Pro-Choice Pastor says he is a Matthew 25 Christian
He also says this about Jesus
Recently, US Senator and Pastor, Raphael Warnock was on the View. He was there primarily to speak on a new children’s book that he has written.
Raphael Warnock is the current pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. The same church Dr. Martin Luther King once pastored.
Given the ideological makeup of the View, naturally those ladies would ask the Pastor about all of the ills of the Trump administration and how the evil actions of deporting illegal immigrants is anti-Christian.
After all, what is more Christian than allowing someone to illegally enter into the country, assault his wife, and participate in human trafficking, alledgedly.
Leave it up to Raphael Warnock, the pro-choice pastor, to chastise those Christians who believe in obeying the laws of this country by saying they are essentially misrepresenting Jesus.
He says that Jesus is the victim of identity theft in America.
Then, he goes on to say that he is a Matthew 25 Christian.
What is a “Matthew 25” christian?
According to Pastor Warnock, a “Matthew 25” christian is someone that believes we should care about marginalized people and do whatever we can to remedy their marginalization.
However, I have yet to see one of these “Matthew 25” christians identify who is marginalized and who is not.
That is deliberate. They keep it nebulous and hard to define in order to generate sympathy and justify using the power of the federal government to redistribute wealth.
What adherents like Pastor Warnock won’t say, is that this theology does not come from Matthew 25, but more specifically from Antonio Gramsci, through the teachings of James Cone.
The genesis of this theology is Critical Theory, which in some Black Churches presents itself as Black Liberation Theology.
This doctrine views the world through the idea of oppressors and the oppressed (marginalized).
It takes the truth of the words of Christ to care for the least of these and twists it to mean the cares of those who are least in the hierarchy of the oppressed.
Immutable characterstics, such as gender and ethnicity, are combined with behavior, such as sexual orientation, to create the groups that are either the marginalized or the oppressors.
In this theology, a straight black man may be oppressed by a straight white man, however that same straight black man is an oppressor to a black lesbian.
Instead of evangelizing to lead people into the Kingdom of God, social activism is the mechanism to produce social change.
Liberation is the goal, not salvation.
Jesus did not accomplish everything through His death, burial, and resurrection. No, black people are still in bondage to whiteness and white supremacy.
Only the subjugation of white people, especially straight white men, to the demands of the oppressed results in true salvation and deliverance.
That’s why Black Liberation Theology preachers have more in common with a progressive, liberal Christian than a white evanglical.
Yet, as Biblical Christians our similarities should be based on the truth of the Word of God and rightly dividing it.
Not upon social constructs like race that are used to divide us for political power.
Pastors like Raphael Warnock are encouraging division amongnst the ethnicities, just as Jesus predicted in Matthew 24:7.