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Erick Bohndorf PCA, KS
http://qayaqtraveler.blogspot.com/
Jeremiah 23:16,17, "Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord. 17They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, ‘It shall be well with you’; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, ‘No disaster shall come upon you."

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Benjamin P. Glaser
Pittsburgh, PA
Fairmount ARP Church
Student of Theology
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary
My Blog

"Man's attempt to enter heaven on his own terms places him instead in hell." -- R.J. Rushdoony

Yeah! It's the same old New Age do your own thing heresy we've been hearing for years.

Like so many she refuses to see the folly of following her own chosen way!

Hers is the broad path that sees God in everything:

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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
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"Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God."
-- John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.

"Our Lord God must be a good man, to be fond of worthless fellows. I cannot like them, and yet I, myself, am one."
-- Martin Luther, Table Talk

Incredible how someone so influential and so very wrong can be given free rein like this (and increasing influence to boot!)

I can't imagine holding to anything but God's sovereignty and predestination - you'd totally flip out after watching this...

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Kevin
Far East
Deacon, Int'l Church

Should habitually watching Oprah be grounds for church discipline?

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Mary Vanderkooi
Kale Heywott Church (KHC)
Soddo, Ethiopia

I live a few miles from where Interstate I20 and I59 split. So, (using Oprah's logic) if I want to go take I20 (which leads to Jackson MS.) to go to New Orleans or I59 (which leads to New Orleans) to go to Jackson, it doesn't matter. Hmmm... all roads lead to the top of the mountain... except for the ones that lead to the valley! Duh... This woman is nuts!

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Kevin - PCA - Mississippi

"What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding, I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven." - Charles Spurgeon

"Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!" - 2 Corinthians 9:15

Yes, I think so!

If I was an elder and knew the family was a daytime-TV-watching type, I would defintely ask this during huisbezoek.

She scares me...

I don't understand this video - it starts out talking about a new church that met in March with 300,000 and now has 2,000,000 in attendance. What are they talking about - people watching Oprah's talk show?

She says, "God made man in his image....God is about feeling not believing, if you are stuck in a believing religion, then you haven't found God."

Well, if Oprah believes this then she is a heretic and pagan. But I don't understand where they get this new church thing from, and who is the funny little fellow she is interviewing?

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Thomas Weddle
Member, Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church
Evansville, Indiana

Hearing this stuff on feeling makes me want to be a Vulcan!!

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Nathan Olaf Brandal
First Baptist Church of Kirkland

"Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure"
GEORGE WHITEFIELD TO JOHN WESLEY

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The women in my church would most likely say no, since most of them, well....

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Dan Pemberton
Vacaville, CA

Member, First Baptist Church San Luis Obispo
Formerly ABUSA (We left, so I guess that makes us American Baptists Unleashed!)

I have wondered that recently too. I read those numbers in an article a few weeks ago; now, while I could very well be wrong, I don't know of any stadium that hold 2 million people.

I did a little research on this, for those that don't know what is going on, Oprah is advertising this fellow's book through a weekly webcast. His name is Eckhart Tolle, I had never heard of him before, but he seems really goofy. His book is called A New Earth and teaches people to get in touch with their life's purpose by connecting with stillness and overcoming the disease of our society.

"The disease, of course, is the collective dysfunction of the egoic mind. " Quoting Eckhart Tolle, on Ophrah's website.

These numbers are from a webcast - not a "new church," it's just a self-help new age self appointed guru being advertised by one of the most dysfunctioning egoic minds on television today. After all, Oprah was destined for greatness.

She apparently thinks this man's teachings are so life changing and tremendous that to create this new earth we all have to connect to Life (God, Consciousness), so that we can evolve to a higher state of consciousness. There is One Consciousness and Oprah is its prophet, maybe people will fall for this, but it won't last long - it's just repackaged mysticism.

Of course, I suppose they don't see that it takes a fascinating dysfunctioning egoic mind to even contemplate such nonsense. Really goofy stuff, very sad, but it is a tremendous wake up call for how desperately America needs to hear the true gospel of the Grace of God.

Eckert Tolle, and I'm sure that my opinion that he is an effeminate little weasel selling false goods makes me insufferably intolerant. He is a mystic who has emerged as someone who "brings meaning to people's lives". Oh my.

It's an online class that she is "team teaching" if you will. 2 million people have enrolled to learn what she's talking about in this video. This is NOT her regular show but rather a lesson/class called "Course in Miracles." This is why they are referring to it as a "church." The guy's name is Eckhart Tolle. Thanks to Oprah's endorsement and her little class here, his book (as of yesterday or the day before) is #2 on the Amazon booklist (in purchases). She wields HUGE influence.

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~Gloria G.~
Bride of Warren G.
Member of Trinity Presbyterian Church, PCA, Southeast Georgia

"Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways." Psalm 119:37

I remember back in the early days when Oprah was first getting started she was all about self-help and healing the hurts of life, which lead ultimately to Dr. Phil who expanded the self-help genre and added to it some psychology. (This has infested our society and now ultimately our churches, self-help that is).

I wonder if what she is teaching now is what our society, and sadly churches (since they follow whatever society does in order to be relevant), is what we have in store for us in the future, both in society and church. Why does this woman have so much influence on our society?

2 Timothy 3
1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. 9But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

My husband has been saying for a while now that she is one of the philosophers of our day. It seems that may be true. Very scary. It's also very sad that she is so lost. May God be pleased to call her to himself and show her mercy.

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Traci
Lynnwood OPC
Psalm 52:8-9
8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

This is terribly sad, but one quote struck me as quite hilarious, and showed the absurdity of her message. After being asked how or why she reconciled this with her "Christian" beliefs, she says

So she believes this because she doesn't like rules. Or I should say she probably just doesn't like other people's rules. I'm sure she's fine with her own.

Here is a humorous/satirical story about her: Oprah Launches Own Reality | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Conor

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Conor Aubry
Member, Wellington Presbyterian Church, Wellington, Florida
Clemson University, Student, Clemson, SC

maybe they're really small people

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“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Revelation 1:8

Marc
Saskatoon Evangelical Free Church
Saskatoon, SK