[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

It amazes me, the number of ‘churches’ in Calgary that offer yoga classes! Mostly ‘mainline’ Protestant, especially the United Church of Canada. So few Christians realize that yoga is a spiritual exercise and that by partaking of it, they are unknowlingly inviting evil spirits into their lives.

[HarleyD]

Yes, Protestants can be equally as guilty. Here is an excellent excerpt by A. W. Tozar from Knowledge of the Holy.

That our idea of God corresponds as nearly as possible to the true being of God is of immense importance to us. Compared with our actual thoughts about Him, our creedal statements are of little consequence. Our real idea of God may lie buried under the rubbish of conventional religious notions and may require an intelligent and vigorous search before it is finally unearthed and exposed for what it is. Only after an ordeal of painful self-probing are we likely to discover what we actually believe about God.

A right conception of God is basic not only to systematic theology but to practical Christian living as well. It is to worship what the foundation is to the temple; where it is inadequate or out of plumb the whole structure must sooner or later collapse. I believe there is scarcely an error in doctrine or a failure in applying Christian ethics that cannot be traced finally to imperfect and ignoble thoughts about God.

It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity.

All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with the overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him.

I would encourage all Christians here to read this excellent work.

[verga]

It amazes me, the number of ‘churches’ in Calgary that offer yoga classes! Mostly ‘mainline’ Protestant, especially the United Church of Canada. So few Christians realize that yoga is a spiritual exercise and that by partaking of it, they are unknowlingly inviting evil spirits into their lives.

What about the Martial Arts? I believe that the majority of them have a beginning in Buddhism or Confucisism. Does the same apply for them?