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Mike Adams teachings on the non-deity Jesus, and how we are saved by our works Teaching about eating healthy foods and avoiding food processing and expressing political commentaries is not the same as teaching the Word of God, which one is to be called and gifted to do. I’m not sure if many of those who espouse Christianity would accept what Mike Adams teaches on Jesus, God, or prophecy, certainly not if they hold to a Biblical interpretation. The Bible teaches that if someone is wrong on salvation, or denies Jesus as being God in the flesh they should be avoided as a teacher. Mike Adams qualifies on both of these. In one particular sermon (#085) Mr. Adams who is now a Bible teacher (having 100 + sermons posted) he says, “I'm going to challenge you to take a good hard look at your beliefs a good hard look at your faith is your faith rooted in uh reality, or do you just believe a bunch of stuff that was told to you in Bible School, you never thought about it, you never really interpreted it, never really checked it to see whether its consistent.” So he speaks about challenging you as a Christian… can he be challenged? Our faith is to be rooted in Scripture, which is the truth, as we will see he is not consistent with agreeing with the Word. He constantly speaks of the Lord as different from Jesus. According to the Bible the Lord is the creator and Jesus is that creator, he is Lord. In one of his sermons, he speaks on a very tall 90 foot Hindu statue in Texas. He refers to a Christian group showing up and challenging people “saying that Christ is the only way there is only Christ there's no monkey man that would get you into heaven they say only Christ will get you into heaven and of course they're probably quoting John 14 verse six uh and this is conversation between Jesus and Thomas in verse six says Jesus said to him I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me okay now taken by itself that verse seems to indicate that the only way that anybody can get to heaven is by worshiping Christ himself.” Mr. Adams brings into question what Jesus said here as a non sequitur. Before I go on, not to split hairs, but to establish the Bibles criteria for going to heaven. It is not worship that is the way but believing in the gospel, which includes who Jesus is. Then we can worship him freely, willingly after we are saved. He goes on to say, “right now obviously we are going to expand the reading of John 14 and you're going to learn some additional things if you don't already recall them.” he recalls, “ I was having a conversation with a person recently who had the same belief and they said Jesus is the only way to the Lord the only way it has to be through Jesus and so of course because I, I like to ask people questions and I like to challenge people's theology uh because you know otherwise if you don't know what you believe then you don't really believe much right if, if your beliefs aren't rooted in introspection then they're not really much of a belief are they. So I asked this person I said, well, if you believe that the only way to heaven is through Christ then you're saying that everybody who does not recognize Christ as their savior is going to hell? His questioning this Christian Biblical belief makes it clear that he does not hold to Jesus’ words, (he also mentions for salvation works, and karma, which is Hinduism.) He is not accepting the narrow way Jesus spoke of, that He alone is the way. Jesus told Nicodemus in Jn.3, our condition is a separation, we are already condemned and the only way out of this condemnation we all share in is by Jesus being the way to God, He is the only way. He said ‘I am the way,’ Not a way. The man responded to Adams, with an affirmative yes, Jesus is the only way. Adams responded, “so you believe that all the Jews are going to hell because the Jews in Judaism they do not recognize Christ,” he further stated to the Christian, “ Islam recognizes Jesus Christ as a prophet and a messenger of God.” Mr. Adams, it is not just the Jews but everyone who does not trust in Christ as the way to God. Adams does not accept the Word, only the parts he agrees with on his own terms. For Jesus said, “He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him” (John 3:36).According to Jesus, in the same chapter, w e are all already condemned, not because we are not ‘awake’ as Adams teaches but because we are sinners who Jesus came to rescue. This rescue is not done by our works, but by Christ alone – it’s what he did for us, by his blood shed for the forgiveness of sin. Next we come to a very subtle switching of what Jesus meant, as he separates Jesus’ humanity from his deity and rejects what this Christian said as the truth. “I the Lord I am the way the truth and the life that he is the Lord saying … verse seven, Jesus says if you had known me you would have known my father also and from now on you know him and have seen him and what is implied is because you have seen me. …. he who has seen me has seen the father because Jesus is saying that I am the Lord, I am I represent the Lord so how can you say show us the father do you not believe that I am in the father and the father in me the words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own authority but the father who dwells in me does the works in other words when Jesus says I am the way the truth and the life. He's speaking as the Lord, the Lord is saying I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to Heaven except through m e… okay so Jesus is the personification of GodJesus is the ambassador of God to the Middle East in that time in that era God created Jesus in a human form through of course Immaculate Conception.” (#85 Is CHRIST the only pathway to Heaven?) One would at first think he is saying what Christianity believes but as he speaks elsewhere he shows he is not. Jesus is an ambassador at that time period? The strange fact is that he can read the scripture nearly correctly and still not understand what Jesus is saying, which is perplexing. There are times one cannot be sure what Adams position is and there are other times its plain. “Christ had claimed to be a spokesperson for the Lord or the son of the Lord who is king of the cosmos, king of all that is.” (Mike Adams Sermon #103 - Romans 13) Which makes Jesus not King of Kings, the Father is. To further establish his belief on Jesus, “Christ being the personification of the lord, of God. So the creator expressed himself in the form and the image of a man. And that man is named Jesus… is the son of God for this very reason, Jesus Christ is also the human projection or personification of God himself… He explains “the return of Christ or could be God the creator returning in a form that is larger than the personification of Christ. ..Christ and more, christ and God, possibly. It doesn’t really say in the bible what this means .” (Mike Adams Sermon 024 - 1 Thessalonians - The RAPTURE and God's multi-verse) A personification means a representation, a perfect example of that thing, or that it has a lot of that quality of the thing they represent. Again it is clear by this and other explanations Christ is not God in the flesh, the Son who shares the nature of God. And the projection concept has to do with Adam’s believing “This world is a artificial simulation”(Sermon #100.) Statements like this convey, that Jesus is not God who became man. “He wants you to have power directly with God or himself, the son of God” (028 Mark 5-6 God infused us all with healing miracles.) Jesus said “I and the Father are one,” he did not mean the same in person but united in nature as the one God. How do we know this? He is called the creator by God the Father. In Heb.1:10 The Father speaking of the Son, “And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning has laid the foundation of the earth ; and the heavens are the works of your hands.” “He who built all things is God” (Heb. 3:6.) John 1:2-3: “All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” Col. 1:16-17 “ For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth , visible and invisible.” God is presented as the savior in both the Old and New Testament. In Titus 2:13 Paul writes, Jesus is called our great God and Savior. “ The Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.” Jude writes, “God our Savior”(Jude 1:25). John 5:20: Jesus Christ, his son “this is the true God and ETERNAL LIFE.” Adams states, “those who understood that the name of Jesus Christ has power in it because Christ is the Son of God or a representative of the Lord.” No, Jesus is not just a representative, he is YHWH, the LORD in flesh. He became a man. Adams has no grasp on Phili.2 explaining Jesus came from heaven as a servant (as man), to be under the Father, he put aside his privileges even though he was fully God as the Son. I have not seen any sermon on Christs deity and I don’t expect to. Because he does not embrace the Triune nature of the one God. So who is the Son of God according to Adams? He says, God “gave him a little piece of God's spirit.”He goes on, “God has the power to create his son Jesus in any image that he wants…God could technically have created Jesus to be more God looking maybe could have made him 15 ft tall could have had him glowing all the time.” According to Colossians 2:9 the fullness of the godhead bodily dwells in Jesus, he is all that makes God who He is, he is not a piece of God. The apostle John teaches he was God manifested in the flesh. The whole New Testament bears witness of who Jesus actually is, this is one of the reasons why the religious leaders had Rome crucify him, because of who He said he is. Those in his audience that listen to Adams who are not born again will never be, with his distortion of the Bible's Jesus and denying the Bible's gospel. This is misleading people away from Christ and salvation. If one does not have the correct Jesus they certainly do not possess salvation and will always have an alternative way that is not spoken of in the Bible, “For Whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in my name because you belong to christ, assuredly I say to you he will by no means lose his reward. Okay, so what does this mean? Well what reward is he referring to? Well, Obviously Salvation, the reward of heaven, the reward of being looked upon with favor by the Lord.” (Mike Adams Sermon #097 - Mark Ch 9 - Jesus teaches Multi- Denominational acceptance of the Lord's rules for salvation) Salvation is never called a reward. The majority of Cults reject the gospel of grace and do works for their salvation. Misled by their leaders not knowing Jesus gives it as a free gift (Eph.2:8). One cannot do works pleasing unto him unless they were saved by faith. This is not debatable. Adams, “ my point is in all seriousness he didn't have to make Jesus look like the people of that area did he, no, he chose to do that on but surely we all recognize that God can appear he can send ambassadors to any group of people at any time in any civilization anywhere on Chinese Mesoamerican Etc. that all those people are going to hell too especially the ones that were born before modern Communications because they did not even have the opportunity to know who Christ was…” Christ did not teach in those countries, to those cultures or religions as Prophecy tells us he would come to his own people, fulfilling God’s Word. The gospel was spread to all mankind by his ambassadors, the apostles. Jesus did not just look like an Israelite, he was born as one, he was one of the brethren. Mr. Adam’s then doubles down on his denial. “So if you believe that Jesus Christ is the only way then you believe that God's children all over the world who lived all throughout history including the Jews and maybe close to a 100 billion other people who lived throughout the world you believe that God condemned them all to hell even if they were holy people.” Holy people, no. Scripture says we are all sinful and worshiped different gods. God says to have no ‘other’ Gods before me. Does Adams think they are all the same God? This holiness he assigns to others is another unbiblical teaching. Rom. 3:10-12 “There is none righteous, no, not one,”then Paul says,“There is none who does good, no, not one.” Did he make this up? No, Jesus says “No one is good but One, that is, God” (Matt. 19:17.) Rom.3:21-23 “…even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ , to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God .” All have sinned, means everyone of humankind .Jn.3 explains that all the world is condemned and Jesus came to save us, He is the only way to come to God. What is written in the Bible is directly contrary to what Mr. Adams is teaching as the bibles way of salvation. Adam’s:“You can't just say that you have faith in Jesus and that's enough for salvation, even though that's what's taught to a lot of Christians. And that's what I mean by the Bible can enslave you if you have the wrong understanding of it. Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. That's him saying faith without works is dead. It's meaningless to just say, oh, I believe in Christ.” (Mike Adams Sermon #100 - James Ch 2 - God and Jesus teach us to free ourselves Mar 28, 2025) underline[s] mine Who is the one who has a wrong understanding of the Scripture? Meaningless to just say I believe in Christ? Rom. 10:9-12 “if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” The Word says to ‘believe,’ which is used well over 200 times for salvation. Eph. 1:13 “In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. ”No works were done to receive salvation because salvation is a free gift, it is not something you work for. You prove you have genuine faith by works you do. The problem with works is, anyone can do a work from any religion or no religion, even an atheist. Works are done by our faith. Imagine speaking of Jesus and saying, to be saved you need to do good afterwards or you faith to be saved is not sufficient, or count! When we see the gospel preached (i.e. the book of Acts) no one in the Scripture speaks of works. Salvation is a ‘free gift’ because of what Christ did. You cannot earn it by doing any works or being ‘holy’, it is by grace through faith (Eph.2:8; Rom.3:24). 1 Cor. 15:1-4 “ I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.” The bibles emphasis is ‘on believing,’ having faith which is to fully trust in Jesus’ work for us. That is the dividing line between unbelief and belief. Adams asks, "what about all the people in China 2,000 years ago who never met Christ? ...Central and South America, the Mesoamericans… the Indians in India? so clearly God would not say that only the people in the Middle East get to go to heaven, but everybody else goes to hell, even if they're good people .He then mentions people in“ancient China, in ancient India, who “never even heard of Jesus Christ.” … “in Mesoamerica, they did not. They didn't know who Jesus was, ... Did they all go to hell? No. They earned their way into heaven through the expression of faith through their deeds , by being good people…. I know Buddhist monks who are amazing people, very holy people ,...They teach these three things that I just mentioned. “Repentance, obedience of being a good person, and faith through deeds and helping others. Will those Buddhist monks go to heaven, even though they never uttered the name Jesus Christ? And the answer, of course, is yes, they go to heaven too. And when Christians have a problem with that, they're stuck in the slavery of the modern-day Christian interpretation of the Bible.”(Mike Adams Sermon #100 - James Ch 2 - God and Jesus teach us to free ourselves Mar 28, 2025) “… the name Jesus has incredible power. But the person invoking the name of Jesus” …“that person does not have to be a member of a Christian church…have to go to a Christian church. … does not have to have frankly any association with a particular religious group. That person … theoretically, …could be a Buddhist who also recognizes the power of the name Jesus … Or a Muslim. Same story. Could a Muslim carry out deeds in the name of Jesus and honor Jesus and worship Jesus as the Son of God? And if they were a, quote, Muslim, if they went to a Muslim church, but they carried out these deeds in the name of Jesus, would they be welcomed by the Lord in heaven? Jesus says yes. Jesus himself says so.” (097 - Mark Ch 9 - Jesus teaches MULTI-DENOMINATIONAL acceptance) No one can be involved in their (former?) religion, Jesus said to follow him, only. You cannot stay in a former false religion and follow Christ (Mt.10:38;16:24), it is for this reason they were called Christian. And this needs to be mentioned, one must have the actual Jesus, God in the flesh! So it becomes clear that Mike Adams’ is what is termed a universalist, one who believes we all get to heaven by what we do, what he calls good deeds. There is no need for a gospel for his trust is in what we do and not what Jesus did. Believing in Christ and the gospel, is not necessary if ‘good’ people of other religions are all saved. In another sermon,“Good people will join Christ and the Lord in heaven.”He ends with“Be a good person. And we'll see each other one day in heaven”(079 Daniel 7 is the BEAST a symbol of Zionism?) The bible says 1 John 5:13 to “know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.” In other words keep the faith (Acts14:22; Col.1:23; Gala. 2:5) which is a constant admonishment. Jesus explains, ‘whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”(Jn.3:16)You would think this popular Scripture is sufficient but it is not when you are swimming in the waters of so many spiritual beliefs. Jesus continues, “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God .” Jesus (not Paul) says there is only one way out of the condemnation. (John 3:16-18) We are all under the condemnation of sin, this includes all the aforementioned people that Adams says are good people. And this is what Mr. Adams needs to comprehend, Not to mix Scripture with other spiritual concepts or beliefs. ‘To believe’ is to have genuine faith, to trust in God’s Word (alone) and God’s Son alone. Just as everyone else has trusted HIM throughout history for their salvation. Jesus IS the one and only way to God, our (good?) works are not. *For more on works and faith A study in the second chapter of James
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