KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

[D]enotes the essential difference between Christian proclamation and the various movements which threaten the community.64

The menace Rengstorf mentions materializes in Messages

from Maitreya channeled by Benjamin Creme:

My Plan is that my Teaching should precede my presence . . .My Plan is to release into the world a certain Teaching.65

Alder says, "We can never have the New Age without our sacred Teaching " or as Maitreya mentions, "a certain Teaching."66 This 'teaching' is summarized by Edwin Lutzer. [D]octrine is not important [in the New Age]. What is important is religious experience.67 New Agers like Marilyn Ferguson in her book Aquarian [D]octrine is losing its authority. . .Doctrine. . .is second hand experience. Knowing is. . .the transmission of knowledge through direct experienced She, along with Hindu Ramakrishna, teaches, "[R]eligion does not really deal with doctrines.. .Religion is experience."69 The replacement of doctrine by experience, as a validator of truth, has wedged its way into the church. War on the Saints by Jessie Penn-Lewis describes the spiritual deception which ensues when contact with God is sought through sense experiences rather than scripture. It is must reading in today's spiritual climate when the winds of deception try to sway every believer. Conspiracy , boasts:

The evil spirits as teachers get men to receive their teachings. . .by giving spiritual revelation to those who accept everything supernatural as from God.. .The aim of the wicked spirit is to displace the Word of God as the rock-ground of life. . .Their aim is to move the man by feelings. . .Believers too often look upon a communion with God as a thing of sense and not of spirit. [W]hen the