Celebrities such as Madonna are embracing Kabbalah. It’s becoming popular. It’s not good.

The baseline for the biblical Christian is that Kabbalah is satanic in that it is a religious thought pattern detouring individuals away from the saving grace message of Christ as recorded in the New Testament Gospels.

Further, Kabbalah is gibberish ad infinitum. It is regarded by its devotees as "mystical."

To the biblical Christian, it’s not so much mystical as messy thought arrangements enticing those who glee at moving into the secret caverns of the elect. For those not so enticed, it can become a complex pattern that breaks brain cells in quarters.

Kabbalah has no central salvation tiding; in other words, no gospel providing redemption from personal sins with a hope of an eternal abode in heaven. It has no Savior. It has no promise of forgiveness for wrongs committed. It has no right and wrong, per se. It has no warning to shun hell. It has no anticipation of eternal bliss with a kind and loving God. It has no certainty regarding a Holy Spirit abiding within the soul for daily direction and purifying.

Kabbalah is as far from Christian truth as anything can get.

Yet it has become a craze not only to Jews but also non-Jews. Of course, the more it is celebrated by so-called "name" people, the more it wears a veneer of respectability. To the truly wise, that is no bait. It is merely another means for demons to divert sincerely questing souls from the redemptive plan offered by Christ via his sinless sacrifice on the cross.

In other words, a biblical Christian could never adopt Kabbalah as a sideline religious tangent. It is diametrically opposed to Christian truth as set forth in the Bible.

Kabbalah ascents mysteries ad infinitum. Only the pursing scholar, intent on braving cracking the Kabbalah codes of numbers and letters of the alphabet, scouring the Torah for hidden meanings, and giving one’s self to exploring the so-called holy writers of this cult, can stay the course. Those less committed may still consider themselves followers in Kabbalah style but merely keep the fundamentals (whatever they may be!) while leaving the esoteric interweaving to the mystery-prone.

Much Kabbalah attention is given to the first five books of the bible — the Torah. Much attention is then given to deciphering messages within messages of the Torah, most of these sets of data coming from playing out number schemes behind certain alphabetical letters.

Kabbalah means simply "tradition." With that generic term, one can realize how far fetched a person can wander in the imaginative climbs of numbers and letters and codes and secret messages and "scholars" of antiquity providing tomes of pages deciphering the layers of deity — hidden and seen. In other words, go for it.

Kabbalah is regarded as both "mystical and magical." That opens another vista for endless this and that called "religious of all sorts." When reading information regarding this cult, the brain boggles at the verbiage going nowhere and everywhere. There are endless cross currents and dead ends and heights yet unreached and depths yet to be explored. For the crossword puzzle enthusiast, Kabbalah must be one fabulous hoot.

Lenny Meyer states of Kabbalah and the Torah: "The Torah is just a long string of numbers. Some say that it’s a code sent to us from God."

With that, one begins the Kabbalah journey — never ending though obscure and, of course to the biblical Christian, ridiculous. A sample of the terminology gymnastics is this" " Kabbalah is wound around letter and numeric symbolism: gematria, notarikon and temurah."

There. That should give you a taste of what could follow, again, using your imagination and binding your brain cells to the esoteric "teachers" intent on uncovering for you the meaning as to why you breathe.

What does Kabbalah end up to espouse? Hard to say.

Depends on what literature you read. But there is one piece of interpretation that goes something like this: Kabbalah is a religion of salvation by works. First off, that then is a far cry from the Christian faith gospel of salvation by undeserved grace. Consequently, with that alone, Kabbalah cannot coexist with Christian truth.

For Kabbalah, the soul further is on a winding journey of incarnation. Welcome to Hinduism’s eternal twists and turns. The unholy soul must return to make a better stab at it. Such goes on and on, for how long no one knows.

What then is evil? It’s the negation of good. Who defines good? Good question.

Enter the devil’s nightmare par excellence via Kabbalah as predictable when a soul strays away from the biblical truth.

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