Let’s clear up any confusion by making some comparisons:
🔹 Source of Authority
Pharisees: Torah + oral tradition
Modern Evangelicals: Bible + church authority + cultural engagement
New Thought / Health & Wealth: Divine mind, inner energy, spiritual laws
F Bombs From Heaven: Scripture interpreted through suffering, conscience, and resistance
Jesus Christ: The will of the Father, Spirit-led reading of Scripture, and obedient living
🔹 Approach to Holiness
Pharisees: External ritual purity through law
Evangelicals: Moral cleanliness and respectable behavior
New Thought / Health & Wealth: Positive mental alignment with divine energy
F Bombs From Heaven: Gritty loyalty formed through fire, failure, and fierce honesty
Jesus: Purity of heart, childlike humility, and truth expressed in mercy
🔹 View of Sin
Pharisees: Violation of law results in defilement
Evangelicals: Moral and behavioral failure needing correction
New Thought / Health & Wealth: Misperception or limiting belief—not true evil
F Bombs From Heaven: Pretending. Appeasing false authority. Worshipping comfort.
Jesus: Pride, self-exaltation, and refusal to surrender to God’s love
🔹 Response to Suffering
Pharisees: Often seen as punishment or consequence of sin
Evangelicals: To be avoided, minimized, or healed through prayer
New Thought / Health & Wealth: Illusion or blockage; overcome by belief
F Bombs From Heaven: Crucial. It is the test of loyalty and authenticity.
Jesus: Expected and embraced. It purifies and redeems when submitted to God
🔹 Speech & Tone
Pharisees: Reverent, controlled, and doctrinally precise
Evangelicals: Polished, safe, positive, audience-conscious
New Thought / Health & Wealth: Affirmative, inspirational, and soothing
F Bombs From Heaven: Raw, profane, offensive to shake people awake
Jesus: Blunt when needed, loving always, unafraid to wound to heal
🔹 Spiritual Path
Pharisees: Righteousness through rule-keeping and ritual
Evangelicals: Belief in Jesus + lifestyle conformity
New Thought / Health & Wealth: Self-realization and manifestation
F Bombs From Heaven: Death to ego, raw confession, and loyal perseverance
Jesus: Take up your cross, follow Me, and lose your life to find it
🔹 Healing & Wholeness
Pharisees: Priestly ritual and legal purity
Evangelicals: Prayer, counseling, worship, community
New Thought / Health & Wealth: Right thinking restores physical and spiritual balance
F Bombs From Heaven: Through fire-tested loyalty, honest communion, and surrender
Jesus: By faith, mercy, touch, repentance, and love
🔹 Worship Style
Pharisees: Temple and synagogue ritual with tradition
Evangelicals: Stage, music, sermons, giving, groups
New Thought / Health & Wealth: Inner meditation, affirmations, visualization
F Bombs From Heaven: Gritty, embodied, often in suffering and shared struggle
Jesus: Wherever two or more. Spirit and truth. Real and often costly
🔹 Human Problem
Pharisees: Defilement due to disobedience
Evangelicals: Sinful nature + cultural temptation
New Thought / Health & Wealth: Disconnection from truth and spiritual laws
F Bombs From Heaven: Cowardice, conformity, and hollow religion
Jesus: Self-worship, pride, and unwillingness to love or surrender
🔹 Means of Salvation
Pharisees: Obedience to covenant and law
Evangelicals: Belief in Jesus + religious participation
New Thought / Health & Wealth: Awakening to divine identity and truth
F Bombs From Heaven: Loyal suffering, real repentance, and grit to follow truth unto death
Jesus: Faith that follows. Love that bleeds. Surrender that endures
🔹 Ideal Disciple
Pharisees: Torah scholar and religious elite
Evangelicals: Polite, faithful, clean-cut churchgoer
New Thought / Health & Wealth: Enlightened, successful, positive thinker
F Bombs From Heaven: Scarred, honest, loyal to the end. Not pretty, but real.
Jesus: Humble servant, surrendered child, courageous truth-bearer
🔹 Vision of Hell
Pharisees: Outer darkness for the lawless and impure
Evangelicals: Generally for “others”; vaguely discussed
New Thought / Health & Wealth: Hell is a low consciousness state; not eternal
F Bombs From Heaven: Eternal loop of sterile religious compliance—“practicing for hell”
Jesus: Final, just separation from the Father by those who refused Him
🔹 Vision of Heaven
Pharisees: Reward for those faithful to covenant
Evangelicals: Peaceful eternity with Jesus and loved ones
New Thought / Health & Wealth: Complete realization of divine harmony
F Bombs From Heaven: The final rest of the loyal, scarred, and honest who bled for truth
Jesus: Union with the Father. Joyful communion with the redeemed. Eternal love
🪑 If All Five Sat Down at a Table…
The Pharisee would place his linen napkin perfectly, unroll a scroll, and declare,
“Let us begin with Leviticus. And let decorum prevail.”
The Evangelical would pass out welcome cards and a Spotify playlist, saying,
“Let’s open in prayer—and don’t forget to silence your phones.”
The New Thought / Health & Wealth preacher would smile broadly and declare,
“There is no lack here. Only abundance! Speak prosperity. Feel the breakthrough!”
Scott Warren would light a match, throw it on the centerpiece, and bark,
“Good. Now that the table’s on fire, can we stop pretending and talk like men who bleed?”
Jesus would sit down last, without saying a word.
He’d kneel.
He’d wash their feet.
And then, lifting His eyes—not harsh, but knowing—He’d let the silence hang.
Everyone at the table would squirm.
The Pharisee would mutter, “This is inappropriate.”
The Evangelical would smile and tweet, “So honored to be at the table with Jesus 🙏.”
The New Thought preacher would whisper, “Even this discomfort is unreal.”
Warren would grit his teeth and whisper, “Say it, Lord. Say the truth none of us want to hear.”
And Jesus… would finally speak:
“You honor Me with your lips…
but your hearts are far from Me.”
And Warren would whisper, “Yeah. We know.”