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Review of Joel Osteen Answers to Oprah
Once again Joel Osteen is out and about spreading his watered down version of the Gospel. This time we find him talking with Oprah about the Path to heaven and the sin of sodomy ( homosexuality).
We start out this clip with Oprah asking Osteen, "How would you describe God to a non-believer?"
Osteen starts out with an okay answer that quickly goes off track. While Osteen is right that God is our creator and our heavenly Father he quickly goes astray when he states that God is " God is a friend to the nonbeliever" and "wants to be there for you as a friend." I don't know what bible Joel is reading but the bible I read speaks very differently about the nonbeliever being a friend of God. What the bible states it very diffidently than Osteen.
The bible is very clear that the unbeliever is not "friends" with God. The only people that are "friends" with God is those that have been justified by the blood of Jesus Christ. Once again Osteen blows it by making God seem like he wants to be your buddy and pal.
The next question that Oprah asks is; "Are there many paths to get to God?"
Listen carefully to Osteen answer here. It is not so much what he says it's more what he doe not say that is the real problem here. While he does confirm that Jesus is the only way to God he sidesteps the issue with a political correct side answer stating, "There may be many ways to Jesus." The problem with Joel's answer is that his political correctness has has ruined the exclusivity of being only one way to the Father through Jesus.
The original question quickly transforms from different pathways to God into a discussion on sodomy (homosexuality) being a sin. Surprisingly here Joe Osteen confirms, after some muddling around again in the land of political correctness, that sodomy (homosexuality) is a Sin. However he misses the point here when he states that "he doesn't think that God categorizes sins and that being gay is no bigger than being proud." While I would agree all sin is bad and separates us from God I don't think the sin of sodomy is on the same level as the sin of being proud. I say this because of God's actions in the Old Testament when He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. God did not destroy this city for the sin of pride He she destroyed it because of the sin of sodomy. Therefore logically one can conclude that God holds the sin of sodomy higher than the sin of pride. Also in the New Testament sodomy is our right condemned and spoken against several times much more than other sins; 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Timothy 1:10, and Romans1:26 – 27, 1 John 5:6-7 and Mark 3:28-30 One can see here by these verses that God deems sodomy in a higher disgust than other sins.
As Joel go on talking about other sins and equivocating the sin of sodomy down to other examples like having a bad temper he talks about how we all should be changing. The problem here is what kind of change is he talking about? The way he is presenting change here he is missing the gospel. While yes we can change from one sinful act to another sinful act we can do anything with out Christ changing us first. Joel here once again is totally missing the point. He has turn a message of the Gospel from being about Jesus Christ changing us. Instead to a message about narcissism by making the Gospel a man centered message by his lack of preaching on the exclusivity of Christ on the Cross. By not exclusively preaching Christ and his Gospel message Joel is quickly turning Christ's redemptive work into a message of universalism.
Once again we can see from this video that by no means is Joel Osteen fit to be a pastor. We can see that he is now getting himself wrapped up with the likes of Oprah and is trending towards new age teachings by not preaching the complete Gospel of Christ . Remember all it takes to be a heretic is not to preach the full council of God.
We start out this clip with Oprah asking Osteen, "How would you describe God to a non-believer?"
Osteen starts out with an okay answer that quickly goes off track. While Osteen is right that God is our creator and our heavenly Father he quickly goes astray when he states that God is " God is a friend to the nonbeliever" and "wants to be there for you as a friend." I don't know what bible Joel is reading but the bible I read speaks very differently about the nonbeliever being a friend of God. What the bible states it very diffidently than Osteen.
- Isaiah 57:21 ~ "There is no peace, says my God, "for the wicked"
- Colossians 1:21 ~ "Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior
- Colossians 3:5 – 7 ~ "Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived"
- Romans 9: 30-33 ~ 30 The man answered and said to them, “Well, here is an amazing thing, that you do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes. 31 “We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.32“Since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. 33 “If this man were not from God, He could do nothing.”
- Romans 8:9~ You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
The bible is very clear that the unbeliever is not "friends" with God. The only people that are "friends" with God is those that have been justified by the blood of Jesus Christ. Once again Osteen blows it by making God seem like he wants to be your buddy and pal.
The next question that Oprah asks is; "Are there many paths to get to God?"
Listen carefully to Osteen answer here. It is not so much what he says it's more what he doe not say that is the real problem here. While he does confirm that Jesus is the only way to God he sidesteps the issue with a political correct side answer stating, "There may be many ways to Jesus." The problem with Joel's answer is that his political correctness has has ruined the exclusivity of being only one way to the Father through Jesus.
The original question quickly transforms from different pathways to God into a discussion on sodomy (homosexuality) being a sin. Surprisingly here Joe Osteen confirms, after some muddling around again in the land of political correctness, that sodomy (homosexuality) is a Sin. However he misses the point here when he states that "he doesn't think that God categorizes sins and that being gay is no bigger than being proud." While I would agree all sin is bad and separates us from God I don't think the sin of sodomy is on the same level as the sin of being proud. I say this because of God's actions in the Old Testament when He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. God did not destroy this city for the sin of pride He she destroyed it because of the sin of sodomy. Therefore logically one can conclude that God holds the sin of sodomy higher than the sin of pride. Also in the New Testament sodomy is our right condemned and spoken against several times much more than other sins; 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Timothy 1:10, and Romans1:26 – 27, 1 John 5:6-7 and Mark 3:28-30 One can see here by these verses that God deems sodomy in a higher disgust than other sins.
As Joel go on talking about other sins and equivocating the sin of sodomy down to other examples like having a bad temper he talks about how we all should be changing. The problem here is what kind of change is he talking about? The way he is presenting change here he is missing the gospel. While yes we can change from one sinful act to another sinful act we can do anything with out Christ changing us first. Joel here once again is totally missing the point. He has turn a message of the Gospel from being about Jesus Christ changing us. Instead to a message about narcissism by making the Gospel a man centered message by his lack of preaching on the exclusivity of Christ on the Cross. By not exclusively preaching Christ and his Gospel message Joel is quickly turning Christ's redemptive work into a message of universalism.
Once again we can see from this video that by no means is Joel Osteen fit to be a pastor. We can see that he is now getting himself wrapped up with the likes of Oprah and is trending towards new age teachings by not preaching the complete Gospel of Christ . Remember all it takes to be a heretic is not to preach the full council of God.
