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THE MOST DANGEROUS TELEVANGELIST IN THE WORLD
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Albert Mohler,
President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
in Louisville, KY, recently wrote an article called The
Church of Oprah. In it he made the statement that “writing
anything even remotely critical of Oprah will bring an avalanche
of hate mail.” Well, back up the trucks from the Post Office. Without question,
Oprah Winfrey is one of the most, if not the most, popular
and influential people in our world. She’s also among the
wealthiest. Her Oprah Winfrey Show is the highest
rated talk show in television history. Her book club makes
instant bestsellers of what are oftentimes average books.
Statistics show each of the book selections she’s made for
her book club have sold over 1 million copies.
Her “O” Magazine (which
features her picture on the cover of EVERY ISSUE) has become
one of the most popular ladies’ magazines in America. HARPO
PRODUCTIONS, her personal media company, develops television
and radio programs, records music, and produces movies. They
are responsible for The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr.
Phil and The Rachael Ray Show. Her “Live
Your Best Life” seminars draw thousands of women, who
pay $185 each, and pack out auditoriums in cities all over
America.
But Oprah Winfrey
is more than just an entertainer, economic machine, entrepreneur,
educator, etc. She’s also an evangelist for a “false gospel,” full
of New Age philosophy and completely devoid of Scriptural
truth.
On a recent
program, which you can view on YouTube, Oprah said, “One
of the mistakes human beings make is believing that there
is only one way to live and we don’t accept that. There are
diverse ways of being in the world . . . that there are millions
of ways to be a human being and many ways, many paths to
what you call God. Her path might be something else and when
she gets there she might call it ‘the Light.’ But her loving
and her kindness and her generosity — if it brings her to
the same point it brings you, it doesn’t matter whether she
calls it God along the way or not. There can’t possibly be
just one way.”
Someone in the
audience mentions Jesus and Oprah asks, “What about Jesus?” A
lady in the audience says, “There is one way and only one
way and that is through Jesus.” To which Oprah responds, “There
couldn’t possibly be just one way.”
In one of her
more recent ventures, The New Earth Web Class, (week
#3), Oprah is visiting with Eckhart Tolle, author of the
book, A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life’s Purpose (a
selection of Oprah’s book club) and here is what she says, “I
took God out of the box. Because I grew up in the Baptist
Church and there were, you know, rules and, you know, belief
systems and doctrines and um, I happened to be sitting in
church in my late twenties and I was going to this church
where you had to get there at 8:00 in the morning or you
couldn’t get a seat . . . and a very charismatic minister
and everybody was just, you know, into the sermon and this
great minister was preaching about how great God was and
how omniscient and omnipresent and God is everything. And
then, he said, ‘and the Lord Thy God is a jealous God.’ And
I was, you know, caught up in the rapture of that moment
until he said ‘jealous.’ And something struck me and I was
like, I think about 27 or 28, and I was thinking, ‘God is
all. God is omnipresent and God is also jealous? God is jealous
of me?’ And something about that didn’t feel right in my
spirit. Because I believe that God is love and that God is
in all things. And so, that’s when the search for something
more than doctrine started to stir within me. And I love
this quote that Eckhart has. Uh, this is one of my favorite
quotes in chapter one, where he says, ‘man made God in his
own image. The eternal, the infinite and unnamable was reduced
to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as
my God or our God’.”
Oprah then turns
to Eckhart and asks, “What happens to us when we die?” Eckhart
says he doesn’t give it any thought at all. Then, Oprah says, “God
is a feeling experience not a believing experience . . .
and if God for you is still about a belief then it’s not
truly God. That’s what you’re saying.” And Eckart agrees
with her.
What?
Oprah has embraced
Betty Eadie, the new age, Mormon author of the book Embraced
By The Light and said she wants “people to see things
on our show that makes them think differently about their
lives . . . to be a light for people. To make a difference
. . . to open their minds and see things differently . .
. how to get in touch with the spiritual part of their life.” However,
according to Watchman Fellowship, a Christian ministry, which
exposes cults, deceptive teachers and their teachings, “the
light Oprah offers is the ‘angel of light’ (2 Corinthians 11:14)” which is none other than
Satan, himself.
Oprah wholeheartedly
endorsed and promoted the feel good, phony-baloney book, The
Secret, by Rhonda Byrne, which teaches you can think
anything into existence and bring success and unlimited wealth
to yourself just by thinking the right thoughts. Only the
latest in a long line of self-help books focused on positive
thinking rather than God, the book promotes believing in
the force of the universe rather than having faith in God
and even states the individual reader is God.
Oprah has done
a lot of good in our world. But that doesn’t discount the
damage she is doing to millions of people who are buying
into the dangerous gospel she espouses. A gospel diametrically
opposed to Scripture.
The Bible emphatically
and clearly states there is only ONE WAY to Heaven and His
name is JESUS! Jesus said, “I am THE way, THE truth and THE
life. No man comes to the Father except by Me” (John 14:6). The apostle Paul was equally clear
when he wrote, “But even if we or an angel from heaven should
preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let
him be eternally condemned!”
Oprah is a talented
talk show host and likeable person — at least from a distance.
But she’s also a dangerous televangelist duping tens of millions
of people into believing and embracing a false gospel.
Don’t allow
yourself to be deceived by the most dangerous television
evangelist in the world and don’t excuse her actions by recounting
all the good she accomplishes.
No amount of
good works can ever make up for a false gospel that sends
people to Hell!
© 2008. Barry L. Cameron
http://www.crossroadschristian.net/blog/
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