I saw an interview this morning on the news. The whole story was about a recent episode of Oprah where she and a member of her audience had words. A guest had been talking on stage and somehow the subject came up that there were many ways to God. One lady in the audience addressed Oprah and said that , "no there is only one way to God and that is through His son Jesus Christ." Oprah seemed offended at that statement. She was shaking her head acting like she couldn't believe that this woman was so narrow minded.
Now, I must say that I stopped watching Oprah years ago for just this reason. She feels very free to discuss her "spirituality" on her talk show. In my opinion her spirituality is FAR from any Christianity that I am aware of. Now I appreciate that Oprah desires to help people, that she wants to make the world a better place......but sadly, I think she has missed the boat.
As a Christian I know scripture tells us that Jesus said, " I am THE way, THE truth, and THE life. NO ONE comes unto to the Father but by ME." (John 14:6) Now, this leaves some people in a predicament. This verse forces people to make a choice. One has to decide what they think of Jesus.
It comes down to the three L's.
#1 Jesus was a lunatic. He was crazy and was talking nonsense....calling himself the son of God.
#2 Jesus was a liar. He was manipulative and a fake. He lied to gullible people and told them he was the son of God.
#3 Jesus is LORD. He spoke the truth. He IS the Son of God. He was fully man and yet fully God.
Now, people make decisions every day about what which of these they believe. BUT one cannot just say that Jesus was a holy man, a wonderful man, or a great teacher UNLESS they believe the third choice. Jesus boldly proclaimed himself as the one and only Son of the Living God. IF a person believes #1, or #2 then they can't say Jesus was a good teacher or a holy man....not if you really think he was a liar or crazy.
So many times today people want to take " a little bit of this and a little bit of that" and mix it all together and call themselves spiritual. It doesn't work that way. Christianity is exclusive...in that we believe there is only ONE way to God, and his name is JESUS.
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ReplyDeleteThis is hilarious to me... Oprah has mislead Americans for quite sometime about her "spiritual" ways... I think we as Christians need to address them for what they are ... Clueless. Someone should tell her Good "spiritual" people go to Hell everyday. She doesn't have to believe in the Bible, that is fine. However if you don't believe what it says... Why worry about heaven and the way to get there? Let her spirits bail her out .. :) I love it that she is so into helping people and wanting to make a difference. But she is so busy solving peoples problems herself, she is missing out on the wonderful world the Lord could give her.