Oprah Winfrey

Known as the “queen of talk shows,” Oprah Winfrey is nearly a household name in most parts of the USA.  Her talk show, called the Oprah Winfrey Show claims to be watched by 15-20 million viewers each day in the U.S.  Additionally it is being broadcast in in over 100 different countries.  producers of the show plan to keep it on the air until 2011.

Oprah herself is so much more than just a talk show host; although that is what she is perhaps best known for.  She has acted in films, published her own books, and as of this writing she even publishes two magazines, a website, a satellite radio station, and has her own book club for her TV viewers, through which she recommends various books for them to read, politicians to vote for, causes to support, foods to eat and diets to try; and they do. If Oprah recommends a book, it is practically guaranteed to sell over 1,000,000 copies.  She was named as America's most influential woman in 2007, by USA Today Magazine.   Many authors have Oprah's endorsement to thank for their books sales.

Being influential comes not only from being the hostess of what is perhaps the "most watched television talk show in America," Oprah also has a lot of money.  She is named as the wealthiest African American in the 20th Century.  (She is a billionaire,)  Make no mistake, when Oprah talks, people listen, and as she speaks she is often an openly active and avid promoter of New Age spiritualism and socialist philosophies. This had not always been the case. For a long time and when she first began he talk show... before she was rich and famous, Oprah Winfrey was Christian.


Oprah herself says that she was raised in a Christian environment, where she says she was, “singing songs about Jesus.” She even maintains verbally that she is most definitely a “Christian” and often demonstrates her faith by the wearing of a symbolic cross around her neck. She is happy to talk about Jesus, religion and “spiritual” issues on her television show and she says she does so because she wants to help people “get in touch with the spiritual part of their lives.” However, she’ll be the first to admit that she doesn’t believe that Jesus is the only way to God the Father. She says, and I was one who watched the show air when it did on television, “There couldn’t possibly be only one way to God.”

Oprah dotes over her  "spiritually minded" guests like Marianne Williamson, Shirley Maclaine, Deepak Chopra, Gary Zukav, Eckhart Tolle, Iyanla Vanzant, and perhaps most notably, Eric Butterworth whom she claims changed her mind about religion.  Oprah says that is was Butterworth’s book, Discover The Power Within You (1992) that changed her life with the revelation that, "God isn't up there. He exists inside each one of us, and it's up to us to seek the divine within."

Butterworth’s book that Oprah has spoken so highly about says, (Pg. 8) “The message of the Gospels has been misunderstood. They have been made to appear to say that Jesus was really God taking the form of man.” Butterworth does not believe in the very foundational aspect of Christian belief, the Incarnation.  Sinners repenting and believing God is antithetical to his teaching. Instead, "The Truth of the Divinity of Man,” is what he believes the “message of the gospels.” 'really' is and this is what Oprah now thinks the gospel is as she ministers likewise to her her followers in the TV watching world. 

Oprah, in this video with Eckhart Tolle, and with all the world is open and quite frank about her new beliefs.  It's not a secret that she embraces what she does.  She embraces Obama for President, Eckhart Tolle as a spiritual guide and teacher and rejects the message of the apostles and saints of God throughout history.  She may have been a Christian at one time in her life, but she no longer believes Jesus Christ is the Only way to God.  According to Oprah, “God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience…then that’s not truly God,” or so she said during the web seminar regarding Tolle's book, A New Earth. This may even lead, says Chuck Norris, to redefining not only Christianity, but "Easter."



As for Christianity and it's steadfast truths, we have heard preached to us the good news of the God's salvation, the gospel preached by those true disciples of Jesus who believed that Jesus was the the Word of God made flesh and that being in the very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped.  Jesus was God, Immanuel, who came to dwell among us. 

The apostles, Christ's disciples, believed Jesus was the Promised One of God, seed of the woman.... and they knew him personally, by name.  They knew his family, his mother and his brothers.  They watched him being Crucified; they saw him after he raise to life again after being dead.  These were they who admitted their guilt, repented of their sin and disobedience to God, who miraculously believed the things that God himself did and what he said. They believed the revelation from God that God was God and there was none but him and that God alone could save, heal and restore not only mankind but all creation, with a Word, a word expressed in his very name, Jesus.

It does all come down to who and what a person is willing to believe in.  For Oprah, surrounded by fame and fortune, clouded by delusion of the greatest kind it's currently Eric Butterworth... Eckhart Tolle, or anyone who tells her exactly what she want's to hear...that she is willing to believe in.  She is not alone in is ubleieve or her delusion; she's a lot like the rest of us, human.

Yes, no matter the color of our skin or the size of our bank account, the book we read or do not read, we are all a part of what we call the human race. Red and yellow, black and white, we human beings  are presicious in His sight....(John 3:16) and we are all sons and daughters, not only of life longing for itself, not only our own parents, but of the first humans to grace the Earth, Adam and Eve who were created by special creation of God.

As humans we all also struggle with what we believe; (Mark 9:24) and unfortunately we do not always want to hear the truth nor want to believe in things we have not made up for ourselves.  But the truth is that Jesus is real.  He really did exist, he really died and he was risen from the dead.  The things he said and did have been preserved for us in the Bible, and even Eckhart Tolle teaches his celebrity student Oprah many of the things Jesus said and did that are recorded for us in this holy book. 

Like Jesus said, He is the way the truth and the life, He also said no one comes to the Father, (God) except through Him.  (John 14:6)  He also said that if you do know the truth, (meaning Him and the truth he taught.. (.not some other fancy guru/spiritual leader) it is a very good thing, because the truth will set you free.  Oprah, like the rest of us would do much better, would know the truth,  if she would simply be humble as a little child, and learn from the real spiritual master: Jesus.

Jesus himself said, "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32 (KJV)