What is our belief of the father and the son? Lesson 4 CHRIST IS THE SON OF GOD, NOT GOD THE SON In the New Testament, it is very clear that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God and no where does it teach that He is God the Son. This was an invention of men some time after the third century. Jesus is the image of God, just like Adam was before he fell into transgression: Genesis 1:26, And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Adam was not God, was he? Of course not. But Adam was the image of God. When somebody is an image of someone else, they are NOT that someone else, they are only the likeness of that someone else. The very meaning of the word image dismisses any possibility of that image being the one it is meant to represent! When there is an image of someone or something, that image is similar to the one it represents, but that image cannot be the thing it represents. For example, we are to conform ourselves to the image of Jesus Christ, but when we do so, we are NOT Jesus Christ himself...we cannot go around telling others we are Jesus, the Messiah. We are only an image of him, which means something similar in some way. Another example is a photographic image of a house. That image only represents the likeness of the house, but to claim that image itself is the house would be totally inaccurate. Therefore, no image can possibly be the same, exact thing it represents. Can you picture Jesus Christ going around saying, I am an image of Jesus Christ? Of course not. Why? Because he would be telling others that he was NOT Jesus Christ, but only an image of him. Jesus Christ IS Jesus Christ, he is not an image of Jesus Christ, but he is the real thing. What is our belief of the father and the son? Lesson 5 NOW, WITH THIS TRUTH IN MIND, LET US LOOK AT THESE TWO PASSAGES: Colossians 1:13,15, ...his dear Son:...Who is the image of the invisible God... 2 Corinthians 4:4, ...lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. Notice it says that Jesus is the image of God. This word image dismisses any possibility of Jesus actually being the same, exact entity that he is an image of. Obviously, Jesus is not God, nor the Creator, but He has per-eminence of all things. In the Book of Hebrews it is even clearer: Hebrews 1:1-3, God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Nowhere does the writer of Hebrews mention that Jesus Himself is God. He says that God spoke in his Son, unlike the way He had spoken to the Old Testament fathers or prophets. Interestingly, Luke, when writing the genealogy of Mary, says that Adam was called the son of God when God created him in the beginning (Luke 3:38). Obviously Adam was just a man, taken from the ground, and he did not have a natural father. Therefore, Jesus was a man when God begat Him through the Virgin Mary, by the power of the Holy Spirit and called Him the Son of God. There is a distinction between the Father and the Son. They are not two or three persons in one. Trinitarians believe that the Father is God, Jesus is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, but at the same time Jesus is not the Father nor the Holy Spirit. This is full of contradictions. It is not a mystery: it is an error. John 1:34, And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God. John 1:49, Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel. John 20:31, But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. What is our belief of the father and the son? Lesson 6 CHRIST IS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD Matthew 1:16, And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. Matthew 1:20, But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. Luke 1:35, And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. The Bible made it very clear that Jesus is Gods Son, because he has been conceived. In other words, Jesus began to exist on the day He was born. Like all sons, his Father precedes him. Mary is to be the mother, but Joseph is not to be the father. The child was conceived by the power of the Highest and called the Son of God. This is biblical teaching. Lets continue to read in the Gospel of John: John 1:13-14, Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth. John 1:18, No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. John 3:16-18, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 18:37, Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. What is our belief of the father and the son? Lesson 7 CHRIST WAS SENT BY GOD THE FATHER In many passages in the Old and New Testaments, it is said that God sent the prophets, the angels, the apostles, and others. God Himself is the Sender, not the sent one. It doesnt make any sense if God Himself is the Sender and at the same time the sent one. This is illogical. God sent Moses Exodus 3:12-15, And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain. And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. To be continued later
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