p.1 Denying Scripture, rejecting the apostle Paul, and changing the meanings

Paul, the Apostle appointed to the Gentiles wrote to the many churches on subjects that the other apostles did not cover in depth.

According to this nutrition expert turned Bible teacher, Mike Adam’s, who previously said in sermon 023 that Paul“taught the proper teachings of christ.“ (Ironically stating this in the sermon titled 1 Timothy - Correcting the WICKEDNESS that has festered inside the Church for millennia.)

In Sermon 024 Adams says,“ Paul was quite a writer … Paul was I think the most amazing apostle, quite a teacher and a man of faith ,” saying, “ he went to all the churches to get back in line because they went off script.”

In his 68th sermon Mike Adams spoke to his Church of Natural Abundance. He began by citing the first letter of the apostle Paul to the Corinthians and his first letter to the Thessalonians. He states, “ Paul has knowledge of the end times events that are described in Revelation, also in Matthew 24.”

These approvals of Paul are spoken until he gets to sermon 103, which he titled “Romans 13-paul was a deceiver who perverted the teachings of Christ and demanded obedience to corrupt government.”

He now states Paul is a deceiver (there is no retracting this), because he compared his teachings to Jesus.’ “Paul was a prolific writer and he did say a lot of very important things, but he was also a false prophet in the church(because of Romans 13), in fact he says of Gods apostle, “Paul is saying that Rome is good and that all government officials are ordained by God and that they speak for God. This is one of the big lies of Paul, one of many, by the way."

How does the teaching on the resurrection work with Paul now called a deceiver? Adams decides what is true and false from Paul. We see this as he even corrects Paul’s Greek, saying, “1 and 2 Thessalonians, these are the only two books of Bible that I'm aware of that are misspelled, a complete typo. …Paul is speaking to the people of Thessalonica or Thessalonica, depending on how you wish to pronounce it.…, technically, for example, you're speaking to the people of Corinth, you would call them Corinthians” (024 - 1 Thessalonians - The RAPTURE and God's multiverse.)

Of course, this typo is not shown in the manuscript evidence. Paul lived in this era, teaching the church. Who would know better?  This minor issue becomes expanded as Adams voices his opinion on the apostle.

Here is another person who is correctly refuting Adams on his accusation of the apostle Paul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amdrn_8fCIU

On Paul was a deceiver, Adam’s states,“but the more I read about the Bible and the more I compare the words of Paul with the words of Christ like for example I have a a red letter Bible here that's only the words of Jesus verbatim from the four gospels okay that's what I have and uh guess what guess what I find out um Paul was an impostor Paul elbowed his way into the church to try to present himself as being chosen by the Son of God and he shoved aside other Apostles he, he played politics to put himself in power as the leader of the Christianity movement…”(For a refute on Adams accusations on Paul read )

Let me point out from Scripture that Paul was always accepted by the other apostles, by the early Church, and the church throughout history. Not because of intellect but what God inspired him to write by the Holy Spirit, (not the spirit of man). Paul says in 2 Tim. 1:11 “I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.”According to Adams view, The Lord DID NOT say of him to Ananias, "Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel” (Acts 9:15.)

In Rev. 2:2: “unto the church in Ephesus write… Thou hast tried them that say they are apostles and are not, and has found them to be liars.” There were false apostles who did not see the risen Lord, nor were they commissioned by Him. They did not teach to the standard of Scripture, that is the category Adams puts Paul in. So why does he quote from Paul? Because he is only one that speaks on certain topics that the other apostles do not. Especially on the resurrection and the rapture (1 Cor.14 and 1 Thess.4.)

I say all this to show how Adams disregards his own position on Paul because he has no other option, except to remove his letters to the church from out from the Bible.

According to Adams, the rapture will happen when “the Seventh Trumpet or, the seventh great comet impact on Earth that wipes out all mankind– is sounded. (068) When this happens both the worthy ones (those who did good works) and the evil people are all killed by it.

Afterwards, those who died previously and those who just died by the will be brought into the heavenly realm in their soul. Morally good people who died will be transformed into an incorruptible form when they rise again. His teaching is not about believing in the gospel, which would be the term ‘in Christ’ (used over 85 times in the New Testament), it is a technical term Paul used of only New Testament saints. 2 Cor. 5:17 “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.”

According to Adams there is no rapture for those who are living, yet he calls it a rapture.

“Meanwhile, the Apostle Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians also touches on the Rapture. The apostle to the Gentiles told the believers from Thessalonica that God will bring those who sleep or died in Jesus with Him. The true followers of Christ will be transformed from dust to spirit .” (Sermon 24: Mike Adams discusses theories about the Rapture and the Second Coming of Christ.)

We need to understand that these being brought with Christ are the spirits of those who died in christ that already went to heaven (to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord). They return with the Lord to be placed into a body that is transformed glorified, which they will live forever in. Not so says Adams.

Lets read what Scripture says on this.

1 Thess. 4:14-17 “if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. (meaning the spirits of those who died), “ For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.”

There is a difference in the Bible of a rapture and a resurrection. First is the resurrection of those who died, whose spirits are brought into their body which is raised from the dead to be transformed. Then immediately after this, we who are STILL alive are transformed into glory liken to Jesus body and brought up together to meet him in the sky.

What does the bible teach? 1 Thess. 4:16-17 the “dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air."

Adams is not teaching what Scripture is teaching. The dead are distinguished from those who are alive. The alive are not killed by a comet as he teaches. True believers in the gospel are transformed into eternal bodies like Jesus’ resurrection in his body. Rom. 6:5 “if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection.” So we must determine what Jesus' resurrection was like - physical or not.

Those who are still living who believed in Christ will be raptured, taken alive to be with Jesus, they do not see death. They are not all killed by the last (7^th comet) as Adams teaches.

There are not 7 comet impacts as Adams teaches, There is definitely one, (Rv.8) but it does not do what he says, “the Seventh Trumpet or the seventh great comet impact on Earth that wipes out all mankind … at the same time as or after the Seventh Trumpet, both the worthy ones who died previously and those still living who believed in Christ will be transformed and brought into the heavenly realm. Morally good people who died will be transformed into an incorruptible form when they rise again." (Mike Adams the 68th sermon )

There is no comet to wipe out all mankind (we will cover this distortion fully in another article). These worthy ones apparently do not need to believe in Christ or the gospel but are moral people of all religions or no religion who died, that become worthy by their works!

Adam’s deciphers what is true from Paul. He also decides what a resurrection is, and he defines it completely different from what Jesus and the apostles.

There is no body resurrection, the soul is resurrected

Adams further states, based on the first letter to the Corinthians, true followers of Christ are going to be transformed when they inherit the Kingdom of God “We're all transformed into the soul world instantly. Your body's toast, your body's vaporized timing of the rapture… morally good people, i. e. incorruptible, then they shall be changed and transformed, and they will rise to heaven… if you have a corrupted soul, you don't get to be incorrupted. You didn't earn it.” (068 timing of the rapture)

These moral people are not just from being ‘in Christ,’ but from all religions (or no one). That is another problem that amplifies his teachings as not being drawn from Scripture.

“with their physical bodies turning into spiritual bodies.” While some people will be physically dead, their soul will be resurrected and move into the soul world during the Rapture.” (068)

So what he is describing that is raised from the dead are invisible souls. But they will not be on earth during the kingdom on earth, the 1,000 years of Christ reigning from Jerusalem is missing. This interpretation does not at all fit into any of the Bibles descriptions of the event.

The disciples “preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead” (Acts 4:2, 33.) All resurrections are those raised in the same physical body. Jesus did not have his soul or spirit resurrected, because it never died. Scripture says he was alive in the spirit 1 Peter 3:18-19 “put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit.”

Why would Jesus’ resurrection be any different than all the others he himself resurrected? There are no Scriptures used to validate a spirit resurrection rather than a bodily one. Nowhere does Jesus say I'm spirit, instead, he makes it clear he is flesh and bone[s] (Lk.24:39). Jesus says , “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”“…He was speaking of the temple of His body.” John 2:19-22, “Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.” So the disciples understood this to be a physical bodily resurrection. The Bible explains that his soul or spirit does not die, it is the body that dies.

The nutrition educator who now teaches the bible added when Jesus rose from the dead, He demonstrated the transformation of the physical body to the spiritual. (this will be further covered in pt.2)

He cites passages that pertain to the blowing of the Seventh Trumpet, the resurrection of the worthy and the transformation of the dead.

"So it's crystal clear.... there is a Rapture. The Rapture is the raising of the souls of those who are worthy." (068 - 1 Thessalonians Ch 5 - The timing of the RAPTURE)

Adams is saying it is Not a bodily resurrection but the soul, the immaterial part of man.

This becomes a serious breach of doctrine of which John the apostle states labels it the spirit of antichrist. 1 John 4:2: "Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God." Several times this term is used, applied to those prophets or teachers who deny that Jesus came in the flesh. Believing in Jesus doesn’t save you unless you believe who he is and what he did, both pertain to the gospel.

The phrase “Jesus has come in the flesh” means God came as a man – through the Jewish lineage (the Son of David).

In 1 John 4:1-3, he addresses those who denied God actually came as a human being, namely Jesus Christ has risen in the same body he incarnated in and will return in that same body. “By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God.”

John is using perfect tense in Greek, which denotes a past action with continuing results into the present, and continuing on into the future. He came in the flesh, rose in the flesh, and is still in the flesh. If one claims that Christ rose as a spirit, and not physically, John says they are of the anti Christ spirit, denying the third point of the Gospel (It was the Gnostics that John was addressing in his epistles).

John declares that Jesus “came [and remained] in the flesh” (1 John 4:2; 2 John 7). The body that emerged from the tomb was the exact same body that went in the tomb, only transformed to be eternal. He completes his teaching stating “And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.”

Adams teaches, “The Rapture happens after everybody dies – and everybody who hasn't died by the time the Seventh Trumpet arrives is killed by the seventh trumpet, which is at the end of the tribulation. Thus, the Rapture is real and it's post-tribulation." (068)

When everyone dies? Again, that is not a rapture, that would be called a resurrection; which he changes to be of the soul, not the body (which can only mean the soul died.) The last trump, according to Paul (which Adams does not know is different from the 7^th trumpet judgments), is a blessing to the believer, not destruction to all the living.

Adams has a got a whole different doctrinal explanation of what is taking place on several topics. First, Adams is confused about what a resurrection actually is. All resurrections were the body that died coming back to life; he says it is about our soul.

James says “the body without the spirit is dead,” and that describes death, when the Spirit departs the body. No one’s soul or spirit is resurrected, for the soul and spirit of man do not die.

Rom 8:11 “He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”It is our body that is raised from the dead, not our soul or spirit.

He says of Jesus, “he also knew that he would be resurrected. He knew that he would transform into spirit, ” (097 - Mark Ch 9 - Jesus teaches MULTI-DENOMINATIONAL acceptance)

First, we need to understand that in this statement he is denying Gods Spirit was in Christ. Second Jesus was not transformed to be Spirit. Jesus specifically said to those who “ were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit “Luke 24:37-39 “And He said to them, "Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.”And he ate a piece of fish after.

He is NOT a resurrected SPIRIT, he said to touch him. This teaching is no different than the Jehovah's Witnesses denial of the resurrection.

Adams continues to speak of a soul resurrecting “people are resurrected in their souls in order to join God and Christ in the heavenly dimension, which is referred to as the New Heaven no matter when we die, we are resurrected if we are worthy in the soul form . Okay? So, and this is what Paul says in verse 58 (1 Cor.15).

No, this is not what Paul says here, or anywhere else (and why use whom you call a false teacher to prove this teaching?)

Throughout the letter to the Corinthians V.26-27 “The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.” Paul asks, "How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?" Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.”1 Cor. 15:35-36 (again, James 2:26 the body without the spirit is dead,” meaning the body that dies come back to life.) V.35 “ How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?"

He explains in v:39 “there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fish, and another of birds.”V.42-44 “So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory . It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.” He explains that we will have a spirit dominated body no longer empowered by the sinful flesh, by blood (where the life is). This is why he says in V.50-51 “that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.”Man is to be transformed to have an incorruptible human body, having eternal life.

Peter in Acts 2:31 “he, forseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in Hades nor his flesh see corruption.” Christ went as a living soul to paradise continued living. V.32 “This Jesus God raised up of which we are all witnesses.”

Jesus, the one who was raised physically from the dead. Does it matter that He rose bodily (or that Jesus is not God?), Yes, absolutely! You must have this settled, or you have no gospel to stand in (1 Cor.15:1) for yourself or to others. The Apostle John writes that if they do not confess Jesus (being God) has come in the flesh they are not of God (1 John 5:20), denying his incarnation. Also, if they do not believe he was raised in the same body that died, they deny the gospel, His physical resurrection. I John 2:18-19 explains of those who departed in their teachings from the apostles. Jesus was raised from the dead in the same body (glorified) that He incarnated in and continues to live forever in (Rv.1).

The term “antichrist” is used in the New Testament exclusively by the apostle John who applied the term to those who deny that Jesus came in the flesh – “God incarnated” only once (1 Tim. 3:16). they are of the anti-Christ spirit.

Adams goes further “So the power to regenerate and heal and resurrect is within you every single day. When Jesus, quote, heals people, he, he uses his authority as the son of God to activate and accelerate that healing potential that is already within you.” (028 Mk 5 God infused us all.) When Jesus said to the woman your faith has healed you, it did not mean she had power, her faith, trust in Jesus was the crucial factor.

Besides, His spirit is not in all but only those born again through the gospel, by God’s Spirit.

“God sends a comet that has a name that refers to God”(068 timing of the rapture). The last comet,“kills everybody and everything. And then he resurrects the good people.” (064 - After planetary WIPEout) Which is it? Jesus resurrects us, or we resurrect ourselves?

When that last comet arrives, a person must earn their place in Heaven through good deeds and bring others to Christ before the tribulation ends.

No, we are not all killed. Again“we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord” (1 Thess. 4:15). Besides the many Scriptures that describe the judgment in the valley (Mt.25 where many are alive who enter the kingdom.)

Challenging a bodily resurrection, Adams embraces a view that is more metaphysical. He tells us, life,“it's a cosmic simulation put here by God. And God ends the simulation at one point, literally just wipes out everybody. But it's not really death because it wasn't real. Your soul is what's real and your soul isn't killed.”(064 planetary wipeout)

Death is not real is a teaching of Hinduism, which speaks of it as an illusion. Christ called THE death an enemy of mankind, it is not an illusion. It was the result of Adam and Eve’s sin.

He cites Paul (whom he calls a deceiver), “But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep.” (1 Thessalonians 4:13.) Adams defines sleep as, “When someone is ignorant of what is happening in the world, that person is said to be asleep. In contrast, when someone is aware, that person is said to be awake.”

The contrast, according to Adams, is when someone is aware, that person is said to be awake. This is not the same meaning the bible gives, in context, to sleep means you died. One needs to be born again to see Gods kingdom (Jn.3). Adams speaks of this “consciousness is revealed through the realization of self-awareness which is the waking equivalent of lucid dreaming to awaken in a dream…. the waking level is to realize the existence of one's own consciousness this is sometimes referred to as being enlightened “(Adams, the god within).

Again, this sleep Paul speaks of means they have died. His awaken[ing] is not the same meaning of the Bible, but this is Adams' interpretation using the Bible. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 According to Adams, attests to the return of Jesus Christ – the human projection or personification of the Lord Himself. When the Lord Himself “descends from heaven with a shout,” “this would most likely be a cosmic biblical shout – a great psychic awakening touching people’s consciousness at the same time .”

The dead ‘good people’ will rise and their souls will be welcomed into the Kingdom of Heaven .

“When the souls in Christ come together to meet in the clouds in the Lord, it insinuates a recalling of the souls back to the great union of God. Thus, the rapture mentioned in St. Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians speaks about the believers rejoining God at the soul level to spend eternity with Him.” (Sermon 024 Mike Adams)

“What this means is that we are going to be recalled from this earthly realm to rejoin the Lord, our Creator, in the hyper-dimensional reality known as Heaven. And that’s when we become one with the Creator, which is where we started. ”

There is NO RECALL, because we did not come from there. And this oneness concept is not a Bible teaching but more aligned with Hinduism, Buddhism, and new Age teaching.

This next statement cannot be separated from new age teaching, which is baked into his mix. “the individuation of what you have experienced on this Earth as being separate from other people … fades away. And in joining with the Lord, we are joining with all the souls that He allowed to have the adventure of life on Earth as a projection; a little tiny sliver of the consciousness of the mind of God.” (Sermon 024: Mike Adams discusses theories about the Rapture and the Second Coming of Christ)

This rejoining as he describes is not at all a Christian teaching. He is mixing what is foreign to Scripture to be Scripture.

The resurrection is the third point of the Gospel message, the confirmation of our Christian faith in Christ. To deny this is to reject the gospel. Is it crucial to believe Jesus was resurrected in the same body that He died with 3 days before? Yes.

Adams is not an accurate Bible teacher by any means and one should avoid his conclusions. Read your Bible and if need be go to trusted commentaries of those approved of throughout the churches history. I encourage you to do your own research of and from the Scripture, showing you are a workman approved by God.

p.2 Jesus changed into what form in his resurrection? Is there a resurrection for Jesus?

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