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“Oprah Winfrey’s New Age “Christianity” and the Emperor’s New Clothes”
The twenty-first century will be the time of awakening, of meeting The Creator Within. Many beings will experience Oneness with God and with all of life. This will be the beginning of the golden age of the New Human, of which it has been written; the time of the universal human, which has been eloquently described by those with deep insight among you. There are many such people in the world now—teachers and messengers, Masters and visionaries—who are placing this vision before humankind and offering tools with which to create it. These messengers and visionaries are the heralds of a New Age.1 (emphasis added)—Neale Donald Walsch’s New Age “God”
Get ready to be awakened.2 (emphasis added)—Oprah Winfrey
The colorful orange and blue paper band around the book issued the following invitation to readers: “Join Oprah and Eckhart for a worldwide web event . . . Every Monday night for 10 weeks . . . Register at Oprah.com.” A personal message from Oprah stated, “Get ready to be awakened.” It was early in 2008, and it all had to do with a much-publicized selection from Oprah Winfrey’s book club—A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life Purpose by New Age author Eckhart Tolle. Through this worldwide web event with Tolle, Oprah was making a definite statement. She was no longer content to just share and promote her New Age beliefs. In this Internet class with Tolle, she would now be actively teaching them. This was a bold move by a woman who was willing to do everything in her power—which is considerable—to convert humanity to a new worldview and to a New Age “Christianity” that is no Christianity at all.
The “Shift”
With her good friend Marianne Williamson simultaneously teaching a daily year-long class on A Course in Miracles on Oprah and Friends XM Satellite Radio, Oprah was unleashing two very public New Age classes. And these classes were teaching millions of people that the way to save themselves and the planet was not by accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior but rather by accepting the “God” and “Christ within.” As Williamson put it in her book A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles: “I accept the Christ within.”3
In defending her New Age beliefs, Oprah Winfrey would argue that what she was promoting was for the good of the world. She would also tell detractors—“I am not a New Age anything, and I resent being called that.”4 While Oprah is free to call her New Age teachings whatever she wants, a rose by any other name is still a rose. Oprah and her spiritual colleagues are New Age because they all teach the heretical New Age doctrine of spiritual Oneness—We are all one because we are all “God,” and we are all “Christ.” As Marianne Williamson writes:
We are all one, we are love itself. “Accepting the Christ” is merely a shift in self-perception.5
The New Age “shift” that Oprah, Williamson, and Tolle describe occurs when an individual “awakens” to the alleged “God” and “Christ within.” Shift is the big word. It means moving from one position to another—as in moving one’s focus away from the “ego” to the “Christ within.” With television, satellite radio, the Internet, and her Life You Want Tour revival meetings, Oprah is determined to teach the world how to “awaken” and make the “shift” to the “Christ within.”
In her first class with Eckhart Tolle—with people around the world watching—Oprah asked if anyone had experienced the “shift” to a new “awakening” while reading Tolle’s book, A New Earth. The question was reminiscent of the New Age EST program in the 1970s that taught this same idea of “shifting” one’s perception and similarly asking—“Did you get ‘IT?’” Obviously, there is pressure to get “IT”—to experience the “shift.” Oprah felt the “shift”—did you? Have you “awakened” to this New Age way of perceiving yourself and others that can save the planet; this understanding that we are all one because God is “in” everyone and everything? Get it? Got it? Good! Oprah encouraged everyone to keep logging on to her classes and to keep reading Eckhart Tolle’s book. In so doing, they would get “it” too!
“Evolve or Die”
Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth—like A Course in Miracles and countless other New Age books—describes how the world is at a crisis point and that we are in dire need of spiritual help. Tolle insists that humanity must “spiritually evolve” in order to avoid personal and planetary disaster. According to Oprah, Tolle, and New Age teachers everywhere, spiritually evolving means “shifting” and accepting the New Age/New Spirituality belief we are all divine—i.e., we are all “God.” In his book and in his first class with Oprah, Tolle reiterated the same teaching that key New Age leader Barbara Marx Hubbard received from her New Age “Christ”—“Evolve or die.”6 Thus, what people were basically being told by Winfrey and Tolle was—if you don’t “shift” to the New Age/New Spirituality point of view, planet earth may be destroyed and humanity may become extinct. This echoes what Barbara Marx Hubbard’s New Age “Christ” told her. He made it clear that in the future, those who refuse to see “God” and “Christ” in everyone will eventually be eliminated by what he describes as a spiritual “selection process.”7
Hubbard—highly respected by her New Age colleagues—also writes that her New Age “Christ” has proposed an “alternative to Armageddon.”8 Hubbard’s channeled New Age “Christ” states that the Bible’s prophesied battle of Armageddon doesn’t have to happen. He describes how his “alternative to Armageddon” Peace Plan can save the planet and bring world peace. This wholly unbiblical/extra-biblical Armageddon alternative is predicated on accepting the “shift” that Oprah, Tolle, and other New Age leaders are teaching. The New Age “Christ’s” view of the future inspired Hubbard to be one of the co-founders of the World Future Society. Merging/emerging church leader Brian McLaren has also written about an Armageddon alternative.9 Not surprisingly, McLaren was one of the featured speakers at the 2008 World Future Society’s annual gathering, along with Barbara Marx Hubbard herself.
Surprised by the Truth
In describing the New Age/New Spirituality “shift” and the necessity for everyone to spiritually evolve, Eckhart Tolle told Oprah Winfrey and their millions of viewers that once you “awaken” to your own godhood the “shift” is “irreversible.” What Tolle overlooked were those of us who had previously made the “shift” to New Age beliefs only to discover—by the grace of God—that we had been grossly deceived by these false New Age teachings. We then shifted out of the New Age as we renounced our New Age beliefs. Piercing through the darkness, the Bible proved itself to be shockingly true as it exposed the massive deception behind New Age/New Spirituality teachings.
It was extremely humbling for us to realize that the Bible didn’t need New Age correction—that it was authoritative and true and actually warned about the deception of which we had been a part. We were shown that God was God and we were not. Jesus was the one and only Christ. There was no universal “Christ within.” We also came to realize there really was a Devil and that he was orchestrating a New Age/New Spirituality deception through seducing spirits (1 Timothy 4:1). We were brought to the understanding that we were sinners and needed to be saved by the true Jesus Christ (Romans 3:23-25). We learned by God’s grace and through God’s Word that the New Age Peace Plan to save the world—the Armageddon alternative—was part of the last days deception the true Christ warned would come at the time of the end (Matthew 24:3-5). Like Oprah, we had been very enthusiastic and sincere about our New Age beliefs, but we came to realize we were sincerely wrong. The New Age “awakening” and the paradigm “shift” it inspires is a deceptive spiritual device being cleverly and mightily used to deceive the world (2 Corinthians 2:11).
The Shifty New Age
In their initial March 3, 2008 webcast, Oprah Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle were careful not to describe “the shift” they were advocating as New Age. In fact, Oprah described herself as a “Christian.” In what appeared to be a conveniently screened first caller, a woman asked how Oprah reconciled her “new form of spirituality” with her “Christian” beliefs:
Kelly (Illinois): “I had a Catholic upbringing, I married a Catholic, and we’re raising our children this way. In reading books such as Tolle’s, I’ve really, it’s really opened my eyes up to a new way of thinking; a new form of spirituality that doesn’t always align with the teachings of Christianity. So my question is to you, Oprah, how have you reconciled these spiritual teachings with your Christian beliefs?”
Oprah Winfrey: “I’ve reconciled it because I was able to open my mind about the absolute indescribable hugeness of that which we call ‘God.’ 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 in doctrine . . . . “And you know, it’s been a journey to get to the place where I understand, as I said on the pre-show here, that what I believe is that Jesus came to show us Christ consciousness. . . . Jesus came to show us the way of the heart . . . to show us the higher consciousness that we’re all talking about here. . . . “And as I said earlier on that pre-show here, there is a wonderful book called Discover the Power Within You by Eric Butterworth, which helped me to reconcile the two. So that might be really good for those of you who are Christian and trying to balance the two”10 (emphasis added).
Oprah’s endorsement of New Age minister and author Eric Butterworth’s book was extremely significant. Twenty-one years earlier, on a September 18, 1987 Oprah Winfrey Show titled “The New Age Movement,”11 Oprah defined the New Age in positive terms by referring to Butterworth’s book, Discover the Power Within You. On this program about the New Age, this same idea of “awakening” and “shifting” one’s awareness to the “divine self” or “Christ within” was similarly introduced. Thus, everything Oprah Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle were referring to as a New Spirituality in 2008 had already been articulated by Winfrey and her guests on that 1987 program as New Age. During the 1987 show, Oprah stated:
They call themselves members of the New Age Movement, and they say that our hope for survival as a planet comes from learning about our own individual power and our own divinity . . . .
Later in the program Oprah talks about Eric Butterworth and his book. One of her guests on the show, New Age minister Dr. Donald Curtis, stated that her remarks about Eric Butterworth perfectly defined the term New Age:
Winfrey: “One of the most important books, I think, I’ve read, in my life was a book by Eric Butterworth whom I know you—”
Dr. Curtis: “Excellent, excellent.”
Winfrey: “Called Discover the Power Within You. And what Eric Butterworth said in that book is that Jesus did not come to teach how divine he was, but came to teach us that there is divinity within us. So that is essentially what we are talking about.”
Dr. Curtis: “That’s a summary statement of exactly where we are in what we call the New Age or the new thought.”
Winfrey: “And that’s what the new thought means, for those of you who are confused about it.”
But, in reality, Oprah is just adding to the confusion that she is attempting to clarify. She tells her detractors—“I am not a New Age anything and I resent being called that,” yet Eric Butterworth’s own website describes him as “a highly respected New Age pioneer and innovator of New Thought.”12 Obviously New Thought is New Age—and that is what she has been pushing through Butterworth and others down through the years. So what is most confusing is when Oprah tells everyone she is “Christian,” but everything she is believing and teaching is straight New Age. Also on the 1987 program, Oprah and Dr. Curtis have an exchange about “shifting” and “awakening” to the “divine self”—the “God” and “Christ within.”
Winfrey: “There seems to be a spiritual movement afoot, and I wonder if it’s because I sense my own spiritual evolvement, or is this something that’s really happening, Dr. Curtis?”
Dr. Curtis: “Well, I’m sure it’s happening, because as you said in the introduction, the New Age or the new thought religions are very much in line with traditional religion. I think it’s a dimension that comes when we’re aware of the awakening in consciousness, the shift, the new paradigms of thought, and all of the awakening of that divine self in individuals, that of course, where is one to go to find security or to find a sense of their own reality except within? . . . Can you imagine any greater revolutionary or New Age thinker than Jesus Christ when he came on the scene?” (emphasis added)
Winfrey: Yeah, absolutely.
Thus, on the March 3rd, 2008 webcast with Eckhart Tolle, Oprah Winfrey was just reiterating what she said twenty years previous on her 1987 program about the New Age movement. Her statements about Eric Butterworth and his book in 2008 were almost identical to what she was saying in 1987—that man is divine. The description of the New Age “awakening” to the “Christ within” and the New Age “shift” to the “divine self” on the 1987 program was exactly what she and Tolle were teaching—but instead of calling it New Age they, like other New Age proponents, were cleverly renaming it the New Spirituality.
The Ultimate Ego Trip vs. Being Born Again
Contrary to what Oprah Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle stated, New Age beliefs cannot be reconciled to biblical Christianity. The Bible makes it very clear that Jesus Christ came to the world as Messiah—the one and only Christ. He did not come to teach humanity to “shift” from the “ego” to their “inner Christ.” What Winfrey, Tolle, and other New Age/New Spirituality leaders overlook in their apparent renunciation of the ego, is that a “shift” from one’s “ego” to the “Christ within” is the biggest ego trip of all. Who do they think they are—God? And their answer is “Yes!” By claiming the title of “God” and “Christ” for themselves, they succumb to the original temptation that took place in the Garden of Eden—that “ye shall be as gods” (Genesis 3:5).
The true Jesus Christ taught, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit” (John 3:6). He said, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). He also said, “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again” (John 3:7). Being born again means accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior—not accepting yourself as “God” and “shifting” to an alleged “Christ within.” Jesus meant it when He said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6). The world doesn’t want to hear it, but Scripture lays it right on the line: Salvation does not come from “awakening” and “shifting” to the “Christ within.” Salvation can only be found in our one true Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Oprah and the “Great Heretical Idea”
On that same 1987 Oprah Winfrey Show titled “New Age Movement,” Oprah’s first guest was Marilyn Ferguson, the New Age author of The Aquarian Conspiracy. Winfrey described Ferguson’s book as “the bible of the New Age movement.” In The Aquarian Conspiracy, Ferguson introduces what she calls “a great heretical idea.” She believes this “great heretical idea” will enable humanity to spiritually evolve and achieve world peace. The “heretical idea” is the belief that God is “in” everyone and everything. Ferguson describes how immanence—the “God within”—has always been perceived as heresy. But if this idea of “God within” is “widely communicated”—she argues—it can “become our new consensus.” Ferguson wrote:
Usually at the point of crisis, someone has a great heretical idea. A powerful new insight explains the apparent contradictions. It introduces a new principle . . . a new perspective.13 Given the superior power and scope of the new idea, we might expect it to prevail rather quickly, but that almost never happens. The problem is that you can’t embrace the new paradigm unless you let go of the old.14
If these discoveries of transformation are to become our common heritage for the first time in history, they must be widely communicated. They must become our new consensus, what “everybody knows.”15 (emphasis added)
Over the last 28 years—ever since the 1987 program about the New Age movement—Oprah Winfrey has used her television program to promote scores of New Age authors and their occult/New Age books. With Oprah’s endorsement, the authors’ books attain instant notoriety as their books frequently sail to the top of the New York Times best-seller List. This has happened time after time as the New Age “great heretical idea” of the universal “God within” has been “widely communicated.” Oprah Winfrey has more than fulfilled the strategic New Age role laid out by Marilyn Ferguson in The Aquarian Conspiracy. The idea of “God within” has gradually become “what everybody knows.”
Queen Midas
One graphic example of how Oprah Winfrey has “widely communicated” the “great heretical idea” of the “Christ within” over the last many years is seen in her popularization of friend and New Age leader Marianne Williamson’s book about A Course in Miracles. As previously mentioned, while Oprah Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle presented their New Age teachings about the “Christ within” on the Internet, Marianne Williamson was presenting the same New Age ideas on Oprah’s XM Satellite Radio station. Williamson had a daily, year-long class where she taught the channeled New Age teachings of A Course in Miracles. Sixteen years earlier in February 1992, Oprah had introduced Williamson and her book A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles to her worldwide television audience. On that program, Oprah stated that Williamson was:
A leader in a philosophy that I personally know could change the world—I believe that with all my heart. I have read many books over the years. I have never been as moved by a book as I have by Marianne Williamson’s book A Return to Love. So moved in fact that I went out and bought a thousand copies, and we’ll be giving you all a copy before you leave here today . . . If it sounds like I am trying to hype the book, I really am. It’s the first time you can open a book and actually see some answers.16
As a result of Oprah’s enthusiastic endorsement, Williamson’s book shot to the top of the New York Times best-seller list and stayed there for months. A Course in Miracles is reputedly “new revelation” channeled directly from “Jesus.” However, this channeled false Christ turns the Holy Bible upside down as he teaches—among other things—that “a slain Christ has no meaning.”17 He states that “The journey to the cross should be the ‘last useless journey,’”18 “Do not make the pathetic error of ‘clinging to the old rugged cross,”’19 and “The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself.”20 This false Christ also teaches that there is no sin, no devil, and no need for salvation because we save ourselves by recognizing our divinity.21 The “Jesus” of A Course in Miracles is yet another beguiling New Age voice entreating unsuspecting persons to “awaken” and “shift” to the “God” and “Christ within.”
In the 2008 webinar, Oprah did for Tolle what she had previously done for Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, Shirley MacLaine, Gary Zukav, Dr. Mehmet Oz, and so many other New Age figures through the years. Like King Midas, Oprah has a “golden touch” that instantly transforms otherwise obscure New Age books into golden best-sellers. But ultimately, King Midas’ “golden touch” was too much as he transformed things into gold that really shouldn’t have been—like his food, water, and even his daughter. Likewise, Oprah has also turned things into gold that should not have been—New Age books like A Return to Love, A New Earth, and The Secret—all to the spiritual detriment of her trusting viewers.
Oprah has performed her New Age evangelistic role extremely well—and continues to do so. For four separate decades, she has consistently communicated her strong New Age beliefs by favorably interviewing New Age authors and endorsing their New Age books. Thanks largely to Oprah, the “great heretical idea” of “God within” is now a mainstream belief embedded in today’s postmodern “progressive” culture. Oprah has an apparent zeal for God but not according to knowledge (Romans 10:2). The New Age “Jesus” is not the true Jesus Christ (Matthew 24:24). He is “another Jesus” with “another spirit” and “another gospel” (2 Corinthians 10:4).
Oprah and The Queen’s New (Age) Clothes
The good old minister went into the room where the swindlers sat before the empty looms. “Heaven preserve us!” he thought, and opened his eyes wide, “I cannot see anything at all,” but he did not say so. Both swindlers requested him to come near, and asked him if he did not admire the exquisite pattern and the beautiful colors, pointing to the empty looms. The poor old minister tried his very best, but he could see nothing, for there was nothing to be seen. “Oh dear,” he thought, “can I be so stupid? I should never have thought so, and nobody must know it! Is it possible that I am not fit for my office? No, no, I cannot say that I was unable to see the cloth.”—Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor’s New Clothes
In the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, The Emperor’s New Clothes, some swindlers convince the Emperor and his ministers to see a suit of clothes that is actually non-existent. These swindlers convince the Emperor and his ministers by telling them that only “intelligent,” “well-informed” citizens can see the suit of clothes. Publicity about the Emperor’s “new” clothes went out unto all the kingdom as people were told what they were supposed to see. The people realized that if they were to be perceived as “smart” and not seem “stupid” they would see this suit of clothes. And, of course, no one wanted to be perceived as stupid.
Soon it was publicized throughout the kingdom that the Emperor would be showing off his new suit of clothes in a public procession several days hence. When the day came, the naked Emperor walked among his people and received unanimous acclaim for his new suit of clothes. The people saw what they had been told to see. “Isn’t it absolutely wonderful,” all the people proclaimed. “The Emperor is all dressed up in his new suit of clothes.”
Everyone was so taken by the Emperor’s “new” suit of clothes that they barely heard the little boy who hadn’t been told what he was supposed to see. “But the Emperor isn’t wearing any clothes,” said the lad. “The emperor is naked!”
Several people heard the boy and realized that what he was saying was true. Suddenly everyone’s eyes were opened, and they knew they had been tricked into seeing something that wasn’t even there. The Emperor wasn’t wearing a new suit of clothes. He was as naked as the day he was born. Swindlers had deceived the Emperor, his ministers, and almost the whole kingdom with their clever scheme.
And so it is with the “New” Age/”New” Spirituality and Oprah Winfrey. Widely regarded as the “Queen” of the airwaves, Oprah has been deceived into seeing a “New” Age/”New” Spirituality “suit of clothes” that simply isn’t there. The Queen’s advisors—Eric Butterworth, Maya Angelou, Marianne Williamson, Gary Zukav, Neale Donald Walsch, Esther Hicks, Eckhart Tolle, and countless others—have all been similarly deceived into seeing this “new” way of looking at themselves and the world. Deceived and deceiving (2 Timothy 3:13), they in turn convinced the Queen that she and everyone in her kingdom just needed to “shift” past their “egos” and “awaken” to the fact that they were naturally clothed in “Christ”—that they were already wearing this “new” suit from the New Age/New Spirituality wardrobe. All they had to do was accept and affirm the “God” and “Christ” within.
The Queen was very excited. She said she would help everyone “awaken” and “shift” to this new “Christ consciousness”—this “new” way of “seeing” themselves and their world. Being a sympathetic and caring person, she wanted the whole world to see what she and her advisors were seeing—that everyone was divine and clothed in this “Christ consciousness.” She knew that if this “New” Age/”New” Spirituality suit of clothes was presented properly, all the wise and well-informed people would “see” her point of view and “get it.” They would “awaken” as she and Marianne Williamson and Eckhart Tolle had. If everyone would just “awaken” and “shift” to this new way of seeing themselves, then everything in the kingdom could be made right again. With this “Great Awakening,” all of humanity could spiritually evolve and world peace could finally be achieved.
So with great fanfare and publicity, the Queen went on the worldwide web and told everyone in the world that what she and Eckhart Tolle were teaching was the most exciting thing she had ever done. On her first Internet class, the Queen told her enthusiastic followers that there was nothing more important than “awakening” to the “New” Spirituality—that we are all clothed in “Christ” and that we are all dressed in this same suit of clothes because we are all “God” and we are all “Christ.” She was hopeful everyone would see the world as “A New Earth” the way she and Eckhart, and all of her New Age colleagues, saw it. But she was worried about the people who were not smart enough to see that they were “God” and “Christ.” She told everyone in her first Internet class if there isn’t a shift, God only knows what will happen to us.
The Queen’s urgency let everyone know that it was really important that they have the “awakening” and make the “shift” to the “Christ” within. She was very charismatic and very convincing as she made it clear that the well-being of the planet depended on everyone seeing themselves as “God” and “Christ.” She and Eckhart warned that people would either be smart and evolve, or they would die.
But it wasn’t a little boy who warned the Queen that she was being greatly deceived—the warnings were from the one true God that had created her. His Holy Bible warned her not to be deceived by false prophets and false Christs that claimed “Christ” was within every person. His Scriptures made it clear that Jesus Christ was the one and only true Christ. But the Queen wasn’t listening to the words of the Bible. She was listening to Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, and her New Age colleagues.
Oprah’s Rude Awakening
Oprah has done her job well. For nearly thirty years, she has enthusiastically and consistently communicated her New Age beliefs through countless New Age authors. All those in the “Aquarian Conspiracy” must be very proud of her. Thanks to Oprah’s high visibility and continued popularity, “the great heretical idea” that “God” and “Christ” are within everyone has been “widely communicated” and is fast becoming our “new consensus” and “what everyone knows.” This ten-week class that she was teaching with Eckhart Tolle was the culmination of all that Oprah has sought to teach her viewers over the years about the New Age and how to see the world anew. But like the Emperor and his “new” suit of clothes, Oprah has been greatly deceived by her New Spirituality.
Sadly, if Oprah and her colleagues continue down the path of the New Age/New Spirituality, they will experience an “awakening” some day, but it will not be the “Great Awakening” they anticipated. Instead, it will be a rude awakening come Judgment Day. On that day, they will suddenly realize that God is God and they are not, and they never were. They will realize that Jesus Christ is Lord and that He is the one and only Christ, and there is no universal “Christ within.” They will see that they were deceived and that the Lord Jesus Christ really meant it when he said, “Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many” (Matthew 24:4-5).
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord. (2 Corinthians 4:5)
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light . . . put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 13: 11-12, 14)
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Endnotes
1. Neale Donald Walsch, Friendship with God: an uncommon dialogue (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1999), p. 295-296.
2. Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (New York: A Plume Book (Published by Penguin Group), 2005): Personal message from Oprah Winfrey on orange and blue paper band on special edition of the book.
3. Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles (New York: Harper Perennial, 1996), p. 33.
4. “The Gospel According to Oprah” (Vantage Point, July 1998, Watchman Fellowship, www.fial.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=artNewAge.article_1); quoted from Stephen Mansfield, Where Has Oprah Taken Us? The Religious Influence of the World’s Most Influential Woman (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 70.
5. Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love, op. cit., p. 32.
6. Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth, op. cit., p. 21; Barbara Marx Hubbard lecture at Texas A&M University, September 11, 2002, information taken from The Aggie Daily, September 12, 2002. (http://www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/02/091202-8.html).
7. Barbara Marx Hubbard, The Revelation: A Message of Hope for the New Millennium (Novato, CA: Nataraj Publishing, 1995), pp. 240, 267. See also: False Christ Coming: Does Anybody Care? (Magalia, CA: Mountain Stream Press, 2011), p. 33-34.
8. Ibid., pp. 264-265.
9. Brian McLaren, The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything (Nashville, TN: W Publishing Group, 2006), pp.174-175.
10. A New Earth Online Class: Chapter 1 Transcript (images.oprah.com/images/obc_classic/book/2008/anewearth/ane_chapter1_transcript.pdf).
11. The Oprah Winfrey Show, Show #W265, Air Date September 18, 1987 (official transcript).
12. Eric Butterworth Home Page: http://www.ericbutterworth.com/html/eric_bio.html.
13. Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy (Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, Inc., 1980), p. 27.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid., p. 34.
16. The Oprah Winfrey Show, February 4, 1992. Transcribed by author from video.
17. A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume (Glen Ellen, CA: Foundation for Inner Peace, 1975, 1992), Text p. 425.
18. Ibid., p. 52.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid., p. 147.
21. A Course in Miracles, op. cit., Manual, p. 87.
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Appendix A
God is Not “in” Everything
Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. (Psalm 9:20)
[V]erily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. (Psalm 39:5)
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God. (Isaiah 31:3)
[F]or I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me. (Isaiah 46:9)
O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself. (Jeremiah 10:23)
Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God. (Ezekiel 28:2)
But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man. (John 2:24-25)
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord. (2 Corinthians 4:5)
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. (Galatians 6:3)
Appendix B
The Gospel of the True Jesus Christ
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6 )
1) The true Jesus Christ said we must be born again from above.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. (John 3:6-7)
2) To be born again we must recognize we are lost, fall short of the glory of God, and are sinners.
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: all these evil things come from within, and defile the man. (Mark 7:20-23)
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23)
3) To remain in our sins is spiritual death. Believing in Jesus Christ brings eternal life and is a gift from God.
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. (John 11:25)
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
4) To save us from our sin, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to be our Savior.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:16-17)
5) The true Jesus Christ said we must repent of our sins.
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. (Luke 13:3)
6) To save us from our sin, Jesus Christ died for our sins on the Cross of Calvary.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)
7) On the Cross of Calvary, Jesus Christ defeated sin and death.
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. (Hebrews 2:14)
8) If you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord and that God raised Him from the dead you will be saved.
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (Romans 10:9)
9) We are saved by God’s grace through Jesus Christ—not by our own works.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
10) True faith comes from hearing the Word of God.
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17)
11) Because of faith in the finished work of the true Jesus Christ on the Cross, we have peace with God.
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:1)
12) We are the children of God by faith in Jesus Christ’s work of redemption on the Cross.
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:26)
13) If we believe in the true Jesus Christ and continue in His Word, then we are His disciples.
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:31)
14) The apostle Paul emphasized that we must stand on the truth and keep the Gospel of the true Jesus Christ.
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
15) Whoever calls upon the Lord in sincerity and truth will be saved.
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13)
***If you have never repented of your sins and asked the true Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior, consider doing it right now while it is still day—because night is coming on fast.
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