MY 2-CENTS ON THE NEW AGE TO CHRISTIAN PIPELINE

How Bible scholars like Michael Heiser do a logical bait and switch on theology.

I used to follow Michael Heiser’s work closely. For an evangelical scholar, he was refreshingly willing to take the supernatural world of the Bible seriously. He talked about the divine council, the Watchers, the elohim, territorial spirits—things most churches ignore or explain away.

He gave people permission to ask questions. And for that, I am grateful.

But the more I read, the more I ran into a wall. Heiser would lay out all this evidence—the ancient Near Eastern context, the Ugaritic texts, the Second Temple literature—and then, at the very end, he would say: But Yahweh is still the supreme God. He is still good. He still loves you and wants you to be in his family. Just worship Him.

It felt dishonest. Not deliberately, perhaps. But intellectually, it was a retreat. He had followed the evidence to the edge of the cliff, and then he stepped back.

And that’s when the logic for his theology falls apart.

The New Age to Church Pipeline

There is a trend happening right now. People who came out of new age spirituality—who were tired of the channeling, the starseeds, the endless speculation—are finding their way to Christianity. They are attracted to the figure of Jesus, to the idea of a loving God, to the structure and community that the church offers.

But they are coming in without the full picture. They do not know the history. They do not know the Old Testament. They do not know that the God of the church is the same God who drowned the world, commanded genocide, and threatened eternal torture. They are enthusiastic converts, hungry for stability and truth, but they are being handed a system they do not fully understand.