Oprah on Jesus

When I was attending the University of Michigan, I always loved to debate my literature profs as to what an author meant by a story or book they wrote. The question becomes, how do they know what the author meant unless the author specifically says?

This is directly related to Oprah’s view on Jesus. In session 1 of the New Earth webcast, Oprah said that she didn’t think that Jesus came to start Christianity, but came to show us the “universal consciousness”. I have a direct issue with this view.

Jesus himself said “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one come to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). There is no mincing words here, Jesus is telling us that He is the only way to God. Oprah and Tolle have said that all religious roads lead to the same place. If this is true, than Jesus was lying when He said that He was the only way.

If Jesus was lying, than how can he be trusted to show us the “Consciousness”? The fact is this: either Jesus is who He said He is, or we can’t trust anything He taught. There is no in between.