In its essence The Secret is Pantheism or belief that the
universe and nature is the same as divinity. If you watch The Secret closely,
they will address God as being nature and use scripture to make you think it is
ok. They tend to tie God and Jesus into nature saying they are the universe. This
is the danger removing our focus from God and pointing it towards stuff or new
idols.
Once things tend to flow your direction then the
non-spiritual aspects of the Law of Attraction takes control. We forget that
God is NOT nature or the universe but rather above nature. God created these
natural laws and they are here for doing good. One could argue that natures
laws have always been in place and this may be a true statement, like God
gravity just is, like the Law of Attraction.
We as created beings in God’s image can tap into this law,
like gravity. As they point out in The Secret, you may not believe in The Law
of Gravity, but you jump off a building and splat. The same goes with
attraction, we tend to attract what we focus on. I look at the period between
2001 and 2008, my focus was on debt and I got debt. Once I changed my focus to
abundance, it didn’t change over night, but things started to change.
We no longer looked a giving from what was left, but giving
became first. We still we conscious of debt but removed it and made a plan to
pay it off and stuck to it. Seven years later we are living the life we wanted
and this is good. The key is remaining in focus with God and keeping my nose in
the Bible.
When science challenges God, like The Secret does in a
way remember in both cases what is going on. Science is the study of nature,
God being supernatural is above nature and therefore has evidence in nature but
cannot be proven by the study of nature. At the same The Secret makes God equal
to the universe and not the creator of the universe. It’s a subtle difference,
but is critical in following God. As I noted before to get the full “secret”
you need to explore more and see how giving is just as important as receiving!
This is where The Secret fails and where the Bible fills in the holes.