Oprah's Different Gospel

Thermonuclear Thought ^ | 22 July 08 | Me

[Mr. Silverback]

The Mediator (the quarterly newsletter of the awesome evangelical outreach to Hollywood, MasterMedia Internatonal) reports that Oprah Winfrey now airs a one-hour daily radio show on her XM satellite radio channel that takes listeners through the 365 lessons in the New Age tome "A Course in Miracles." The folks at MasterMedia got their information from truthorfiction.com

If you're not familiar with the teachings of A Course In Miracles (which were supposedly channeled to the author by Jesus) you can check out the quotes on the truthorfiction page above (some of the quotes are from other New Age books, but the ones from ACIM are bad enough on their own) or take a look at this detailed biblical response to the Course. But, if you're pressed for time, these passages should be enough to tell you that Oprah is way, way on the wrong side of Galatians 1:8--

"The exercises teach sin is not real, and all that you believe must come from sin will never happen, for it has no cause. Accept Atonement with an open mind, which cherishes no lingering belief that you have made a devil of God's Son. There is no sin. We practice with this thought as often as we can today, because it is the basis for today's idea."--ACIM workbook, lesson 101

"My salvation comes from me. It cannot come from anywhere else."--ACIM Workbook, lesson 70

"Do not make the pathetic human error of 'clinging to the old rugged cross.' The only message of the crucifixion was that we can overcome the cross. Unless you do so, you are free to crucify yourself as often as you choose. But this is not the gospel I intended to offer you."--Chapter 4, The Root of All Evil.

Whoa Mama! Add in her promotion of the similarly heretical views of Eckhart Tolle (see here and here) and past-life regression and you can see that arguably the most influential woman in America is leading her fans down a broad, broad road.

[Matchett-PI]

There are only two religions.

Hers is just another in the long line of “man is basically good” versions.

The good news is that none of them (the gates of hell) will prevail over the other religion. :)

[Rightly Biased]

yes it is a funny movie and yes The Oprah is way to powerful.

Don’t drive Angry

[Mr. Silverback]

Groundhog Day...awesome flick. Kind of ironic that he’s talking about godhood aat about the time in the movie that he realizes he isn’t all that and a bag of chips.

[Mr. Silverback]

Yep...not a lot of happy days ahead for her if she continues on this path.

[Mr. Silverback]

You’re added, my friend.

[Mr. Silverback]

I think Oprah is jumping the shark.

One can sure hope!

[Faith]

So sad. A woman who could influence millions for Christ and she chooses the easy way of the devil instead.

[Mr. Silverback]

The thing that worries me is that it might be more from her Obama shilling than the religion. Now, of course I dislike the Democrats, but it would still be disturbing to me if masses of American women are thinking “False prophet, OK; endorses a Dem for President, she can jump in a lake.” Or even worse, “Wow, I was loving all that great spiritual teaching, but then she got political.”

[Mr. Silverback]

Excellent post!

[Mr. Silverback]

Don’t ya just hate it when people advertise their beliefs...

Don't you just hate it when I advertise my beliefs? It appears so.

Seriously, if you can find anywhere in this thread or anywhere on the Internet where I've said Ms. Winfrey has no right to express herself or should be censored in any way, I'll send you $100. Ms. Winfrey has every right to tell her listeners the oldest lies in the Universe, and I have every right to call it a load of garbage and point the way to the truth. If you have a problem with that, be sure and let me know.

[Mr. Silverback]

I often wonder how long God is going to put up with the blasphemy.

When I heard that Fred Phelps and his crew were going to protest at Tony snow's funeral, I actually said "How long, O Lord" out loud.

[Mr. Silverback]

are those quotes Oprah’s quotes?

No, those are quotes from the work she is basing the radio show on...and they're just the tip of the iceberg. Just the fact that the book "channelled" Jesus should be enough to eliminate it from contention.

[Mr. Silverback]

The good news is that none of them (the gates of hell) will prevail over the other religion. :)

Amen!

[Mr. Silverback]

You know what really makes me shake my head? This New Age stuff is just as hard as being a good Christian is, but all the work is for noting. Zip, zero, nada.

[mkjessup]

Don’t ya just hate it when people advertise their beliefs...
Don't you just hate it when I advertise my beliefs? It appears so.
Seriously, if you can find anywhere in this thread or anywhere on the Internet where I've said Ms. Winfrey has no right to express herself or should be censored in any way, I'll send you $100. Ms. Winfrey has every right to tell her listeners the oldest lies in the Universe, and I have every right to call it a load of garbage and point the way to the truth. If you have a problem with that, be sure and let me know.

Hey Mr. Silverback, don't let our resident devil's advocate get to you there, Stuart is a good guy, he just likes to ask questions,,,,and more questions,,,,and additional questions,,,,and yet MORE questions,,,,he's just an inquisitive sort of fella!

And I'm still praying for him.

Thanks again for this post Mr. S, and if you would add me to your *ping* list, it would be appreciated!

The Lord be with you FRiend!

[mkjessup]

Just the fact that the book "channelled" Jesus should be enough to eliminate it from contention.

Anytime I want to tune in the 'JesusChannel', I just get on my knees and pray.

He has never failed to hear me, and lift my burdens, and I didn't even have to stay in a Holiday Inn Express the night before. ;)

[stuartcr]

I don’t believe I mentioned your name anywhere. I said when people advertise...

[stuartcr]

Don’t you think God knew she was going to say that?

[stuartcr]

Yep, that’s what I do...free-lance advocacy for the little red guy with a pitchfork.

[mkjessup]

Yep, that’s what I do...free-lance advocacy for the little red guy with a pitchfork.

Yeah, but what does it pay? lol