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"The Secret"
What
is “The Secret”?
What
is the law of attraction?"
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Got
Questions Ministries
"The Secret" also known as the “law
of attraction,” is the idea that because of our connection with a “universal
energy force,” our thoughts and feelings have the ability to manipulate this
energy force to our liking.
According to “The Secret,” our thoughts and
feelings attract a corresponding energy to ourselves.
If our thoughts are negative, we attract
negative things.
If our feelings are positive, we attract
positive things.
The essential message of “The Secret” is that
we all have the power to determine our own destiny.
We can all create our own reality.
Is there any truth to “The Secret”?
Is there any validity to the law of
attraction?
As with most other popular ideas, “The
Secret” has a nugget of truth that is expanded to unbiblical and illogical
extremes.
For example, a thesis of the law of attraction
is that our physical health is determined by our thoughts and feelings.
It has been medically proven that stress and
worry are harmful to the body, while joy and peace actually aid in the healing
process.
The Bible agrees, “A
cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones” (Proverbs 17:22).
“A cheerful look
brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the bones” (Proverbs 15:30).
As David was
struggling with the guilt of his unconfessed, evil actions, he declared, “When
I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long” (Psalm 32:3).
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However, this is due to how God designed our bodies… not because of our connection with a universal energy force and our negativity or positivity attracting negative or positive physical symptoms.
A second error in the “law of attraction” is
its emphasis on money and wealth.
The Bible has much to say regarding wealth
and the management of money and resources.
Proverbs 13:11
exclaims, “Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by
little makes it grow.”
Similarly, Proverbs
17:16 proclaims, “Of what use is money in the hand of a fool, since he has
no desire to get wisdom?”
Our financial success is determined by our
decisions, our hard work, and our wise stewardship of what we have.
No matter how positive our thoughts and how
focused our mind is on wealth, if we have built mountains of debt, the bills
will continue to come (Proverbs
22:7).
The
Secret — and its focus on achieving wealth — goes directly against the
teachings of the Bible. Solomon, the wisest and richest man in the Bible,
observed, “Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth
is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless” (Ecclesiastes 5:10).
Jesus, who possessed
everything, warned us, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of
greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions” (Luke 12:15).
First Timothy 6:10
could not say it any more clearly, “For the love of money is a root of all
kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and
pierced themselves with many griefs.”
With that said, the primary error of “The
Secret” / law of attraction is its view, or lack thereof, of God.
In the law of attraction, God, if He even
exists, is nothing more than a universal energy force that we manipulate by our
thoughts and feelings.
The law of attraction assumes a pantheistic
(God is everything) view of God.
The Secret denies the ideas of a personal God
(with thoughts, feelings, and emotions) and a sovereign God (omnipotent and
omniscient, perfectly in control of everything).
The core message of “The Secret” is that we
are in control of our own destiny.
God knows the truth
to be very different, “… All the days ordained for me were written in your
book before one of them came to be” (Psalm 139:16).
Nebuchadnezzar, the
greatest king of ancient Babylon and a prime candidate for someone who would
know “The Secret,” declared, “Then I praised the Most High; I honored and
glorified Him who lives forever. His dominion is an eternal dominion; His
kingdom endures from generation to generation. All the peoples of the earth are
regarded as nothing. He does as He pleases with the powers of heaven and the
peoples of the earth. No one can hold back His hand or say to Him: ‘What have
you done?’” (Daniel
4:34-35).
According to the proponents of the law of
attraction, we are all “incarnations of God.”
We are all our own gods, able to create our
own reality, able to control our own destiny. This lie is not a secret, and it
is nothing new.
Satan’s primary
temptation has always been to obtain knowledge and thereby to become like God, “For
God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be
like God…” (Genesis
3:5).
Satan’s own fall from
glory was this same error, “You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to
heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on
the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. I will
ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High’”
(Isaiah
14:13-14).
The message of “The
Secret” is the same message that Satan used to tempt Adam and Eve into sin: “You
do not need God… you can be God!”
Satan will fail in his quest to be God (Isaiah 14:15;
Revelation 20:10).
So too will all those
who seek to be their own god will fail: “'You are "gods" … but you
will die like mere men…” (Psalm 82:6-7).
The true “secret” is that God is in control.
God has a sovereign and perfect plan for us.
The key is getting in tune with God, thereby
understanding His heart and knowing His will.
Rather than seeking after wealth, fame,
power, and pleasure (in which there is nothing but emptiness), we are to seek a
relationship with God, allowing Him to place His perfect desires in our heart
and mind, conforming our feelings to His – and then granting us the desire of
His, and our, hearts.
“Delight yourself in
the LORD and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the
LORD; trust in Him and He will do this: He will make your righteousness shine
like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun” (Psalm 37:4-6).
If you have a desire
to discover the true secret to a joyous and fulfilling life, please read our
article on “What is the way of salvation?”
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Questions Ministries
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timely answers to spiritually related questions through an internet presence.
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GotQuestions.org is a ministry of dedicated and trained servants who have a desire to assist others in their understanding of God, Scripture, salvation, and other spiritual topics. We are Christian, Protestant, evangelical, theologically conservative, and non-denominational. We view ourselves as a para-church ministry, coming alongside the church to help people find answers to their spiritually related questions.
We will do our best to prayerfully and thoroughly research your question and answer it in a biblically based manner. It is not our purpose to make you agree with us, but rather to point you to what the Bible says concerning your question. You can be assured that your question will be answered by a trained and dedicated Christian who loves the Lord and desires to assist you in your walk with Him. Our writing staff includes pastors, youth pastors, missionaries, biblical counselors, Bible/Christian college students, seminary students, and lay students of God’s Word.
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