KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

Today the great majority who have fallen sway to 'the One' have never picked up Lao Tse's book Tao Teh Ching, nor would they classify themselves as pantheists on religious preference cards. Yet, through cultural osmosis, they have adopted a view of the universe that is saturated with 'the One'. Hollywood's The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars paint scenographic pictures of Lao's ki or force. Douglas Groothius points out, "The social credibility granted to science is being employed to empower the One for all."46 Intellectuals are being prodded down the primrose path to pantheism's 'One' by Planck's quantum physics, Gabor's holographic theories and books by Fritjof Capra like The Tao of Physics. A study of college students on 48 campuses identified a greater proportion who believe God and the material world are one and the same, than believe in the Christian view of God as a distinct supernatural 'Being'.47 These students are merely mirroring textbooks laced with the views of Thoreau, Emerson, Spinoza, Schelling and Schopenhauer, all professing the "oneness underlying all phenomena." The word 'One' may have brought to mind "the Holy One of Israel" to a past generation, but a shift in semantics is mirroring the move from a Christian to a humanistic culture. This shift is not accidental, but part of what esoteric Alice Bailey called 'the Plan'. She said, "This type of transcendent. . .creator must be shown to be false. "48 So showing up side by side on bookstore shelves are books like The Dream of the Earth and new versions, both urging Christians to drop 'the Son' for 'the One'. This New Age god of pantheism is not a personal God but a number. They assert: God is a number endowed with motion. . .the essence of which is eternally One, formless, sexless. . .We refuse to see that which monotheists call a personal anthropomorphic God.49 Readers will not "see" a "personal God" in many new version

entries since his person has been replaced by a number.

NASB (NIV)

KJV God, Christ, Son, he, Most High, majestic, righteous, straight, strong, and just, etc.

One