Jesus the Resurrected

   On Easter Sunday 2021, the twitter account of Baptist minister Raphael Warnock, U.S. Senator from Georgia with two master’s degrees and a PhD from Union Theological Seminary, read the following: “The meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Whether you are Christian or not, through a commitment to helping others we are able to save ourselves.”  

   It should go without saying that this is heresy of championship rank.  Warnock blamed a low-level staffer, and the tweet was deleted.  Nearly one million twitter followers, thus, witnessed the result when society nurtures a shallow appreciation of Christian beliefs without any evidence of actual faith in Christ – “cultural Christianity.”

   Not coincidentally, Warnock’s church, Ebenezer Baptist, was formerly pastored by Martin Luther King, Jr. King denied numerous, fundamental Christian doctrines like the virgin birth, the Deity of Christ, and the substitutionary theory of atonement, but especially rejected Jesus’ bodily resurrection, even from a young age.  His autobiography noted that he “shocked [his] Sunday school class by denying [it],” at age 13, a belief sustained into adulthood when he eventually articulated that teaching the bodily resurrection produces “shackles of literalism,” and “from a literary, historical, and philos ...

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