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Last week I shared with you that I have started to read Oprah’s book of the month – A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle, and so far, I have to tell you that it’s a very interesting piece of fiction. In fact, fiction at it’s best. The problem however, is that the masses are falling for this fiction as if it were fact. It’s not, and I will tell you why as our review continues.

The purpose of my review is to examine this book in light of what the Bible teaches. So where ever there is a mention of Jesus Christ or any scriptural reference, I am looking at how it is being used – and actually, misused is really the problem. So here we go…

Chapter one has 23 pages within it, and numerous references to Jesus and the bible. The author clearly takes an evolutionary point of view, as he discusses numerous times about the “evolution” of fish to walking mammals, and the Earth existing merely 114 million years ago.

Tolle begins his tale of fiction by talking about the flower, and how the flower is like the human consciousness as it blooms. He writes, “As the consciousness of human beings developed, flowers were most likely the first thing they came to value that had no utilitarian purpose for them, that is to say, was not linked in some way to survival.” (p.2)

Let’s look at the flaws in this statement. In regards to flowers not having any utilitarian purpose except beauty, or scent, the author fails to realize or maybe isn’t aware, that flowers are part of the ecosystem that God created. Flowers are not around simply to give humans something nice to look at or to smell. Bees pollinate flowers and flowers, as well as other vegetation help convert carbon dioxide into oxygen. Oxygen helps humans to live.

Tolle goes on to say concerning flowers, “Jesus tells us to contemplate the flowers and learn from them how to live.” (p.2) What the Jesus actually said is in Matthew 6:25-34 which is a passage of scripture on worry. And the emphasis that Jesus was making wasn’t about looking at flowers to learn how to live, it was to look at how the flowers were clothed and how humans should not worry about our life, or where we will get our food or clothing.

“For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, {as to} what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, {as to} what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Mat 6:26 “Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and {yet} your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? Mat 6:27 “And who of you by being worried can add a {single} hour to his life? Mat 6:28 “And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, Mat 6:29 yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. Mat 6:30 “But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is {alive} today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, {will He} not much more {clothe} you? You of little faith!
Mat 6:31 “Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’
Mat 6:32 “For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. Mat 6:33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Mat 6:34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Stay tuned for part two.