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James Talarico is NOT A CHRISTIAN!
I get it if you aren't a Republican
and you are trying to fool yourself into thinking he's a Christian, but he is teaching heresy. He is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Please stop trying to claim that what he is teaching represents biblical Christianity.
On October 22, 2023, he said in a sermon:
"There are so many pathways to the sacred. The Islamic mystic Rumi said, 'Every religion has love, but love has no religion.' God is so much bigger than our human categories. God is not a Presbyterian. God is not a Christian. God is not a noun at all. God is a verb.
God is not a Being."
First, he denies the very words of Jesus that Jesus is the ONLY way to the Father.
There is no religion, ideology, or anything apart from the Christ revealed in the New Testament that can save.
Jesus said:
"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." John 14:6
To stand in a pulpit and proclaim that there are "many pathways to the sacred" contradicts the exclusive claims of Jesus Christ.
Secondly, he stated that God is "not a noun."
A noun refers to a person, place, thing, or idea. Yet the Bible reveals God as personal. God:
speaks (Genesis 1:3)
knows (Psalm 139:1-4)
wills (1 Corinthians 12:11)
loves (John 3:16)
can be grieved (Ephesians 4:30)
reveals Himself by name (Exodus 3:14)
eternally exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19)
God is not merely an impersonal action, force, or concept. He is the eternal, personal, self-existent God.
Lastly, he said God is "not a Being."
This is ludicrous.
Talarico appeals to the words "God is love" from 1 John 4:8 to make his point. But John did not say, "Love is God." John said, "God is love."
God is the subject. Love describes His nature.
God loves. God speaks. God wills. God acts. God reveals Himself. God is not merely an abstract concept called "love."
Christianity isn't merely one cultural vocabulary for encountering some universal religious reality. Its central confession makes objective claims about reality:
Jesus Christ is Lord.
Jesus is the Son of God.
Jesus died and rose bodily from the dead.
Salvation is found in Him alone.
Politics aside, Christians cannot redefine these foundational truths and still call the resulting theology historic, biblical Christianity.
Saints, we have to reject heresy.