Melissa Dougherty

What the New Thought Law of Attraction isn't actually... a "Law?" It was not discovered, but instead it was created. Not only this, but in the Christian church, there is a Christian counterpart to the Law of Attraction in teachings like positive confession. The Word of Faith movement has adopted many New Thought teachings. But who did this? Who actually made this a "Law" and then duped millions into believing it? Why? How did they do this? Come geek out with me. 👉My Website: https://www.melissadougherty.co/ 💡Want to know more about this "New Thought" thing? Order Happy Lies: ● Barnes and Noble: https://tinyurl.com/h3yb2vmz ● Audible: https://tinyurl.com/4b8j88vp ● Christianbook: https://tinyurl.com/msvjxt2e ● Amazon: https://amzn.to/46XmuZO Seeker Sensitive Deep Dive: https://youtu.be/2TLek_QPi1M MLM Deep Dive: https://youtu.be/tXcqHwi4OaA Napoleon Hill Deep Dive: https://youtu.be/3t-ZGDUg8Bo Esther Hicks Video: https://youtu.be/gUqwdFulkYM TIMESTAMPS: 00:00- Brief intro to the LAW of Attraction, and how it’s presented *as* a Law. 08:03- The Foundation Builders: The Teacher of Teachers. 21:41- The Doctrine Makers: The “Poughkeepsie Seer” 28:48- The Early Popularizers 34:02- The Modern Popularizers 37:03- So… who did it? Did you see the pattern? 📚RESOURCES📚: https://www.amazon.com/shop/melissadougherty 📲FOLLOW📲: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewAgeToChristianity/ Instagram: @melissaldougherty TwiX: https://twitter.com/Meldougherty77 💡SEMINARY💡: Looking for a solid theological education? Look at Southern Evangelical Seminary: https://ses.edu/melissa/ 🤗SUPPORT🤗: If you are led: https://paypal.me/MelissaDougherty77

Full video here: https://youtu.be/n52TuMvll-Y

When I came out of nopey New Age Thought nonsense, I had a few hang-ups that I had to overcome. The biggest question mark above it all was: How do I make sense of the Bible? I truly didn't understand how we got the Bible, how it was put together, or whether any books were missing. And I didn't understand how, if men wrote the Bible, there weren't tons of mistakes and biases that were shoved in there. So I had to learn to trust the Bible. I want to share what helped me through that process, and what I’ll call the foundational truth of Scripture that really solidified the Bible as the word of God. 👉My Website: https://www.melissadougherty.co/ 💡Want to know more about this "New Thought" thing? Order Happy Lies: ● Barnes and Noble: https://tinyurl.com/h3yb2vmz ● Audible: https://tinyurl.com/4b8j88vp ● Christianbook: https://tinyurl.com/msvjxt2e ● Amazon: https://amzn.to/46XmuZO 👀WATCH👀: ● Can we trust the Bible series by Wes Huff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhVPBNBAGY0&list=PLi3Emd5KCgRzOMl1djC_5YpYheog_I9OA 📚RESOURCES📚: https://www.amazon.com/shop/melissadougherty 📲FOLLOW📲: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewAgeToChristianity/ Instagram: @melissaldougherty TwiX: https://twitter.com/Meldougherty77 💡SEMINARY💡: Looking for a solid theological education? Look at Southern Evangelical Seminary: https://ses.edu/melissa/ 🤗SUPPORT🤗: If you are led: https://paypal.me/MelissaDougherty77

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I've heard a lot of valid arguments for why Christians should not participate in yoga. But this is probably the best one I've heard so far from an ex-New Ager. 👉My Website: https://www.melissadougherty.co/ 📚My children's book The Day That Made The Way with Brave Books: madetheway.com 💡Want to know more about this "New Thought" thing? Order Happy Lies: ● Barnes and Noble: https://tinyurl.com/h3yb2vmz ● Audible: https://tinyurl.com/4b8j88vp ● Christianbook: https://tinyurl.com/msvjxt2e ● Amazon: https://amzn.to/46XmuZO 👀WATCH👀: ●Full Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YSOusqUbys&t=2469s 📚RESOURCES📚: https://www.amazon.com/shop/melissadougherty 📲FOLLOW📲: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewAgeToChristianity/ Instagram: @melissaldougherty TwiX: https://twitter.com/Meldougherty77 💡SEMINARY💡: Looking for a solid theological education? Look at Southern Evangelical Seminary: https://ses.edu/melissa/ 🤗SUPPORT🤗: If you are led: https://paypal.me/MelissaDougherty77

For Charlie. And Erika. Never in my lifetime did I think I would see the kind of evil we have witnessed over the last year. It's changed us. Spread the gospel. Talk to people you disagree with. Love them. Do something kind for them. Instead of getting mad and burning and breaking things, create something beautiful instead. Do what's right and good, not what's easy and popular. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21 BIG thank you to Aftershock Entertainment for filming and editing this video. BIG thank you to Tamara and Hannah for helping. Song is "Unpopular" by Skillet Instagram: @aftershock_entertainment_nm @david_baca.42palms 👉My Website: https://www.melissadougherty.co/ 💡Want to know more about this "New Thought" thing? Order Happy Lies: ● Barnes and Noble: https://tinyurl.com/h3yb2vmz ● Audible: https://tinyurl.com/4b8j88vp ● Christianbook: https://tinyurl.com/msvjxt2e ● Amazon: https://amzn.to/46XmuZO 📚RESOURCES📚: https://www.amazon.com/shop/melissadougherty 📲FOLLOW📲: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewAgeToChristianity/ Instagram: @melissaldougherty TwiX: https://twitter.com/Meldougherty77 💡SEMINARY💡: Looking for a solid theological education? Look at Southern Evangelical Seminary: https://ses.edu/melissa/ 🤗SUPPORT🤗: If you are led: https://paypal.me/MelissaDougherty77

Seeker sensitive deep dive video here: https://youtu.be/2TLek_QPi1M

I can’t think of an occult belief Jac Marino Chen didn’t have. She participated in ritual magick, witchcraft, alien contact, channeling, law of attraction, psychedelics, and much more. But NONE of it fulfilled her. She has one of the most incredible testimonies I've heard. In the second half of the video, we talk about signs from God, how easy it is to misinterpret them, and why they may not mean what we think they mean. Get Ensnared here: https://amzn.to/4gzTM6n 👉My Website: https://www.melissadougherty.co/ 💡Want to know more about this "New Thought" thing? Order Happy Lies: ● Barnes and Noble: https://tinyurl.com/h3yb2vmz ● Audible: https://tinyurl.com/4b8j88vp ● Christianbook: https://tinyurl.com/msvjxt2e ● Amazon: https://amzn.to/46XmuZO 📚RESOURCES📚: https://www.amazon.com/shop/melissadougherty 📲FOLLOW📲: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewAgeToChristianity/ Instagram: @melissaldougherty TwiX: https://twitter.com/Meldougherty77 💡SEMINARY💡: Looking for a solid theological education? Look at Southern Evangelical Seminary: https://ses.edu/melissa/ 🤗SUPPORT🤗: If you are led: https://paypal.me/MelissaDougherty77

If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's the full video. Skip to the end to see: https://youtu.be/I_lXKnIrlHg

This is one of the most important interviews I've done this year so far. Most of my Christian life, I had always been very confused about the expectations Christians have of one another when it comes to forgiveness. There are beautiful things about forgiveness. But there is such a thing as "therapeutic forgiveness" that can actually totally wreck a person. Nobody is talking about this like Teasi is. Therapeutic forgiveness (or counterfeit forgiveness) is hurting you. And this is what MANY Christians believe is a biblical view of forgiveness. I believe "therapeutic forgiveness" is used in cover-up culture, in abusive leadership, and puts a burden on the victim that Jesus never modeled or taught. I hope that by the end of this video, you'll see that therapeutic forgiveness is actually a relatively recent doctrine. It's not how Christians have historically and biblically understood forgiveness. (And it's actually very obvious in Scripture.) And trust me, every single question you've asked about this, and every scripture you're thinking of, Teasi thought of and asked too. This shouldn't be controversial. This should be healing. Get Teasi's book here: https://amzn.to/4ybvwPg Teasi's Website: https://www.teasicannon.com/ The other video we did: https://youtu.be/15gU_6EQpaY 👉My Website: https://www.melissadougherty.co/ 💡Want to know more about this "New Thought" thing? Order Happy Lies: ● Barnes and Noble: https://tinyurl.com/h3yb2vmz ● Audible: https://tinyurl.com/4b8j88vp ● Christianbook: https://tinyurl.com/msvjxt2e ● Amazon: https://amzn.to/46XmuZO 📚RESOURCES📚: https://www.amazon.com/shop/melissadougherty 📲FOLLOW📲: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewAgeToChristianity/ Instagram: @melissaldougherty TwiX: https://twitter.com/Meldougherty77 💡SEMINARY💡: Looking for a solid theological education? Look at Southern Evangelical Seminary: https://ses.edu/melissa/ 🤗SUPPORT🤗: If you are led: https://paypal.me/MelissaDougherty77

For the last few decades, our culture has become increasingly unteathered from objective truth. Not only that, people are now trying to rewrite reality itself. The answer? Is the Answerer. My friends Phoenix Hayes and Frank Turek wrote a book about it. If "you can't change reality by screaming at it" was a book, this would be it. Get their book The War on Reality here: https://amzn.to/4imc8Kw War on Reality website: https://thewaronreality.com/ Phoenix's website: https://phoenixhayes.com/ Frank's website: crossexamined.org 👉My Website: https://www.melissadougherty.co/ 💡Want to know more about this "New Thought" thing? Order Happy Lies: ● Barnes and Noble: https://tinyurl.com/h3yb2vmz ● Audible: https://tinyurl.com/4b8j88vp ● Christianbook: https://tinyurl.com/msvjxt2e ● Amazon: https://amzn.to/46XmuZO 📚RESOURCES📚: https://www.amazon.com/shop/melissadougherty 📲FOLLOW📲: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewAgeToChristianity/ Instagram: @melissaldougherty TwiX: https://twitter.com/Meldougherty77 💡SEMINARY💡: Looking for a solid theological education? Look at Southern Evangelical Seminary: https://ses.edu/melissa/ 🤗SUPPORT🤗: If you are led: https://paypal.me/MelissaDougherty77

I cannot BELIEVE how long this video turned out to be. But here we are. The Dr. Daf Show is typically a debate style show where people with very different beliefs and worldviews come together and debate and talk. Recently, they had one New Ager, Jasmine, on the show (though Jasmine doesn't consider herself a New Ager and identifies as a witch or "eclectic spiritualist"), along with 20 Christians. This video blew up. This is my reaction to that conversation/debate. I break down some of the arguments that came up, offer some firm but hopefully fair critiques of both sides, and end with an appeal to Jasmine. What do you say, Jasmine? Dr. Daf? 👉My Website: https://www.melissadougherty.co/ 💡Want to know more about this "New Thought" thing? Order Happy Lies: ● Barnes and Noble: https://tinyurl.com/h3yb2vmz ● Audible: https://tinyurl.com/4b8j88vp ● Christianbook: https://tinyurl.com/msvjxt2e ● Amazon: https://amzn.to/46XmuZO TIMESTAMPS: 00:00- Intro 7:53- My general thoughts about the episode in general, and thoughts about apologetics 19:28- Addressing some of Jasmine’s objections 21:35- Objection 1: You weren’t there when Jesus rose from the dead. HOW do you know? HOW can you trust the Bible? 44:01- Objection 2: Jesus was a witch. His miracles are what witches do. 54:41- Objection 3: Christianity is a pagan cult derived from older religions. 1:00:38- Christianity came later. Other Egyptian religions are older. And the“1500 year” argument? 01:11:46- God kills people in the Bible. How can He be good? 01:16:26- God knew Satan would rebel, so God is responsible for Satan’s evil, and why does free will require so much evil? 01:28:47- Christians think anything outside of God/Christianity is demonic. 01:34:53- There are thousands of religions. Why does Christianity claim to be the ONLY one that’s true? And WHY did God mess with poor Job!?My Q&A about Job (and more): https://youtu.be/ww7Jtz2vK2g Do all religions teach the same thing?: https://youtu.be/usYI0XY3M7U 01:36:28- Can we know spiritual truth? 01:41:14- Does the Bible condone slavery? How Christianity ended slavery: https://youtu.be/kA0-21H1TtU?si=TKiZOzvfpG0OZiXq 01:51:13- My thoughts on how Jasmine did 02:21:47- My thoughts on how the Christians did. 02:52:13- My invitation to Jasmine. (NOT a challenge.) Contact me. Instagram: @melissaldougherty Email: contacting.melissad@gmail.com 👀WATCH👀: ●My Q&A about Job (and more): https://youtu.be/ww7Jtz2vK2g ●My Q&A about why God would create Satan (and more): https://youtu.be/Hh7q7Yh3Mog ●Alisa’s Video with Dr. Potter about prolegomena: https://www.centerforbiblicalunity.com/ ●The #1 Thing that drove me into false Christianity: https://youtu.be/LRQP96DmrIQ ●Wes Huff’s “Can I Trust the Bible” Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhVPBNBAGY0 ●Mike Winger’s PSA playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4bTHScjdEo&list=PLZ3iRMLYFlHttVR0rkvhBfA-IKrg5SGcp ●No, the Bible wasn’t put together at the Council of Nicaea: https://youtu.be/PfSSJVVG5S4?si=6HeCQv2_REaiWF-0 ●Tys video with Ani from Women in Apologetics addressing more about the “1500 years” comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl-kKCvn8RQ ●All religions teach the same thing?: https://youtu.be/usYI0XY3M7U ●How Christianity ended slavery: https://youtu.be/kA0-21H1TtU?si=TKiZOzvfpG0OZiXq ●Tactics by Greg Koukl: https://amzn.to/4xNqtnR ●Jasmine talking about prayer: https://www.instagram.com/p/Db1PxsJNoCd/ ●Jasmine asking for people to talk to: https://www.instagram.com/p/Db8u_JbpbAE/ ●Jon’s video: https://www.instagram.com/p/DcH5LanuqEM/ 📚RESOURCES📚: https://www.amazon.com/shop/melissadougherty 📲FOLLOW📲: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewAgeToChristianity/ Instagram: @melissaldougherty TwiX: https://twitter.com/Meldougherty77 💡SEMINARY💡: Looking for a solid theological education? Look at Southern Evangelical Seminary: https://ses.edu/melissa/ 🤗SUPPORT🤗: If you are led: https://paypal.me/MelissaDougherty77

I had pastor Aaron Graham talk to me about having an unshakable faith. If you’ve ever felt the pressure to keep your faith private, treat church like it’s optional, or bend Scripture to fit the culture, this conversation is for you. Get Aaron's book here: https://amzn.to/4vKjFqh 👉My Website: https://www.melissadougherty.co/ 💡Want to know more about this "New Thought" thing? Order Happy Lies: ● Barnes and Noble: https://tinyurl.com/h3yb2vmz ● Audible: https://tinyurl.com/4b8j88vp ● Christianbook: https://tinyurl.com/msvjxt2e ● Amazon: https://amzn.to/46XmuZO 📚RESOURCES📚: https://www.amazon.com/shop/melissadougherty 📲FOLLOW📲: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewAgeToChristianity/ Instagram: @melissaldougherty TwiX: https://twitter.com/Meldougherty77 💡SEMINARY💡: Looking for a solid theological education? Look at Southern Evangelical Seminary: https://ses.edu/melissa/ 🤗SUPPORT🤗: If you are led: https://paypal.me/MelissaDougherty77

I recently had a clip sent to me from a podcast Kenneth Copeland’s granddaughter is doing with him, and I ended up taking enough notes to turn it into a video. First, Kenneth Copeland explicitly connects Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich with the very “laws of prosperity” that he says God supposedly commissioned him to teach. This helps make some of the spiritual gobleygook that Copeland teaches make more sense. Napoleon Hill wasn’t just some random author Copeland happened to read. Copeland actually connects Think and Grow Rich to the same “laws of prosperity” he says God called him to teach. So it gives you a pretty clear picture of how Copeland sees Hill: as part of that same stream of prosperity teaching. Second, I was surprised to see them discuss Kenneth Copeland's disastrous Inside Edition interview. I thought they were finally going to clarify what he meant. Instead, it went in a very different direction. These are my thoughts. Pray for the Copelands. 👉My Website: https://www.melissadougherty.co/ 💡Want to know more about this "New Thought" thing? Order Happy Lies: ● Barnes and Noble: https://tinyurl.com/h3yb2vmz ● Audible: https://tinyurl.com/4b8j88vp ● Christianbook: https://tinyurl.com/msvjxt2e ● Amazon: https://amzn.to/46XmuZO 👀WATCH👀: ● Full Courtney and Kenneth Copeland video here: https://youtu.be/dPJ5g_MXoog?is=cJWm-Utz7qmAgF_x These are two of my favorite deep dives I've done so far: ● My deep dive on Napoleon Hill: https://youtu.be/3t-ZGDUg8Bo?si=OQZRQFl4pWT10YFa ●My deep dive on MLM's: https://youtu.be/tXcqHwi4OaA?si=Bxir5yIHKijptMMe 📚RESOURCES📚: https://www.amazon.com/shop/melissadougherty 📲FOLLOW📲: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewAgeToChristianity/ Instagram: @melissaldougherty TwiX: https://twitter.com/Meldougherty77 💡SEMINARY💡: Looking for a solid theological education? Look at Southern Evangelical Seminary: https://ses.edu/melissa/ 🤗SUPPORT🤗: If you are led: https://paypal.me/MelissaDougherty77