In agreement with Cody
Here is a partial quote from a Chrisitian source............for the entire quote go to,
Concerned Women for America - The Gospel of Oprah
In contrast to other talk shows and women's magazines that seek out the lowest common denominator in personal behavior, Oprah has targeted women who want to take charge of their lives, who want to have successful relationships, who long for a sense of self-esteem and who desire meaning outside of themselves. In her quest to reach others where they are, Oprah offers a brand of spirituality that sets feeling as its center. She once said that she was "guided by a higher calling." Oprah, however, defines the calling as a feeling, not a reasoned voice. "If it doesn't feel right to me, I don't do it."
Oprah's philosophically bland spirituality focuses on her audience feeling good about themselves and their possibilities; it teaches them to believe they can do better without placing any limits or demands on themselves. It also appeals to the human desire to be in control of your own destiny. Acknowledgement of the "goodness of life" by writing entries in a "Gratitude Journal" is an indicator of the fact that even if they haven't yet arrived, at least they are headed in some positive, if ill-defined, direction. But is she? Are they?
Oprah has certainly connected with her target audience! Not since 1963 and the release of Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique has anyone so captured the heart of America's women. But what a look back over the decades reveals is that no matter who brings the optimistic, feel-good, "you-can-do-it" message, and no matter what may be missing in the messenger's own life, there are vast numbers of women who are searching for "more," whatever that might mean. Some, who feel empty, would call it meaning or purpose or strength for life's challenges. Those who are crushed long for a reason to hope; they want something to rekindle their dreams. Others, merely wounded by the slings and arrows of life but with hopes that still flicker, seek the inner resources to try yet again to become all they can be.
Oprah's fame, fortune and professional success give her views about life tremendous allure, provided you don't look too far beneath the surface. She rekindles hope and renews the spirit of those who have given up on their dreams, but some women whose attempts at self-reform have fallen short time and time again recognize the limitations of pulling oneself up by the bootstraps. Some women recognize the necessity for a theological framework to ground faith. Those women doubt that "feeling good" is a sufficient roadmap for spirituality. Others see their immense need of redemption and transformation; they recognize that the gospel of "being positive" comes up short, that faith in faith alone does not bring us home to the Truth, the Way, the Life - the One called Emmanuel, God with us.
Janice Shaw Crouse is Director and Senior Fellow of Concerned Women for America's Beverly LaHaye Institute.
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I don't care what color, ethnicity, or sex the person is! If they are still giving themselves the glory, Believer or not, it is wrong.
I will not sugar quote what I believe. The anti-Christ will come with a message similar to this one. He will fool people into an eternity separated by God.
I am sorry, but people need to hear the truth.
My point is not whether she has a gospel, preaches, or pretends to be a pastor, whether she acknowledges it or not, many are being drawn away by the type of mentality that she supports...........sounds like humanism to me.
Now, let's say for example, The Jack in the Box franchises, in the recent past, adopted commercials that were downgrading to women. Dr. Dobson and many others contacted them, so did I. They did not back down and I have not visited their restaurants since then!
YES, IF OPRAH WAS SAVED, SHE COULD DO SOME GOOD. But if she were saved, chances are the world would not want to hear it!
She has a large audience, because she espouses beliefs that are in conformity to the world's way of thinking, and therefore, Satan.
YES.........I DO PRAY THAT GOD WOULD CHANGE THE MANAGEMENT AT THE JACK IN THE BOX RESTAURANTS............and yes, we can and should be praying for Oprah, not because she is black, nor female, nor could be an awesome tool in God's hands. We need to be praying that those listeners would not be prevented by entering the kingdom, due to her misguided, and misinformed methods, ideas, and views.
The Pharisees, had something that Jesus said to them about this...........
Matthew 5:20
For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 15:14 (New International Version)
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14Leave them; they are blind guides.[a] If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit." She needs prayer to come to Christ.
Matthew 23
13"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.[c]
She is taking people's minds and lulling them to sleep into a humanist viewpoint.
15"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
She is converting people's way of thinking into her viewpoint (her gospel)(it is the truth to her)
27"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. 28In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
She is beautiful on the outside......people praise and worship her good deeds, but inside, she is an unregenerate sinner.......
Like we all were.
Yet.........we do love Oprah and have to pray for all people who are in her position. They have an immense influense on unbelievers........
My feeble attempts are pleasing to the lord, but I know he accepts them. He accepts me, as I obey His command to go and tell.......................
We all have a choice to whose voice we listen to............I am listening to God's and she is not yet......................if she were to come to Christ, then her walk would be her own. I do not judge believers, whether they are saved or not. I still pray for them.
I am judging the spirit that is withing Oprah. After all, that is what apologetics is.
