Another Jesus

2 Corinthians 11:4

There is, I believe, a common error people make when it comes to the Christian faith. They want to assume that everyone who uses the name Jesus is talking about the same Jesus they believe in. You might wonder what other Jesus could they possibly be talking about? Is there more than one? Yes. There are a multitude of Jesus’s.

This is not new. Paul warns the Corinthian Christians about this problem. People were proclaiming Jesus, but the Jesus they were proclaiming was not the one proclaimed by the apostles. Therefore, the Jesus the false teachers proclaimed was not Jesus at all. It was something else that they tagged with the name Jesus.

Just because someone talks about Jesus doesn’t mean that they believe in the Jesus of the New Testament. Be discerning. Compare the person being proclaimed with the Person revealed throughout the pages of Scripture. Don’t put up with it if someone is teaching and preaching and they are proclaiming “another Jesus.”