Since I wrote my ThM thesis on T.D. Jakes’ Sabellian view of God, I have been curious to keep up with his progress in evangelicalism. I recently read this article where it appears that Jakes is now rejecting Modalism. This is the first time that I have ever seen Jakes refer to the persons of the Godhead as "persons," so this is an interesting development. Now we see James MacDonald inviting Jakes to his “Elephant Room Conference” (see his post, “Association vs. Discernment and is James MacDonald Changing?”). I would like to encourage Pastor MacDonald to ask Jakes about one thing he has said about John 14:11. In this verse, Jesus said, “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me . . . .” In a blatant misrepresentation of Scripture, Jakes collaborates with a female reader quoting this verse:
Jakes: I am going to rack your head, I’m going to scramble your heads . . . .
Reader: “Believest thou not that I am the Father?”
Jakes: Don’t you understand that “I am . . . .” – Oh!
Reader: Oh!
Jakes: “I am . . . believest thou not that I am the Father.”
Attempting to express amazement at Jesus’ confession that He was the Father, Jakes and his reader cry out with surprise, as though this was new revelation previously undiscovered. However, considering there is no Modal translation of the Bible, Jakes must have prompted the female reader to omit the preposition “in” while reading Jesus’ words, “I am in the Father.”
Will Pastor MacDonald ask T.D. Jakes about this? Is Jesus the Father? If he is bold enough to ask, maybe we will see if Jakes is truly an orthodox Trinitarian.
You can read more about this issue from Carl Trueman and Nathan Busenitz.
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Never mind his views about the Trinity.
Someone needs to confront him about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pHCki_GKh4
Never mind his views about the Trinity? No, his heretical views about the nature of God far outweigh his spiritualization of the OT text, as bad as it may be.
Jakes is a wolf. Jakes is a hireling. He has a false jesus, and so a false gospel. He seems to love "filthy lucre".
I really appreciate your post Jonathan. You are one of the best at stating things as they are with love for the truth.
Why do Christians allow these phonies into there gatherings as brothers in Christ? There must be a mind set that says, "Well, he says he's a Christian, and he is nice, and who am I to judge, God is the judge?"
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