OPRAH'S WAY: WINNING THE WORLD TO NEW SPIRITUALITY

This article represents some of the information presented in Brannon's new DVD, Three Worldviews Seeking To Destroy Your Faith, Family and Freedoms. Click here to order now:

Brannon reveals five national consequences that come to a nation that continually rejects God. America is experiencing all five of these consequences now. Brannon also reveals how these five national consequences are being manifested through three worldview growing trends- Political Correctness, which is Cultural Marxism, pagan spirituality, and what Brannon calls One World Spirituality.

Oprah's Way

Winning the World to New Spirituality

by Brannon Howse

For the four years in a row (2004 – 2007), Time magazine has listed Oprah Winfrey as one of the world's most influential people, and the talk show maven's website boasts an overview of why:

- The Oprah Winfrey Show has remained the number one talk show for 21 consecutive seasons.

- The show is seen by an estimated 46 million viewers a week in the United States and is broadcast around the world in 134 countries.

- Since Oprah and Hearst Magazines introduced O magazine in April 2000, its circulation has grown to a stunning 2.3 million readers each month.

- Oprah.com averages more than 6 million users a month.

And what is it that Oprah uses this massive pulpit to preach?

It was once commonly know as the New Age Movement. Today, it is most often referred to as the New Spirituality, neo-paganism, or new paganism. Yes, paganism-the worship of nature-and its kindred vacuous belief, pantheism, that God is all and all is God.

Oprah's Non-Doctrine Doctrine

Using the talk on her talk show to hammer her congregation of millions with the messages of New Spirituality, Oprah has variously preached that:

- One of the mistakes human beings make is believing there is only one way to live.

- There are many paths to what you call God.

- There are millions and millions of ways to God; there could not possibly be just one.

- God is a feeling experience not a believing experience.

- If God for you is still about a belief, then it is not truly God

- God is in all things.

In case anyone missed the message on TV, Oprah recently ratcheted up the level of instruction by teaching an online course with best-selling New Age author Eckhart Tolle. It is reported that 2 million people joined Oprah and Tolle for their virtual course in New Spirituality. In Tolle's book A New Earth (a primary resource for the online class), he quotes the Bible some 21 times more frequently than any other single book, yet in such a new fashion that Oprah extols his thinking this way:

I love this quote that Eckhart has. This is one of my favorite quotes in chapter one where he says, "Man made God in his own image."

She probably feels this way because she's done such a good job of making up her own image of God-starting when she was about 27 or 28 years of age. That's when, as she tells the story, she rejected the doctrine of her Baptist church because she didn't like it when her pastor claimed God is a jealous God. The notion of Divine jealously offended her, and "that's when the search for something more than doctrine started to stir within me."

Rightly Dividing Oprah's Truth

I believe Oprah's rejection of Biblical doctrine has led to her acceptance of the doctrines of demons as 1 Timothy 4:1 says will occur in the last days: "Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons."

The rejection of Biblical doctrine is the reason for the great apostasy or falling away from traditionally held Biblical truths. Journalists Richard Cimino and Don Lattin explain in their 1988 book, Shopping for Faith, that for many people  "religious experience is replacing religious doctrine." (Many of these experiences are rooted in occultism-a serious issue we address in the article "The New Spirituality Is Not So New" also in this issue.)

Oprah's rejection of religious doctrine-and her encouragement of others to do the same-has fostered a penchant for the lies of New Spirituality. A popular saying among those who call for a liberal, ecumenical, one world church is that "doctrine divides but the spirit unites." And they're right, of course.

The truth of Biblical doctrine does divide. It distinguishes true converts from false ones. And a preference for un-doctrine also unites the unsaved in the spirit of anti-Christ.

Nevertheless, Oprah continues to sweep people into her congregation of New Spirituality through ever more pervasive means. On January 1, 2008, Oprah began using her XM Satellite radio program "Oprah & Friends" to host a year-long series of teachings from A Course in Miracles featuring New Age guru Marianne Williamson. Oprah and Marianne plan to cover all 365 lessons from the Course in Miracles Workbook.

(As background: The book, A Course in Miracles, was written in 1965 when Helen Schucman, associate professor of medical psychology at Columbia University in New York, began channeling what she said was a New Age Jesus who would teach us how to live in these difficult times. Her book is a 600+ page transcription of these teachings. Some have described it as the "Bible" of the New Age Movement.)

Some telling quotables from the book and workbook include:

- "God is in everything I see."

- A "slain Christ has no meaning."

- "The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself."

- "Jesus is a man, who is like all other men."

- "The Atonement is the final lesson he [man] need learn, for it teaches him that, never having sinned, he has no need of salvation."

- "There is no sin; it has no consequence."

- "Sin is defined as 'lack of Love.'"

- "...sin is not real."

- "There is no difference between your will and God's."

- "Do not make the pathetic error of 'clinging to the old rugged cross.'"

- "My salvation comes from me."

And to extend the cause even further, on January 15, 2008, Oprah announced that, in conjunction with Discovery Communications, she would be launching the Oprah Winfrey Network. Soon we'll have Oprah and Oprah-think 24/7.

As more people are seduced by the New Spirituality, it becomes vital for Christians to understand this worldview in order to protect their families and friends from its deception. Christians must be equipped to engage in worldview evangelism to get at the core problems with New Age thinking.

The stakes are high. Make no mistake: Biblical Christianity and New Spirituality will both lead people to God. In a very real sense, millions of ways do lead there. It's just that only One way leads to God as Savior. All the others lead to Him as righteous Judge.

This article represents some of the information presented in Brannon's new DVD, Three Worldviews Seeking To Destroy Your Faith, Family and Freedoms. Click here to order now:

Brannon reveals five national consequences that come to a nation that continually rejects God. America is experiencing all five of these consequences now. Brannon also reveals how these five national consequences are being manifested through three worldview growing trends- Political Correctness, which is Cultural Marxism, pagan spirituality, and what Brannon calls One World Spirituality. 

By Brannon Howse Email: Brannon@worldviewweekend.com Click here for bio and archived articles

One flock one Shepherd Posted On: 11/06/08 07:28:21 PM Age 53, FL many more Oprah's and Chopras will come along why do we always seek to hear things that tickle our ears has anyone read the Bible so thoroughly that they have time for all this nonsense stop watching Oprah's shows \personally i have never seen one the problem is we have too many "Christian" denominations instead of one flock and one Shepherd welcome to the true Church the Catholic Church where the teachings are clearly stated and do not change with the leadership We Need to Know These Things Posted On: 10/31/08 07:17:02 AM Age 54, OK Thank you, Brannon, for this very timely article. Don't let us forget what Oprah is up to! I pray that we will all use this information as God gives us opportunity. New Age Spirituality Posted On: 10/31/08 12:17:57 AM Age 50, INDIA Such waywardness already predicted in the Bible. Nations, powers and philosophies will come and go. Sin will become 'normal' behaviour. The wrong will appear to be right. Ungodliness will be the norm. But this will not stop the coming of the end when all will be judged. God is not fooled by anyone. His timetable has no place for changes. Those who reject His grace are surely doomed. Only the grace of God through his son - Jesus will ensure salvation and ethernal life to the one who believes. Forget Oprah and her 'new age spiritual empire' thats bound to fail in the light of Truth. Don't be fooled by doctrines and philosophies that provide 'answers' when only God has the answer to our problems. Trust in God; do not depend upon your own understanding. The future is in the Holy Bible.Read and see and believe. Stay at Home Mom Posted On: 10/30/08 10:16:14 PM Age 45, MO There is only one God and God created us not us creating God. There is only one way to get to heaven not several different ways!! Ophah's Demise Posted On: 10/30/08 06:58:21 PM Age 55, IN This women has been a power house for good in the past. She has been blind sided by the lies of Satan. Now she is leading thousands astray. What can we do about it? Write her programers and show cordinators. Write to them and express your concern. Then ask Almighty God to bring His judgement on her writers, diectors, her spiritual leaders as well as her. Ask God to make her life misarable until she changes. Call on the Powers of God to come agaist her teaching and her program if she does not change. Ask God to allow Satan to open the windows of hell upon her and if need br the doors of hell to bring her to her sinces. Pray for Oprah Posted On: 10/30/08 02:19:04 PM Age 67, IL I think as concerned Christians that we should being praying for Oprah. She has had the seed planted in her or the truth at one time. Now we need to battle for her soul. What she could do if she truly knew Jesus. It is just being directed in the wrong way now. Pray on your knees till that comes. It is only the Holy SPIRIT through our prays will she see the truth and the truth will set her free. She does not have peace now no matter what she says. I love her soul and want to see her won to the true GOD. In Jesus, Diane Hepburn I stopped with my Family!!!! Posted On: 10/30/08 01:15:35 PM Age 28, TX About 6 months ago when Oprah began doing her shows on Eckhart Tolle's book I ,after the and replay of somethings, I would shout at the TV that is from the Bible what that is teaching just read it. One day my Husband came into the room and said why do you sound so upset? I began to explain what was unfolding with her teaching all that and he said there is something I want you to see. He pulled up a video of Oprah denouncing Jesus Christ and making a nothing deal adout what he went through for us. I actually began to cry and told him then and there I would never watch her again. Anytime someone tells me about her or talks about the show I began to tell them basically that she is sending people to Hell. To me the sad part is that she was raised in a Baptist church and is problay saved and she is sending all those people and misleading a world we need to demand that much influence !!! Leading people into despair Posted On: 10/30/08 10:47:26 AM Age 31, MA The really frightening thing about all this is that this will lead people to Hell. They are going to suffer eternal consequences. Oprah will suffer eternal consequences. Think also how many people will spiral into despair when they cannot make "my salvation come from me"? How deep they will despise themselves, and have no hope. Oprah and her cohorts are robbing everyone of a real hope. That breaks my heart. Baal Bless America Posted On: 10/30/08 09:56:42 AM Age 55, NY Great Commentary. As I have been studying the Old Testament and have asked why Israel kept turning from God to worship Baal, I have come to understand the path the U.S. has been on for some time. The focus of Baal worship is the ECONOMY, the practice of Baal worship is IMMORAL SEX. All the moral relativism, new age religion, and pantheistic thought has put us in the clutches of Baal, whose name means "Master". May people wake up, see Oprah's pulpit for what it is, and free themselves from this bondage! Baal Bless America Posted On: 10/30/08 09:56:20 AM Age 55, NY Great Commentary. As I have been studying the Old Testament and have asked why Israel kept turning from God to worship Baal, I have come to understand the path the U.S. has been on for some time. The focus of Baal worship is the ECONOMY, the practice of Baal worship is IMMORAL SEX. All the moral relativism, new age religion, and pantheistic thought has put us in the clutches of Baal, whose name means "Master". May people wake up, see Oprah's pulpit for what it is, and free themselves from this bondage!