Is The JESUS Of Mormonism The Jesus Of The Bible? How Can We Agree In Faith?

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once
for all delivered to the saints.
Jude 1:3

I would like to start this post by saying that I love COGIC Presiding Bishop J Drew Sheard, I consider him to be a friend and very encouraging leader and have reached out to him personally prior to posting this. He is one of the few that have ever volunteered to assist me in ministry and church development and he is a Pastoral leader extraordinaire.  

With that said, I am totally disappointed that out of all the very astute scholars within our church, that  Bishop was seemingly without sound advice or prep in the meeting referenced in the video with leaders of the LDS (Mormon) Church. My question is why? How did this come to be?  

It would seem, and I well may be way off and wrong, but a meeting of this magnitude between two organizational leaders, would have been orchestrated thoroughly FIRST...Statements prepared, agreements solidified and a clear statement of operation, on both sides, issued in preparation for this meeting and resultant actions. While I see nothing wrong with partnering with anyone to better the condition of the community, there is a big problem when we start talking about issues of faith as if they are one in the same or unimportant...

With a Baptist, Methodist or other Christian faith, we can safely say we worship the same JESUS. When I say that I am referring to the JESUS of history, the one who IS God by nature and essence, whose works and mission is thoroughly biblical. 

However, the JESUS of Christian Cults such as Mormonism, and non-Christian Cults such as Jehovah's Witnesses are a wholly different JESUS' than the JESUS of scripture. The JESUS of the Cults is an individual who was a created being, had to come into existence at some point, was and is the exalted "spirit-brother" of Lucifer, Michael and other angelic beings, (as Mormonism teaches) and one who is NOT God in the same nature or essence. The JESUS of the cults has to come into higher knowledge and does not enjoin the eternal uninterrupted hypostatic union (God/Man status). The JESUS of the Cults "becomes" God over time and or through enlightenment or by ordination or appointment. 

While all of those things are not unique to the teachings of Mormonism, there are enough of them that are and this is the problem. We can't agree to have unified faith in two wholly different Jesus' because the implications from that are completely different. To be satisfied that faith in the Mormon JESUS is tantamount to faith in the JESUS of the Bible is NOT how the Saints were told to "earnestly contend". 

As you have followed this blog for years, please know that we will continue to do what we do best...examine the Church in relationship to the culture and seek to apply a Biblical lens to all things. 

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"Faith" In The Jesus Of Mormonism?

#1 The JESUS of the LDS Church and Mormonism, IS NOT the JESUS of the Bible.

In LDS doctrine, Jesus was a "premortal spirit", a created being, who had to learn from the Father. In LDS doctrine, Jesus is the "spirit-brother" of Lucifer and Michael the Arch Angel and only god by appointment or in a lesser sense.

Whereas the JESUS of the Bible is God, Co-Eternal with the Father and are not only one in purpose, but ONE in nature, essence and of the same substance.

How can we make agreements to "have faith" in Jesus when these Jesus' are two different things?

Supt. H. Burnett

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Please only 1 survey per person, so that our evaluations can be accurate and remember, it is anonymous and there are no right or wrong answers. We want a youth perspective on violence, violence activities and how it may or may not have effected them. Thank you and Blessed!

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To UKRAINE

 MAY GOD BLESS AND KEEP YOU!

I don't know why, but in the last 3 months this blog has garnered over 250,000 page reads from Ukrainian citizens.

First, I would like to say, I AND WE ARE PRAYING FOR YOU. Even though this dreaded war is on American TV news regularly, I personally have no clue as to what you are experiencing or going through. I can only pray for your peace and safety and for the threat and reality of war to disappear and go away forever. No father, mother or child should have to endure such terror and do it perpetually...It seems that those who could end this complete fiasco and terror could also end it as immediately IF they only had a human heart. 

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; 

nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

 ~ Ps. 91:5 ~

It seems that the Russia/Ukrainian war has been commercialized and turned into some sort of cult economic ploy to fund the war machines of countries such as China and The United States. Each of these countries and others are actively involved, not brokering for peace, neither serving or protecting Ukrainian citizens, as far as I can tell, but supplying weapons and trying to make a profit on every hand.  

To the politics, I have little additional commentary...Evil men will simply wax worse (2 Tim. 3:13)

To the people, the spirit of mankind....I have something to say...

The JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH! 

(Hab. 2:4, Rom. 1:17, Gal. 3:11, Heb. 10:38)

We are prepared to partner with you in faith that God will intervene and that God will protect sons, daughters, families and individuals and work miracles even though the pernicious, dastardly and evil acts of men who are and will be condemned for their evil towards humanity!

I am sorry for all that have been orphaned, abused, raped, murdered, displaced and whatever evil has befallen on your country and home at the hand of evil men, thoughts and intentions. I pray that right where you are the miracle working power of the Lord will be seen, felt and experienced. I pray that as you go back and forth in the city and in the field, that you and your family will be blessed and see the Glory of the Lord. I pray for healing of the sick and restoration for what has been stolen and for restoration of the breech that has taken your hope and joy and pray that all will be restored!

I certainly don't understand the real issue, but I already know that the evil one is DEFEATED and yet GOD IS EXALTED!!!

I pray for blessing, healing and for the peace of the Ukrainian people...I do this, in JESUS NAME,,,The one who brought to an open shame all demonic powers and triumphed over them on the cross and proved his preeminence with a bodily resurrection from the dead wherein he took the sting out of death and victory from the grave...To HIM, be all power, majesty, dominion and power forever and may that power rest and reside with believers of this faith in Ukraine!

Blessed!  

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"But What About Polio?" ~ Robert F Kennedy Jr.

For sure, politics is ugly these days. We have a whole justice department politicized against a political opponent while overlooking treasonous acts of a current President and son...We have people, such as Bill Gates, genetically modifying mosquitoes and releasing them in effort to change something, but WHAT is the question??? This is the day of the mad scientist and the ultra materialist and it is shameful...the more enlightened some of these become, the more morally bankrupt and barbaric they become as well. I am NOT a Democrat or shall I say a "DEMO-RAT", but I am also not one to simply judge
and label. Robert F Kennedy Jr., who endorses some policies I don't agree with and some I do, is one that is shaking up the Democratic side of the race for President and he is doing it by simply asking questions and making assertions...You see, the elites don't like being questioned...They like to tell everyone what to do, but they don't like being challenged. When Mr. Kennedy speaks up regarding vaccine collusion and deception, the liberal "controllers" on the Left can't stand it. They are ready to relegate his commentary to misinformation, even though THEY are the one's misinforming. No less is the case when it comes to the Polio vaccine and the modern computer scientists who have suddenly turned into medical practitioners...Remember, the Gates Foundation was at the table for the TABLE TOP EXERCISE on a Global Pandemic, prior to there being one. They think we are so stupid we can't put 2 + 2 together...Yes they have nerve. Here is what Mr. Kennedy recently wrote and revealed about this Polio vaccine and its administration...This is really insightful and shocking.

“Promising to eradicate Polio with $1.2 billion, Gates took control of India ‘s National Advisory Board (NAB) and mandated 50 polio vaccines (up from 5) to every child before age 5. Indian doctors blame the Gates campaign for a devastating vaccine-strain polio epidemic that paralyzed 496,000 children between 2000 and 2017.

In 2017, the Indian Government dialed back Gates’ vaccine regimen and evicted Gates and his cronies from the NAB. Polio paralysis rates dropped precipitously. In 2017, the World Health Organization reluctantly admitted that the global polio explosion is predominantly vaccine strain, meaning it is coming from Gates’ Vaccine Program. The most frightening epidemics in Congo, the Philippines, and Afghanistan are all linked to Gates’ vaccines. By 2018, ¾ of global polio cases were from Gates’ vaccines.

In 2014, the Gates Foundation funded tests of experimental HPV vaccines, developed by GSK and Merck, on 23,000 young girls in remote Indian provinces. Approximately 1,200 suffered severe side effects, including autoimmune and fertility disorders. Seven died. Indian government investigations charged that Gates funded researchers committed pervasive ethical violations: pressuring vulnerable village girls into the trial, bullying parents, forging consent forms, and refusing medical care to the injured girls. The case is now in the country’s Supreme Court. In 2010, the Gates Foundation funded a trial of a GSK’s experimental malaria vaccine, killing 151 African infants and causing serious adverse effects including paralysis, seizure, and febrile convulsions to 1,048 of the 5,049 children. During Gates 2002 MenAfriVac Campaign in Sub-Saharan Africa, Gates operatives forcibly vaccinated thousands of African children against meningitis. Between 50-500 children developed paralysis. South African newspapers complained, "We are guinea pigs for drug makers" Nelson Mandela's former Senior Economist, Professor Patrick Bond, describes Gates' philanthropic practice's as "ruthless" and immoral". In 2010, Gates committed $ 10 billion to the WHO promising to reduce population, in part, through new vaccines. A month later Gates told a Ted Talk that new vaccines "could reduce population". In 2014, Kenya's Catholic Doctors Association accused the WHO of chemically sterilizing millions of unwilling Kenyan women with a phony "tetanus" vaccine campaign. Independent labs found the sterility formula in every vaccine tested. After denying the charges, WHO finally admitted it had been developing the sterility vaccines for over a decade. Similar accusations came from Tanzania, Nicaragua, Mexico and the Philippines.

A 2017 study (Morgensen http://et.Al.2017) showed that WHO's popular DTP is killing more African than the disease it pretends to prevent. Vaccinated girls suffered 10x the death rate of unvaccinated children.

Gates and the WHO refused to recall the lethal vaccine which WHO forces upon millions of African children annually.

Global public health advocates around the world accuse Gates of - hijacking WHO's agenda away from the projects that are proven to curb infectious diseases; clean water, hygiene, nutrition and economic development. They say he has diverted agency resources to serve his personal fetish - that good health only comes in a syringe.

In addition to using his philanthropy to control WHO, UNICEF, GAVI and PATH, Gates funds private pharmaceutical companies that manufacture vaccines, and a massive network of pharmaceutical -industry front groups that broadcast deceptive propaganda, develop fraudulent studies, conduct surveillance and psychological operations against vaccine hesitancy and use Gates' power and money to silence dissent and coerce compliance."

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A TOTALITARIAN EXPERIMENT

Although many officials and former officials are now pretending that they didn't either restrict, look down upon, fire, or do anything negative against the unvaccinated and those of us who chose not to take an experimental, ineffective, vaccine created through ABORTED fetal cell lines...they say they didn't restrict and even ban inexpensive, age old, and safe medications such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine...they now contend that they didn't change and subvert research and even produce and promote false articles in medical journals...they also claim that they didn't restrict speech and reject and revise Constitutionally protected freedom. The truth is that they are LIEING by the droves in plain sight, trying to rewrite history and paint themselves as humans, when many of the same ones encouraged restrictions of the unvaccinated, promoted covid passes and created a totally new and separate human upper and underclass while touting a vaccine that DOES NOT and DID NOT either stop, slow down nor prevent the spread of covid-19.

Here we go again...

Recent news reports say there is a new covid-19 variant strain circulating and hospitals are starting to fill up again...Then the ominous warning has risen to beware of the "new" pandemic or should we say PLAN-DEMIC on the horizon. While I contend all of that to be more GARBAGE and HOGWASH, the facts are that covid-19 and the alleged scientific "treatments" and resultant disease management has been the worst ever seen in history in the United States and the mismanagement of this created disease and illness has killed more people than the disease itself. 

How dare I?

Covid was shown early on to have a predisposition to infect the elderly and kill our seniors in masse. Yet policies were stringent on youth and young well bodied and healthy individuals and restrictions placed which included unscientific protocols such as face shields, 3 to 6 foot distancing, decals on floors to tell people which way to walk, as if a disease would follow any of those guidelines, and a whole host of other silly, stupid and restrictive ideologies...

What was it all about? 

It HAD to be to see how far people would go to seek to save their lives and how much people would revert to the most evil characteristics if they felt their lives were in danger. It had to be to see how far leaders could take control of people's lives and reverse or pervert concepts of freedom. BINGO! Covid did the job. Tyrants stood up to drive people into captivity. They told others to not go to the store or restaurants, while they either went or had parties in public that they did not expect anyone to question. They told others not work, because they weren't "essential" to a functioning society...They told others to stay home, not even help themselves in any way, and sent a couple of checks to say "thanks for obedience"...The CHURCH was restricted by the STATE, SOCIAL MEDIA AND POLICY, AND Bishops, Pastors and leaders simply fell in line and them that didn't they labeled as "unchristian" and "out of order" If individuals SPOKE UP, THEIR EMPLOYER WOULD FIRE THEM OR AT LEAST THREATEN TO DO SO, and as we are learning LIEING in courts around the country saying that they did no such thing. Then the countless PCR tests given daily, weekly or any time, making companies wealthy at the expense of forced testing...We lived through nurses, doctors and front line workers being hailed one day as "heroes" to the same people being fired, disbarred and disfellowshipped the next day. We saw people who were told they couldn't come to the store, movie theatres or even dine at an outside restaurant because they didn't have a "pass"...We saw children being made to sit outside on the ground in adverse weather to "prevent the spread" of a disease that was NOT killing healthy children in any significant manner...ie: we saw the WORST of humanity during covid and now we are seeing a revision of history by the same unfeeling, uncaring, inhumane elitists, pretending that they did none of those things...Don't say it didn't happen...It did, we lived it... 

To those evil, menacing, and calculating tyrants and domineering idiots, YOU DID IT ALL AND THEN SOME! You cared less about humanity when it came to acceptance of what was a "medical fad" or some sort of "en-vogue" method to save yourself and to say that you were "a part of society" or some scientific brainiac...

As the Christine Anderson says in this video, it was AN EXPERIEMENT...Unfortunately, they were able to see just how far you and I would go and what we would give up. Many of us gave up church inspired abortion policy and concepts of freedom.  Many gave up family and friends and a host of other things in the name of covid mitigation...You reinterpreted the Constitution and ultimately our place as beacons of truth and freedom in the world, all in order to follow the WHO's and WEF'S dream and vision for the world. 

Shame on you. When it comes to thinking to help people, PLEASE don't help me if you'll compromise values so easily...

Blessed! 

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Announcement & Invitation To Live Q & A Sessions On In Defense Of The Faith

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:

For a limited time we will offer a weekly LIVE 1 Hour Question & Answer Session at In Defense Of The Faith ~1 Peter 3:15 Facebook forum.

Our focus will be on Old & New Testament Biblical difficulties, faith, dogmas, doctrines, science & faith, origin, novel speculations, morality and a host of other related topics and issues.

Due to time constraints, questions can be submitted in advance by email at Dunamis1@netzero.com OR by Facebook Messenger. You may also submit question in the comments to this post and I will address them in the live forum. In addition, if time allows, we will also answer real-time questions live also.

START DATE: TUESDAY AUGUST 8th, 2023

TIME: 6:00PM to 7:00PM CST

FORUM: Facebook LIVE

Submit those questions and difficulties TODAY!

Blessings,

Pastor H. Burnett
Founder
New Bethel COGIC 
The Dunamis Word
In Defense Of The Faith ~1 Peter 3:15

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