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I know this is an old video but this needs to be exposed as much as posible because it is nothing more than a new age religion.

First Thing to note: She Denies Christ!

More on Oprahs Church: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/mar/08030701.html

Oprah's 'Church' Video Draws Over 5 Million to YouTube
By Elena Garcia
Christian Post Reporter
Wed, Apr. 23 2008 08:24 AM ET

A YouTube video which features talk show host Oprah Winfrey denying Jesus as the only way to God and promoting New Age ideas has received over 5 million views and is still climbing.

In this still image of a computer screen showing the YouTube website, an image of talk show host Oprah Winfrey is seen, April 24, 2008. The YouTube video, which features Oprah denying Jesus as the only way to God and promoting New Age ideas, has received over 5 million views and is still climbing.The under seven-minute video montage, entitled "The Church of Oprah Exposed," was posted about month ago and has since claimed the Top Favorites spot in the Web site's News & Politics category.

According to statistics posted on YouTube, the latest streams of visitors are coming from PerezHilton.com, a Hollywood gossip blog. The author of the blog wrote that "crazy Christians" are behind the effort to demonize Oprah as a "conduit of evil."

But many Christians say New Age teachings espoused by Oprah in the video are a cause for concern. They believe the day-time host is distorting Christianity and leading many into spiritual confusion.

In a commentary posted on The Morning Call, one pastor likened Oprah's multi-way approach to God to telling a blind man standing at the edge of a cliff that whichever way he chooses to walk is equally safe.

"She holds the trendy idea that religions are essentially the same and that there are many paths that lead to God. She irrationally romanticizes the notion that God can be whatever you want him/her/it to be," writes Steven W. Cornell, pastor of a Pennsylvania-based church.

One clip in the video shows Oprah blatantly denying Jesus as the only way to God.

"How can there be only one way to heaven or to God?" Oprah asked her audience in a show taped years ago.

When one woman in the audience asked, "What about Jesus?" Oprah defiantly answered, "What about Jesus?...There couldn't possibly be one way."

Another part of the YouTube video shows Oprah hosting her recent Webinar class, in which she promotes New Age writer Eckhart Tolle and his "New Earth" book.

A guest caller asked her in the segment how she reconciled certain spirituality teachings with those of Christianity.

Oprah went on to explain how her view of God changed after hearing a charismatic preacher describe God as "jealous God" in her late 20s. She concluded that by opening her mind to the "hugeness" of God and accepting that He is love helped her to reconcile the two.

"God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience…then that's not truly God," she continued to say during the webinar.

Frank Pastore, a Christian radio talk show host on KKLA, was among the many Christian leaders who criticized Oprah's views, saying the two worldviews she discusses are actually irreconcilable.

"If she’s a Christian, she’s an ignorant one, because Christianity is incompatible with New Age thought," Pastore wrote in his commentary on Crosswalk.com.

He went on to list key differences between Christianity and New Age worldviews. In one entry, Pastore said that the meaning of life for Christians is to glorify God while New Age thought showcases enlightenment.

Bill Keller, founder of LivePrayer.com, a internet-based program on faith and values, said he believes Oprah is starting her own cult.

"She has an incredible amount of influence over people and an incredible following," Keller told Celebrity News Service.

"I believe these New Age teachings are like 'spiritual crack' because people are hungry, the teachings satisfy and then they are hungry again," he added.

Keller, who has responded with his YouTube video on the matter, told Celebrity News Service that while many at this point are afraid to challenge Oprah because of her power, he expects more people to begin questioning her teachings over the next six months.

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20 ... ouTube.htm

Oh brother!! She thinks God is jealous of her! That tells me one thing about Oprah!!! Self, self, self! And shes teaching others to think the same way! This in ways reminds me of scientology.

2 Timothy 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

I watched these clips and reflected on my own path. I was content, for many years, to be a good human being. I was content to honestly believe in God. A good human being who believed in God equals Christian...right? God is love. Yes, I believed that, still do. It is the path that brought me to Jesus. Oprah just hasn't found Him yet, but it seems to me that she is looking. I pray that she finds Him.

There is only one path to salvation, but I can tell you that I took a lot of paths down some pretty dark roads before I found this one.

Jan

Amen Jan!! I think those roads can help you in ways, strenghten you. Welcome btw!

There is only one path to salvation, but I can tell you that I took a lot of paths down some pretty dark roads before I found this one.

Jan

Yep! Boy! Didn't we!

Welcome sister and make your self at home and feel free to ask and post on any subject.

Quoting Oprah:
"God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience…then that's not truly God," she continued to say during the webinar.

This statement will entrap and drown many people in their sins. Why? Because if there is one thing that the Salvation package does not include, it is reliance on emotion, or as she says 'feeling'.


The Holy Spirit is just that - SPIRIT! While He does effect our emotions, it is not emotion that makes one whit of difference in our being saved. It is difficult for me to even pray sometimes, because my emotions are excited, but that has nothing to do with salvation, nor does it negate His Spirit in me.
Our emotions/feeling as such are subject to change in a split second of time, but His Holy Spirit never changes! Do not confuse emotion for His Holy Spirit. I think this is why so many people get saved, then later say they lost their salvation. I think they thought that heady excitement of being saved - the excitement of it - once lost, also means the lost their salvation. He has promised never to leave us nor forsake us. Once we are His, we are His forever.

Christ said, I am the way, the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father but by Me.!

End of arguement. Oprah simply does not know of what she speaks.

I think we should all band together and ask God to challenge her with His truth in such a way that she can not ignore Him!

Will He do that? I do not know, [I will pray that way though] but I would imagine she needs a good shot of unadulterated truth, which she has probably never heard.

God said He is not willing that any should perish, so if she does indeed perish it is not because she does not have the wherewithall to find His truth. It will be because she chooses Satan's path. We are not victims of life's circumstance, but rather we are victims of our personal decisions.

If Oprah would read the story of the rich man who went to hell she might see herself. She probably has no inkling that all her money can not buy her out of torments. She is one sad case.

God gave Oprah a life to where she could really influence people...if only she had chosen Jesus Christ!! Will be praying for her.