Watch this video all the way to the end...
Unbelievable! ...The extent man not founded upon Christ will go and follow in their quest and pursuit of self and attempts to explain away reality and sin. Here's Oprah's spiritual sage... Response: 1. He resurrects errors of the past which deny reality by seeking to replace it with forms. 2. By reducing the past to forms (or photo albums) he not only denies the reality of the past but the extent of it's connectedness and relationship to the present. This error he also translates in regard to the future. 3. He establishes a false premise that one can separate the reality of the present ("now") from reality itself, which he vests in onesself (though he inconsistently goes on to suggest that life is found in abandoning oneself) 4. He has no grounds or basis for assuming reality is found in self (and apart from everything else, or only what one want's to allow) 5. By denying the truth of God, he falsely asserts that the future is no longer problematic...
...a SHOCKER, though it shouldn't be.
ReplyDeleteThe truth remains the truth whether espoused (or neglected) by believers, or spoken by unbelievers. (While I'm not familiar with the authenticity, etc. of the things on the video, assuming it is as it is portrayed, this, by the way, is not the first time, God has used the words of an unbeliever to speak truth to gain the attention of believers, especially in areas of neglect or failure to act.
While an experienced exegete can obviously find some faults/weaknesses in what he says, overall I'd have to say he communicates the message rather well... May this be used for more Christians to reflect, to self-examine, and to move forward in greater faithfulness to the great and precious calling we have received.