister. I love my sister so I try to keep things on how she is doing and so on. Since our conversation she has not been as open on her beliefs knowing my response the first time. She does make statements like you need to keep your faith and God's strength is enough and so on. She is a very compassionate person and the belief system this church has does encourage people and does so with much of what a biblical church would say.

It is just that it does not hold up to what the bible says as a whole and what Jesus said he is.

This "Christian" church isn't "Christian" based on what I've learned reading my bible and yet it comes very close to the real thing in the manner of how the people talk and the services.

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ORIGINAL: MysterySolved

Early in my Christian life I came under the influence of Marianne Williamson, who is the chief proponent of the course. I literally almost lost my mind (soul?). It is indeed the very subtle, but hugely damaging way that error is presented as truth.

Their main point and their main error is that love is God. Not that God is love, but that love is God. That may not seem like a big deal, but believe me, if you are a Christian, and you go down that path, it leads only to confusion, turmoil and perhaps worse. I will pray for your sister.