A preacher at the United Church in Walpole, Massachusetts, has joined the chorus of those who say they know what the Bible really should say, what God really meant, and they are helping out by telling people of the mistakes of the great “I am.”
It is Anna Flowers, a preacher at the church, who claimed, “(Saying) you have to claim Jesus as your Lord and Savior or you won’t get to heaven makes no sense.”
She claims that Jesus’ words, “I am the way, the truth and the life” are not literal and there are many religions and multiple paths to God, a concept ridiculed by a Christian comedian who once said when you want to travel, just go the airport and get on any plane, it will take you to your destination.
“(Saying) you have to claim Jesus as your Lord and Savior or you won’t get to heaven makes no sense.”
Rev. Anna Flowers of the United Church in Walpole argues that “I am the way, the truth and the life” is NOT literal, & that there are many valid religions and ways to Jesus. pic.twitter.com/7VfY1Fhhw7
— Protestia (@Protestia) May 4, 2026
Social media reaction wasn’t gentle: “This woman knows not the word of God, and based on her ‘take’ on it, … knows not the God of the word. Such a shame she holds a position to tell others HER VIEW, of what it says.”
Another: “2Timothy 4:3-4 ‘3 For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires, 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth.”
Not the Bee was there to set the record straight.
The preacher explained, “We as Christians get to jump, get to leap, not because it is an exclusive experience, but because it’s authentic. Because it is true alongside other truths in the world … it is not meant to be taken literally, but metaphysically.”
The report cited multiple Bible references with Jesus explaining who He is and what is needed to “inherit eternal life.”
The report continued, “Ironically, the woman is correct that people from other faith traditions can be saved, but not in the way she means. She is conflating religious dogma/tradition with the worship of false gods. Rahab was not Jewish. Ruth was not Jewish. Namaan, the commander of Assyria’s armies, was not Jewish. Nebuchadnezzar was not Jewish. The centurion who sent a servant to Jesus wasn’t Jewish. Jethro wasn’t Jewish.
“But all of these people, even though they might have had different languages and customs, and even religious practices that dabbled in falsehoods, acknowledged that the God of Israel was the one true God. These people made God their God.”
It scolded Flowers for arguing “animists, Buddhists, Muslims, and Hindus – a plethora of gods and pantheons, can all be truths in the world that point us in the general direction of everlasting life. All you need to do, in her mind, is be nice. That is the road to hell.”
WorldNetDaily had reported only days ago on a “bishop” of the United Church of Christ who lashed out angrily at the Bible, condemning it as “not the word of God” and unacceptable because of the verses it contains.
But Yvette Flunder, senior pastor at the City of Refuge United Church of Christ group in Oakland, California, has the perfect solution:
Rip out the pages that she finds offensive and have a Third Testament to fix the first two.
“The New Testament is NOT the word of God’
UCC Bishop says we need a ‘Third Testament’ because the first two are ‘problematic,’ and contain bad theology.
As a result, “we need to pull those pages out” pic.twitter.com/zlkl51SyyD
— Protestia (@Protestia) April 20, 2026
A report at Protestia revealed she is “Presiding Bishop of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries,” And “an avowed ‘womanist.” And a “proponent of liberation theology.” Further, she is “gay-married” to another woman and is “about as progressive and liberal as they come,” the report said.
