Pastor John Piper: Oprah Winfrey's interpretation of the Bible is wrong

Pastor John Piper thinks television personality Oprah Winfrey misinterpreted the Bible by likening God granting blessings to the Third Law of Motion.

In an entry on his Desiring God blog, Pastor John Piper voices his disapproval of Oprah Winfrey's interpretation of Bible verse Psalm 37:4. For the TV host, getting one's desires is a result of karma, or simply doing good deeds, Christian Today reports.

In the latest episode of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," the host, who is a Christian, told winfrey that his favorite Bible passage is Matthew 6:35. When he asked Winfrey about her favorite verse, she quoted Psalm 37:4, which reads, "Delight thyself in the Lord. He will give you the desires of your heart," Charisma News relays.

Winfrey, however, interpreted it to mean that people will receive good things if they simply focus on being good.

Pastor John Piper took to his blog to rebut Winfrey's interpretation of the Bible verse. He said Winfrey's belief is wrong because she took God out of the picture. He also continued by saying the verse is not a guarantee that your desires will be given to you if you do good things, especially if your desires are evil.

Piper points out that Winfrey sees the relationship between the two parts of the verse as cause-and-effect. She told Colbert she believes that a person will get his or desires by performing good works or by being a good force.

"Now I think the relationship is, yes, cause-effect, but more than cause-effect. I think delighting yourself in the Lord is what shapes the desires of your heart so that it will be good for you for God to grant them," Pastor Piper says in his blog. "In other words, there are a lot of desires in our hearts that are impure and unwise, and this is not a promise that, if you delight in God, then you get all those evil desires in your heart."