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7/9/2025, 11:41:53 AM
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He begins the sermon with 'How very much I have loved you'. Even without any prior knowledge of Jim Jones I would recognize this very first line as a massive red flag. In any other denomination you'd hear 'How very much God has loved us' or something similar. If your weird, newly religious friend drags you to an unfamiliar church and that's the preacher's first line: get out. Just get up and leave.
From his very first line God has been banished from the room. Jim Jones has replaced both God and Christ. At no point does Jim Jones say 'I am God' during this audio because he doesn't have to, it's in his behavior and how his most frantic of followers treat him.
The word 'God' is spoken very sparingly during the massacre. The one time Jim Jones explicitly refers to God he instead chooses the term 'sovereign being'. The words 'Jesus' and 'Christ' are not said a single time. The exclusion of these is not an immediate signifier of the satanic. However, something interesting happens at the end of Jim Jones' opening statement: he quotes scripture! Even though he'd verbally torn the Bible apart and chosen to replace God in his cult of personality, he specifically quotes John 10:18.
>It was said by the greatest of prophets, from time immemorial, "No man takes my life from me, I lay my life down".
He credits these words to 'the greatest of prophets'. Those are the words of Christ, preaching to the Pharisees. The full scripture is
>Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.
>John 10:17-18
He begins the sermon with 'How very much I have loved you'. Even without any prior knowledge of Jim Jones I would recognize this very first line as a massive red flag. In any other denomination you'd hear 'How very much God has loved us' or something similar. If your weird, newly religious friend drags you to an unfamiliar church and that's the preacher's first line: get out. Just get up and leave.
From his very first line God has been banished from the room. Jim Jones has replaced both God and Christ. At no point does Jim Jones say 'I am God' during this audio because he doesn't have to, it's in his behavior and how his most frantic of followers treat him.
The word 'God' is spoken very sparingly during the massacre. The one time Jim Jones explicitly refers to God he instead chooses the term 'sovereign being'. The words 'Jesus' and 'Christ' are not said a single time. The exclusion of these is not an immediate signifier of the satanic. However, something interesting happens at the end of Jim Jones' opening statement: he quotes scripture! Even though he'd verbally torn the Bible apart and chosen to replace God in his cult of personality, he specifically quotes John 10:18.
>It was said by the greatest of prophets, from time immemorial, "No man takes my life from me, I lay my life down".
He credits these words to 'the greatest of prophets'. Those are the words of Christ, preaching to the Pharisees. The full scripture is
>Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.
>John 10:17-18
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