Release of New Booklet on “A Course in Miracles” Coincides With Marianne Williamson’s Announcement About 2020 Presidential Election

The journey to the cross should be the last “useless journey.”—The “Jesus” of A Course in Miracles

Just as Lighthouse Trails was about to release this new booklet, a stunning news announcement by New Age leader Marianne Williamson was broadcast throughout America’s media. Williamson announced that she is seriously considering running for president in the 2020 election, and in fact, has already formed an exploratory committee and made a trip to Iowa to test the waters. For over 25 years, former New Age follower Warren B. Smith has been warning about A Course in Miracles and the two women who largely brought it to the forefront of Western society, Marianne Williamson and Oprah Winfrey. In 1993, a year after Warren Smith’s biography The Light That Was Dark: From the New Age to Amazing Grace was released by Moody Press, Warren was asked to speak on the 700 Club* to share his warning about the New Age movement and A Course in Miracles. Since then, he has shared this warning in many different venues, including a 2008 message that you can watch on his new YouTube channel.

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A Course in Miracles: The New Age Book That is Redefining Christianity and Fooling the World

By Warren B. Smith

And Jesus answered and said unto them, 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

In 1965, Columbia University Professor of Medical Psychology, Helen Schucman, heard an “inner voice” saying, “This is a course in miracles. Please take notes.”1 Schucman’s initial resistance was overcome when the “inner voice,” identifying itself as “Jesus,” told her the purpose of the Course:

The world situation is worsening to an alarming degree. People all over the world are being called on to help, and are making their individual contributions as part of an overall prearranged plan. Part of the plan is taking down A Course in Miracles, and I am fulfilling my part in the agreement, as you will fulfill yours. You will be using abilities you developed long ago, and which you are not really ready to use again. Because of the acute emergency, however, the usual slow, evolutionary process is being by-passed in what might best be described as a “celestial speed-up.”2

Baffled by her assignment, but nevertheless obliging, the skeptical Schucman diligently took dictation from this “inner voice.” In the seven and a half years of cumulative dictation that became A Course in Miracles, Schucman’s “Jesus” presents a whole new way of looking at the world. Using Christian terminology, sophisticated psychology, and convincing authority, Schucman’s “Jesus” teaches a completely different gospel than the one found in the Bible. His New Age/New Gospel wholly contradicts the Bible’s Gospel of Jesus Christ. Schucman’s “inner voice,” while claiming to be Jesus, actually opposes everything for which the Bible’s Jesus stands.

Course Teachings

In brief, A Course in Miracles teaches that all is love. And while the Course teaches that the opposite of love is fear, it explains that fear is just an illusion based on wrong thinking. It states that the world we see is merely the projected manifestation of our own illusive, fearful thoughts. As each one of us learns to correct our fearful, wrong thinking, it will change not only how we see the world but also change the world we see. The purpose of the Course is to facilitate this change in perception.

According to the Course, love is all there is. And because God is love, God is therefore in everyone and everything. It states God is sinless, perfect, and “at one” with all creation and that we, as a part of God, are also sinless and perfect in our “oneness” with Him. It teaches that man’s only “sin” is in not remembering his own perfect, sinless, divine nature. The only “devil” is our illusion that we are separate from, and not a part of, God. The Course tells its readers that a “sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct.”3

Popularizing the Course

A Course in Miracles was published in 1975. In 1979, psychiatrist Gerald Jampolsky’s book, Love Is Letting Go of Fear, became a powerful testimonial and catalyst for Course sales as it helped introduce Course principles to the popular self-help market. During the 1980s, the Course gained a grassroots following of dedicated believers who were often mysteriously led to the Course through unusual, seemingly “meant to be” coincidences and circumstances. It was always assumed that these “meant to be” experiences were divinely inspired. Over time, curiosity and interest in the Course grew, and it became a cult classic for those in the spiritual “know.” Believed to be new revelation from the real Jesus, this apparent “gift” from God presented new and seemingly plausible reinterpretations of the teachings of the Bible. Because of the Course, spirituality suddenly appeared to make much more sense to many people. Yet, even as word spread, the Course remained relatively unknown to the general public.

Mainstreaming the Course

That all changed in February 1992 when a little-known author named Marianne Williamson and her new book, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, were featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show. In praising Williamson’s book about the Course, Oprah told her viewers that the teachings of A Course in Miracles could “change the world” and that she had already purchased a thousand copies of Williamson’s book.4

After Oprah’s enthusiastic endorsement, A Return to Love shot to the top of The New York Times best-seller list and stayed there for months. The false “Christ” of A Course in Miracles was suddenly out of the closet. He and his New Age/New Gospel teachings had just been mainstreamed into millions of American homes. Thanks to Oprah, the false “Christ” of A Course in Miracles now had celebrity status. But during the interview that day, Williamson and Oprah failed to mention that the “Jesus” of the Course is not the same Jesus Christ described in the Bible—and that the teachings of A Course in Miracles actually contradict and oppose many of the foundational teachings of the Bible.

Over the years, Marianne Williamson has continued to champion A Course in Miracles in the media, through her books, and in her public appearances around the country. Her 1997 book, Healing the Soul of America, enabled Williamson and the Course to make a subtle transition into the political arena. Hoping to inspire a New Age/New Gospel approach to national and world problems, Williamson along with best-selling Conversations with God author Neale Donald Walsch co-founded The Global Renaissance Alliance (now called The Peace Alliance). Many well-known New Age “Gospel” advocates and Course proponents were recruited to serve in the Alliance—Deepak Chopra, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Wayne Dyer, and James Redfield.

Direct Quotes From the False “Jesus” of A Course in Miracles

God
There is no separation of God and His creation. (Text, p. 147)

God is All in all in a very literal sense. All being is in Him Who is all Being. You are therefore in Him since your being is His. (Text, p. 119)

Man
The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself. (Text, p. 147)

Jesus
Is he [Jesus] the Christ? O yes, along with you. (Manual, p. 87)

Name of Jesus
The Name of Jesus Christ as such is but a symbol. . . . It is a symbol that is safely used as a replacement for the many names of all the gods to which you pray. (Manual, p. 58)

Christ
For Christ takes many forms with different names until their oneness can be recognized. (Manual, p. 88)

Crucifixion
A slain Christ has no meaning. (Text, p. 425)

Do not make the pathetic error of “clinging to the old rugged cross.” (Text, p. 52)

The journey to the cross should be the last “useless journey.” (Text, p. 52)

Oneness
The oneness of the Creator and the creation is your wholeness, your sanity and your limitless power. (Text, p. 125)

Separation
The mind can make the belief in separation very real and very fearful, and this belief is the “devil.” (Text, p. 50)

Atonement (at-one-ment)
This is not a course in philosophical speculation, nor is it concerned with precise terminology. It is concerned only with Atonement, or the correction of perception. (Manual, p. 77)

By accepting the Atonement for yourself, you are deciding against the belief that you can be alone, thus dispelling the idea of separation and affirming your true identification with the whole Kingdom as literally part of you. (Text, p. 131)

The full awareness of the Atonement, then, is the recognition that the separation never occurred. (Text, p. 98)

The Atonement is the final lesson he [man] need learn, for it teaches him that, never having sinned, he has no need of salvation. (Text, p. 237)

Revelation
When revelation of your oneness comes, it will be known and fully understood. (Workbook, p. 324)

Persecution
You are not persecuted, nor was I. (Text, p. 94)

Sin
There is no sin; it has no consequence. (Workbook, p. 183)

Evil
Innocence is wisdom because it is unaware of evil, and evil does not exist. (Text, p. 38)

Antichrist
All forms of anti-Christ oppose the Christ. (Text, p. 620)

Devil
The “devil” is a frightening concept because he seems to be extremely powerful and extremely active. He is perceived as a force in combat with God, battling Him for possession of His creations. The devil deceives by lies, and builds kingdoms in which everything is in direct opposition to God. Yet he attracts men rather than repels them, and they are willing to “sell” him their souls in return for gifts of no real worth. This makes absolutely no sense.
(Text, pp. 49–50)

*The quotes in this section are from the Course’s three main sections: the Text, the Workbook for Students, and the Manual for Teachers from the 1975 edition of A Course in Miracles (see endnote #3 for more edition information).

Direct Quotes From Marianne Williamson’s A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

On popularity of her book
For that, my deepest thanks to Oprah Winfrey. Her enthusiasm and generosity have given the book, and me, an audience we would never otherwise have had. (p. ix)

Man
To remember that you are part of God, that you are loved and lovable, is not arrogant. It’s humble. (p. 30)

We are holy beings, individual cells in the body of Christ. (p. 32)

We are who God created us to be. We are all one, we are love itself. “Accepting the Christ” is merely a shift in self-perception. (p. 32)

Jesus
Even if he takes another name, even if he takes another face, He is in essence the truth of who we are. Our joined lives form the mystical body of Christ. (p. 296)

Jesus and other enlightened masters are our evolutionary elder brothers. (p. 42)

The concept of a divine, or “Christ” mind, is the idea that, at our core, we are not just identical, but actually the same being. “There is only one begotten Son” doesn’t mean that someone else was it, and we’re not. It means we’re all it. There’s only one of us here. (p. 30–31)

You and I have the Christ-mind in us as much as Jesus does. (p. 42)

Armageddon
But we can bypass the scenario of a nuclear Armageddon if we so desire. Most of us have already suffered our own personal Armageddons. There’s no need to go through the whole thing again collectively. (p. 82)

Meditation
Meditation is time spent with God in silence and quiet listening. It is the time during which the Holy Spirit has a chance to enter into our minds and perform His divine alchemy. (p. 281)

The Devil
While it’s true there isn’t an actual devil out there grabbing for our souls, there is a tendency in our minds, which can be amazingly strong, to perceive without love. (p. 34)

Jesus
Just when it seems all hope is lost, when it seems as though evil has triumphed at last, our Saviour appears and takes us in his arms. He has many faces, and one of them is Jesus. He is not an idol, or a crutch. He is our elder brother. He is a gift. (p. 47)

Revolution
It is time for a huge revolution in our understanding of Christic philosophy, and most particularly in our understanding of Jesus. The Christian religion has no monopoly on the Christ, or on Jesus himself. In every generation, we must rediscover truth for ourselves. (p. 46)

Christ
“I accept the Christ within” means, “I accept the beauty within me as who I really am. I am not my weakness. I am not my anger. I am not my small-mindedness. I am much, much more. And I am willing to be reminded of who I really am.” (p. 33)

The Cross
The journey to the cross should be the last “useless journey.” (Williamson quoting ACIM, p. 298)

*The quotes in this section are from Marianne Williamson’s Return to Love (New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 1996).

Robert Schuller and the Course

The widespread introduction of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) into the world is an accomplished fact. On his once-popular PBS television specials, the late New Age author and teacher Wayne Dyer often praised the teachings of the Course. ACIM is also available on CD, read by the friendly voice of Richard Thomas—“John Boy” Walton of the famous Walton family TV series. Meanwhile Oprah Winfrey continues to be a strong friend and supporter of both A Course in Miracles and its chief proponent, Marianne Williamson. In fact, in 2008, Oprah had Williamson teach A Course in Miracles daily for an entire year on Sirius XM on Oprah’s satellite radio show.

The teachings of A Course in Miracles were also introduced on “Christian” television. Prominent New Age leader and A Course in Miracles advocate Gerald Jampolsky was the late Robert Schuller’s featured guest on his October 17, 2004 Hour of Power television program. On that program, Schuller endorsed all of Jampolsky’s “fabulous” books even though they were all completely founded on the New Age teachings of A Course in Miracles.5

Robert Schuller, the man who had “mentored” thousands of Christian leaders at his Robert H. Schuller Institute for Successful Church Leadership, was using his worldwide television ministry to openly promote New Age teachings. Giving the impression that Jampolsky was an everyday Christian believer,6 Schuller told his millions of viewers that Jampolsky’s most recent book Forgiveness was “fantastic” and available for purchase in the Crystal Cathedral bookstore. Schuller conveniently neglected to tell his viewers that Jampolsky’s book was completely based on A Course in Miracles. Forgiveness has over 35 references to the Course and includes Jampolsky’s testimony that A Course in Miracles changed the way he viewed himself and the world.7 The foreword to Jampolsky’s book was written by New Age leader Neale Donald Walsch.

Jampolsky’s ACIM/New Age “forgiveness” denies that sin is real or that man is in need of redemption. In fact, it flatly repudiates what the Bible makes so abundantly clear—that ultimate forgiveness is the forgiveness of sin offered to all mankind by Jesus Christ’s sacrificial death on the Cross of Calvary (Colossians 1:13-14). Jampolsky’s “forgiveness” is based on the Course teaching, which states that “the recognition of God is the recognition of yourself. There is no separation of God and His creation.”8 Thus, you save yourself by recognizing yourself as “God.”

Some might argue that Jampolsky’s appearance on Schuller’s Hour of Power was an isolated event or just some gross oversight on Schuller’s part. This was clearly not the case. Schuller had a longstanding relationship with A Course in Miracles and his “dear friend” Gerald Jampolsky.9 In fact, Jampolsky had been a guest on The Hour of Power some twenty-five years ago,10 and at one time, the two of them actually led workshops together in Hawaii.11

Also, back in the fall of 1985, Crystal Cathedral receptionists were referring interested callers to the nearby Miracle Distribution Center to purchase A Course in Miracles—the same Miracle Distribution Center Jampolsky had listed as a resource in his Schuller-endorsed book Forgiveness. Also in the fall of 1985, A Course in Miracles study groups were meeting with Crystal Cathedral staff in Crystal Cathedral classrooms.12 In Deceived on Purpose: The New Age Implications of the Purpose-Driven Church, I commented on these incidents:

How ironic that years ago, when eager students gathered together in Crystal Cathedral classrooms to study the principles of A Course in Miracles, pastors who had flown in from around the world were meeting with Schuller on those same Cathedral grounds to study the principles of “successful church leadership”—pastors who thought that Schuller knew what he was doing because he had a big “successful” church and they wanted one, too.13

Three months after Jampolsky’s October 2004 appearance on the Hour of Power, Robert Schuller’s new book, Don’t Throw Away Tomorrow: Living God’s Dream for Your Life, was published by Harper San Francisco. New Age leader Gerald Jampolsky’s endorsement was prominently displayed on the book’s back cover. It read:

Don’t Throw Away Tomorrow is written with such passion, compassion, and honesty that you are actually able to feel the inner linings of Robert H. Schuller’s heart. There is a spiritual energy based on faith and optimism in this book, with many heartrending stories that will uplift the reader into a new spiritual dimension.14

Sign of the Times

Back in 1994, I had warned about Schuller’s involvement with Jampolsky and A Course in Miracles on a Christian radio program. A listener was so concerned that she wrote the Crystal Cathedral. In their response, which was forwarded to me by the listener, a Crystal Cathedral representative made it appear that Schuller and his church had never been involved with Jampolsky or A Course in Miracles. In fact, the Cathedral’s “Minister of Caring” went out of her way to put Schuller’s professed “orthodox” beliefs in writing.15 When I confronted the Minister of Caring with some irrefutable facts, her denial was quickly amended to state that the Crystal Cathedral was no longer involved with the Course.16

A decade later, there was Schuller in front of millions of viewers, again featuring Jampolsky and endorsing all of his New Age books. But only discerning viewers would understand the spiritual implications of what was taking place. Robert Schuller—an avowed Christian minister and a featured speaker at the National Association of Evangelicals earlier that same year17—was blatantly aligning himself with New Age leader Gerald Jampolsky and the New Age teachings of A Course in Miracles. Yet, Christian leaders were not holding Schuller accountable or warning the church about the New Age implications of what the Crystal Cathedral pastor was doing. Ironically, many of the leaders who should have been exposing Schuller had been trained by Schuller at his Robert H. Schuller Institute for Successful Church Leadership.

The Jampolsky appearance with Schuller was a sure sign of the times. But an even more significant sign was the fact that most evangelical leaders were not concerned about Schuller’s obvious New Age affections. In fact, some Christian leaders even went out of their way to praise Schuller publicly. Just six months after Jampolsky’s appearance on the Hour of Power, Christian leader Bruce Wilkinson stood in that same Crystal Cathedral pulpit enthusiastically endorsing Schuller and his ministry. Wilkinson described Schuller as a “visionary” and a “real leader,” and the “grandfather” of today’s church-growth movement—the man who trained pastors like Rick Warren and Bill Hybels. Wilkinson’s flattering remarks prompted the congregation to give Schuller a standing ovation.18 Instead of warning the church about Schuller, Wilkinson praised him. Then he actually warned the church to watch out for those who would criticize Schuller. Thus, Schuller’s almost “in your face” joint appearance with Jampolsky had passed an important New Age litmus test. No one in the church—most especially church leaders—seemed to care.

The Course’s View on Fear

In this rapidly changing world, it is important to understand how the biblical concept of “fear” is being redefined by both the world and the church. In particular, a variety of voices on both sides would now have us believe that “the opposite of love is not hate but fear.” As previously mentioned, this deceptive concept about fear was popularly introduced into the world by A Course in Miracles. In the Introduction on the very first page of this over 1000-page tome, the Course’s “Jesus” proposes this foundational New Age teaching that “the opposite of love is fear” but cleverly adds—“but what is all-encompassing [love] can have no opposite.”19 He says—“Teach only love, for that is what you are.”20 Thus, the Course’s New Age reality is that because love is “all-encompassing” and because God is love, all is therefore God. Consequently, the Course’s false Christ teaches that all fear is delusional and part of a hapless “dream” from which the dreamer needs to be “gently wakened” by God’s “happy dream.”21 To deliver us out of our “fearful dream,” we are told that “God’s dream” is being sent to bring us to our senses and to the realization that we are love and we are God. There is no fear! What becomes apparent is that these false teachings lay the groundwork for a New Age/New Gospel/New Spirituality to completely supplant biblical Christianity. No fear and no fear of God because we are all love and we are all God—all in the name of “God’s dream.” How unbiblical and truly diabolical!

A Course in Miracles lesson number 48 states—“There is nothing to fear”22 and that especially includes not “fearing God.” Fearing God according to this New Age “Jesus” is bogus and directly equated to one’s fear of being God. The Course’s false Christ takes our not fearing God a significant step further. In redefining fear, the Course’s New Age “Jesus” describes the Bible’s teaching on the “fear of God” as “stark insanity and raving madness.”23 He goes so far as to state that the Bible’s take on the “fear of God” is the last remaining “obstacle” to “peace.”24 He says that when humanity overcomes its “fear of God” and is collectively “awakened” by “God’s dream” to the reality that they are God—then and only then—can inner peace and world peace be finally realized. However, the Bible’s teachings on the “fear of God” have nothing to do with fear being the opposite of love and our being God. More importantly, Scripture is unequivocal in its oft repeated teachings on the fear of God and how we are to literally fear and revere and joyously worship the one true God who we definitely are not.

Tellingly, Robert Schuller had cited Gerald Jampolsky in Schuller’s best-selling 1982 book Self-Esteem: The New Reformation. Quoting Jampolsky’s Course teaching that “The opposite of love is not hate, but fear,” Schuller described this false teaching as “profound theology.”25 In this same Self-Esteem book, Schuller also made multiple references to the ACIM/New Age concept of “God’s dream.” Through his writings, teachings, and television ministry, Schuller passed along the Course’s New Age take on “fear being the opposite of love” and the term “God’s dream” to millions of people—but perhaps most especially pastors. At his longstanding Robert H. Schuller Institute for Successful Church Leadership, Schuller communicated his beliefs and teachings to countless pastors over the years. Graduates from Schuller’s Institute routinely incorporated Schuller’s teachings into their own ministries. Perhaps the most famous “graduate” from Schuller’s Institute is Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren.26

Echoing Schuller, Jampolsky, and the false Christ of A Course in Miracles, Rick Warren took the New Age teaching on “fear being the opposite of love” one step further. He tried to make it biblical! In an April 9, 2009 article written for The Christian Post, Rick Warren, without citing any Bible reference, wrote—“The Bible says the opposite of love is fear, and the opposite of fear is love.”27 Yet, there is no properly translated Bible that says this. The only “Bible” that says this is A Course in Miracles—the New Age “Bible.” What Schuller described as “profound theology,” Rick Warren was now describing as biblical. And just as Schuller passed this false New Age teaching about fear being the opposite of love to countless pastors like Rick Warren, Warren is now passing this false teaching on to a new generation of pastors—as well as the New Age concept of “God’s dream.”

Again, all these false teachings of the Course are described as part of “God’s dream” to save the planet as he “wakens” everyone from their “fearful dreams” with his “happy dream”28 that we are all “one” because we are all “God.”

Because Oprah Winfrey and Marianne Williamson have been primarily responsible for popularizing A Course in Miracles over the past 25 years, and because both women are being discussed as possible 2020 presidential candidates, it is especially important for people to understand how A Course in Miracles perverts and distorts the foundational teachings of the Holy Bible. A Course in Miracles, while using Christian language, has nothing to do with biblical Christianity. But it has everything to do with the spiritual deception that the real Jesus Christ warned us to watch out for (Matthew 24:4-5, 11, 24-25).

Comparing A Course in Miracles with the Bible

Direct Quotes From the “Jesus” of the Course	Direct Quotes from the Bible
God There is no separation of God and His creation. (Text, p. 147)	God Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. (Romans 1:25)
Man The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself. (Text, p. 147)	Man I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee. (Hosea 11:9)
Jesus Is he [Jesus] the Christ? O yes, along with you. (Manual, p. 87)	Jesus 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)
Name of Jesus The Name of Jesus Christ as such is but a symbol. . . . It is a symbol that is safely used as a replacement for the many names of all the gods to which you pray. (Manual, p. 58)	Name of Jesus Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name. (Philippians 2:9)
Cross/Crucifixion Do not make the pathetic error of “clinging to the old rugged cross.” (Text, p. 52) The journey to the cross should be the last “useless journey.” (Text, p. 52) A slain Christ has no meaning. (Text, p. 425)	Cross/Crucifixion And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby. (Ephesians 2:16) For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:18)
Sin There is no sin; it has no consequence. (Workbook, p. 183)	Sin If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. (1 John 1:8)
Evil Innocence is wisdom because it is unaware of evil, and evil does not exist. (Text, p. 38)	Evil Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. (Romans 12:9)
Devil The “devil” is a frightening concept because he seems to be extremely powerful and extremely active. . . . This makes absolutely no sense.(Text, pp. 49-50)	Devil Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. (1 Peter 5:8)
The Bible Words will mean little now. We use them but as guides on which we do not now depend. For now we seek direct experience of truth alone. (Workbook, p. 298)	The Bible All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. (2 Timothy 3:16)

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Endnotes

1. Robert Skutch, Journey without Distance: The Story behind “A Course in Miracles” (Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts, 1984), p. 54.
2. Ibid., p. 60.
3. A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume (Glen Ellen, CA: Foundation for Inner Peace, 1975) (Text), p. 14.
4. Marianne Williamson, A Woman’s Worth (New York, NY: Ballentine, 1993), p. 124.
5. Hour of Power, October 17, 2004, Robert H. Schuller’s interview of Jerry Jampolsky. Online transcript, https://web.archive.org/web/20061203024150/http://www.hourofpower.org/interviews/interviews_detail.cfm?ArticleID=3079. (Note: Some of the actual comments made in the telecast were changed or omitted from the edited Hour of Power online transcript.)
6. Robert Schuller has done this before with Jampolsky. See: Robert H. Schuller, The Be (Happy) Attitudes: Eight Positive Attitudes That Can Transform Your Life! (New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1985, 1987), p. 150; Robert H. Schuller, Robert Schuller Presents His Legacy of Hope: The Be Happy Attitudes: Eight Positive Attitudes That Can Transform Your Life (Dallas, TX: Word Publishing, 1996), Videocassette #2 (Session 6); Warren B. Smith, Deceived on Purpose: The New Age Implications of the Purpose-Driven Church (Magalia, CA: Mountain Stream Press, 2004), p. 96.
7. Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D., Forgiveness: The Greatest Healer of All (Hillsboro, OR: Beyond Words Publishing, Inc., 1999), p. 47.
8. A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume, op. cit. (Text), p. 147.
9. Robert Schuller, The Be (Happy) Attitudes: Eight Positive Attitudes that Can Transform Your Life!, op. cit., p. 150.
10. Robert H. Schuller, Self-Esteem: The New Reformation (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1982), p. 123.
11. Telephone conversation with former Crystal Cathedral staff member Conrad Hanson at the Miracle Distribution Center on November 5, 2003; Warren B. Smith, Deceived on Purpose: The New Age Implications of the Purpose-Driven Church, op. cit., pp. 93-94.
12. Warren B. Smith, Deceived on Purpose, op. cit., pp. 92-93. Personal notes from Johanna Michaelsen’s telephone call to the Crystal Cathedral on October 3, 1985. Used with permission.
13. Ibid., p. 71.
14. Robert H. Schuller, Don’t Throw Away Tomorrow: Living God’s Dream for Your Life (San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005), back cover of book.
15. Warren B. Smith, Deceived on Purpose, op. cit., p. 68; March 10, 1994, personal letter from Crystal Cathedral “Minister of Caring,” Elizabeth Southard to inquiring listener.
16. Telephone conversation between author and Crystal Cathedral “Minister of Caring” Elizabeth Southard.
17. National Association of Evangelicals: Annual conference. March 11, 2004, NAE Compact Disc.
18. Hour of Power, April 24, 2005, Bruce Wilkinson speaking at the Crystal Cathedral, transcribed by author. Program 1838: Online transcript: http://www.hourofpower.org/booklets/booklets.cfm (link no longer showing transcript; transcription on file). (Note: Some of the actual comments made by Wilkinson in the telecast were changed or omitted from the edited Hour of Power online transcript.)
19. A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume, op. cit. (Introduction), p. 1.
20. Ibid. (Text), p. 94.
21. Ibid. (Text), pp. 584, 377.
22. Ibid. (Workbook), p. 77.
23. Ibid. (Text), p. 422.
24. Ibid. (Text), pp. 420, 606.
25. Robert Schuller, Self-Esteem: The New Reformation, op. cit., p. 51.
26. Warren B. Smith, Deceived on Purpose, op. cit., p. 80.
27. Rick Warren, “Easter: God’s Antidote to Fear” (The Christian Post, April 9, 2009, https://www.christianpost.com/news/easter-god-s-antidote-to-fear-37969).
28. A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume, op. cit. (Text), p. 377.

*We are posting this video clip from the 700 Club for informational and research purposes and to show that Warren Smith has been consistently warning about the New Age and A Course in Miracles for two and a half decades. It is not meant to be an endorsement of the 700 Club. However, we believe the 1993 host Ben Kinchlow was truly trying to warn about the New Age movement.

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