Is Manifesting a Sin in the Bible?

During my time in the manifesting community, I’ve found that one of the groups of people most hesitant to accept the truth of the law, or to even begin to allow themselves to explore it, are those with a pre-existing religion, whose mainstream teachers would have you believe that faith in God can not coexist with faith in Self.

The reality is, most religions of the world teach the same thing in different words. They substitute the word God for Universe or some other word and tell the same lessons in different ways.

Is manifesting love a sin?

One of the questions I get a lot from people with a preconceived notion about manifesting love or a specific person. It’s common for new manifestors, especially those with an existing religion, to worry that they are doing something “evil” by manifesting a specific person or even just a better love life in general.

Some of this may come from shame, as there definitely are instances of people being taught that even wanting a healthy sex life, the experience of romance, or the love of their desired person is wrong and sinful in some way.

This is not the case. No desire is “wrong” in the spiritual self, things only become “wrong” in a social, flawed and human context.

What’s more, is that if you are a person that subscribes genuinely to a “right” and “wrong” way to love, you can manifest the “right” way to love for yourself based on your values. You can define what is considered sinful, and set to intentionally manifest a version of love that fulfills you as a person.

Think of it this way. Prayer, in essence, is a manifesting technique. You quiet your mind, connect to a greater power, and ask for that which you seek while also being mindful to exercise gratitude for all that you have. Does this not sound like the teachings of the law of attraction?

If you were to quiet your mind and ask God to, should it be His will, to send you a partner to love, surely that would not be sinful. It is the same thing with the law of assumption.

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 act.

Psalm 37:4-5

These verses do not say that God will judge your desires or deem them sinful or worthy of punishment. Simply, the Bible itself states that the desires of your heart shall be given to you through practice and trust.

Is manifesting witchcraft?

Technically, manifesting is a form of witchcraft. But based on the way that the word “witchcraft” is used, most religions of the world do employ some form of “witchcraft,” even monotheistic religions. Prayer, meditation, and intentional law of assumption manifesting techniques are all a form of witchcraft: a practice of influencing the seen through unseen forces.

While witchcraft is sometimes seen in the context of exact religions like Wicca or broader religious contexts like Pagan traditions, this does not have to be the case. Witchcraft is a much broader term (according to modern witches) and applies to a lot of different practices, whether those practices embrace the term or not.

There is even a type of witchcraft known as “eclectic witchcraft,” which is known for being highly personalized to the individual practitioner and is often a combination of many world beliefs with common themes.

I talk about this concept more in my post, Witchcraft, the Law of Attraction, and Identity in Spirituality, where I discuss how religion is less about what we believe, and more about how we identify with those beliefs.

Manifesting with the law of assumption is “witchcraft,” but so is prayer, meditation, spellcasting, and other religious practices. They do not have to be mutually exclusive, but humans often complicate things with arbitrary biases and the dogma held by organized religious groups.

Manifesting only becomes unsightly by the Bible when we give our power away to others or to mediums and practices outside ourselves. Things like astrology, crystals, and those that might cast spells on our behalf may be popular and entertaining, but they are not aligned with the Bible and they are not aligned with the law of assumption.

“Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.”

Lev. 19:31

Don’t seek forces outside yourself to fulfill your desires. Go inward, to the source, what the Bible calls God. From there we create our outer world.

Is manifesting in the Bible?

People are often shocked when I tell them that manifesting is in the Bible. In fact, some figures like Neville Goddard argued that the Bible is, in entirety, about manifesting, and that Christ was a figure symbolic of all that we could become by using the practices taught in the text.

Christ said it himself, in fact:

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

John 14:12 

It was in the Bible all along that the normal, every day person could achieve the power and the miracles of Christ by connecting with the Father, the source of life.

In the works of Neville Goddard, the Bible was seen as a “psychological drama” interpreting through parable how to connect with God to fulfill worldly desire and, eventually, achieve an enlightened state of I AM.

For any with a strict background of modern Christianity, Neville’s interpretation can be a difficult thing to keep an open mind to. But the works of Neville Goddard, the law of assumption and much of the basis of the modern law of attraction, are all based on the same texts that modern Christianity is.

While there has been an increased popularity around manifesting, the ideas in the law of assumption are not new. They are as old as the Bible itself.

If it does truly come from the Bible, reason stands that any human interpretation is about as good as any other.

Neville teaches that God is divine oneness, awareness is the law of the universe, and that prayer harnesses the power of imagination to connect us to God. That what we believe and are faithful to creates what we see in our human world, and that we could create miracles like Christ.

I have lived this truth and tested it. I know it to be true, I know it to be good, and I know that I AM.