God spoke Jesus into existence??
“So when he created the first man, he just spoke him into existence and just like that, it happened. But after sin entered this earth, after we gave that dominion to Satan, God still had to speak the second Adam into existence, but he had to do it through people. And the reason it took 4,000 years after the fall of Adam and Eve for Jesus to show up was because he couldn’t speak directly independent of people, he had to speak through people, and there were just very, very, very few people who were in tune enough with the Lord to be able to hear these things and speak these things forth.”
Andrew Wommack
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/htwy_QT4fkM
Andrew Wommack is promoting several false and unbiblical ideas here. I will briefly address some of them, and I encourage you to study them further to understand the fundamental flaws in this teaching. We will explore the following errors made by Wommack in his YouTube teaching in 2 parts:
- Part 1, did God speak Adam into existence? Did God speak Jesus (the second Adam) into existence?
- Part 2, was/is God constrained in His plan by people who were/are not 'in tune enough' with the Lord? Was God only able to act through the words of humans speaking forth His plans to make them happen?
Part 1
The Bible does not say that God spoke Adam into existence. The Bible does state that God spoke the universe, the earth, and everything in it into existence. Genesis 1:3 says, "And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light." However, the Bible clarifies that God did not speak man into existence; instead, He used a more personal, creative process. Genesis 1:26 states, "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our own image,'" and Genesis 2:7 adds, "Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature."
The creation of woman, likewise, was not by the direct speaking of God. Instead, he “took one of his [Adams] ribs….and the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman.” (Genesis 2:21-22) So, while God's spoken word played a central role in creation, the account of Adam’s creation emphasises a more direct, physical involvement. If Wommack is in error in this point, then the rest of his “theology” in this clip is in error because his argument flows from this point, that God spoke Adam into existence.
The Apostle Paul, in 1 Corinthians, tells us that Christ is the second Adam. “Thus it is written, ‘the first man Adam became a living being’; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.” (1 Cor 15:45) And “the first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.” Through Adam, sin entered the world, and through the second Adam, propitiation for that sin was made for the elect people of God the Father. “For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.” (Romans 5:18)
Jesus is God. Jesus is uncreated. Jesus is the second Adam. He is the eternal “I am” Jesus said of himself when speaking to the Jewish leaders in John 8:56-59, “‘Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.’ So the Jews said to him, ‘You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.’ So they picked up stones to throw at him.”
Jesus here is making the explicit claim of deity. Three points in this passage indicate this fact.
- He states, “before Abraham was…” The English word was is translated from the Greek word ginomai, which means ‘to exist’. Jesus existed before Abraham existed.
- He uses the term, “I am” for himself. This is the Greek “ego eimi” It is the same title God gave himself when addressing Moses in the burning bush in Exodus 3:14: “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.”
- They picked up stones to throw at him. The Jewish leaders knew exactly what Jesus was saying, and they knew beyond all doubt that he was calling himself God. The Old Testament punishment for blasphemy, or calling yourself God, was death. (Leviticus 24:16) They meant to stone him to death.
For Wommack to suggest that God the Father needed to “speak the second Adam into existence” is outright heresy. There is no watering it down or beating around the bush. This is heresy, plain and simple.
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, we can rejoice that God himself chose us in him [Jesus Christ] before the foundation of the world (something he cannot have done if Jesus isn’t eternal) and that he sent his son, the eternal, coexistent second member of the Godhead who willingly and obediently dies a death we deserved to make propitiation for our sin (1 John 2:2) so that now through the work of the Holy Spirit we are regenerated, given a new heart of flesh, replacing our heart of stone (Ezekiel 36:26-27) which inexorably and inevitably causes us to trust and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. If we believe (as the non-Christian cults such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses do) that Jesus is a created being, spoken into existence by God, then there is no gospel, no salvation and no hope.
Rest in the wonderful joy that while Adam sinned and damned us all, Jesus died to bring salvation to the many. Praise God.
Part 2 will follow.
Soli Deo Gloria
Wow. Speaking plain truth here straight from the word of God. Thank you Steven.
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