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I’m really saddened by Oprah Winfrey’s decision to follow the New Age movement.  

She follows the path of two other women who as young ladies, vowed -as she had- to follow Christ: Shirley McClain, and  J Z Knight.  Oprah’s most recent avenue of promoting this “new age” cult is her online book studies “A New Earth., Are you ready to be awakened.”  Her other promotion,  “A Course  of Miracles” is equally dangerous reading.  Though there are a few Scripture verses used, (incorrectly and out of context) her website declares that (this online course) is not for or against any religion. What I and other follower’s of Christ say is: on the whole, this book (including the text, workbook, and teacher’s guide) is blasphemy!

 Eckhart Tolle, author of A New Earth,  writes of words of faith from any religious figure, “To a large extent, therefore, their deeper meaning is no longer recognized and their transformative power lost.”  Tolle also writes, ” there is no need to go elsewhere for the truth.”   (oprah.com)

I urge all Christians to not only stop following Oprah in everything she promotes, but also to write her and tell her you are not going to watch her any more.  She has left the faith. For those of you who are confused in your faith, I urge you not to study these books, as there is just so much “wrong” with them,  and using common Christian terms incorrectly is just one of them. You might think and even feel that these books have your answer, but you will be farther from the real Truth than you already are.

The “New Age Movement” is anything but new.  It’s just new to America being based in ancient eastern religions.

Followers of the “A Course of Miracles” book decide they are God.  They use the very phrase of God’s name: I am that I am with reference to themselves!  The Bible book of Matthew, chapter 24 verses 4 and 5 give Christ’s words: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.”   In chapter 7 and verse 23 and 24 also of Matthew, Christ words are:  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord have we not prophesied in they name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you, depart from me ye that work iniquity.”

Cult expert Russ Wise states, according to the author of Miracles: “In 1965 a Jewish atheistic psychologist from Columbia University began to channel messages from a spirit she believed to be Jesus. She ultimately produced, or she says Jesus revealed to her, well over a thousand pages of revelation during the next seven years.”   ((http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/thcourse.html)

  Marianne Williamson quotes and warns about The Course of Miracles thusly:  According to The Course, sickness, hate, pain, fear, guilt, and sin are all illusions.… “The only way to dispel illusions is to withdraw all investment from them, and they will have no life for you because you will have put them out of your mind.” And,  “The Course sums it up this way, “There is no life outside of Heaven. Where God created life, there life must be. In any state apart from Heaven life is illusion.” There you have it! It is perfectly clear–murder, rape, and other forms of evil do not exist because they do not come from “love.” Try explaining to a mother who has lost a son or daughter that their loss is the result of an illusion.

She continues: “The integration of psychology and spirituality becomes a lure that pulls them deeper into the web of deception and ultimately suffocates them. The biblical teaching of original sin is dismissed for the more palatable “original goodness.” ((http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/thcourse.html)

Dr Jack Van Impe succinctly lists the false beliefs this way:

“They say there is no such thing as sin.

They say there is no need for the cross, atonement.

They say that Jesus is just a word symbol.”

That is enough for any Christian to steer clear of such cultist promotion of satan’s  push, and Oprah Winfrey’s compliance, to draw so many away from Christ and the Truth, and I strongly plead that you steer clear also.

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