Jun 30, 2004, 19:05
Does yoga = evil? Does car = evil? Depends on the person and their motives doesn't it?
Never done yoga before, and never wanted to try, but I have done martial arts before, which is also another contentious area with regards to Christianity.
Take Tai Chi, where the focus is on developing your 'chi', and often is linked to Buddhism and other Eastern spiritual philosophies and religion. It is also similarly linked to acupuncture (manipulating meridian lines in your body, which is supposedly the flow of 'chi' around your body).
There's still a lot about our bodies we do not know (and probably never will) regarding how it functions and what affects it. Could it be that Tai Chi, acupuncture, yoga, etc are systems, developed initially through observation, trial and error, linked with the developer's belief system (religion) and then taught to many? Just because the spiritual beliefs are flawed/wrong/misguided, does that mean that the physical principles utilised in yoga, etc are evil?
If a scientist conducted an experiment and theorised/believed that things turned out the way they did because of Buddha, does that mean that the physical laws of the world are evil?
There must be many hidden secrets to our bodies (that God created and designed) that are untapped, and these people have just stumbled upon them, and thought up their own explanations for these things.
I'm not saying that anyone is right or wrong. As a Christian, I do not condone anyone subscribing to anything that does not glorify the name of Jesus. But isn't it possible to do yoga and meditate on the word of God for example?
Never done yoga before, and never wanted to try, but I have done martial arts before, which is also another contentious area with regards to Christianity.
Take Tai Chi, where the focus is on developing your 'chi', and often is linked to Buddhism and other Eastern spiritual philosophies and religion. It is also similarly linked to acupuncture (manipulating meridian lines in your body, which is supposedly the flow of 'chi' around your body).
There's still a lot about our bodies we do not know (and probably never will) regarding how it functions and what affects it. Could it be that Tai Chi, acupuncture, yoga, etc are systems, developed initially through observation, trial and error, linked with the developer's belief system (religion) and then taught to many? Just because the spiritual beliefs are flawed/wrong/misguided, does that mean that the physical principles utilised in yoga, etc are evil?
If a scientist conducted an experiment and theorised/believed that things turned out the way they did because of Buddha, does that mean that the physical laws of the world are evil?
There must be many hidden secrets to our bodies (that God created and designed) that are untapped, and these people have just stumbled upon them, and thought up their own explanations for these things.
I'm not saying that anyone is right or wrong. As a Christian, I do not condone anyone subscribing to anything that does not glorify the name of Jesus. But isn't it possible to do yoga and meditate on the word of God for example?
God has placed me on earth to accomplish certain things.
Right now, I am so far behind that I will never die.