do christians?

Question

think that yoga and mediation are satanic?
I had few Christians telling me that, whiich is ridiculous beyond belief. Why do they think those practices are satanic?lmao
Can anyone explain?

Answer 1

I used to be a Christian. I was taught that they are satanic. Then later the story changed to they are only satanic if you also practice the meditation and chants while you do your yoga. I wonder what they say now.

I think the story is something like if you meditate and open up your mind there will be no telling what kind of evil spirits will posses you.

I once got my mother to come to a yoga class with me. But she wouldn't say any of the chants. She would say Christian prayers in their place.

Answer 2

In Hindu World, author Benjamin Walker says of yoga: “It may have been an early system of magical ritualism, and yoga still retains in its meaning an overtone of occultism and sorcery.” Hindu philosophers admit that the practice of yoga can give supernatural powers, even though they usually claim that this is not the ultimate goal of yoga. For example, in the book Indian Philosophy, former president of India, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, says of the yogi that “control of the body through postures results in an indifference to the extremes of heat and cold. . . . The yogin can see and hear at a distance . . . Transmission of thought from one individual to another without the intervention of the normal communicating mechanisms is quite possible. . . . The yogi can make his body invisible.”
Without a doubt, no normal human is capable of performing any of these tasks. Hence, a Christian must ask: Of what are these feats an indication? Are they from Jehovah God, “the Most High over all the earth,” or are they from some other source? (Psalm 83:18) The Bible is clear on this point. When the Israelites were on the verge of entering the Promised Land, which was occupied by the Canaanites, Jehovah told the sons of Israel through Moses: “You must not learn to do according to the detestable things of those nations.” What “detestable things”? Moses warned against “anyone who employs divination, a practicer of magic or anyone who looks for omens or a sorcerer.” (Deuteronomy 18:9, 10) These things are detestable to God because they are works of the demons and of the fallen flesh.—Galatians 5:19-21.

Answer 3

Yoga and meditation by yourself is not Satanic.
But if someone asks you to submit yourself spiritually (and sometimes physically) to another Guru, you can (or surely will) get into trouble.
As a Christian, you are to submit yourself completely only to the One and only One God.
Submitting yourself to anything of this world - money, food, alcohol, drugs, multi-national corporations, Nazis, or mafias, or gurus ., is Satanic.
Everything in this world is made for man, and he is to be the master of everything in this world, and if Satan tempts you into submission using anything of this world,- like he tempted Jesus in the desert, you are to resist the temptation, - like Jesus.

Answer 4

Some misguided souls might, but I personally don't. I've been a Christian for going on 13 years now, and I've done yoga ever since I was a small child. My mom got me started to help with my flexibility, and I continued because it helped me stay relaxed and focused.

Answer 5

I am a Christian and I think both are fine. However the Bible says what is not of faith is sin, meaning if a person believes it is a sin, it would be sin for that person. The Bible gives a lot of leeway in some things.

Answer 6

No, they are not. The Bible tells us to "meditate on the word day and night", clearly we are being taught mediation; so how can it be satanic?

Answer 7

Wow, I love Yoga, and to mediate is like this to me

When you pray, God listens
When you Mediate, You listen to God

Answer 8

um what Christians were you talking to. If you have a bad experience with one that doesnt mean all of us are like that. How can exercise be satanic? even jesus meditated. It even says in the bible to "MEDITATE on the power of his word"

Answer 9

I know a christian yoga instructor. You have run into some kind of fundamentalist.

Answer 10

Not that I've ever heard of. As a matter of fact, prayer is kind of like meditation. That is silly. And White Flour, I hope you get BANNED off of here SOON!!