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United Methodist Impastor Praises and Defends ‘Jezebel’ In Wildest Sermons Ever
Protestia ^ | October 28, 2024 | staff

Posted on 10/30/2024 8:58:01 PM PDT by Morgana

Rev. Debra McKnight is the senior impastor and founder of Urban Abbey, a United Methodist Church. According to her bio, she is “passionate about connecting with the people and helping them grow in their faith” and an “advocate for social justice, women’s rights, and the LGBTQ+ community” where she seeks to “heal the wounds created by conservative Christianity.”

In a recent sermon, wearing her The Spirit of Jezebel shirt, McKnight claims that the “Jezebel Spirit” is basically any woman who is “competent, attractive, and smart,” just like Jezebel herself and presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

McKnight reveals that when she was getting married to her husband, she looked for a “biblical model of marriage” to highlight and represent her at her wedding She settled in on Jezebel and Ahab, calling them “true partners,” but ultimately decided to forgo her choice so she didin’t have to spend half the wedding explaining her affection and affinity for those two.

She admits that Jezebel made a mistake when she urged Ahab to kill the man for the vineyard, but argues that Jezebel didn’t do anything David didn’t do, and yet he was called a man after God’s heart, while she was unfairly labeled ‘the worst.’

Getting even more blasphemous, she praises all Jezebel’s good qualities and defends/ justifies her Asherah worship, saying she wasn’t the only one in Israel practicing this faith and in fact, was “bringing about an openness to religious diversity.”

She seems to lament that Elijah killed all the prophets of Baal “in an act of violence” and then wonders why we all can’t just forgive Jezebel, before going on a rant about men controlling women’s bodies.

Lastly, McKnight is delighted that the totems, household deities, and false idols were not all destroyed in Israel, reveling in the stories of them being hidden. She insists that worship of false gods was “not a threat” but instead represented God being “celebrated” in wild and diverse ways.

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TOPICS: Mainline Protestant
KEYWORDS: jezebel; jezebelspirit

1 posted on 10/30/2024 8:58:01 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

What’s an “impaster?”


2 posted on 10/30/2024 9:10:10 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)
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To: Morgana

They/them is just nuts and/or evil!


3 posted on 10/30/2024 9:10:30 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( @whoisourPresident)
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To: Morgana

That pastor is just plain wicked!


4 posted on 10/30/2024 9:15:51 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: The_Media_never_lie

And satanic.


5 posted on 10/30/2024 9:16:02 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Morgana

The pastrete, reasoned. ⚰️


6 posted on 10/30/2024 9:18:20 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: Menehune56

A fake pastor like this heretic!


7 posted on 10/30/2024 9:22:17 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Menehune56
I'm guessing a play on the word “impostor” by the writer, who obviously detests this Satanic role model.

I wonder if this pastor also celebrates the destruction of Jerusalem and the captivity by the Babylonians? Probably not, because that is what finally got Israel to abandon their worship of false Gods.

(When the Hebrews first entered the promised land they were supposed to kill everyone and everything in the land. They didn't - and Baal and the other false gods infiltrated their religion and culture. They were NOT diverse forms of worship to the true God.)

Hmm. It wouldn't surprise me if this evil woman, who equates Baal worship and the sacrifice of children as “diverse” worship also considers abortion as a form of worship?

It wouldn't surprise me. Something like:

“God calls each of us on a very personal level to our own journey. No wonder God has given us gifted doctors that can provide health care to women so that we can be free to go after the things set before us without unwanted burdens.”

8 posted on 10/30/2024 9:26:50 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
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To: Morgana

Revelation 2

18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;

19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.

20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.

25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.

26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:

27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

28 And I will give him the morning star.

29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.


9 posted on 10/30/2024 9:42:42 PM PDT by scott7278 (Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.)
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To: Morgana

For those who have questioned the schism.


10 posted on 10/30/2024 9:59:06 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Morgana

This is what you get with women’s ordination. A heretical hodgepodge.


11 posted on 10/30/2024 10:52:52 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Morgana

Our local UMC Pastor only praises more blood and death in Ukraine.


12 posted on 10/31/2024 12:32:41 AM PDT by bakeneko
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To: Morgana

13 posted on 10/31/2024 1:17:23 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: scott7278

I was going to suggest that if she likes Jezebel so much, she should expect the same fate, to be trampled by horses and eaten by dogs. But you have correctly stated the last Word on Jezebel.


15 posted on 10/31/2024 5:31:16 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Morgana
So? It's a Sodomy church but they are also soft on regular fornication?

I spell "Sodomy" with a capital-S because it is the name of a religion.

16 posted on 10/31/2024 6:23:48 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Menehune56

“What’s an “impaster?””

I believe that’s a word they made up to mean a “false pastor”


17 posted on 10/31/2024 7:00:59 AM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul )
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To: Morgana

Yet another apostate church.....


18 posted on 10/31/2024 7:09:52 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: hinckley buzzard

“This is what you get with women’s ordination. A heretical hodgepodge.”

Yes. Placing women into positions of executive authority is a sure path to organizational failure and dysfunction. Hence our government bureaucracy, armed forces, intelligence agencies and social organizations’ current state of incompetence.

The wages of DEI over many decades.


19 posted on 10/31/2024 8:10:24 AM PDT by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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