The Death of the United Methodist Church: Part 6 - UMC Pastor Emanuel Cleaver's Gnostic Prayer
Lest any United Methodist doubt what I wrote in Part 3, The Gnostic Connection, I present to you the closing remarks of United Methodist pastor Emanuel Cleaver the II’s prayer:
May the Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon us and give us peace. Peace in our families. Peace across this land and, dare I ask...oh, Lord...peace even in this chamber now and evermore. We ask it in the name of the monotheistic God, Brahma, and gods known by many names by many different faiths. Amen and a-woman. (emphasis mine)
Forget the “a-woman” part. So many are focused on that, that they miss what’s really going on. Isn’t that like the Gnostics? Another name for modern Gnosticism is Perennial Wisdom which is ultimately the synthesis of all religions into One.
In Biblical Christianity, we close our prayers in the “name of Jesus.” We do this because Jesus said in John 14:16:
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Biblical Christianity is founded upon the self-revelation of the one and only self-existent God who exists as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We know this because God has spoken through His self-attesting Bible. This Book tells of the salvation that God the Father has given to us through the crucifixion of the Second Person of the Trinity who became flesh in history and physically rose again on the third day. God the Father applies the atonement of God the Son, Jesus Christ, to His elect children through the ministry of the third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, as we place our faith and confidence in Christ alone.
Why am I so careful in my description? Because Gnosticism uses the terminology of Biblical Christianity as a parasite feeds off its host. These Gnostic pastors can easily fool you if you are not careful. The United Methodist Church is loaded with them.
As a side note, my first article in this series entitles Corporate Pluralism outlines the fact that one of the main reasons the United Methodist Church is dying is because they have adopted the Perennial Philosophy of Theological Pluralism. Because of this, the United Methodist Church as no disagreement with Cleaver’s words, “the monotheistic God, Brahma, and gods known by many names by many different faiths.” I can assure you, no church trial is going to ensue for these blasphemous and apostate words. What an affront his words are to the True Church and to faithful Christians in the UMC.
Paul writes in I Timothy 6:20-21:
O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and vain babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge—by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen. (emphasis mine)
In Jesus Name!
Amen