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‘Free thinking’ Oprah seeks Higher Consciousness, Not God
By Julie | June 24, 2008
There is a Casting Crowns song called “What if His People Prayed”. I discovered it while I was pregnant with my second son. The song expresses many problems we could overcome if we only took the time to pray. There is a line in it that says we should pray and “Stop asking Oprah what to do.” It makes me laugh. I didn’t, and don’t, know much about Oprah.
At our house the TV is on is for an educational show for my kids, or a movie. Marc and I don’t watch a lot, it’s off most of the time. So, I had never really seen Oprah, until my second son was born. Then, since I was nursing, I had to sit more than I’m used to. Several times in the first couple weeks of his life I caught Oprah’s show. I thought of the song, “What if His People Prayed” as I watched, and I thought, “Stop asking Oprah what to do!” I don’t think it’s a terrible show, but I do not have any desire to watch it, even when I was.
Then I heard she was “endorsing” Barack Obama. I was irritated. She’s a talk show host, not a political… anything. Who is she to endorse a candidate?
And recently I heard she was endorsing her own “religion”. I thought, does she think she’s God?
So, this morning on youtube.com I found a video of her talking about her beliefs.
She explains how her new thinking came about: When she was in her later twenties she was in church one day, hearing all the great attributes of God. Then the minister mentioned that God is a jealous God. And of course this did not make sense to her because jealousy has nothing to do with love.
It doesn’t, Oprah, really? What world do you live in? When someone you love slights you for another person you’re not jealous? If not, I think you are the only person on the planet who doesn’t. The Bible is written to make it understandable to humans. So humans can relate to God being jealous when they turn from him to worship another God, or culture, or false doctrine. We relate because we feel the same way when someone treats us this way.
Here are a few of her quotes:
“I’m a free thinking Christian.”
“Jesus came to show us the higher consciousness.”
“Jesus came to say, ‘Look I’m going to live in the human body, and I’m going to show us how it’s done.’”
“…I don’t believe Jesus came to start Christianity.”
If Jesus came to show us “the higher consciousness” I have a hunch one of his disciples would have mentioned it in the Gospels. If it was not his goal to start a new movement, like Christianity, he probably would not have died for our sins.
The Bible is not meant to end up bouncing around in our minds so we can reconcile the parts we want to keep, and believe, and then throw out the rest. The Bible is a leveler to put every century, every culture, and every generation on the same platform, regardless of the cultural norms. It’s not meant to make us feel comfortable in our beliefs, it’s meant to shake us up, show us our wrong actions, and wrong thoughts. It’s meant to spur us to action to help others in need, and maybe even guide them to the same understanding.
Here is the video clip. In an echo to the Casting Crowns song, please “stop asking Oprah what to do!” Because it doesn’t sound like she knows.
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