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Posted on 04/22/2026 11:06:51 AM PDT by Morgana
Yvette Flunder, the lesbian leader of the City of Refuge United Church of Christ in Oakland, California, who is also the presiding prelate of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, has drawn criticism for questioning parts of the Bible she finds “problematic” and suggesting that they be removed.
The frustrated 70-year-old, who is married to her same-sex partner Shirley Miller, also suggested that the Bible needs a third Testament.
“This is a very dangerous thing that I’m about to say now, ... a bit dangerous. I’m of the opinion that we need a third testament because the Bible has become problematic,” Flunder stated in a clip shared by the discernment blog Protestia on Monday.
The clip appears to have come from the 2026 Samuel Dewitt Procter Conference, where Flunder spoke on the topic, “The SACRED FIRE: Igniting, Resilience, and Resistance” in February.
“‘Slaves obey your masters as you do the Lord.’ It’s a text," she said, quoting Paul's words from Ephesians 6:5. "‘Let the women keep silent in the churches and if they have any questions let them ask their husbands at home," she added, quoting the words of 1 Corinthians 14:34-35.
"Now I’m a believer. My whole heart, I trust God with my whole heart. I wake up in the morning talking to God and God talking to me,” she continued.
“But I am completely frustrated with the ways in which the text speaks to the kind of vitriolic God that makes those kinds of things. And people will say, ‘Well, it’s in the book.’ And I said, then we need to pull that page out,” Flunder declared.
“And they said, ‘Well, you can’t do it.” It’s the Word of God.’ I said, ‘No, it’s words about God.’ Come on now. But is it the Word of God?” she asked before responding, “No. It is not the Word of God.”
The video clip racked up nearly 500,000 views on X as of Tuesday afternoon and drew attention from online influencers, such as Christian conservative speaker April Chapman, who hosts the "Unshakable with April Chapman" podcast.
“You don’t need a Third Testament. You need first-rate repentance,” wrote Chapman, in a statement on X.
In a video included with the post, Chapman contends that Flunder is "suffering from rebellion."
"You don't get to stand in a pulpit, insult the word of the living God and say, 'You know, I'm about to say something that's a little dangerous,' and then pretend that you are speaking for Christ," Chapman added. "You just knew what you were about to say was heresy. You are not being bold, you are just rebellious."
"On the surface, it sounds real compassionate," she continued. "If you are a person who wants to edit and revise and create in your own image, then ... what Yvette Flunder said is going to sound amazing to you. But if you are a saint, like those of us who belong to Christ, ... we know that the word of God is not some idol waiting on our approval."
Rich Bitterman, a Southern Baptist minister currently serving as the senior pastor of Cedar Ridge Baptist Church in Galena, Missouri, said Flunder’s words “should make every Christian shudder.”
“Bishop Yvette Flunder did not merely question a passage. She told the church, in plain words, that parts of God’s Word should be torn out. She said the New Testament is not the Word of God and both of the Testaments are ‘problematic,’” Bitterman wrote in a blog post.
“She said they contain bad theology. Then she said, with a kind of smiling violence that should make every Christian shudder, that ‘we need to pull those pages out.’ You can almost hear it. Thin paper tearing. A hand reaching for the Book that has outlived empires, buried tyrants, steadied martyrs at the stake, and carried dying saints across the final river,” he continued. “That sound is more than rebellion against ink and paper. It is rebellion against the God who speaks.”
Bitterman cites 1 Timothy 4:1, which reads: “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.”
“Flunder’s statements are not simply offensive. They are spiritually murderous. If the Bible can be cut apart, then the sinner loses the only trustworthy witness to Christ,” Bitterman wrote. “The guilty man loses the words that tell him why his conscience will not let him sleep and the grieving widow loses the promises that have held generations together at fresh graves.”
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Wow the backlash did not take long! You think they will drop her as their minister?
United Church of Christ in Oakland?
More likely she will just work to move them even farther to the crazy left.
Its hard for most Americans to realize that much of Oakland is to the right of Communism.
Flounder. Flounder. Did she have a brother who went to Faber College?
Revelation 22:18-19
King James Version
18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Do these clowns even read the Bible?
I won’t say something to get banned here... but there was an article here about Neanderthals and their branch off of humans... most Blacks... definitely different, in intelligence, temperament, and morality.
Sounds to me like she DOESN’T trust God with her whole heart, else she would believe his written word.
I doubt it very much. But I recently watched “House of David” and went out and bought me a new Bible. It’s been a long time. I’m glad to be back.
Who’s going to write it?
I can remember on one occasion where a church I was attending had a similar “incident.” The church was renting an auditorium at a local school to hold services. During one sermon the pastor said the following: “we tell them this crap from the Bible.” I could not believe what I heard and why no one called him on it. I never went back.
Why not just get another job ?
What would her Third Testament be - The Gospel According to Sappho?
“This is a very dangerous thing that I’m about to say now, ... a bit dangerous. I’m of the opinion that we need a third testament because the Bible has become problematic,”
Problematic for her, because she knows full well what God says about homosexuality in the Bible.....and it is explicit.
Typical leftie mentality.......when faced with a roadblock circumvent it instead of meeting it head on.
“Who’s going to write it?”
Why the alphabet people of course.
You know, the LGBTQEIEIO ones?
This is classic mainstream UCC, even the pretentious “Im a little dangerous” emission. The UCC is more likely to give her an award than to drop her. These folk are well beyond the pale of Christianity and probably beyond redemption.
“Out with it, Flounder.”
Democrat materialists are destroying themselves. They push radical individuality , but command that we all “unite....as ONE”, which requires metaphysics.
Scientifically, we are just a pile of cheap chemicals, mostly water.....having no value at all.....worth less than lifesaving drugs we want government to steal for us because in our pride, we think we have unlimited value.
We are Homo sapiens, according to materialists, engaged in our only purpose in life, ie, individual survival of the fittest ,seeking to procreate and pass our genes to the next generation.
Democrats want to spay and neuter the white bourgeoisie by educating gender confusion and paying for genital mutilation of white boys and girls they turn into worker bees and drones for the Marxist “ woke” hive mind. Religion is the opium of the people because, according to Marxists, it makes people passive and law abiding, therefore an obstacle to communist revolution takeover. Opium puts you to sleep. Marxism wakes you up, willing to lie, steal, cheat or kill to win.
Feminism destroys rank and hierarchy. How do Democrats intend to hold it all together with any believable common morality? They are anti Christian, anti capitalism......lots of violent, angry white males and females that no immigrants or black gangsters or Latinos are going to listen to, or follow.
We’re importing south of the border and Islamic anti capitalism and anti semitism, and much of Christian religion has become just counter culture politics. Jesus was a Jewish socialist. ....Republicans are Nazis, not Christian. Zionists are nationalists, unlike Palestinians or Hamas! Zionists are anti Christian. The body is the temple. God goes wherever we go.
She’s a fake Christian, no doubt about it.
I doubt it.
Must be a name for people who read something and their brain translates into it’s own code?.
Hahahaha
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