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Podcast: Where The Fire Meets The Clouds | Apostle Cathy Coppola
Episode: Yoga & Other Ungodly Practices
Description: Practicing Yoga is not Biblical and Christians should not participate in this.
The word yoga means "union," and the goal is to unite oneself with Brahman, the Hindu god. This god is not a literal being, but is an impersonal, spiritual substance that is one with nature and the cosmos.
This view is called "pantheism," the belief that everything is God.
Is it possible for a Christian to isolate the physical aspects of yoga as simply a method of exercise, without incorporating the spiritual side? No.
Yoga originated with an anti-Christian philosophy, and that philosophy has not changed.
It teaches...