Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee

Joe Louthan alerted me to Oprah’s new radio show on XM radio.  Let’s face it Oprah does some pretty incredible things.  She gives away cars, books and has a new Reality TV show that encourages contestants to give away money.  How could anyone be against that.

But here is the danger of Oprah.  She is such a good person that she is leading people astray with her religion.   Make no mistake about it this is a religious show.  Oprah talks about prayer here.  But  who is she praying to?  Oprah’s morals are surely not Biblical.  She is a New Age thinker that is leading people down a path of destruction.

Oprah is offering a year-long course on the New Age teachings of Marianne Williamson.  A lesson a day throughout the year will completely cover the 365 lessons from the Course in Miracles “Workbook.”

Here are some quotes from the “Jesus” of A Course in Miracles:

• “There is no sin. . . ” 9

•  A “slain Christ has no meaning.”10

• “The journey to the cross should be the last ‘useless journey.”11

• “Do not make the pathetic error of ‘clinging to the old rugged cross.’”12

• “The Name of Jesus Christ as such is but a symbol… It is a symbol that is safely used as a replacement for the many names of all the gods to which you pray.”13

• “God is in everything I see.”14

• “The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself.”15

• “The oneness of the Creator and the creation is your wholeness, your sanity and your limitless power.”16

• “The Atonement is the final lesson he [man] need learn, for it teaches him that, never having sinned, he has no need of salvation.”17

Now this is plain heresy.

Here is what the Bible says.

1. Romans 3:23 says: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
   
2. Romans 6:6 says: “For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with“
3. Luke 9:23 says; “Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”
4. John 14:6 says: “Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

Ms. Williamson and Oprah are giving people false hope.  There is only one way to God and that is through a relationship with Jesus Christ.  Jesus Christ’s name is not a symbol, it is the way to salvation.  Without the “CROSS” there would be no payment for our sins.

Oprah does some great things with her celebrity.  But she is more dangerous than blatant Satan worshipers because she comes across as such a good person.  The Gospel of Oprah will lead people down a path of destruction.

What do you think?