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Bethel and Bill Johnson’s Bridge to the New Age and Spiritual Fakery.

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

I have been wanting to make this video for quite a while. It's based on the teaching in the book The Physics of Heaven, which is very much a "Bethel book." It is sold in their bookstore, it's endorsed by their leaders, it's written by people from Bethel, including their two lead pastors, Bill Johnson and Beni Johnson. The book is a very open appeal to Christians to embrace New Age beliefs and practices. I truly wish I was exaggerating. In today's video, I'm going to share quotes from the book to demonstrate the problems with its teachings and show its dangers. I'll address the way they misuse Scripture to support these teachings. I'll also be sharing content from a physicist who has weighed in to demonstrate how fake the "science" of the book is. Finally, I'll share some shocking details about the deceptions in the book related to the supposed credentials of the "quantum physicist" who they lean on as an expert. Spoiler: he's not. Bethel Church in Redding, California has presented itself to the worldwide body of Christ as a guide for deeper and more miraculous spiritual experiences. Since they have such a wide impact and reach, and their teachings on these issues are, I am sad to say, not only reckless but dangerous and unbiblical, I feel this video is worth making. A physicist reviews the wacky science claims in The Physics of Heaven. Special thanks to Dr. Martin Krause for providing this analysis for free. Do you want my notes from today's video? Here they are, with all book references. CLICK HERE for my video showing that James Goll (used a source in the book) pretended to prophesy while just reporting commonly held political speculation. CLICK HERE for my original video on Bill Johnson and Bethel Church's theology and practice. I would be harsher today, though I will leave this video up because I believe it has a good analysis of problems.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right. Here we are. This video is our audio for listening a podcast. This is not just

0:11.0

an analysis of a book. This is an analysis of a movement using their printed materials

0:15.9

in order to understand what's going on with the movement. Bethel Church is really more

0:20.0

than just a church in Reading, California. It's a giant church movement that's impacting

0:24.0

places all over the place. When I posted that, I was going to do this video. There was

0:27.2

a comment from someone saying, thank you for making this content. Bethel is having a huge

0:31.5

impact in our area in Norway. I mean, it's just really very, very broad, the impact they

0:36.4

have. But sadly, and I do mean sadly, I don't rejoice in this. I don't take any joy in it.

0:42.3

I do believe in and convince and I'm going to give you the evidence as to why the movement

0:47.0

is building a bridge for Christians to head towards the new age, new age beliefs and

0:51.5

practices, calling it Christian, but also self-deception more broadly, encouraging Christians

0:58.1

to move towards self-deception in the name of Christ and the name of prophecy. I'm sorry

1:02.4

to make this video. This is new information. I did a video on Bethel a long time ago where

1:06.6

I talked about Bill Johnson and I evaluated his teachings and this is more information

1:12.2

I didn't have back then and I feel compelled to add to it. I would have been more harsh

1:19.7

on Bill Johnson and on the Chris, his, his, his profit and the different teachings that

1:28.2

are going on in this, in this area, not hopefully overly harsh, but I would have been more harsh.

1:33.0

Had I known what I know now and actually read this book a while back, but I just haven't

1:38.0

found the time to make a review. So here's a review and I've discovered a lot of content

1:41.4

that I think is very important to share. So this book seeks to build a bridge between

1:47.2

Christians and the new age whoo and it is called the Physics of Heaven. It is endorsed

1:54.0

by leaders and will go through some of the endorsement and messages and stuff. We're

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