Sen. Raphael Warnock, who once served as senior pastor at the Atlanta church where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached, deleted a tweet on Easter Sunday after critics blasted him as a “heretic.”
Warnock claimed people are able to “save” themselves through good works.
“The meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Whether you are Christian or not, through a commitment to helping others we are able to save ourselves,” he said in the now-deleted tweet.
Deleted. pic.twitter.com/5DezB1Wf0X
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April 5, 2021
Attorney Jenna Ellis and others pointed out the remarks were "heresy."
“This is a false gospel and heresy. We cannot save ourselves,” she commented. “The absolute truth and only meaning of Easter that matters is the literal, physical resurrection of Jesus Christ, and we must accept Him as Lord and Savior. Read Romans, “Reverend” Warnock. You are a false teacher.”
This is a false gospel and heresy. We cannot save ourselves.
— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) April 4, 2021
The absolute truth and only meaning of Easter that matters is the literal, physical resurrection of Jesus Christ, and we must accept Him as Lord and Savior.
Read Romans, “Reverend” Warnock. You are a false teacher. https://t.co/dRVz0LdKGu
Warnock deleted his heretical tweet.
— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) April 5, 2021
He should delete Reverend in front of his name too. pic.twitter.com/6FYNG6LFZ1
You’re a heretic https://t.co/HGXHvaY9DK
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) April 4, 2021
The College Republicans at Georgia State University gave Warnock a refresher from Ephesians 2:8-10: “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them[.]”
“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” https://t.co/ol3Fe33KSm
— College Republicans at Georgia State U. (@CRsatGsu) April 4, 2021
Others pointed out he attended Union Theological Seminary, which has been criticized as a "bastion of liberal theology."
He went to Union Theological Seminary, where their students confess their climate sins to plants
— Jon Brown (@JonBrownDC) April 4, 2021
Union is the bastion of liberal theology in America. Dietrich Bonhoeffer taught there and could not stand it. He said of Union - "completely clueless with respect to what dogmatics is really about. They are not familiar with even the most basic questions."
— Father Basil (@GeekOrthodox) September 18, 2019