I wondered why there is a lot of traffic today on this website for Michael Gungor. Through a simple internet search, I found out he has been tweeting a lot during the last few hours. In one of his tweets, he wrote
“Jesus was Christ.
Buddha was Christ.
Muhammad was Christ.
Christ is a word for the Universe seeing itself.
You are Christ.
We are the body of Christ.”
Last evening I was in Denver. I took a walk over 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver. As I started to walk, I saw a lot of people smoking marijuana and playing music. A man holding the hands of another man, a woman embracing another woman. They look like they are having a lot of fun. Their marijuana smoke gave me a headache, so I started to walk away from them. After three blocks, I came across a group of ISKCON devotees singing Hare Rama Hare Krishna chants. I walked over to them to listen to their singing. They offered me a free book on Hinduism. Post-Christian modern American youth, their marijuana, their needles, their homosexuality, their music, their paganism and pantheism. It did not surprise me because their path was well predicted by the beloved Apostle Paul in Romans chapter 1. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie.
This street in Denver was designed by famed Chinese-American architect I.M.Pei, who chose ‘community’ over the ‘individual’ in his architectural style. As I walked over the street, I saw granite stones paved in intricate patterns. I.M.Pei wanted this street to resemble the scale pattern of the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake. It felt like a road built to celebrate the triumph of the original serpent over the imagination of the modern youths. It reminded me of Satan’s first lie to humanity – you can be your own god. You can be your own Christ. You don’t need Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
It is a pathway to paganism. It is the road of relativism. It is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death. It is the broad road that leads to destruction. Many people will choose it but it does not make it the right path. It was a sad spectacle for me, so I called a car through Uber and got out of the place.
Apostle Paul described this path two thousand years ago in his epistle to Romans. 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Michael Gungor has become vain in his imaginations, he changed the glory of God into corruptible things, exchanged the truth of God into a lie and worshipped the creatures rather than the Creator.
Look at how Michael defines Christ. “Christ is a word for the Universe seeing itself.” Wow boy! That is straight from Deepa Chopra. That is not from God’s Word.
Christ means anointed. It means chosen by God for a specific task. It specifically refers to Messianic mission.
In Luke chapter 4, our blessed Savior goes to a synagogue and reads the magnificent Messianic prophecy from Isaiah chapter 61 and declares that prophecy applies to Him.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.” Luke 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord anointed only Jesus of Nazareth, the incarnate Son of God to be our Messiah, our Christ. No one else should apply that term to him or her.
Michael Gungor says,
“Jesus was Christ.
Buddha was Christ.
Muhammad was Christ.
Christ is a word for the Universe seeing itself.
You are Christ.
We are the body of Christ.”
This is blasphemy. Buddha was not anointed by God to be our Messiah. Muhammad was not anointed by God to be our Messiah. You are not anointed by God to be our Messiah. Only Jesus of Nazareth was. (Acts 4:27; 10:38; Hebrews 1:9).
We are the body of Christ?
Michael says, we are the body of Christ. In his opinion, no matter which religion or belief system you espouse, you are the body of Christ. This is another big lie.
To become a member of the body of Christ, you should acknowledge the exclusive Lordship and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, believe that He died for your sins and rose from the dead to give you hope. The divinity of Jesus was anathema to Muhammad and his followers. Original Buddha leaned towards atheism. They cannot be members of the body of Christ. Everyone in the Body of Christ is anointed by God as they accept Christ and his exclusive claims
(2 Cor 1:21; 1 John 2:27; James 5:14).
Every believer and minister is anointed by God. This is true even in the Old Testament. Moses anointed Aaron to be the priest for all Israelites.( Leviticus 8:12). All Israelites must approach God only through the priesthood of Aaron and his descendants. God would not accept any other priesthood.
Samuel anointed David to be the king of Israel (1 Samuel 16:13). All Israelites must be ruled by David or one of his descendants. God would not accept any other king outside David’s lineage.
Elisha was anointed by God to be a prophet to Israel (1 Samuel 16:13). All Israelites must listen only to a prophet anointed by God. God would not communicate to any other prophet.
Jacob, the father of Israel, anointed the pillar where God revealed to him in Bethel. (Genesis 28:18; 31:13). It was where God chose to meet Jacob. Moses anointed the Tabernacle where God revealed to the people of Israel through their journey in the wilderness (Exodus 40:9). All Israelites who want to meet God must go to the Tabernacle. There was no other place, no other altar to meet God. When they settled in the Promised Land, God gave them a permanent Temple. This was and will be the only Temple anointed by God (Daniel 9:24).
Every priest, every king, every prophet, every place must be anointed by God to be the valid paths to approach His presence, his rule, his word, and his communion. Christ is our priest, our king, our prophet and our place to be accepted by God because He was the only One anointed by God for this exclusive mission. As MIchael Gungor alleges, there is no White supremacy or Colonialism in this exclusivist movement. It is simply what the Bible teaches. It is divine exclusivism. Love it or hate it. It is your choice.
We read in Psalm 20:6, the Lord saves his anointed. You must be anointed by God to be saved. This is available only through faith in Lord Jesus Christ. It pleased God the Father to anoint and appoint God the Son as our Messiah (Hebrews 1:9).
With humility we must accept what God prescribed for us rather than choosing our own ways. God has not granted any special privileges to the 21st century youth which subscribed to narcissism and woke culture. Let us hope Michael Gungor would recognize his errors and return to our blessed Lord Jesus Christ.