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How does one enter the kingdom of God? As mentioned earlier, you must be born again of the water and of the Spirit to see or enter into the kingdom of God (John 3:3,5). How is one born of the Spirit of God? (John 3:8). One is born of the water by being baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shal receive the gift of the Holy Ghost; a prerequisite being that you have repented of your sins. This is the formula for entering into the kingdom of God, which is Christ in you the hope of glory. “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shal receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” (Acts 2:38). How are you born of the water?
One is born of the water by water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ.
How are you born of the Spirit? By being baptized in the Holy Ghost, when you receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Some will argue that baptism in water is not necessary for salvation, or that water baptism is al owed after you are saved as an added ordinance of the church, but is not necessary for salvation. Emphatically, the scriptures teach that one must be born of the water and of the Spirit. John Mark did not say that he that believeth and is saved shal be baptized; but rather “He that believeth and is baptized shal be saved; but he that believeth not shal be damned.” (Mark 16:16). “And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the 96
third day; And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among al nations, beginning at Jerusalem.”
(Luke 24:46,47).
What is repentance? It is repentance from dead works to serve the living God. What is the remission of sins? Remission is not forgiveness. If you spil ink on my white shirt, I may forgive you at your request. However, the ink stain in my white shirt stil remains present. But if you take stain remover and wash the ink stains out, then my white shirt has the ink stains remitted. This is water baptism. For it is only in water baptism that your guilty stains of sin are remitted and washed away. What is “in his name”? His name is “Jesus Christ”. Then what is this repentance and remission of sins that should be preached in His name? It is the same message that Peter preached on the day of Pentecost: “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shal receive the gift of the Holy Ghost”. (Acts 2:38). For the sake of the reader who has not been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and does not believe that it is necessary for salvation, please suffer me for a moment. “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shal be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” (Romans 6:3-6). How did you crucify the old man; how did you die with Christ that the body of sin might be destroyed? Only in water baptism in His name, “Jesus Christ”. “In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.” (Colossians 2:11,12). How did you put off the body of sins of the flesh by being circumcised by Christ, through this operation of God upon your heart to cut off the 97
The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ foreskin? Is it not through water baptism in His name, Jesus Christ?
Christ circumcises a repentant believer’s heart by his or her being water baptised in the name of Jesus Christ. This is not accomplished simply by “asking Jesus to come into your heart” as some preachers profess.
Jesus comes into a person’s heart by obedience to the Word of God.
How? A spiritual circumcision takes place with Christ’s operation upon the heart, the sins of the flesh being cut off. “Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” (1 Peter 3:20,21). What does save you now? Is baptism just a bath in water to cleanse the flesh for a day which must be repeated again and again? Or is it the operation of God with the spiritual circumcision of the heart, having one’s spirit washed and regenerated, destroying the body of sins; thus purging the conscience from dead works to serve the living God? It is the washing away of your sins, the like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us. (Romans 2:28,29).
The point in reference is the kingdom of God which has two qualifications to be met to enter into; one is to be born of the water, the other to be born of the Spirit. Suffice it to say so now; that to be born of the water is water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, and to be born of the Spirit is to be baptized in the Holy Ghost with the outward evidence of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives the utterance (Acts 2:4, 10:46, 19:6, Mark 16:17). The kingdom of God is Christ in you, the hope of glory, the Spirit of God in you. To emphasize the point, Jesus Christ is that Spirit: He is the Kingdom of God that dwells in the believer that has been fil ed with His Spirit.
Further expounding this truth to Nicodemas of the kingdom of God and how to enter into it, Jesus goes on to say: “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven”. (John 3:13).
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Let us further examine the fol owing statement of Jesus. “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven”. (John 3:13). The disciples saw Jesus standing among them, as He normal y was. Jesus was dressed, had on shoes, did not look any different when He made this statement than what He normal y looked. Yet, in this statement, Jesus proclaims Himself to be the only man that had ascended to heaven, who is the same One that came down from heaven. Then He makes an interesting statement. Jesus says that He, the Son of man, is in heaven, in the present tense of the verb, meaning that as the disciples looked upon Jesus, that He at that present time is in heaven.
How could this be? He could not physically be currently in heaven at the same time that He was standing among them. How could this statement be true? Simply because Jesus Christ is God that manifested Himself in the flesh as a human being, the Spirit from heaven that took on a body of flesh as a man. The office or role of the Son of man in the above scripture is the Spirit form of Jesus Christ, not his flesh and blood body. Notice that Jesus did not refer to Himself here as the
“Son of God”, but rather, the “Son of man”. This means that Jesus Christ as the “Kingdom of God in the flesh”, was in heaven at the same time that He was speaking this statement to His disciples. He is the Spirit that came down from heaven and revealed himself in a natural body of flesh and blood as a man. This is a most emphatic declaration since the meaning is that the Spirit, who is in the flesh made of a woman under the law with the fulness of the Word dwelling or housed in it, was in heaven in the present tense. This gives Jesus Christ His preeminence as God in His Spirit that is manifest in flesh as a normal human being of Adam. In other words, even though Jesus’
fleshly body was not in heaven literal y since He was in plain view standing upon the earth, yet Jesus was in heaven at the time He was speaking because His Spirit is the Spirit of God. Jesus Christ as the Son of man is literal flesh and blood of a man of earth as an Adam, but His Spirit is God that is revealed through this body of flesh and blood.
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The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ Spirit which was proclaimed to be in heaven, even though he is in a body of flesh and blood like you and me. The statement of Jesus reveals that He is an everlasting, incorruptible, immortal, Spirit in a corruptible body of human flesh under the dominion of death, but living above sin al the days of His life. As God dwelled in the most holy place in the Tabernacle of Moses revealing His Shechinah glory, He then dwelled in the human nature of Christ, the Messiah. “Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.” (Hebrews 9:1). Divine service is God manifested as truly God. A worldly sanctuary is a sanctuary made of earthly elements of the world. Therefore, we can conclude that divinity was manifested in earthly Adamic elements of creation as a human being of flesh and blood. As the rays of light are manifested from the light itself, so Jesus Christ was the sent rays of light into the world as the light. The life was the light of men. The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, and it is God as the Word that lighted this candle. Restating the same idea, Jesus Christ is the Spirit of God that took on flesh as a human being, not Jesus Christ is flesh as a human being that took on Spirit by being fil ed with the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Jesus Christ as God from heaven revealed Himself in a body of flesh as a human being of spirit, soul, and body that was standing among the disciples. The Son of man is “the Kingdom of God” title or designator in referring to Himself as the kingdom that is from everlasting to everlasting. Paul relating his experience: “And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter”. (2 Corinthians 12:3,4). Paul could not tell if this man was in the body or out of the body when he was caught up to paradise.
But Jesus Christ, the only Lord God Jehovah Almighty, was in His body when He made this statement to His disciples, since He is not one with God because He is fil ed with the Spirit of God; but HE IS
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Spirit of God that was made flesh and dwelt among us; not that He was flesh that took on Spirit through His being baptized.
“Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.” (John 14:10). Whose words did Jesus speak? “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” (John 6:63). These are the Father’s words, which are spirit, and they are life. “Heaven and earth shal pass away, but my words shal not pass away.” (Matthew 24:35). These words wil abide forever, throughout eternity, the Word of God. These words are life and spirit. Where does a degenerate soul in need of life find these words? “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” (John 1:4).
It is in Jesus Christ that we find life and the Spirit and light. This brings us back to the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ. “In whom are hid al the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” (Colossians 2:3). As the song declares, “It’s al in Him. It’s al in Him. The ful ness of the Godhead, it’s al in Him”. Divinity is hidden in humanity. “For in him dwelleth al the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” (Colossians 2:9). Consider: “And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God”. (Revelation 19:13). Who is the Word of God? The Word of God is Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God who came in flesh.
Either you wil believe that Jesus Christ is Spirit that came down from heaven and took on flesh in fashion as a natural man; or you wil believe that Jesus Christ is a natural man of flesh that took on Spirit. If you believe the latter, that Jesus Christ did not exist until He was born in a manger in Bethlehem-Judah, then you could not believe that Jesus Christ is the “I Am”. If you believe that Jesus Christ is the second person of the Trinity, then you do not believe that He is the Word of God, the Father, since the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost are the same, the Spirit of God, only differing in office or roles.
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“Father” is the office of delegation and instructs al offices. We can call the “Father” the “Administrative” office of the Spirit. The “Word” is the “Expression” of God in declaring Himself through His Word. The
“Holy Ghost” is the “Power” office and is the Spirit of Christ. Even though the Spirit is manifested in these varying offices, it is One and the Self-same Spirit. Jesus Christ is the Word of God, who is the Father, who is the Holy Ghost. The Word is the Divine Logos or Expression of God. To a human being, their word is not their person, but is an expression of their person relating an idea or thought of the heart. We think in terms of the flesh when describing our word in relation to our physical body. However, the Word is God’s Expression of Himself; Spirit that is revealing Spirit, as a ray of light is light. It has nothing to do with the flesh, for that which is flesh is flesh, and that which is Spirit, is Spirit. The office of Son of God (God manifest in flesh) refers to Spirit incorporated with flesh as a man. Therefore Son of God did not exist until the Spirit took on a body of flesh in Bethlehem-Judah. The flesh of Jesus Christ is the house or temple of the Spirit of God being called “The Word of God”. (Revelation 19:13).
The natural human flesh of Jesus Christ just housed or was the temple of His Spirit as God manifest to mankind in a human body of flesh and blood. The flesh of Jesus Christ is the veil hiding or covering of the Holy Ghost just as the veil in the Tabernacle of Moses hid the way into the Holy of Holies. The Spirit of God dwelleth or houses permanently in the body, in Him, that is, in Jesus Christ.
The devil hates this scripture which proves so clearly that Jesus Christ is the Father, Word, and Holy Ghost; that he has succeeded in omitting from al revised versions of the Bible, “the Father, Word, and Holy Ghost; and these three are one” (I John 5:7). The Revised versions wil not include the revelation of the Godhead as One, but omits it altogether. Many translators say that “I John 5:7” was not in 102
the original manuscripts and simply delete this verse from the Revised Editions of the Bible. Whoever does so is in danger of God’s judgment. Jesus has already given the warning, “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shal add unto these things, God shal add unto him the plagues that are written in this book; and if any man shal take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shal take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” (Revelation 22:18,19). This is the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ. (Colossians 2:2).
Was the blood that flowed through Jesus Christ’s veins the blood of Immanuel, that is, God’s own blood through the dwelling of the Spirit with his human spirit, soul, and body? We know that the blood is precious blood as has been mentioned before, because Jesus never sinned and tainted His blood. When a believer has faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ, then he or she carries the blood as the life of the church in the confidence of the work of God done in the death, burial, and resurrection of our Saviour. The blood is how the church overcomes as written in the Revelation: “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death”. (Revelation 12:11). We have also concluded that Jesus Christ is the begotten of God, not that God was made or became flesh with the flesh being eternal and incorruptible, but was human in every respect as we are for the suffering of death and the shedding of blood upon the cross. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24).
God is immutable, therefore is the same from everlasting to everlasting, He changes not. Therefore that which is flesh is flesh, and that which is Spirit is Spirit. Jesus Christ in His Spirit dwelled or housed permanently in a human body of flesh and blood. The truth is that the flesh of Jesus Christ was the veil that hid God and was called Christ. Therefore, the mighty God was in Christ Jesus bodily.
Therefore, when we speak of Christ, we can refer to His Spirit as God or we can refer to his humanity comprising of spirit, soul, and body.
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Jesus Christ was God manifested or hidden behind a veil of human flesh manifesting Himself to the world through mighty signs and deeds of His Spirit while in the flesh on the earth. This is “Word conceived”
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defeating Satan and his angels. This is Jesus Christ as the “certain saint” or “Wonderful Numberer” or “the Revealer of Secrets”. These are the “things” that wil be revealed to the saints of the Most High God as He perfects the body of Christ conforming us into His same image unto a perfect man. For il ustration, it is the same mindset, if I tell you the reader that I am talking to your spirit and not to your flesh.
Or, I’m talking to your flesh, and not to your spirit. Your remark to me would be that if I am talking to your spirit, I am also talking to your flesh: the reason being because you are one. The same is true when considering Jesus as God, for His true person is God as Spirit. “I and my Father are one.” (John 10:30). Jesus proclaimed that He and the Father are the same one, for the Spirit of Jesus is the Spirit, the Father.
Jesus Christ simply put is God manifested in flesh, God housed in His permanent abode, i.e. in His flesh. How much of the Godhead was in Christ Jesus bodily? “For in him dwelleth al the fulness of the Godhead bodily”. (Colossians 2:9). After His glorification, Jesus spake the fol owing: “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, Al power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.” (Matthew 28:18). If al power was given unto Jesus Christ, did this make the Father or God Himself powerless and having no power at al ? Absolutely not! It simply means that God the Father now has taken on flesh and glorified it as His own permanent dwelling, and is in Christ Jesus bodily; making this fleshly man highly exalted above al things in heaven and in earth, the man being glorified. Jesus Christ is “God incarnate”: i.e “God come in human flesh and blood”. Not the “Son of God incarnate”. Al of the ful ness of God dwells in Him; not the ful ness of the “Son of God” dwells in Him. Therefore, He, Jesus Christ is God. Where is God dwelling? He is dwelling in flesh, His own body of human flesh since He has become incarnate.59 The definition of incarnate is to be made flesh, to be endowed with a human body; in human form; personified. Jesus Christ was in the “express image” of “His person” as the Son of God. “Who being in the brightness of his glory, and the 59 Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language College Edition 105
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The Only Begotten vs. the Firstbegotten When Jesus Christ was born of the virgin Mary, He was called the only begotten Son of God. (John 1:14,18; 3:16). This is in the days of His flesh when he walked on earth as a man before the cross and subsequent glorification. While he was in the world, He was the Light of the world. His teaching and preaching was the kingdom of God.
Jesus came to seek and save that which was lost. There would be a growth to the kingdom of God that would necessitate the death of Jesus as the Seed of the Word of God that would have to be planted in order to bear fruit. For example, the Greeks that came to worship at the Feast of Passover told Philip that they desired to see Jesus. Jesus did not go and shake hands with them. Instead he gave us a profound truth as relating to the kingdom of God when he spoke the fol owing.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fal into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” (John 12:24). Jesus is corn of wheat that while he is alive abides alone as the “only begotten” of God, but if he dies he wil bring forth much fruit. Jesus wil then become the “firstbegotten” or the
“firstborn” among many brethren. This wil necessitate Jesus being born from the dead after he plants his body as a singular corn of wheat.
It is important to consider the Feasts of the LORD at this point in order to understand the divine seasons of God or “mow’ed”
as divine appointments of God with man. There are three times or seasons during the year when every man would present himself before the LORD at the place where God had placed his name. Passover was made up of three feasts.
1) Feast of Passover: Passover speaks of the death of the Lord Jesus
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3) Feast of Firstfruits: Firstfruits speaks of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. First Fruits expressly speaks of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead which denotes that there will be more fruits that wil be brought forth in the kingdom of God.
Jesus was born of the virgin Mary as the “only begotten” Son of God. He is the “Yachiyd” as the “Sole, Unique” Son of God; that is, God manifested in the flesh as a human being. But when He is planted or buried after his death on the cross, he wil rise again from the dead as the Firstborn or the Firstfruits from the dead. “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature.” (Colossians 1:15).
Here Jesus is referred to as the firstborn of every creature. “And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in al things he might have the preeminence.”
(Colossians 1:18). Paul calls Jesus the “firstborn from the dead”. The resurrection states Jesus as the head of his body, the church; and that he is the firstborn among the brethren. Adam is the federal head of fal en humanity which are in bondage to death, while Jesus is the federal head of the church as a new species or new creation with life.
“But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.” (1 Corinthians 15:20). Again, “But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.” (1 Corinthians 15:23). Jesus Christ was born of the virgin Mary as the “only begotten” and later born from the dead as the
“firstbegotten”. Was Jesus born the second time from the dead in that he was “born again” for his sins? No! Obviously not! He was born the second time for our sakes that we might be born again or begotten of God. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” (1 Peter 1:3).
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The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ are they which folow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.” (Revelation 4:4). A major point to consider is that although we are begotten of God into the family of God through Christ, we do not become Sons of God, but sons of God. We as saints do not receive worship as God because we are not the “Yachiyd” or “only begotten Son of God”. We are adopted sons and daughters of God even though we are begotten through Christ. There is a doctrine that we as the body of Christ become Christs and are just like he is to the point that we are Gods. This is a doctrine of the devil and is a deceiver being that Satan desired to be worshipped as God. We as believers never receive worship. However, we are sons and daughters of God, begotten of God in Christ and adopted into the body of Christ. “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” (Romans 8:15).
Again, notice the adoption process in our becoming sons of God.
“And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” (Romans 8:23). Be aware that there is also a “never die” doctrine which declares that a believer can have power to retain the spirit in the day of death by faith which is just not so. We as believers receive the adoption manifested when our bodies are changed just like Jesus’ glorious body. Then we also will have incorruptible, glorified bodies just like Jesus. Again, please notice the “adoption” in our being sons and daughters of God in our redemption. “To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.” (Galatians 4:5). “Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his wil .” (Ephesians 1:5).
Jesus Christ is the firstbegotten of God. “And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let al the angels of God worship him.” (Hebrews 1:6). God said let al the angels of God worship Him, that is, Jesus Christ. So Jesus Christ had to be God or the angels would have been in idolatry since only God can be 108
worshipped. “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.” (Exodus 20:5). The angels were not in idolatry since they worshipped and bowed down before this person of flesh, because this is God’s expressed image and housing permanently in this flesh of His abode, with God dwelling in Him. The angels bowed before flesh and did not sin since this is God incarnate, or God made flesh. “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,) ful of grace and truth.” (John 1:14). Jesus Christ is the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, ful of grace and truth (Isaiah 9:6). This is the reason Jesus could say that if you believe in God, believe also in me.
(John 1:1). That is because Jesus is God embodied in human flesh. He is the Mighty God that is in the flesh to house permanently there.
“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,) ful of grace and truth.” (John 1:14). The verb “made” comes from the Greek word “ginomai” meaning “to cause to be” or “to come into being”.
The Word, which is the Father or God’s Expression as Spirit, was made; that is, come into being in the flesh.60 The Spirit of God is immutable and is stil therefore Spirit. The flesh is flesh being that of natural human Adamic flesh. Jesus Christ is the Spirit of God that made or fashioned a normal human body of flesh to house in permanently; and that body of flesh was the veil of God Almighty, being the Mighty God in Christ.
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During the unborn child’s first 8 weeks of development, it is called an embryo. For the rest of the pregnancy, it is known as a fetus. The embryo develops from a cluster of cel s formed by repeated division of the fertilized egg. Some of these cel s form membranes to protect both the embryo and its placenta, which nourishes the embryo as mentioned earlier in which no blood of the mother’s ever mingles or contacts the blood of the embryo or fetus. This is the process in the human life cycles of al living.
In the moment of conception, fertilization begins when a single sperm penetrates the ovum’s outer layer, known as the corona radiata.62 After one sperm head penetrates the ovum, chemical changes that are triggered by enzymes prevent the entry of any other sperm.
This is the case for every person born on the face of the earth. This is the pattern and design of God for a natural man or woman to be birthed upon the earth. Such are al living of al phylum of creation.
Theoretically, each mature reproductive cel carries a gene for every inheritable characteristic, and thus an individual resulting form the union of two such cel s receives a set of genes from each of its parents; the dominant character and the recessive character. But there is a vast difference of paramount importance when considering God, Jesus Christ, who would come into the world. Jesus Christ did not have a dominant character and a recessive character from a set of genes from both parents because He is the “only begotten” or “monogenes”
which does not refer to God having genes, chromosomes, or DNA at al as in a natural birth. His genetics were made of a woman in conception; therefore, we can conclude that Jesus had looks corresponding to that of Mary according to the flesh. Jesus was made of a woman; that is, Mary according to the Word believed by faith conceived seed, which seed came to her constituting an earthly man with a human nature of the progeny of Adam. Jesus Christ is the 61 The Human Body by Charles Clayman, M.D., pages 199-200
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Absolute “Son of God”, not the “Son of God and Mary” when noting His deity. He is the “son of Mary” as he is made of a woman in reference to his humanity. Even though Jesus is the son of Mary, for Mary wil bear a son, yet she did not bear God or conceive God as Spirit. Mary is not the mother of God, but she is the mother of the flesh that she conceived and carried for nine months according to the flesh. God conceived this body through a virgin, which gave Him the right to house or dwell in this body of flesh as a man. This man therefore is rightly called “the only begotten Son of God” because God did begat Him, by and through the Spirit of God, as the Person of God; God manifested in flesh. Therefore, God is the Father of this man who has His Spirit dwelling in him. Mary is only the mother of the humanity of Jesus Christ.
The Seed of the Father
"For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man." (1 Corinthians 11:8). "And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I wil make him an help meet for him."
(Genesis 2:18). "but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fal upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shal be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." (Genesis 2:20b-23). The primary truth that al wil agree as to the surface of the above scriptures is that the "woman comes from the man". This is certainly true. Going a bit farther, another scientific truth is revealed in the above scriptures, that the genes of the man or the father determine the gender of the child born as being male or female, not the genetic information of the mother. In other words, the ovum from the mother does not determine the gender being male or female. Paul states that
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chromosome that ultimately wil determine the gender of the child.
Science in this present century has seen by discovering DNA testing of blood, exactly what the scriptures have taught from eternity. The specific genetic information in the sperm of the father solely determines the gender of the child. “Jesus Christ” is the seed of promise in relation to Abraham, Isaac, and David. Not “and to seeds as of many, but one” being the Messiah that wil house God in human flesh, the Immanuel. The seed of the father as an Adam constitutes a depraved nature by default because of disobedience with no power to overcome this fal en state. Every human being is of the progeny of Adam and is therefore in bondage to death al their lifetime with no overcoming power inherent in them. The seed of the man brings forth a progeny that is dead in spirit, soul, and body, being in darkness with no power to overcome sin. Therefore, the inherent nature of the man and his seed wil always be depraved since no one is born having the Spirit of God.
The Virgin Birth, the Seed of the Woman The seed of the woman wil be a natural seed according to the flesh al owing Christ to be of the seed of David according to the flesh.
In the Gospel of Luke, the genealogy of Jesus Christ is according to the lineage of Mary, even though the pedigree is always masculine according to the begats. When there was a female that had an inheritance, when she married the lineage would be listed in the husband’s name for the pedigree. When the father of Joseph the husband of Mary is stated according to Matthew, his father is Joseph.
However, in Luke’s genealogy the father of Joseph is declared to be Heli, which is actuality, was Mary’s father. This is because the lineage will always be listed according to the male or masculine side for pedigree. The lineage of Jesus through Mary wil go al the way back to Adam in 77 generations. This is interesting because the 77th generation 112
listed is that Adam was “the son of God”. (Luke 3:38). Seven in the Word of God is the number of perfection or completion denoting that Jesus is the perfect fulfil ment of the Adamic lineage as the “last Adam”. (1 Corinthians 15:45).
Man was made in the image of God. “Image” being the Hebrew “tselem” meaning “to shade, phantom, i.e. representative, resemblance.”63 Adam as God’s representative was clothed with authority and rule as the federal head and monarch of the creation.
Image is twice mentioned emphasizing not the intellect or immortality since Adam was created, but in his person was righteousness and that by God. There are three aspects to Adam that is spirit, soul, and body.
But when God breathed into Adam the breath of life, the breath is the
“neshimah” meaning “vital breath, wind, divine inspiration, intellect”64
“Neshimah” is different than “ruwach” which is breath used as “wind, spirit”.65 The neshimah or breath of God sets upon the throne of the ruwach or spirit, which in turn sets upon the nephesh as the body. The neshimah is feminine which in turn accepts the Light of God as Masculine. Therefore, Adam was ful of Light that went from God’s own breath “neshimah” to his spirit “ruwach” which in turn lighted his whole body “nephesh”. Adam was in right standing with God or righteous. “Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.”
(Ecclesiastes 7:29). “For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put al things under his feet.” (Psalms 8:5,6).
Adam had the dominion and was content with manifesting the nature of God through himself. When Adam sinned, he was separated from the Light and had no fellowship with God choosing rather the knowledge of good and evil which rendered him naked. He was no longer clothed with the glory and honor of God, and no longer 63 Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible H6754
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The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ reflected the nature of God. Adam was now functioning in a world of darkness, with a different nature than before. Here we see one in the image of God without the honor and glory of God, without the Light of the Spirit of God. Adam was not in the likeness of God now; the nature of God not being manifested in him any longer. The light that was received by the breath of God as the neshimah that sat upon the throne of his spirit or ruwach was now darkness in bondage to death.
Jesus is the “morphe Theou”, the Divine nature actual y and enseparable subsisting in the Person of Christ.66 Christ is the whole Essence and nature of Deity and is inseparable from them as a man.
There is nothing that is modal in manifestation or conditional for His intrinsic glory, honor, and majesty. “Form” or “morphe” as used in the fol owing verse of scripture is intrinsic and essential as we have stated earlier. “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.”
(Philippians 2:6, 7). Notice Jesus as the Word is equal with God; that is, the Christ as Spirit. The divine nature is the attributes of God and is the only nature that Jesus manifest by never doing his wil obeying his fleshly desires as a man, but always doing the wil of the Father, the will of the Spirit that he has without measure. The Son of God is God manifest in flesh, not God Jr. manifest in flesh. “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.” (1Timonty 3:16). The Son of God is God manifest in flesh; “manifest” being al the attributes and majesty of God was seen, appeared and declared in a body of flesh and blood as a man.
Jesus as a man just like al mankind wil show us the way to crucify the flesh with the affections and the lust, Jesus himself being tempted in al points like as we are, yet without sin. The Son of God as a man has the Spirit without measure making him God manifest.
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“Therefore the Jews sought the more to kil him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.” (John 5:18).
Jesus as a man is the “morphe Theou” and equal with God.
This is the man that is equal with God. Consider John’s statement.
“The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.” (John 10:33). God has made himself of no reputation in humiliation so that he can redeem mankind back to himself; himself being the Spirit who is Christ Jesus. The Son of God is God manifest in flesh as a man; therefore, the man is God in Essence, not the second Person of the Godhead. Jesus who is God in Spirit took upon himself the likeness of al mankind as an Adam. The divine nature was manifest ful y through a perfect man in his humanity. “God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.” (Romans 8:3b). Jesus in his flesh had a propensity to sin, but he never sinned, though he was tempted in al points like as al mankind. “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in al points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” (Hebrews 4:15).
Adam had a son in his own likeness and nature, which was fal en and depraved without God. “And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image.”
(Genesis 5:3a). We are al now born in the likeness and image of fal en Adam. The son Adam had was Seth whose name in Hebrew is
“shayth” meaning “put, substituted”. Adam as the federal head of the fal en human race has gotten sons and daughters as newborns come into the world. Adam is the federal head of the human race of a natural birth. Just as he has substituted sons, God has adopted sons into the new creation of beings with Jesus Christ as the federal head of the God race or family.
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The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations. As we count the generations from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ, we understand the impact of this truth that Jesus Christ is the federal head of the new creation. For Jesus is the 41st and Christ is the 42nd generation. Yes, it is Christ that is the forty second generation that declares Him as the head of the body as the church belongs to and is in Christ: “for to make in himself of twain one new man.” (Ephesians 2:15b).
Christ is the new man that creates in himself a new creation and body of believers who partake of his divine nature in the ful ness and stature of His Person. In Luke’s genealogy, there are 77
generations, which starts with Jesus the Christ and ends with Adam, which was the son of God. Here, Jesus the Christ is the first and the last, the beginning and the ending as referenced in this genealogy. The last Adam wil “be made a quickening spirit” as the federal head of a new creation or new species of mankind that is regenerated and washed in the blood of the Lamb. “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” (1 Corinthians 15:45).
“Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shal be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shal she be unclean.” (Leviticus 12:2). Mary was unclean for a week, which at the end of Jesus was circumcised. Jesus was circumcised because he was a man child with human flesh and blood; but did not have a fal en, human, depraved nature of the first Adam. He was an Adam nonetheless; however, possessing the Spirit of God without measure from the womb, not from the tomb. He has always been God and wil always be God; whether in his humiliation as a man or in his glorification as the Father. The flesh of Jesus is not divine, but he as a man having a human nature like al of mankind has a divine nature revealing who he is in Essence by both grace and truth.
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between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shal be circumcised. And ye shal circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shal be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
And he that is eight days old shal be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.” (Genesis 17:10-12). “And when the days of her purifying are fulfil ed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shal bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest: Who shal offer it before the LORD, and made an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female. And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shal bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shal make an atonement for her, and she shal be clean.” (Leviticus 12:6-8). Notice the sacrifices were a burnt offering and a sin offering which was to remind the parent with the recol ections of the origin of sin, that the child inherited a fal en and sinful nature. Jesus had a fal en and sinful nature as a man, tempted in al points like as we are tempted, yet without sin. A natural birth and a natural seed of the woman are pointed out as Mary did what was commanded in the Levitical law.
“And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord; (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shal be called holy to the Lord;) And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.” (Luke 2:21-24).
Mary carried the fetus for nine months as in a normal timeframe for delivery of a child. The man child Jesus was a natural human being just like you and me, tempted in al points like as we are, yet without sin. The scriptures tell us that Jesus was her firstborn son (denoting a regular son of human being, not firstborn Son (denoting God manifest in the flesh). “And she brought forth her firstborn son, 117
The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.” (Luke 2:7). Mary’s son was just like that of Elizabeth’s in that he was a human being of flesh. “And, behold, thy cousin Elizabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age.” (Luke 1:36a). In Isaiah’s prophecy, the man child was to eat butter and honey, while it has spiritual implications; here it represents in the natural the real humanity of the Christ which is to be fed as other infants. Physicians directed that the first food given to a child should be honey, the next milk. 67
There are two types of righteousness, one of the law and the other of the word of faith. (Romans 10:4-11). The seed of the woman is the natural flesh and blood of the Messiah, which at the same time is the seed of Abraham. The seed of Abraham is the same as the seed of David according to the flesh that was made by God for a housing of His Spirit. But the Spirit of God wil dwell or tabernacle with us in a human being of flesh and blood. Here we also see the seed of promise that can only enter the world through faith. “For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shal live by them. But the righteousness that is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shal ascend into heaven?
(that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Or, Who shal descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” (Romans 10:5-9). This is not as the Charasmatic’s proclaim that you simply speak with your mouth and you are saved. This is the Word that came to Mary in the Power of the Holy Ghost that overshadowed her as God’s divine presence that would form that “holy thing” who would be the Christ as God manifested as a human being of Adam. That Word was made flesh and dwelt among us as the only begotten Son of 67 [Barnabas, Epistle] JHB Commentary
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God; i.e. God manifested in flesh (Greek “sarx” = spirit, soul, and body). There is the natural seed of the woman which is a flesh and blood human being. However, God cannot take on this body as a human and indwell it without the faith of Mary to believe and receive the Word of God. God moves from the spiritual realm into the natural realm by faith. This seed is not a natural seed which is of the law, but is the seed of the Word of faith to fulfil the promises to the fathers as proclaimed by the prophets and in the Psalms. This is the word of faith that Mary received in order to conceive in her womb as her seed (the natural flesh and blood human being as a man child) the manifested Word of God. This spiritual seed as the incorruptible seed of the Word of God wil possess al the ful ness of the Godhead bodily. Jesus is the Word made flesh according to the promise of God to Abraham, David, and al uded to in the prophets. This is the seed of the woman as a natural seed brought to pass by faith in the Word of God as spoken of in Genesis 3:15. There is the spiritual seed which denotes the Word as God come in flesh, and there is the natural seed which speaks of the germ plasm of the woman as the Life giver or Eve as her name implies. The germ plasm of the woman is the only integral part of mankind that did not die of the poison of sin and was thereby used by God in a natural sense to born the last Adam, the Christ.
"And I wil put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shal bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." (Genesis 3:15). This is the curse that God pronounced upon the serpent because of what he had done, he would crawl upon his belly and eat dust al the days of his life. There would be enmity between the serpent and his seed, and the woman and her seed. Who or what is the seed of the woman? The “seed” of the man, the father natural y produces al children, since the female or woman possesses no spermatozoa. We can see this throughout the Word of God. Citing the table of nations in Genesis 10, there are the sons of Noah, the sons of Japheth, the sons of Ham, the sons of Cush, and Cush begat Nimrod, Mizraim begat Ludim, Canaan begat Sidon, Arphaxad begat Salah, Salah begat Eber, and so on. Al throughout the pedigrees and 119
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However, this "seed" was not to be born of a man's seed, a male sperm, but of "her seed". How was this to be? Her seed, which is a natural seed of a human being, would be brought into the world by her receiving the Word of God by faith that came to her from the angel of the Lord.
Who would be the One to give the "sign" or miracle to Israel concerning "Himself" as their Messiah? "Therefore the Lord himself shal give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shal conceive, and bear a son, and shal call his name Immanuel." (Isaiah 7:14). Some translators have rejected the KJV translation of “almah”68 as "virgin" to simply being an unmarried damsel. A quick response to this rationale is that every day unmarried damsels become pregnant and have children, as a natural turn of events. However, God promised that He Himself would give a
"sign", a "miracle". Where is the "sign" or "miracle" if any single damsel was going to conceive and bear a son? The "sign" or "miracle"
is that a virgin was going to conceive and bear a son, and this son would be "God with us", the Immanuel. This was an unprecedented statement made by the Lord as a sign to the house of David. The
"sign" is that the Lord Himself would be "the son, God with us"
through a virgin that would conceive as "the seed of the woman". This is approximately 742 years before Christ.
Was the seed of the woman a fleshly natural seed, a heavenly spiritual seed, or possibly both a natural seed as to the flesh and a spiritual seed as the Word? Looking at the seed of the woman in an 68 Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible H5959
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entirely biological perspective wil yield some interesting data. This hypothesis of biology wil be set forth for your consideration as the natural seed of the woman. Regardless if it is true or not does not affect the fact that Jesus Christ was in a body of flesh with a divine nature, the form of God being in the form of a servant as stated in Philippians 2:7. Recent biological discoveries have concluded some interesting facts as pertaining to the germ cells of the woman. At the time of ovulation, the germ cel becomes an ovum and is fertilized by the sperm. After the first cleavage has occurred, there is another cycle of development. Shortly thereafter the ovum begins to divide into two cel s, then four cel s, then eight, then sixteen, etc. It grows into a mass of cel s called the morula. This is called the blastocyst stage. The blastocyst col apses on itself and begins to develop differently. The foundations for the reproductive system come into being which is called the genital ridge. The germ cel s have been kept apart in one place, multiplying slowly. Then these germ cel s migrate through the vascular system towards the genital ridge having retained their integrity.
The germ cel s then invade the area where the gonads are formed and remain there. The gonads begin to develop as testes or ovaries being determined by the chromosomal sex of the germ cel s X or Y. In time, the female fetus has its internal reproductive organs al essentially complete. Oocytes wil mature late and be released as ful y prepared ova throughout the whole fertile period of the woman’s life. The seed of the woman perpetuates itself in a very special way where the popular statement is proclaimed “the woman is merely the ovum’s way of creating another ovum”. The differentiation of mortal cel s from immortal cel s happen early in development. Note that this immortality of cel s is not absolute immortality, but conditional immortality that last only as to its being hid from exposure to outside forces.
It is therefore deemed a simple fact that the body does not generate the ova which would have inherited the defect of the body.
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“In its earliest stages the embryo’s cel s are not notably different one from another. Later, they become so in spite of being by descent al members of one family. To this there seems at first sight one exception, one cel -type that, out of al the myriads, alone remains its original self and does not specialize. It retains the old original nature of the ancestral cel . Its sister and their progeny pass on through chains of metamorphoses to form a world of different shapes and activities.
But this one persists stil unmodified and true to its own primitive state, from the old ancestral cel one narrow derivative line of descendants, nested in the rest of the immense col ateral progeny, retains its original germinal and general nature: and this, even, has to ripen. Significantly enough, it then sets it free from al the others. And so on from generation to generation.”70
Eve was not a separate creation from Adam, otherwise the human race could be traced back to Adam as Adam- ites or to Eve as Eve-ites. But this is not the case as Eve was not the progeny of Adam.
The entire human race is derived from one man since Eve was bone of his bone from Adam and not a separate creation. The sin of Adam’s disobedience brought forth death to him and his seed. Before the LORD made woman from Adam, he commanded the man. “And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” (Genesis 2:16,17). Satan did not bring sin into the world; neither did Eve. Adam brought death into the world because he was the one that received the word from God that he would surely die.
Death passed upon al creation because of Adam’s transgression. In a technical sense, death reached Adam’s seed or germ plasm, but it did not effect death upon the seed of the woman, only upon her body. Eve was separated from Adam before the fal ; thereby her seed was not 69 Pearse, A.S., General Zoology, New York, Henry Holt, 1930, pg. 379
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affected as was Adam’s. As stated earlier, the germ plasm of the woman is kept in its integrity from generation to generation as the seed of the woman. The body cel s are built out of, and by, the germ cel s or germ plasm; the germ plasm is not built out of the body. The germ plasm obviously dies at the death of the woman since it does not have a safe and viable habitat any longer. Eve introduced death into her body cel s by disobeying God; however, she did not poison her own seed. God would use her seed to bruise the head of the serpent and his seed. This is al uding only to the natural seed of the woman according to the flesh as Christ being of the lineage of Adam. (Luke 3:38). The seed of the woman is the only remnant that has retained the original contingent immortality possessed by Adam. The seed of the man as spermatozoa acquired death. The body cel s of both man and woman have both acquired mortality through death. The seed of the woman acquires death also when fused with the seed of the man. If al the biological data mentioned above is true, then this al owed God through natural earthly law and means to birth a body of flesh and blood that was not born with a dead and unregenerate spirit that is in need of being born again for life. Jesus was born with life. “In him (mortal flesh and blood) was life; and the life was the light of men.” (John 1:4).
Christ is the “Word of Life” manifesting “the life” as true “light” of the glory of God to al men. Death affects only that portion of the woman’s seed that develop into body cel s, as the remainder of her seed is perpetual y generated from one generation to the next.
Obviously, the seed of the woman cannot come into existence by itself, but must have a catalyst that is by penetration of the spermatozoa. This was not the case with Jesus Christ as He was born of a virgin. Jesus then was a person of Mary’s actual seed according to the flesh as well as the seed of promise that would bruise Satan’s head.
But we do know that God Himself was the Father of this child, Jesus being the Son of God, God manifest in the flesh. Therefore, we as believers are born again into the kingdom of God by the incorruptible seed of the Word of God. (1 Peter 1:23). Because Jesus Christ did not need to be born again in his human spirit because it was without sin in 123
The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ that He never sinned, He was certainly the incorruptible seed of the Word of God; viz. The Word made flesh. (John 1:14). Let us consider the scripture relating to the birth of Jesus. He was also flesh however.
“Flesh” being the Greek “Sarx” meaning “human nature (with its frailties and passions, a human being fleshly: spirit, soul, and body, the whole man).71 Jesus was total man (Luke 2:52), hungered (Luke 4:2), ate (Luke 5:30), thirsted (John 19:28), drank (John 4:7), became tired (John 4:6), slept (Mark 4:38), worked (Mark 6:3), had human emotions of joy (Luke 10:21), of sorrow (Matthew 26:37,38), of indignation (Mark 10:14), of astonishment (Luke 7:9), and of pain and anguish (Matthew 27:46). “Jesus in his flesh is an Adam after the fall, his fleshly body, soul and spirit being tempted in al points like as we are, having to subject his wil and human nature to that of the Spirit. Obedience to God al owed him the victory over his flesh through the Spirit that He is in Essence; having the Spirit of God without measure. Adam in the image and likeness of God was not the Son of God; that is, God manifest in the flesh, but was a son of God being made a living soul.
Jesus as a man of Adam wil be tempted in al points in his flesh like an Adam after the fal due to Him as Spirit being made of no reputation in order to work as a man of Adam like al mankind. However, from the womb, He wil have the Spirit of God without measure in him which wil al ow him through obedience to the Spirit to never sin.
“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost." (Matthew 1:18). "for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shal bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shal save his people from their sins. Now al this was done, that it might be fulfil ed which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shal be with child, and shal bring forth a son, and they shal call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us."
(Matthew 1:20b-23). He was born in Bethlehem and was worshipped 71 Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible G4561
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by the wise men from the east. (Matthew 2:1). "And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, And let al the angels of God worship him." (Hebrews 1:6). We are told to worship God and Him only, and not to have any gods before Him. If He were not God, then the angels and the wise men of the east were in idolatry.
How is He the "seed of the woman", and not the "seed of a man"? Notice the begats in Matthew the first chapter. "Begats" start in verse 2 and go through verse 16. But in verse 16, it mentions Jacob who begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. Notice that Joseph did not begat Jesus; Jesus is not the natural seed of man or of Joseph’s seed, but is the natural seed of the woman. Jesus is "Mary's natural seed" or "her seed" after Adam as shown in the genealogy of Luke. If Jesus was the natural seed of a fal en man, he would have a fal en nature of that man. However, Jesus is the seed of the woman having the divine nature of God manifest in and through his flesh; however, the flesh being like al mankind’s flesh in that is has its own wil and inclination to sin. Jesus through the Spirit will crucify the affections and the lusts of the flesh showing us the way, the truth, and the life as our example.
"The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he wil not turn from it; of the fruit of thy body wil I set upon thy throne for evermore." (Psalms 132:11). God, the LORD, wil be of the lineage of David according to the flesh; and it is in this fruit of David's body of flesh that God has prepared Himself that He wil set upon David's throne for evermore as the Messiah. "Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the 'seed' of David according to the flesh." (Romans 1:3). How was Jesus Christ reckoned after the "seed"
of David when neither David nor any other man provided the "seed"
for the man child Jesus? Jesus was not the seed of any man, but qualified for David’s throne as the seed of the woman through his fleshly mother. Again, God used Mary’s natural seed of germ plasm as stated in Genesis 3:15, Jesus being the natural seed that would come and crush Satan’s head. Jesus was the “seed of David” through Mary being of the tribe of Judah and lineage of David. It was the spiritual 125
The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ seed of the Word of faith that Mary received that produced the flesh and blood humanity of Jesus Christ, which housed al the ful ness of the Godhead. The natural seed of Mary did not commingle with the seed of God in order to produce the Messiah. Mary had not known a man to have an embryo germinated by a natural fleshly father. His Father is God; Jesus is not the God-man; that is, half God and half man. Jesus is al God that manifested his divine nature as the divine Spirit as Christ in earthly flesh as the suffering Christ for our redemption having a human nature; our kinsman redeemer.
That which is flesh is flesh. That which is Spirit is Spirit. Joseph was in the lineage of Boaz, Jesse, and David. (Matthew 1:5,6). The lineage states that Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. (Matthew 1:16). Through Joseph, Jesus had the legal right to the throne of David by Joseph being of the kingly lineage of David. David’s son mentioned in the lineage of Joseph is Solomon who was king in Israel whereas David’s son according to Mary’s genealogy is Nathan who was not a king in Israel.
Jesus was made of a woman as the seed of David according to the flesh so that the sure mercies to David would be manifested as the Messiah that would rule upon David’s throne. The union of Joseph and Mary brought this about, Joseph of the kingly lineage of David, and Mary of the tribe of Judah and lineage of David.
As to the spiritual seed according to the Word of faith pertaining to Christ as spoken by Paul in Romans 10, let’s see the exact Word that came to Mary in the lineage of Jesus according to Luke.
“And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shal be great, and shal be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shal give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shal reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shal be no end.”
(Luke 1:32). The Word to Mary is that her “son” wil be that of Adam having flesh and blood, a natural human being as al mankind. He wil be called the Son of the Highest, which refers to the divinity of Christ, 126
as God manifest in this natural flesh. The Lord God will give unto Christ the throne of his father David. Christ could not righteously die if death had no dominion over him. This righteousness of God in making the soul of Jesus an offering for sin wil be accomplished through Christ coming through Abraham, David, and Mary since He had no sin of his own. Because Christ wil partake of His creation through and in Adam, it wil be the sin of others that He will bear in this natural body of creation. The plan of redemption required the sacrifice being under the death sentence upon mankind as far as flesh was concerned, to fulfil the law in every respect in order be the spotless, sinless sacrifice offered for us al . The lineage of Mary back to Adam then is in the col ateral line according to the natural flesh of Christ as a son of David, a son of Adam.
“Then said Mary unto the angel, How shal this be, seeing I know not a man?” (Luke 1:34). Mary did not doubt in her heart, but simply asked how this would come about seeing that she was not married and did not know a man. “And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shal come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shal overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shal be born of thee shal be called the Son of God.” (Luke 1:35). That
“holy thing” in the LXX did not include “thing”, but only “holy”. This refers to God, as He alone is holy. This is none other than the redeemer, the “Holy One”, not the “Holy Trinity” or “Holy One of the Trinity”. “Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I wil help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.”
(Isaiah 41:14). This “holy thing” as God wil be hidden to the undiscerning man; not realizing that God Almighty has prepared Himself a body of flesh to dwell in as a natural human being. “Holy” is from the Greek “hagios” meaning “sacred, pure, moral y blameless or religious, consecrated, holy (one or thing)”.72 “Son of God” wil refer to the “holy thing” as God revealed or manifested in a human body of flesh. Wil this be a natural seed of Mary in conjunction with the 72 Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible G40
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“And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. For with God nothing shal be impossible.” (Luke 1:36,37) Gabriel gives Mary information concerning her cousin. Then we understand that this, which is to happen to her, wil be a sign as spoken by the prophet Isaiah. “Therefore the Lord himself shal give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shal conceive, and bear a son, and shal call his name Immanuel.” (Isaiah 7:14). “Sign” is from the Hebrew “owth”
meaning “a signal, miracle, mark”. This wil be a miracle sign or mark to the house of Israel that is only possible with God. This is in no wise a natural DNA dissertation on genetics. God did it and that’s that. He did it out of dry ground of a virgin. “For he shal grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground.” (Isaiah 53:2).
Isaiah did not say “fruit” out of dry ground as an offspring, but “root”
out of dry ground. This scripture verse also al udes to Jesus Christ in his resurrection coming up out of the ground of a cursed creation due to Adam’s sin as the new creation or species of mankind. Glorification of the man Christ Jesus opened the door for a new creation in himself, by the believers associating themselves with His death, burial, and 128
resurrection in repentance and baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. No man knows Jesus after the flesh here on earth, but after His Spirit by the infil ing of the Holy Ghost. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold al things become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17). How did this new creature or creation come into being? “To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.”
(2 Corinthians 5:19a). God as the Spirit reconciled the world back to Himself by being in Christ Jesus bodily expressing His divine nature and power through a human being of flesh and blood.
There in the preceding paragraphs, we have stated the record of the Word that came to Mary by Gabriel. This Word by itself wil conceive nothing in Mary until it is mixed with faith. “And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.” (Luke 1:38a). Here is Mary’s receiving the Word by her expressed faith, thus the natural seed was conceived in her according to the Word. In the Word that came to her which is the incorruptible seed when mixed with her faith produced the Holy thing. Jesus was supernatural y conceived in the womb of Mary. This was clearly a virgin birth with no natural "seed" of a man. The "seed" was not of a man, but of God by a woman. Jesus was conceived by God within the womb of Mary without a male sperm of Joseph; but the “incorruptible seed of the Word of God”, as God, the Messiah, God with us, the Immanuel being birthed as a natural seed of the woman. God caused the conception and birth to be of Him, of the Holy Ghost, and not of man. The important point to be made here is that the "seed" of the woman as "her seed" is this natural seed as the seed of promise brought into being by the Word of faith received by Mary al owing her to conceive this “holy thing”. Major point of reference; Jesus Christ was the Word, God Almighty, Elohim, the Father, the Holy Ghost manifested in a natural human body of flesh as the Christ, the Messiah.
God overshadowed Mary and conceived Himself in her womb as the
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“man (kind)”, i.e. hydrogen, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, cobalt, nickel, copper, etc, etc. So Adam was a microcosm of the world; man regarded as an epitome of the world since he was of the earth, earthy. Because of Adam’s sin through disobedience, his spirit being as a living soul sunk down to dust and dirt, his spirit being in darkness. When Adam fell, the whole creation fell, because Adam was a microcosm of the world, having all dominion over the earth. Man was not cursed, but al creation was cursed for Adam’s sake. When Adam sinned, not only did Adam fal , but also al creation fell, because al creation was in Adam as a microcosm and he had the dominion over al . "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body." (Romans 8:22,23). Why does the creature and creation groan and travail? This is because the sin of Adam brought al mankind into corruption and death with a curse upon the whole creation. Up until the sin of Adam, everything was in harmony with God and it was good. The herbs brought forth after their kind, the beasts were not devouring one another. The lion was not eating the lamb; the dog was not chasing the cat. The earth had no thunderstorms and whirlwinds in it; it had only dewed upon the ground. There was perfect harmony, a perfect “7”, as the notes on a musical scale. But the fal of mankind brought al creation under a curse. Al creatures and creation are neither good nor bad, but al are in a state of bondage of corruption.
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the Immanuel, as “the seed of the woman” being the promised seed, made flesh as corruptible man, tainted with mortality in order to redeem sinful mankind.
Jesus as a man was a natural man like us. However, when Jesus resurrected from the dead by the Spirit of holiness, he became a spiritual man, flesh and bone of a spiritual nature having the capability to walk through wal s and vanish. Jesus was not a Spirit man, but a natural man, in the days of His flesh that was glorified later on after His resurrection. "Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural: and afterward that which is spiritual." (1 Corinthians 15:48). God's purpose in so doing was to elevate man to Christ’s glorified position as a man through the Spirit and transcend the weak, beggarly, fleshly elements of the world by fashioning himself as a man, made under the law through the virgin Mary for the suffering of death.
This is God manifested in flesh. Jesus said that He was not of this world. "ye are of this world; I am not of this world." (John 8:23). This is Jesus Christ as the Word from above that came down from glory and put on a body of flesh as an Adam.
Is there hope for a dying world? "Because the creature itself also shal be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." (Romans 8:21). Jesus Christ is, was, and is to come, the Almighty God that in the office of the Son of God fulfil ed the law in every aspect. He then glorified His body of flesh as both Lord and Christ with power, according to the Spirit of holiness when He raised Himself from the dead. That is, that Jesus as the Christ possessing both the Spirit of God as His Spirit in a mortal human body of flesh consisting of spirit, soul, and body, that His Spirit as God raised His body of mortal, corruptible flesh from the grave.
This is the mystery of the Sonship of God. "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil." (Hebrews 2:14). God took part of the same humanity as an Adam with corruptible, natural, mortal flesh.
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"And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath (the earth, the world); I am from above (the Spirit, God Himself)." (John 8:23a).
Because Jesus was from above, the God Almighty secreted or was hidden in a body of corruptible flesh as a natural man. Jesus Christ was God who prepared himself a body in origin as the "seed of the woman". This is the mystery that was hidden from the foundation of the world (Romans 16:25,26). “Whereby, when you read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.” (Ephesians 3:4,5).
God especial y uses two offices of the five-fold ministry in giving this revelation of Christ, which are apostles and prophets. This is not to say that only apostles and prophets have this mystery of the revelation of Christ, but simply that God gives in depth revelation to these two offices for edification and instruction.
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Why couldn’t God just destroy Satan and take mankind back without going through al the trouble of Him coming from glory, taking on a human nature as a man, then dying on the cross with the shedding of his blood? “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that 132
through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil.” (Hebrews 2:14). Jesus took part of the same flesh and blood as you and me. This is known as a “kinsman”, or one who is related to us by flesh and blood. Certain important obligations devolved upon him toward his next of kin. If anyone from poverty was unable to redeem his inheritance, it was the duty of the kinsman to redeem it. “If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shal he redeem that which his brother sold.” (Leviticus 25:25). God is the Kinsman Redeemer of his people. “But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Feat not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.”
(Isaiah 43:1).
Why did Jesus have to shed his blood? “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shal eat blood, neither shal any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shal even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. For it is the life of al flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shal eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of al flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shal be cut off.”
(Leviticus 17:11-14). The atonement must be by the shedding of blood.
The blood ratifies a covenant. Without the shedding of blood, there can be no covenant. “And almost al things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.”
(Hebrews 9:22). Al benefits of the Christian life are due to the cross of Jesus by the shedding of his precious blood. Al things flow to the body of Christ as the church due to Calvary’s stream of blood from the spotless Lamb of God.
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“Wherefore, as by one man’s sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon al men, for that al have sinned.” (Romans 5:12). “For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shal reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.”
(Romans 5:17). The gift of righteousness satisfies the righteous judgment of God upon Adam’s disobedience that brought forth death upon al mankind. The gift of righteousness is the righteousness of God that wil be found only in the Son of God, the only begotten of the Father. Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon al men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon al men unto justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shal many be made righteous.” (Romans 5:17-19). Jesus wil fulfil the righteous demands of the law by living a perfect life as a human being made under the law, then giving his life for us for sin, which wil be accomplished through the shedding of his holy blood. The difference between the blood and Jesus and mankind’s is that Jesus’ blood never carried a body of sin, for He never sinned as al human beings have done.
Adam was not cursed but the ground was cursed for Adam’
sake. “And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; 134
in sorrow shalt thou eat of it al the days of thy life.” (Genesis 3:17).
Adam was under the death sentence that had been decreed by God through disobedience but he was not cursed as creation was cursed.
Then God pronounced the end result upon Adam because of his disobedience in eating of the tree of knowledge. “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, til thou return unto the ground; for out of it thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”
(Genesis 3:19). The ground was cursed and Adam sunk back into the ground spiritual y, from which he was taken. This was a spiritual death that concerned every aspect of Adam: spirit, soul, and body. Adam’s spirit was now dead, being earthy, not being able to receive the Light of God. Adam had now sunk down to the lowest depth from whence he was taken having an earthy nature or Adamic nature. This Adamic nature is in bondage to sin under death al man’s lifetime. God stated that the life is the blood and sin affected the blood of man and brought forth death. Adam died in his spirit with the death sentence in the life of his blood, which manifested in the death of his flesh as well some 930 years later. In the genealogy of mankind, Adam is the progenitor. And death was the sentence upon Adam who passed it on to each succeeding generation by mankind’s dead lifeless spirit separated from God. The spirit of Adam and its association with the blood is integral y linked together, since the life of the flesh is in the blood.
Scientists have been able to duplicate the chemical elements in the blood but have yet to determine how to give life to any substance.
This belongs to God and God alone. Man’s earthly wisdom that can only glimpse into the laws of creation and its bonding together of molecules cannot originate life, for in God only is life. Without God, there is no life. God holds each person’s breath in His hands, the righteous as well as the wicked. Al are his to do with as He pleases, for it is God that has made us and not we ourselves.
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The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ soul.” (Genesis 2:7). The blood was given life by the breath of God thus every living cel of the body “breathes”; that is, consumes oxygen and emits carbon dioxide. Oxygen is carried by the blood from the heart to al tissues of the body, where, in the capil aries, an exchange takes place: oxygen is taken up according to tissue needs and, in return, carbon dioxide enters the blood. The blood then is carried to the right side of the heart and thence to the lungs. Another exchange takes place in the lungs: oxygen is replenished and carbon dioxide given up, to be exhaled by the process of breathing. Isn’t it amazing, that breathing is necessary in the role of circulation? This process described of arterial and venous blood applies only to the systemic circulation. The situation is reversed within the smal er pulmonary circuit in which the pulmonary artery contains the deoxygenated blood and the pulmonary veins contain the oxygenated blood. Therefore, we see the close correlation of the breath and the blood as stated in Genesis 2:7. The blood would not have life without the breath of God, which made mankind a living soul.
“Righteousness” is from the Greek “dikaiosune” meaning
“equity (of character or act), justification, the character of quality of being right or just”.73 For the righteousness of God to be satisfied in relation to Adam’s sin, God could have left Adam in his current state of death with the Word of God against Adam making him a mortal man in bondage to death al his lifetime. Another remedy for satisfying the righteousness of God in His character and judgment in justice was to exterminate the entire race of mankind. But this would leave the earth uninhabited, thus making the earth as a possession for the righteousness of God proclaiming His glory throughout total y nul and void. Then the way of righteousness which God chose by making a provision through the cross of Jesus Christ having the law point to it in shadow until the price of redemption had been paid in ful was by the righteousness of God in Christ. This righteousness was not in the blood of bul s and goats, neither was it in sinful man, but in Christ as 73 Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible G1343
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the only begotten of God taking on sinful flesh and for sin, condemning sin in the flesh. This is the righteousness of God that has appeared to us in Christ Jesus. “For the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.”
(Romans 3:21).
A man or Adam lost it. A man or Adam must get it back. Yet Adam cannot save himself because he is a living soul, not a quickening spirit. His vain attempt at sewing fig leaves together to cover his nakedness would in no wise satisfy the righteousness of God.
“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon al men, for that al have sinned: But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shal reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)” (Romans 12-17).
If Jesus’ death is total y substitutionary, that is, that He died in the stead of you and me when we were to die, then redemption would be reckoned by debt, not a free gift. Therefore, God at the time of Adam al owed him to live with a mortal body in bondage to sin under the shadow of the cross until the righteousness of God would be revealed to settle His righteousness for mankind’s disobedience by the free gift of grace. Why does God require the shedding of blood for the remission of sins? Because life that is in the blood is so closely associated with the spirit of the sacrifice. The redemption of mankind required greater blood than that of bul s and goats or any other man for that matter. “For if the blood of bul s and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shal the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.” (Hebrews 137
The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ 9:13,14). This is holy blood. This is precious blood. This is blood that is in correlation with the Spirit of God as God’s own blood, though it be human blood. Consider this scripture in reference to Jesus’ blood.
“Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant.” (Hebrews 13:20). We do not dare call the blood of Jesus Christ unholy or defiled in any way. This is the institution of the cross, of the shed blood of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. It is through faith in His blood that we are saved through grace. “Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God: to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.” (Romans 3:25,26). God chose this shadow of the cross that He might be just and righteous, declaring His righteousness in Jesus. Does the blood of an ordinary man of Adam justify us? No. Al mankind has contaminated blood through sin. Justification can only come to mankind through the death of His only begotten Son as the perfect spotless Lamb of God in order to satisfy God’s own righteousness and holiness. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shal be saved from wrath through him.” (Romans 5:8,9).
Forgiveness from God is offered only through the revealing of the Christ and Him crucified as our object of faith. If we know Christ, then we wil know the Father, for the Father was manifested in Him.
Jesus did not need to have his life’s blood shed to wash away his sins even though he had a human body of flesh and blood. He had a human soul and a human spirit; however He did not need to have his human spirit regenerated in order to receive the light of God. Neither did His blood carry the body of sin as did Adam and his progeny. Jesus did not need to be born again, as does al mankind of the lineage of Adam. Death reigned over al human beings, even over them that had not sinned after the manner of Adam. The holy life that is in Jesus wil 138
not be contaminated because Jesus wil never carry the weight of sin during his lifetime because he wil not sin judicial y or moral y being perfect in his spirit, soul, and body. “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to al the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made overseers, to feed the church of God, which he (the Holy Ghost which is God) hath purchased with his own blood.” (Acts 20:28). Who purchased the church with his own blood? This is normal human blood that is attributed to God since His blood as the Son of God is offered through the Spirit. “Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” (John 3:16). Who laid down his life for us? God inhabited a human body of flesh in order that He might become the supreme sacrifice through His human body of flesh and blood. God himself laid down his life for us shedding His own blood. Not that God in His Spirit died, but the body of flesh as the only begotten Son that was the body of God died for the sins of the world shedding his righteous blood. God did not die, but the Son of God who is God in flesh died for the sin of the world, being the flesh part of the Son of God as a man.
Let’s look at the term “only begotten Son” as stated in John 3:16. There were many sons of God, but only “one begotten Son” of God. Remember, earlier in this chapter, we defined the “only begotten” as a Greek word “monogenes” meaning “only-born or sole”
son. The blood that flowed in His veins was the blood of Emmanuel, which is being interpreted, God with us. There was no Y-chromosomal DNA in Jesus Christ from Joseph as being Jesus’ natural father. God wil embody this human by the virgin birth as a sign or miracle spoken of by the prophet Isaiah. (Isaiah 7:14).
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The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ only be cleansed by applying blood that contains life. “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.” (Leviticus 17:11). The blood makes atonement for sin. “And almost al things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.” (Hebrews 9:22). Jesus never sinned as Adam had done in the past, therefore his life’s blood remained alive never being pol uted or contaminated. Jesus was tempted in al points like us but he never sinned. He was the undefiled Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world by the shedding of his spotless, sinless blood upon Calvary. His blood is the life of his body, the church. As it flows throughout the body of Christ, each member is nourished with exactly what it needs, just as the natural blood of a human being delivers exactly what each cel needs on a second by second basis.
There were many theophanies in the Word of God. A theophany is an appearance of God to man. But the theophany does not have a permanent abode for this appearance of God. Let me explain. God appeared to Moses in the burning bush. (Exodus 3:14).
This was a theophany since God did not take up permanent residence in the bush; otherwise, we would be worshipping the burning bush as God in this present day. But God would not permanently reside in the burning bush. Another theophany is recorded in Genesis: “And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; And he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground”.
(Genesis 18:1). Three angels visited Abraham and one of them was the LORD. This was a theophany or an appearing of God through an angel. God did not permanently abide in this angel; otherwise, we would be worshipping this angel as God at this present time. Another theophany is recorded in Genesis 32 where Jacob wrestles with the angel and prevails. Here again, this was a theophany and not a permanent abode for God.
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Is Jesus Christ a theophany or is He the permanent dwelling of God? “For in him dwelleth al the ful ness of the Godhead bodily.”
(Colossians 2:9). “Dwelleth” is translated from the Greek word
“katoikeo” meaning “to house permanently” or “reside permanently”
forever. Al the ful ness of the Godhead resides permanently, or houses permanently, forever, in Christ Jesus bodily. One body houses the ful ness or al of the Godhead; not three bodies or two bodies: but ONE body, which is Jesus Christ. This is what is meant by “the only begotten Son”. The life of God is in Him, the Spirit of God. God’s blood wil be shed from His own body made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem us that are in under the law. The blood of Jesus is the blood of Emmanuel that runs through His veins and arteries. No sin wil break the relationship with the water, blood, or the Spirit of God, for Jesus wil be spotless and undefiled as the Son of God. The point the author is referencing here explicitly is that the blood of the Lamb was the blood of Christ Himself who was one with God in the Spirit. His human blood wil be offered through the eternal Spirit for the atonement. This is the lifeblood that has life for the atonement of mankind.
The Natures in Christ
“Nature” is from the Greek “phusis” meaning “growth (by germination or expansion), i.e. natural production, fig. native disposition, constitution.” 74 Nature is also the “essential character of a thing, quality or qualities that make something what it is; essence; inborn character; innate disposition, inherent tendencies of a person.75
“Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding al things by the word of his power.”
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The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ divine nature and not the human nature of Adam since he never does his own wil in the flesh, but always does the wil of the Father. God took a life to himself that was mortal just like that of mankind which was His tabernacle or dwelling place. The nature of Adam wil be noted as the old man of sin, the state of mankind unredeemed by grace. Jesus wil be made under the law in the flesh of a human being just like us having a human nature. The righteousness of God wil require that as an Adam lost fellowship with God through disobedience unto death, so an Adam wil be required to redeem the lost state back to God through obedience unto life. Therefore, it wil be necessary in order for the righteousness of God to be satisfied to have a human being bring the current state of fal en humanity back to God. This human has to be born of a woman under the law in order to be tempted in al points as humans are tempted possessing a human nature. This human being wil have to work salvation through and in himself alone as one man, just as one man forfeited his original state thus bringing death upon al mankind. Jesus Christ will be a human being just like al others; however, he wil express only the divine nature since he wil bring his wil always in subjection to that of God.
He wil not be an alien from another planet, but wil abide in the earth as a human being with a character that is in the express image of likeness of God. “Wherefore in al things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.” (Hebrews 2:17). As some folk put it, he’s people just like us.
The nature of Jesus wil be like our human nature with the difference that he wil always manifest the divine nature by his wil being in submission to that of the Father’s. His flesh wil have an inherent nature from Mary with a propensity to sin, just like our human nature. It wil be weak just like ours. This wil al ow Jesus to be tempted in al points as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 4:15b). Jesus experienced natural growth, which requires a process of body cel s dying with cel replacement. Jesus hungered, thirsted, slept, and knew 142
poverty, as he had no place to lay his head. The Garden of Gethsemane is cited as to his being in an agony, his spirit wil ing, but his flesh weak. God cannot be tempted, yet Jesus was tempted in al points like us. “for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.” (James 1:13b). Jesus was tempted by Satan himself in the wilderness and again before the cross with his soul in an agony. This agony before the cross was the strongest that Satan could war. Jesus knew the things that were coming upon him on the cross. Satan used every device available in an attempt to avoid Jesus going to the cross of Calvary. The horrors that went through his soul were greater than any mortal man could endure yet Jesus as a mortal man subject to death endured the sufferings. This was the greatest conflict in the greatest war ever known to man. Al the world wars to date did not compare with the physical and mental sufferings of Jesus Christ. This is not God suffering, but Jesus as a human being suffering the onslaught of hell. This is the man Christ Jesus in the office of the Son of God.
The human nature of Jesus wil be that in exact representation of the Spirit and Person of God in Essence. This divine nature manifested in and through Christ as a man, the divine nature manifested through the human nature, is because God is in him as the Christ reconciling the world unto himself. (2 Corinthians 5:19a). The Word made flesh is none other than God dwelling in Christ Jesus bodily. (Colossians 2:9). Jesus is the Father as God dwelling in him and stated by himself as recorded in John’s gospel. “I said therefore unto you, that ye shal die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he (the Father), ye shal die in your sins.” (John 8:24). Italics are the author’s.
“They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.” (John 8:27). Jesus though a man of Adam never manifested a human nature obeying the sinful nature of the flesh, but only a divine. This is because He is the express image of the Father. Therefore, ever though Jesus is human with a human nature, he wil manifest only one nature which is the divine. Since He is in total obedience to the Father, Jesus wil manifest only the nature that He truly is, and that is the divine.
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Which would dominate? Jesus is not a schizophrenic that has two personalities as two persons in one body. Another train of thought is Eutychianism teaching that the divine and human natures were joined together in a hypostatic union, so that there were indistinguishable.
This would have Jesus Christ with a third or hybrid nature consisting of God and man; that is, a demi-god. The hypostatic union would neither be a true nature of God, nor would it be a true nature of man, but a third altogether different nature than that of God or man.
He was truly divine and truly human. Jesus did not have a conscious awareness of his divine nature that was in him, but only conscious of his human spirit, soul, and body. But the Spirit that was innate in him was that of God in His express image. In aligning his human nature with that of God’s divine nature and will, he grew in favor with both God and man. But this was not done intrinsically or within, even though God was dwelling in him bodily. Two natures depict two wil s. There were two wil s in Christ Jesus, a human wil and a divine will. This is plainly seen in the Garden of Gethsemane with Jesus praying to the Father to spare him the agony of the cross. Jesus was praying as a human being to the Father concerning His wil . Jesus prayed “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I wil (human wil ), but as thou wilt (Father’s wil ).
(Matthew 26:39b). “He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy wil (God’s wil ) be done.” (Matthew 26:42). Two wil s are clearly seen in the above scripture, God’s wil as the Spirit that was willing (divine nature) and the flesh that was weak (human nature).
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revelation. This requires Jesus to pray, fast, and to be obedient to the manifested wil of God in order for him to please God. Jesus did not have a live feed to his conscious mind from the Father (even though He is the Father in Spirit) along with a live feed from his human spirit and soul. Jesus only has one wil being directly fed to him in his human conscious state of mind, while the divine wil is made known to him through and by revelation. Jesus in the office of Son of God wil work as a man depending on the office of the Father to lead him in obedience, making the captain of our salvation perfect through suffering.
Many a sermon has been given something like “Jesus walked on the water by his divinity, but slept in the boat by his humanity”.
Peter walked on the water, but he was not divine. Peter walked on the water as a human being through the Word of God by faith. Did the water become a solid rather than a liquid? Did Peter become weightless or possibly gravitational force became nil at this place and time? No.
Peter simply acted on the Word by faith and it became the Word of faith manifested in the physical realm. The real world is not seen, but that which is seen is temporal. Peter acted in the faith realm, thus true reality manifested by the law of faith. Jesus walked on the water as a human being in the law of the Spirit. He passed by the mob as a human being in the law of the Spirit. The wil of God was constantly being revealed to Jesus since he did not have a conscious awareness of it. “Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him al things that himself doeth: and he wil shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.” (John 5:19,20). Therefore, Jesus in his office as Son of God is total y dependent upon the office of the Father for his leading. Even though God is resident in Jesus in ful ness, yet God is showing or giving cognitive knowledge to Jesus in his humanity so that al he does is not of himself, which is of his humanity, but is attributable to his deity. This is because Jesus is actively obedient to the wil of the 145
The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ Father. As the Father’s wil is revealed or shown to him, he is obedient making a decision to do the Father’s wil rather than his own. Jesus was not receiving two wil s at once and then making a decision as to which one he would act on. He is clearly being shown as a human being of flesh and blood His Father’s wil , and submitting his own human wil to that of the Father’s. God is one and the Self-same Spirit manifesting in two different offices or roles: 1) Son of God 2) Father.
There is a scripture that shines more light on this topic that Jesus was truly human with a human nature. “But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.” (Mark 13:32). In his humanity, Jesus did not know the day or hour when heaven and earth wil pass away. It is clear that the Father does have knowledge of it since He is al knowing.
Even though Jesus is the Father as the Spirit form of the Son of God, yet he had no knowledge of it in his humanity as the flesh or human form of the Son of God. Remember the Son of God is God or Spirit manifested in flesh as a man.
If Jesus is God; that is, the Father, and the fulness of the Godhead is dwelling in Christ Jesus bodily (humanity), then why doesn’t Jesus have a conscious awareness of it? True, it is one and the same Spirit working as Father and Son of God; however, the Son of God wil have limitations in this office of God to function as a man for redemption. God cannot satisfy His righteous judgment if He breaks His Word and takes back mankind unlawful y. His righteousness must be satisfied that can only be accomplished by a man. It is the same as if the Judge on the bench convicted you the reader of a crime. The verdict must first be passed upon the person that committed the crime, then and only then can the judgment be brought to pass upon the guilty. However, in a turn of events, the Judge removes His robe of righteousness, steps down from the position of authority or the bench, stands in the place of the guilty and pays the ransom himself. The Judge passed the sentence upon the guilty then came himself in the stead of the convicted to pay the ransom. The judge and the redeemer are one and the same person. There are not three or two persons in the 146
example just given. This is exactly what God did for each of us, for al have sinned and come short of the glory of God. It is God as the Father in one office, then it is God in the office of the Son of God in a different office for redemption. Because of the office of the Son of God, the divine wil was not actively accessed from within Jesus, but external y from the Father and that by revelation. The Son of God is Jesus Christ in his redemptive office as a man that wil have certain limitations as to time, space, knowledge, etc. God is not limited in any area. God is al knowing, yet Jesus in the office of Sonship does not know al things. God cannot be tempted, yet Jesus in the office of Son can be tempted. God is everywhere, yet Jesus as the Son of God is limited to being at one place. God cannot die, yet Jesus as the Son of God wil die on the cross. God’s office of Father is always “Leading”
or “Administrative”. The Holy Ghost is the Spirit form of Jesus Christ and wil hear from the Father as does the office of Son. “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he wil guide you into al truth: for he shal not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shal hear, that shal he speak: and he wil shew you things to come.” (John 16:13).
God is Spirit. One and the same Spirit of God, but in different roles or offices occupies al these offices. There are not Three Persons of the Godhead manifesting their Persons, but only One True God in manifestation in varying offices or roles. Father wil delegate or lead every office of God. Word wil be the office of “Expression” and
“Holy Ghost” is the Spirit form of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ has two forms in one Person: 1) Holy Ghost as His Spirit form which is the same Spirit as the Father or Word 2) flesh form which is the human consisting of a human spirit, soul, and body. It is God that is each and every office manifesting different roles according to His purpose and will.
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The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” (Philippians 2:7,8). “Made himself of no reputation” is from the Greek “kenoo” meaning “to abase or neutralize”. Jesus made of himself as a man of no reputation by being always obedient to God even though he was in the form of God; therefore, he manifested the divine nature always in his flesh. God in the incarnation worked as a human being in order to effect salvation for mankind by the obedience of death of the perfect man. It is important to point out that the Greek
“keeno” does not define God as negating himself in any way just because he has prepared himself a body. Again, to reiterate, “Kenoo means to neutralize or to take that which has positive effects and render them neutral; making negative is not within the definition”.77
God did not cease and desist from being God at any instant of time or place. God simply made himself a body of flesh as a man consisting of two natures; one divine and one human with the divine nature or form made of no reputation in order to take upon him human the form of a servant, made in the likeness of al men, being fashioned as a man in order to die for man’s redemption. The human nature was always in subjection to the divine wil and purpose, even unto death. God preparing himself a body fulfil ed the righteousness of God.
“Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body thou hast prepared me.”
(Hebrews 10:5). When God came into the world, he prepared Himself a body. Notice the next verse. “The said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy wil , O God.” (Hebrews 10:7). The “I” that is coming in the volume of the book is God manifested in man: divinity in humanity, the Christ, the Messiah “to do thy wil , O God” (the Father’s wil ).
Jesus in his humanity as the Son of God was aware of the Father’s wil and always sought for it and obeyed it in its ful est and in al things. Therefore, Jesus is the perfect manifestation of the divine nature of God as He is the Express Image of His Person.
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(Hebrews 1:3). The conscious knowledge of the Father’s wil was however made known to him by revelation. Again, Jesus’ human wil was active while his divine will was passive. The Father’s wil was a voluntary action of obedience in Jesus’ humanity, and not an involuntary, automatic suppression or putting down of his human wil .
Here are a few scriptures for reference. John the Baptist speaks of Jesus. “And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.” (John 3:32). Jesus has seen and heard external y what the Father who dwells in him internal y wants him to do as to His wil . Here are two offices of God displayed, one of the Son of God and one of the Father. “Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man wil do his will, he shal know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.” (John 7:16-18). Christ being sent of God is understood through the “emptied out” as Jesus being in subjection to the office of the Father. It is the Word of God that is sent into the world as a Light in darkness. The Word sent into the world became flesh. It is the flesh of the Word of God that must be eaten, not the natural flesh of Jesus as a man condoning cannibalism, but the eternal Word of God that is life and health to them that receive it. Notice Jesus did not say to the Pharisees to eat the flesh of the Son of God, which is flesh indeed as a man, but to eat the flesh of the Son of man, which is a different office altogether than the Son of God. No eternal Son here that is with the Father: but the Father that is resident in humanity as a man called the Messiah or Christ.
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The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ (His Spirit form or God) is come in the flesh (sarx = a natural human being with a spirit, soul, and body) is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of anti-christ, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." (1 John 4:1-3). "Is come" is from the Greek "erchomai" meaning “enter”, or “set”. “Set” is the same as the Hebrew "shiyth" meaning to “inhabit, remain, marry, settle”. This is the same as the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ.
"For in him dwelleth (or houses permanently) al the ful ness of the Godhead bodily”. (Colossians 2:9).
Did Jesus house the "entirety" of Almighty God and al that God is in infinity? Jesus as the “Word” or the “express image” of the
“Person of God” manifested God in His Word to us. Some wil say that Jesus Christ is not al the entirety of God, but was as a bal oon that is fil ed with air; the bal oon is the flesh of God as the body, while the air is the Spirit of God. The reasoning is that the bal oon cannot hold al the air of the universe or it wil explode; neither can Jesus in His body contain al the entirety of God as Spirit. Just as a bal oon wil lose some of its air and have to be refil ed, so would Jesus have to pray to the Father and be refil ed. This reasoning would be true if Jesus Christ were only the Son of God in office and not the Father in office or role. But He is the Father as declared by John in the eighth chapter.
The Father’s name is Jesus who gave the office of the “only begotten Son of God” His name when He came into the world. “as he by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.”
(Hebrews 1:4b). Jesus Christ in His Person is not just a flesh form only, but has a Spirit form known as the Holy Ghost. No earthly, natural man could contain al the ful ness or Expression of God because of sin. As Solomon declared in his prayer, "But wil God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?"
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(1 Kings 8:27). “Contain”78 is from the Hebrew "kuwl" meaning "to keep, to measure, hold, be present, sustain". The natural man of Adam containing a sinful nature by his spirit being dead, cut off from God, could not contain al the ful ness and Entirety of God. But God as the Father could manifest Himself in and through a body of flesh as a man to show mankind His nature and attributes through the Word being made flesh. Jesus Christ is God that came in the likeness or nature of men, in order to suffer and defeat death through his cross. God is stil revealing more to come speaking of His office of the Son of God through the office of Holy Ghost until the perfect day, when we shal see him face to face, the church coming unto the measure of the stature of the ful ness of Christ. Human rationale does not contain the mystery of the revelation of Jesus Christ as the expressed image of the Person of God. (Colossians 2:2b). There is more to the revelation of Jesus Christ, as the light that shines more and more unto the perfect day. We know in part at this present hour. But there is an hour coming when we wil know even as we are known. The revelation of Jesus Christ wil be even greater to us as stated by the apostle Paul. John states that the saints of God wil eat the hidden manna of the Word of God in the last days in greater revelation of Jesus Christ. There wil not be another name of God in heaven other than “JESUS”. But there is certainly more revelation of the name of “Jesus”, which is yet to come to the body of Christ, since JESUS is the name of God Himself.
Anyone confessing that Jesus Christ (the Spirit form or Almighty God) has come in the flesh is of God; that is, that Jesus Christ is the express image of the Person of God as the Word made flesh, God manifest in the flesh, Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.
(Hebrews 1:3). This is not a trinity, a two-ness doctrine, but a definite One-God doctrine that honors the Person of Jesus Christ as God the Father come in a body of human flesh and blood life offered for the sin of the world, thinking that Jesus was referring to His literal flesh.
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(John 6:53). Is this necessary for eternal life? Really, what difference does it make? "Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I wil raise him up at the last day." (John 6:54). Jesus is referring to His flesh as living bread, this is literal y the Word, as the Son of man that came down from heaven and is in heaven. "For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shal live by me. This is that bread (the Spirit) that came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna and are dead (this is not natural or divine flesh as the manna represented): he that eateth of this bread (the Spirit) shal live for ever." (John 6:55-58).
Mary would be the mother of Jesus Christ, since she would bare the child, the flesh being made of her and therefore under the law.
Is Mary just a surrogate mother serving only as an incubator? Mary wil conceive and nourish the child to birth. The thing that is born of her shal be called a son. This son that she wil conceive and bring forth is from the Greek “huios”79 meaning “son as kinship, a legitimate offspring”. The son that Mary brought forth is used in the lower case denoting a natural son of the flesh of Mary. “And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger.” (Luke 2:7a). Mary would have other sons and daughters, but none of them would house the ful ness of the Spirit of God being called the Son of God. Even though God wil conceive Himself a body in the womb of Mary, with the flesh coming of Mary as a natural human being, God in Spirit wil be housed in this body which had never been seen before in the world. The entire fetus of this God made flesh, was conceived of God Himself and contained the elements 79 Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible G5207
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of this world in his flesh. The physical Jesus Christ would be the express image of the Spirit and Essence of God Himself as the “holy thing”. The natural elements of this world would house God in His redemptive office as the Son of God. God would use Mary in conception to birth this “Holy One of Israel”. Nothing of Joseph would be used in forming Himself a body thereby giving Jesus a fal en depraved nature. The Immanuel would be born of her, making her the legal mother. This is not a natural conception being that Joseph did not have sexual relations with Mary, nor is it an Immaculate Conception making Mary divine in order to be the mother of God. It is the “sign”
or “miracle” of God in that a lowly peasant girl who was a virgin would conceive substance in a body of flesh as a human being. This is 100% by the Holy Ghost: by Him and for Him, in preparing Himself a body. This conception is a "sign", “owth”80, from the Hebrew meaning a miracle, a monument, a monumental miracle. This would fulfil the promise to David as to Christ being the "seed" of David according to the flesh. The Word which is God was made flesh as a human being.
Jesus Christ was both God and man at the same time. Jesus Christ was,
“Theos en”, He was God. Jesus Christ was a human being possessing a human spirit, soul, and body; that is, “sarxegeneto”. Jesus Christ was a mortal man with mean, weak flesh just like us. The Eternal Word as God came into this world and was clothed with a body with a human nature as one of us. We want to be careful how we confess this Christ; as to how we believe in our hearts as pertaining to Christ, for these things are spiritual y discerned.
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The problem with understanding this mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ, is that most do not consider or believe that God as the eternal Spirit would come in human flesh and blood. This was inconceivable that God would come as a human man under the law as the ministration of death. Did God die on the cross in the 80 Ibid. H226
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The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ crucifixion? If you believe, like most people, that God is a Spirit, and a spirit cannot die; then you would conclude from deductive reasoning, that God did not indeed die on the cross. On the other hand, if you believe in the incarnation; that is, that God came in human flesh as a man, and in that flesh dwelled God literal y as the only begotten Son, then you would conclude that God did die on the cross in the body of His flesh. God is Spirit and the Spirit of God did not die on the cross.
The flesh died, which housed permanently the Spirit of God as the only begotten Son who was God manifested in flesh as a human being.
Simply put, God did not die on the cross, but the Son of God who is God died on the cross. The body of God died on the cross, which was God’s permanent dwelling place through the Spirit. It is then attributed to God that He laid down His life for us. Let me explain. If you, the reader, who is made up of body, soul, and spirit, were kil ed in a car accident; God forbid, and they carried you to the hospital and pronounced you dead, and your friends told everyone that you did not die because your spirit did not die, would they be correct? In reality, you in the flesh died, but your spirit did not die. Nonetheless, you would be declared dead since your body had stopped functioning.
Your spirit would be separated from your body, and the body without the spirit is dead. (James 2:26). Likewise, Jesus Christ was God manifested in human flesh as one. Therefore, when the flesh died, God did not die in His Spirit, but the permanent abode of His Spirit died being human flesh being under the dominion of death while His Spirit was separated from his body on the cross. Unlike us, Jesus Christ was al the ful ness of the Godhead in His Spirit. He did not receive baptism from John the Baptist to become one with God, putting on Christ, for He is Christ. Jesus did not receive the Spirit of adoption whereby He cried Abba, Father, for He was not adopted because He is the Son of God. But we, as believers, must put on Christ and receive the Spirit of adoption.
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spirit goes on after death. Since your spirit is not God, it is necessary to join your spirit with the Lord’s Spirit so you may obtain eternal life.
“But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” (1 Corinthians 6:17).
But Jesus Christ did not have to join His spirit with the Spirit of God, because He is the Spirit of God. The real Jesus is truly Spirit or God.
“Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” (2 Corinthians 3:17). Yes, Jesus had a human spirit, soul, and body that housed permanently the Spirit of God. However, He is Spirit that took on flesh as a man, not a man that took on Spirit. He is the Word of God come in a human fleshly being. Jesus Christ is that Spirit. The Spirit of God was manifested in a human body of flesh and blood. Jesus Christ is that Spirit of God, the Word, The Father that become or was made flesh. This is the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ (Colossians 2:2b). You did not exist until God made you, spirit, soul, and body. You were not pre-existent. You did not pre-exist in eternity before you were born. You came into being the day you were conceived and were seen in the day you were born.
Even though God knew you before you were formed because He is Omniscient, you did not exist before you were conceived and you have no knowledge by being pre-existent. “My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book al my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.”
(Psalms 139: 15,16). We only existed in God’s thoughts as substance before He created us. We did not exist before that time. This is not the case in the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ.
Jesus Christ was in the beginning, before creation, without beginning of days or end of years. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” “The same was in the beginning with God.” (John 1:1,2). Jesus Christ “was in the world and the world was made by him”. (John 1:3,10). Jesus claimed that He and His father were one, making Himself God and they sought to stone Him. (John 10:30-33). Jesus claimed that He was the only man 155
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(Galatians 4:4). But Jesus Christ did exist before al things, including creation, in the Spirit that He is; i.e. God. And this is the mystery that was hid from the foundation of the world.
“Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to al nations for the obedience of faith (Romans 16:25,26). “Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ.
Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.”
(Ephesians 3:4,5). Paul proclaimed: “But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory; Which none of the princes of this world knew; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” (1 Corinthians 2:8). The princes or rulers of this world did not know the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ. Paul said that if they had known this mystery, they would not have crucified the LORD JEHOVAH, the Lord of glory, Jesus Christ. The princes of the world did not know this mystery, neither do the princes of the world today, at this present hour, know the Lord of glory. The Spirit that Jesus Christ is and always will be, the Word that was made or came in human flesh as the “only begotten” of God.
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Jesus Christ is that Spirit, “Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost”.
(2 Corinthians 3:17). Does that mean that we place a bumper sticker on our car that reads “Jesus is Lord”, that we have done that by the Holy Ghost? Or does it mean that you, as a believer, confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord Jehovah, the God of glory? When God brought the first begotten into the world, He said, let al the angels of God worship him. Jesus is worshipped because He is God that took on a body of human flesh, because only God Himself can be worshipped. “I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20:2,3). It is written to “worship God”.
(Revelation 19:10b). When we understand the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; that al the ful ness of the Godhead dwelt in Christ Jesus bodily, then we can worship Jesus Christ as the Word that was made flesh.
“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.” (1 John 5:7). One is from the Greek word “heis” which literal y means “one”.81 The Father is God, and God is a Spirit. “God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” (John 4:24). So the Father, Lord Jehovah, Yahweh, the Most High, is a Spirit. The Word is Spirit also. “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” (John 6:63). There is nothing about the flesh being eaten that refers us to any doctrine of divine flesh of flesh above any human. For it is the true meat indeed and drink indeed of the Spirit of God. It is God as the Spirit that housed in this body of human flesh that made it a “holy thing”. The Word is God. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1). The Word is presented to us in the past tense of the verb “was”, since John 81 Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible G1520
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How many Spirits of God are there? “There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of al , who is above al , and through al , and in you al .” (Ephesians 4:4-6). There is One Spirit of God. The Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost is this One Spirit.
Then why the distinction in titles? The reason why is because there are different roles or offices of this One and the Self-same Spirit that work in different ways and boundaries concerning these various offices.
Some wil quickly say that I used an incorrect singular verb tense “is”
for the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. In the natural, I wil agree; but in the spiritual, “is” is correct for the three. Why? Because the Father is the Spirit, the Word is the Spirit, and the Holy Ghost is the Spirit. They are al One and the Self-same Spirit. The Father is the Word that shal never pass away; the Father is the Holy Ghost which is the One God, the Word is the Holy Ghost which existed before the beginning. And the WORD was made flesh, God was made flesh.
Some wil argue that God is Spirit and therefore Jesus Christ could not be God since He is in human flesh, making a false assumption about the flesh, assuming that the flesh or body does not house God’s own Person as the expressed image. I will strongly urge such an one to read the fol owing scripture: “Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you”. (John 6:53). We had better receive the revelation of the mystery of God in the shadow 158
of the cross, realizing the sacrifice of the life and blood of God for the sin of the world. Jesus goes on to say, “Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I wil raise him up at the last day”. (John 6:54). The flesh is not eternal flesh; and the blood is human blood. Jesus is not referring to cannibalism in his statement concerning flesh and blood. Instead, He is referring to the true meat and true drink of the Kingdom of God when referring to the flesh and blood of the Son of man. This is the true flesh and blood of the Spirit that one must eat in order to have eternal life. Obviously, this saying of Jesus foreshadowed the cross in his life being given for the sin of the world. This is not substitutionary only where the victim wil have someone come and die for them, that they may go free. If this were the case, the righteous one that is not guilty would die for the one guilty, the righteous one staying in the grave with the other going free. This would shadow debt and not grace which would thwart the forbearance of God. Therefore, total substitution would restrict by debt the resurrection. There would not be a resurrection of the righteous one since he simply died for the accused victim and the work would be finished at this point ending in death. If Jesus Christ did not partake of the human nature in under death, then God would not have had the right or righteousness to require the death penalty upon the man Christ Jesus. That Jesus did not partake of Adam’s nature is primarily the view or standing with those in the divine flesh doctrine of Jesus Christ.
However, when looking at the righteousness of God along with His judgment, God had every right to require the death penalty upon Jesus.
God did no wrong when He impaled him on the cross. Isaiah states that “Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he (God) hath put him (the flesh and soul) to grief: when thou (God) shalt make his soul and offering for sin.” (Isaiah 53:10a). God wil not do iniquity. This is the righteous judgment of God since Jesus was of the same condemned flesh as Adam was in the flesh. This is Christ as a sin offering fulfil ing the shadow of the cross that God had foreshadowed throughout time, being spoken of by the prophets and Psalms. This simply is the work of God upon the cross. This is not the shadow of the cross, but the 159
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(John 1:4a). He is that Word of life as the life-giving Spirit. “For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he wil .” (John 5:21). There is only one life giving Spirit, and that is God. Here we see two offices of the Self-same Spirit, that of the Father and of the Son of God. The Father is the Spirit of God that gives life and He does it through the office of His Son as the Father manifested in the flesh in order to fulfil the righteous judgment of God for salvation to a dying world. “For God (Father) so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son (Father manifested in flesh as a man), that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16).
A few statements earlier, we made reference to the scripture stating the “Spirit of Truth”. “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
(John 14:6). Jesus proclaims Himself in the flesh as the truth, because He is the Spirit of truth. “If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also; and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.” (John 14:7). How could Thomas have seen the Father, the God of glory, the Spirit of God? Because it is in this flesh manifesting the name of the Father; that is, Jesus, as the expressed image of the Person of God. Philip stil does not have the revelation of God: “Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us”. (John 14:8).
Philip stil asks to see the Father, or for Jesus to reveal the Father. He stil does not understand that this flesh that he is seeing with his own eyes has God dwelling in it as the Son of God. So Jesus responds:
“Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father, and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? (John 14:9). Jesus is proclaiming that He is the Person of God in Spirit, that He is God in this human body of flesh. “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and Father in me? (John 14:10a) Some wil say that Jesus only has the 160
Spirit of God in him, but that he is not the Spirit of God; that he really is like a believer that has the Holy Ghost and is one with God through the Spirit. “the words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself (that is, Jesus’ words that He is speaking refer not to His flesh, but to His Spirit) but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works”. (John 14:10b). Jesus is proclaiming that the Father dwelleth or houses permanently, takes a permanent abode forever in this body of flesh, which is manifesting the name of God, Jesus Christ. Jesus is being proved to be the Father by the works that are being done and can only be done by the Spirit of God. Here again, Jesus is the express image of the Person of God. “Believe me that I am in the Father, and the father in me; or believe me for the very works sake.” (John 14:11). Jesus reiterates that if you cannot simply believe that He is God manifested in flesh, then believe it because the Spirit can only do the works that He does. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shal he do also; and greater works than these shal he do; because I go unto my Father.” (John 14:12). Jesus declares that He (the human being) goes unto His Father. In the same shadow of the cross, that being that our flesh also must be crucified in the affections and the lusts, we can also work the same works of Jesus. Even though we are in sinful flesh having the Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ has taken part of the same and made the way for us to do these same works of God. Jesus Christ as the express image of God, who is God manifested in human flesh possessing both flesh, soul, and spirit as well as the Spirit of God that He is; wil make his human body glorified and go back to his former glory.
Jesus Christ is the “Holy One”, not the “Holy Trinity” or the
“Holy One of the Trinity”, but the “Holy One”, who would not see corruption (Acts 2:27). The plan of redemption through the ministry of reconciliation was being worked out al the lifetime of Jesus in the shadow of the cross, that being that Jesus was always doing the wil of the Spirit rather than the wil of His flesh. Therefore, Jesus manifested only one nature and that of God. Jesus fasted, prayed, ministered, loved nothing of the world, was wearied, and tempted in al points like 161
The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ us, yet without sin. Al the time drawing His natural body of flesh into greater glory with His Spirit, passing from glory to glory, working salvation in and through Himself. This is the progressive glorification of the body of humanity that Jesus housed himself in while He was upon earth. He was drawing mankind back to Himself by being the Mighty God that was in Christ, in order to reconcile the world back unto Himself. We understand this glorification process in Jesus’
statements to the Father. This is not referring to two persons, but two offices as Jesus the Son of God in the body of his flesh being subject to His Spirit as the Father. Jesus said “Father, glorify thy name. Then came a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and wil glorify it again.” (John 12:28). Jesus is going from glory to glory, with his human body of flesh being glorified more and more, bringing it into the glory of God as His Spirit. He is himself working the ministry of reconciliation in bringing mankind back to God in his singular body of flesh. Note that Jesus does not need a Saviour, but is doing this work of reconciliation by Himself. This is done in the shadow of the cross in the crucifying of the fleshly desires, putting under the propensity of sin in the members of his flesh until it is ultimately finished, taking the sin of the world upon him on the cross. This is none other than God that was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself. We can see the body of Jesus glorifying God and God glorifying the body of Jesus in a progressive sense under the shadow of the cross, until it is completed in the cross itself. Consider the fol owing statement of Jesus at the Passover supper. “Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God be glorified in him (in the body of human flesh), God shal also glorify him (the body of flesh) in himself (God), and shal straightway glorify him.” (John 13:31,32). The Son (spirit, soul, and body) was glorifying God (Spirit), and God (the Spirit) was glorifying the Son (spirit, soul, and body). Jesus is both the Spirit as the Father and the Son as his spirit, soul, and body. Again, there are not two persons denoted here, but two varying offices of the One Spirit of God in operation.
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The ministry of reconciliation is again seen in the transfiguration of Jesus. Again we are reminded that Jesus is working in the shadow of the cross that He ultimately wil go to in the finishing of His work. “And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.” (Matthew 17:2). Jesus only took the inner three of His disciples as he chose them to the knowledge of His glory as Christ. The God that was in Christ had so reached a glory in the shadow of the cross that Jesus’ glory as God broke through the veil of human flesh, revealing His glory as God. This so marked Peter to the glory of Jesus that he spoke of it in his epistles. “For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excel ent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.” (2 Peter 1:17,18). But there was more glory to come; that is, Jesus as the man being glorified with the glory He had before with the Father as the Word that came into the world and was made flesh.
Jesus Christ wil come to the glory of the Father in perfection by finishing the work of the office of the Son of God on the cross.
“And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shal be perfected.” (Luke 13:32). “Perfected” is from the Greek “teleioo”
meaning “to complete, accomplish, to make perfect”.82 Jesus Christ was declared to be the Son of God by the resurrection as He was born again from the dead as the federal head of the God race or family. This dispels the doctrine of divine flesh as His flesh being eternal and incorruptible before glorification. “And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.” (Romans 1:4). If Jesus Christ had yielded to any temptation, he would not have been accepted as the Son of God and would have died immediately. God exalted the Son (spirit, soul, and body) after He had condemned sin in the flesh by His death on the cross and the subsequent resurrection, and brought this body of 82 Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible G5048
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The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ glorified flesh to sit on the throne of God where He was in His first estate as the Word. Jesus Christ was then glorified, God making him both Lord or Federal Head of the family of God and Christ who is the Ha’Masiach ben David, the Messiah who cannot die as being glorified as the spiritual man. The glorified man Christ Jesus then sits down on the throne of God, the throne symbolizing all power and authority in the Kingdom of God. Because Jesus overcame sin in a body of corruptible flesh as an Adam through His Spirit and is set down with the Father in his throne, we also having the way provided can do the same as our Lord and Saviour. “To him that overcometh wil I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.” (Revelation 3:21). This is not referring to two or three persons in the Godhead, but one God orchestrating in two separate and distinct offices set down in one throne. The Word that was sent by God from heaven and was made flesh has accomplished that for which He was sent, and returned back to God in a glorified body, to his former estate of glory, being set down in the throne. The Word of God is God being Intelligence, Thought, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Prudence, etc. But al wisdom and knowledge is in Christ Jesus bodily, for it is al in him. “In whom are hid al the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” (Colossians 2:3).
Why did God hide al treasures of Himself in Christ Jesus? For Christ Jesus is God manifested. Jesus manifested the nature of God, the wisdom of God, the glory of God. He did not manifest an earthly nature, but the God nature. Satan did not believe that a natural human being could accomplish the task of redemption as was required under the law of death, but Jesus did al these things in the office of the Son of God as the redeemer through the office of the Father who lead him by the Holy Ghost which was the Spirit form of Himself. Stated another way, Jesus Christ is not a man that became God, but was God who became man. Spirit remained Spirit, and flesh remained flesh. The fleshly man had housing or dwelling in him permanently the Spirit of God in His ful ness. Many offices worked in conjunction for redemption, but it was God who redeemed us Himself. “Thus saith the 164
LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.” (Isaiah 48:17). God is the Saviour. “And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.” (Luke 1:47). Is Jesus Christ your Saviour? Is Jesus Christ your Father, Jehovah God? “For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour.” (Isaiah 43:3a).
The devils knew Jesus Christ as the LORD Jehovah. “Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.”
(Luke 4:34). Do you find anywhere in scripture where someone stated or declared the “Holy Trinity”? “have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.” (Isaiah 45:21b). If the Jehovah LORD God stated that there is no God that is a Saviour beside him, then how can the Son be a different Person from the Father, for there is only One God? “Look unto me, and by ye saved, al the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.” (Isaiah 45:22). There is no Father outside of Jesus Christ.
There is no Son of God outside of Jesus Christ. There is no Holy Ghost outside of Jesus Christ. We must look to Jesus Christ and Him alone.
Notice in the Word of God that there are not three thrones in heaven: one for the Father, one for the Son, and one for the Holy Ghost. There is only one throne of God. “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.” (Revelation 3:21). The word “set” is from the Greek word “kathizo” meaning “to seat down, to settle, hover, dwell, continue, tarry”. A paral el scripture: “For in him dwelleth al the ful ness of the Godhead bodily”. (Colossians 2:9).
Again, al the ful ness of the Godhead and al that God is, houses permanently in Christ Jesus in one body. God does not dwell in three bodies, but in one body. Therefore Jesus Christ set down, God bringing His own body back to His throne, being justified to do so, having overcome sin. The devil had the keys to death and hell before the work of Calvary by taking dominion of this world from Adam or 165
The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ mankind when mankind fell in the Garden of Eden. Mankind was separated from the throne of God and could not enter into the Holy of Holies where God dwells because of this sin that came upon al , the world being guilty before God. (Romans 3:19). For this reason, Jesus had to pay the price of redemption to bring mankind back to Himself as our Kinsman Redeemer and enter into the Holy of Holies in heaven. “Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest forever after the order of Melchisedec.” (Hebrews 6:19,20). God made the way back for mankind to Himself by bringing His own body of human flesh, made after the seed of David, into His former abode in heaven to His throne in the Holy of Holies behind the veil. Now death has no more dominion over Him, being raised from the dead not to return to corruption again. This is the Melchisedec priesthood of Jesus Christ.
The priesthood was made after the order of Melchisedec. Jesus Christ was made a high priest forever after the power of an endless life.
(Hebrews 7:17). “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having a high priest over the house of God.” (Hebrews 10:19-21). The veil is the flesh of Jesus Christ; the new and living way is the Spirit of Jesus Christ. “And there shal be no more curse: but the throne (singular, only one; not plural, one for each of the trinity) of God and of the Lamb shal be in it; and his servants shal serve him (not them): And they shal see his face (not their faces); and his name (not their name) shal be in their foreheads.” (Revelation 22:3,4). The ( ) are the author’s and are for revelation purposes of the one true God and His singular throne accessed by mankind by the glorification of the Lamb of God that was slain, risen from the dead, and glorified to set down in His throne. “And he sat upon the throne (not they sat upon the throne) said, Behold I make al things new (not they make al things new) and he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
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and the end (Jesus Christ). I (Jesus Christ) wil give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shal inherit al things; and I (not They) wil be his God, and he shal be my (not their) son.” (Revelation 21:5 7). A point of recognition; there is only one throne of God and Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end that sat upon it.
The Trinity recognizes the “Echad” of God, but does not understand its correct meaning, calling the “Echad” the col ective unity of the three persons of the Godhead; whereas, the truth is, the
“Echad” is in fact the col ective unity of the attributes of God.
However, they do not recognize at al the “Yachiyd” of God, which is the only “One” Person of the Godhead. Jesus Christ as the Word came in human flesh and blood like ours, overcame Satan, the world, and his human flesh, and is now glorified. Jesus Christ is the Word who is none other than God as His Spirit form manifested in flesh giving Him a flesh form also. Jesus’ true identity or Person is God.
Just as you are one in body, soul, and spirit and your true person is your spirit; so is Jesus Christ One in Spirit manifested in a fleshly body whose true Person is God. The flesh or body that He dwelt in, in fact, housed the ful ness of God. Bottom line, Jesus Christ is the Yachiyd, the only express image of the Person of God. He is God Manifesto. This is the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ as stated in Colossians 2.
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How did Jesus redeem mankind back to Himself to its original state before the fal in the Garden of Eden? How did Jesus, being the
“seed of the woman” take upon Himself the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemn sin in the flesh? (Romans 8:3). Even though Jesus was conceived by God with the flesh coming from Mary as made under the law, though an incorruptible seed of the Word of God, He took upon Himself the beggarly elements of the world in its fal en state. He being fashioned as a corruptible man could elevate it making the way for mankind, taking it back to its original position in Him through the cross. The “holy thing” born of Mary was acquainted with the elements of the fal en world, but was never defiled by them, being the perfect Lamb of God. While in her womb, this “incorruptible, undefiled seed” through osmosis, was fed and nourished by Mary al throughout her pregnancy. This Holy thing, Christ took on the earthly elements of a fal en world bearing the curse of creation in his members. On the cross of Calvary, God would turn His own body of flesh into sin, at the same time bearing the curse of creation in His members, even though he had done nothing worthy of death. “For he (God) hath made him (Jesus Christ) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
(2 Corinthians 5:21). This righteous act of judgment required that a man of Adam pay the redemption price, since an Adam had lost it.
(Romans 5). This is the law of the Kinsman Redeemer as a Hebrew practice of buying something back that formerly belonged to the purchaser. Anyone who had sold himelf into slavery could be bought back by a man’s paying the price of release for a kinsman. Christ is the man that bought back mankind who had sold himself or herself into slavery of sin under Adam as our Kinsman Redeemer.
Jesus Christ was not of this world. (John 8:23). He was the God of glory that came down to earth taking on a body of human flesh and blood. Jesus partook of fal en mankind, eating, drinking, smelling, hearing, and feeling, however did not have or know sin until the cross 168
of Calvary. He did not carry the body of sin since He never sinned. By never sinning even though tempted, Jesus lived the perfect God life as our example being the way, the truth, and the life. Jesus Christ in his humanity was the express image of the Person of God. Therefore, Jesus was never sick, even though in a body of human flesh. By Jesus being glorified with the glory that He had with the Father before, we understand that He who was rich became poor, coming to earth to earth to die for the sin of the world, in the body of sinful flesh fashioned as a man. Jesus Christ was made a little lower than the angels by His partaking of flesh and blood as a human, but stil God in every respect in his Spirit. The fact that Jesus Christ was made flesh did not reduce the power of God, being God in flesh. God however would not unlawful y bring mankind to redemption, but would pay the redemption price to the ful est that God demanded in His holiness.
Jesus Christ was not a man working as God, but was God working as a man through the Spirit. In other words, God could not redeem mankind back as God divine violating the law of a kinsman redeemer as a fellow of mankind, but would redeem it back to Himself as a man.
God did not cease and desist from being God.
Jesus is the express image of God revealing the ful nature of God in that though he was human, he always did the wil of the Father showing the God-life to us as our example and pattern. Because Jesus Christ was made flesh, this made it possible for the Lord to be tempted as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 4:15b). The Lord was tempted in al points, as we are tempted. “For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able succour them that are tempted.”
(Hebrews 2:18). Did God quit being Spirit to be made natural earthly flesh? No! Christ is the Father (Spirit), in the Son, (spirit, soul, and body). Again, there are not two Persons al uded to in Father and Son, rather two offices or roles of the One Spirit of God. God partook of corruptible human flesh; i.e. Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.
(1 John 4:1). God made Himself a body, and came into the world as a man, fashioned as a human being having a body, soul, and spirit. In other words, Jesus Christ was a “holy thing” conceived of God as the 169
The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ express image, the figure stamped or an exact copy or representation of God’s Person. God’s substance and attributes were ful y and exactly manifested in a human body of flesh. Jesus Christ is the exact nature of God manifested in a human body of flesh and blood, making him the perfect man as stated in the Gospels. Notice in the fol owing scripture that God does not change forms, but remains God in al attributes and power. “Who being in the form of God (Christ intrinsically is Spirit), thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form (intrinsically is Spirit that takes the mindset of a servant) of a servant, and was make in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion (human flesh and blood) as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” (Philippians 2:6-8). This is the mind of Christ Jesus always being in obedience to his Spirit which dwelled or housed permanently in him. “Made himself of no reputation” is the Greek
“keeno” meaning, “emptied, to abase”.83 God did not cease and desist from being God, but changed His mindset from being worshipped as God in the heaven of heavens to that of being hidden as a mystery in a human being of flesh and blood. God, revealing His name Jesus Christ in the manifested body of flesh, is now a little lower than the angels, fashioned as a man. “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” (Hebrews 2:9). Jesus remains the perfect Lamb of God throughout His entire lifetime, making him the perfect sacrifice for mankind, God making him to be sin for us. “For he had made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.” (Romans 5:21a). “And the LORD
hath laid upon him the iniquity of us al .” (Isaiah 53:6b). “For he shal bear their iniquities.” (Isaiah 53:11b). “And he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.” (Isaiah 53:12b). In pre-glorification, God (Jesus Christ) remains in the form (Spirit) fashioned (schema) as a man of corruptible flesh. In post- glorification Jesus 83 Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible G2758
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remains in the form (Spirit) He had as God in the body (schema) of His flesh, but now His corruptible flesh is now incorruptible, mortality having taken on immortality, His flesh having been glorified. The form being God as Spirit never changed. Only the fashion or human being that housed permanently the Spirit changed from corruptible weak human flesh to incorruptible immortal flesh, being glorified.
Behold the Lamb of God
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. (John 1:29). This was not a worldly lamb, but the Lamb of God.
He was without spot and without blemish, made after Adam as a human being just like Adam, but the LORD Himself housed in a human being. And John declared “And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.” (John 1:34). How can He be the Son of God if His fleshly nature is that of Adam? This is due to this Adam having the ful ness of the Godhead dwelling in him as the Christ. Again, Behold the Lamb of God. Jesus is the outwardly perceptible office as the Son of God of God’s Person and Substance. Jesus was in Himself God as the Spirit, being the Spirit form of Christ. There was also the human form of Christ bearing the state and relations of a human being, so that God made Himself known and perceived or recognized as a man. This truth wil give knowledge as to why the blood of this man is attributable to God’s own blood. Let’s consider various facts concerning Jesus’ life on earth as a man. Since the life is in the blood, and the blood is the life, it is fitting by deductive reasoning to check the blood to find the cause of il ness in the body. When a person goes to the doctor’s office with an il ness, after checking vital signs the doctor takes blood and puts it under a microscope. The disease wil be diagnosed in the blood. Since Jesus did not carry a body of sin, having never sinned, and His blood was unique from your or mine in that he never sinned. This brought about some health benefits since He never sinned. For instance, Jesus was never sick a day in His life. Jesus did not have so much as a headache. The reason for this observation is 171
The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 4: The Mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ that Jesus is not just merely an image of God, but the express image of God’s Person as the impress of God’s Substance revealing the nature of God to mankind. Jesus did not manifest a human nature that was frail and depraved, but the perfect nature of God as the perfect man.
Therefore, His blood was holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from ours. “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.” (1 Peter 1:18-20).
Within Christ was the perfect seed of God, which was life as the light of men. “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”
(1 Peter 1:23). Jesus was not born again because He never sinned; therefore, He did not need a Saviour to deliver him. Al human beings have sinned and must be born again by Jesus Christ who is the incorruptible seed of the Word of God. This Word is Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. “Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?”
(Isaiah 53:1) Who is the arm of the LORD? “My righteousness is near; my salvation if gone forth, and mine arms shal judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shal they trust.”
(Isaiah 51:5). Who do we trust in? Do we trust in the Spirit of God, and deny the flesh that He came in as his human body of flesh and blood? Do we simply worship God as Spirit and deny the body of flesh in which He was manifested and made known? “Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?” (Isaiah 51:9). Is not this Jesus Christ, God manifested in the flesh? We are not to make natural flesh our trust, but in God only shal we trust. “Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.” (Jeremiah 17:5). But we are told in Isaiah that on God’s arm 172
shal they trust. Obviously, this is not the arm of flesh or of man, but God’s own arm. “And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.” (Isaiah 59:16). God saw no man of Adam that could intercede on the behalf of the people in paying the price for the sin of the world, therefore God’s own flesh having never sinned brought salvation unto Himself. This is not corruptible seed of man, but the incorruptible seed of God, the spotless Lamb of God. God states again “And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.”
(Isaiah 63:5). Who is this arm of the LORD? “But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him; That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfil ed, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?” (John 12:37,38) The religious believed on Jehovah LORD as the Spirit of God, but rejected the arm of the LORD, Jesus Christ as a natural human being housing the Spirit of God. “These things said Esaias when he saw his glory, and spake of him.” (John 12:41). Who did Isaiah see? Was it not the Lord Jesus Christ?
Some quote the fol owing to say that Jesus Christ was a created being of natural flesh only, not having the Spirit of God in its fulness.
“And unto the angel of the church at Laodiceans write; these things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.” (Revelation 3:14). When were the works of God finished? When are the works of God manifested? Is this one and the very same time? “For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shal enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.”
(Hebrews 4:3). There stil remaineth a rest to the people of God, but the works and purpose of God were completed from the foundation of the world. We stil , because of time, wait to see the manifestation of this rest. If Jesus was not the Spirit of God who would raise up his body of natural flesh having received this of His Father thus being 173
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(Hebrews 9:25,26). “but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” (Hebrews 9:26b).
The Spirit of God Himself has permanently manifested in flesh, not to house again in any other dwelling. He destroyed sin and death, glorified this body, and is set down in His throne forever to reign; as He, by Himself, has brought salvation to Himself because no other man could obtain it. “therefore also that holy thing which shal be born of thee shal be called the Son of God.” (Luke 1:35b). “for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost;” (Matthew 1:20). Matthew did not say “of the Holy Ghost and of Mary.” Mary will bring forth this son according to the flesh in the conception of this “holy thing”
and bear this man child. He would not be half God and half man, i.e.
God contributing part of genes and Mary contributing part of genes making Him a demi-god. No! He would be the Emmanuel, “God with us;” not “Son of God with us,” not “man with us that has the Spirit of God,” not “Deliverer with us,” not “Angel with us,” but “God with us.” JESUS is “God, (Yahweh, Jehovah), with us.” Jesus is 100% God with us. That which is Spirit is Spirit, and that which is flesh is flesh.
God did not infuse into flesh, and flesh did not infuse into Spirit. The Spirit was in flesh as God’s permanent abode.
Was the body of Jesus Christ human? Of course He was human, even though He had the Spirit without measure. He was a man that had a body, soul, and spirit. God came in a body of flesh fashioned as a man, not an angel, a fire, or a mountain, but a human being in every sense of the word. This was not an alien, different from man; but was in fact, a man. He breathed, slept, became weary, sighed in His spirit, hungered, thirsted, etc. God came in the flesh as Emmanuel, God with us. If Jesus were not a natural man, how could He then relate to mankind? Jesus Christ is the seed of David according to the flesh, being the sure promises of David. Joseph, who is in the
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at al in the conception of Jesus. Then how can Jesus qualify to redeem mankind back to Himself? Because Jesus Christ is a man made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that are under the law, a
“man” in every respect of the word through Mary. Book after book can be written on the substance of God as a Being with infinite attributes that came into the world in human flesh and blood, to manifest His Spirit and His name Jesus Christ as God to redeem the world back to Himself.
Jesus tempted
Jesus would be tempted since He had come in a human body of flesh like ours. Though He was the Emmanuel, God with us, He would be weary, hungry, and experience al temptations as we, because He partook of flesh and blood. Jesus wil do nothing worthy of death.
He wil not sin, nor wil guile be found in His mouth, yet He wil be condemned to die on the cross as a curse and for the sin of the world.
Justification then wil be offered mankind because of His propitiation for our sins. “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our’s only, but for the sins of the whole world.” (1 John 2:2). “But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto al and upon al them that believe: for there is no difference.” (Romans 3:21,22). Jesus has reproved the world of righteousness: “Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more.” (John 16:10). Jesus as a man of flesh, according to the seed of David, was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.
(Romans 1:4). Jesus as the Lamb of God was perfect, unspotted, and undefiled; the sacrifice approved and accepted of God shown forth by His raising Him from the dead. Jesus justified a world fal en to sin by condemning sin in the flesh. Jesus as the Lamb of God, offered Himself as the Supreme Sacrifice, to condemn sin in His own human flesh. “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the 175
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(Romans 8:3,4). So the battle of al battles was fought and won by Jesus Christ on Calvary, giving us a perception of His love for us.
“Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” (1 John 3:16).
Who laid down His life for us? Didn’t God, in the body of His flesh, as the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world? Jesus was tempted because He was in the likeness of sinful flesh who was tempted of Satan in the wilderness. Satan offered Jesus al the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time without the cross of Calvary if Jesus would worship him. This would be the easy way to obtain the kingdoms of the world. Even though this testing of Jesus that is indeed a temptation proves to us that Jesus was in a human body with his flesh having the same desires as ours. Howbeit, Jesus wil not sin as it was written of Him. “He shal not fail nor be discouraged, til he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shal wait for his law.” (Isaiah 42:4). “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.” (Galatians 3:13). Jesus has carried the entire curse in the body of his flesh al the days of his life and then nailed it to the cross of Calvary. Once on the cross, then He paid the penalty for sin also in his body. “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:4,5).
The bondage of sin and death that was brought upon the whole creation through the fal of Adam because of weakness in the flesh was abolished in Jesus’ flesh when He was crucified on the cross.
Now, Jesus wil go where the Pharisees cannot come; He wil go back to the glory that He had before and glorify His name, Jesus. This is the prayer Jesus prayed. “And now, O Father, glorify thou me (the body of 176
Jesus before glorification) with thine own self (the Spirit) with the glory which I (Jesus as the Word, the state of substance of God, before He came in the body of His flesh and carried the sins, sicknesses, iniquities, griefs, and the curse of the law) had with thee (the Spirit) before the world was.” (John 17:5). Jesus wil be glorified, having won the victory through His cross, and bring not only Himself, but the entire creation by His glorified state to the place where creation was before the fal of Adam. Jesus as a man was made a quickening Spirit having obtained victory over death, death not being able to hold Him.
That is to say, even though Jesus is the Spirit of God, He was not able to redeem mankind back to himself without coming as a human being made under the law for the redemption price to be paid, thus acquiring the right to be made a quickening Spirit. Therefore, the righteousness of God without the law hath appeared. (Romans 3:21a). “Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more.”
(John 16:10). Jesus’ flesh wil be glorified, returning to His former state of glory, before He was made in the likeness of men, fashioned as a man; and bring not only Himself, but also the entire creation to a glorified state. “For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not wil ingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shal be delivered from the bondage of corruption in to the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” (Romans 8:19-23).
“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood he also himself took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were al their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.” (Hebrews 2:14,15). Is this flesh 177
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The phrase that was entered by the interpreters of the King James Bible inserted “him the nature of” which was added to the original Septuagint for clarification meaning “Hold, Help”. “Nature”
used here is not the usual definition of the Greek “phusis” meaning
“growth (by germination or expansion), i.e. natural production or lineal descent, a genus”.84 “Nature” in this verse of scripture simply means
“hold, help”. Jesus Christ did not hold or help the fal en angels, but took hold or helped the seed of Abraham. The Revised Version states this verse of scripture as fol ows: “Not of angels doth he take hold, but he taketh hold of the seed of Abraham”. There is a doctrine that states that Jesus Christ was saved in His own death on the cross of Calvary.
If Jesus Christ had sinned making it necessary for him to have a Saviour, this could be considered the truth. The truth is that if Jesus had sinned, then al creation and humanity would have ceased being exploded into oblivion. But that could not happen, since God is everlasting. Human nature denotes the essential, inborn character of the person unredeemed by grace being cut off and unregenerate. The nature Jesus manifested as the express image of God, was God’s nature in attributes and substance manifested through his humanity.
The word “nature” here emphatically does not mean Jesus had only a human nature, but that He as the expressed image of God’s holy divine nature manifested his divinity through his humanity and took hold or helped the seed of Abraham. Jesus did not need to be saved, as He is the Saviour, God manifested in flesh.
After obedience to the death on the cross, Jesus glorified His body as both Lord and Christ. (Acts 2:36). Jesus said “even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.” (Revelation 3:21). The Son of man took upon Himself al of this world; nailing al 84 Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible G5449
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sin, sickness, and iniquity, to His cross; then God raised His body from the dead and glorified it to His former state of being as the Word.
When Judas Iscariot betrayed the Lord, Jesus spoke the fol owing,
“Therefore, when he (Judas) was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God be glorified in him (the Son) God shal also glorify him (the Son) in himself (God), and shal straightway glorify him.” (John 13:31,32). This is the progressive glorification of the man Christ Jesus being united with His Spirit as God until His work of reconciliation is complete within himself for mankind’s’ salvation. Jesus’ own arm works about and brings salvation to Himself. Jesus as a man is passed from glory to glory as He always does the things that please His Spirit. Then He reaches the place in time that He as a man is transfigured before Peter, James, and John connoting the Feast of Tabernacles where His glory breaks forth through his flesh. This is just before the cross with the mystery of Christ being hid from the world, therefore Jesus tells his disciples not to tell anyone the vision until after he is resurrected.
“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow.” (Philippians 2:9,10a). Jesus asked, “What and if ye shal see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?” (John 6:62). The Son of man is the Word. Now after Jesus has been glorified in his flesh showing that he is the pure spotless sacrifice, He goes back to where He was before in His glorified body as the Word who has redeemed mankind back to Himself. “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.” (John 3:13). Jesus Christ is the man that ascended back up to heaven, that came down from heaven, to bring us as His body back to heaven. Praise God.
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“In the beginning God created the heaven and earth.” (Genesis 1:1). In the Hebrew text in Genesis 1:1 it reads as fol ows from right to left:
ha’eretz va’eht hashamayim Eht Elohim barah Bereshit Bereshit (In the beginning) barah (created) Elohim (God) Eht (Aleph/Tahv) hashamayim (the heaven) va’eht (and) ha’eretz (the earth). God in the first verse of the Bible is “Elohim”. Elohim is concluded by those who hold to the trinity doctrine, to be God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost; the One God in three distinct and separate persons who are co-existent and co-equal. Elohim is a plural from “Elowahh” which is Hebrew from “El” meaning
“God”. Therefore it is erroneously concluded that the plural of
“Elowahh” or “God”, must prove the trinity or three persons of the one Godhead. However, this is not true. Let’s examine the Elohim to determine the substance. The same Elohim is used in Genesis. “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 al the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them”. (Genesis 1:26, 27). In verse 26, the plural personal pronouns are used in referring to God as “us” and “our”. However, in the fol owing verse 27, the singular personal pronouns “he” and “his” are used in referring to God. “Elohim” is the only plural noun used in a title of God. It refers to the plurality of the singular God which, at first, seems to be a contradiction. How can a mere mortal man understand how “One” God can be plural. Is it a plurality of persons that make up this One God, calling Him “Elohim”? Or is it a plurality 183
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If there is a plurality of this One God thereby making Him
“Elohim”, we should find the revelation in the scriptures. For Peter declares: “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scriptures is of any private interpretation.” (2 Peter 1:20). Therefore, no scripture stands alone or interprets itself alone, but scripture interprets scripture, being given by the inspiration of God by the Holy Ghost. With this in mind, let’s consider the fol owing: “He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding”. (Jeremiah 51:15). Why didn’t Jeremiah simply say that the earth was made, the world was established, and the heaven was stretched out by God? Instead of mentioning that it was God’s power, along with God’s wisdom, and God’s understanding. Is this Elohim, the plurality of God listed here, three separate persons, or is it the One Person of God possessing these attributes of God? God’s power certainly is different from wisdom, which is different from understanding. But al these attributes are the attributes of the One Person of God who created the heaven and the earth. But was there other persons or possibly angels that assisted in creation? Let me cite the fol owing scripture in Isaiah:
“Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh al things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself”. (Isaiah 44:24). Who is this Redeemer that formed you and I from the womb, that made al things and the heavens and the earth? Was He alone, or were there other persons of the Godhead there? After al , the LORD
said He stretched forth the heavens Alone, and spread abroad the earth by Himself. The angels did not take part in creation; neither did other persons of the Godhead. “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature; For by him were al things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; al things were created by him, and for him; And he is before al things, and by him al things consist. And he is the head of the body, the 184
church; who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in al things he might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in him should al the ful ness dwell.” (Colossians 1:16-19). Here again is the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ mentioned by Paul: “For in him dwelleth al the ful ness of the Godhead bodily”.
(Colossians 2:2,9). Obviously, Jesus Christ is the Creator that created al things by Him and for Him. He is the Elohim that bereshit (in the beginning) barah (created) the heaven and the earth by Himself, alone.
What is the “Elohim” of God, or the plurality of God? It is His attributes that He is and possesses as God, and gave to man made in His image and in His likeness. The “us” and the “our”, when God said,
“Let us make man in our image, after our likeness,” are the attributes of God defined in the names of God. (Genesis 1:26). For example, Jesus Christ is Elohim in Jehovah-jireh (Jehovah wil provide), Jesus will provide your every need. In Jehovah- nissi (Jehovah is my banner), Jesus is our banner and His banner over us is love. Jehovah-shalom (Jehovah is peace), Jesus gives us peace, not as the world gives, but His peace He gives to us. Jehovah-Tsidkenu (Jehovah is our right), Jesus is our righteousness. Jehovah-rapha (Jehovah who healeth), Jesus is the One who heals us and makes us whole. Jehovah-Mekaddishkem (The LORD our sanctifier), Jesus Christ is the One who sanctifies us by His blood. Jehovah-shammah (The LORD is present), Jesus is an ever present help in time of trouble, etc. Jesus is al wisdom and al understanding and al power. The “Elohim” sets this forth to us that He is God. This is the plurality of the One God, “Elohim”.
The same text used again in Genesis 1:1 is as fol ows:
ha’eretz va’eht
hashamayim
Eht
Elohim
barah
Bereshit
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earth)
(and)
(the heaven)
(Aleph/Tahv)
(God)
(created)
(In the
beginning)
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Let’s consider the attribute of wisdom that we made reference to in Jeremiah. “He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding”. (Jeremiah 51:15). Wisdom is considered by the Word of God to speak and have qualities of its own, even though wisdom is an attribute of Elohim. Let’s note the scripture in Proverbs. “I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions”. (Proverbs 8:12). Wisdom, prudence, and understanding are mentioned in this scripture as having their own particular qualities and characteristics. Does God as Jehovah or Yahweh confer or talk within Himself, within His various attributes? I think we wil agree that wisdom, prudence, and understanding, are al attributes of the Elohim. Notice how wisdom makes declarative statements in speaking of his own qualities as a person of wisdom in Proverbs. “Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, even al the judges of the earth. I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shal find me. Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment; That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I wil fil their treasures. The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before, his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was, When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no foundations abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hil s was I brought forth: While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he (God) prepared the heavens, I (Wisdom) was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: When he established the clouds 186
above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep; When he gave to the sea his decree, that the water should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: Then I was by him, as one brought up with him; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men. Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways, Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my door. But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul; al they that hate me love death.” (Proverbs 8:14-36).
Would you agree with me that wisdom is denoting a person with singular personal pronouns such as “me” and “I”? Yet “wisdom”
in the Hebrew is “chokmah” meaning “skil ful, wisdom, wisely, wit”
which is simply an attribute of God, the Elohim. There is practical truth in that God does confer within Himself concerning His various attributes. In no way because a person has wisdom, is he or she two persons, separate and distinct form the “wisdom” that he or she possesses. Neither is God “Two-ness” or a “Trinity” simply because He possesses His own attributes comprising the “Elohim”. The same is true in the various offices or roles of the Spirit of God. The Father always leads and administrates. The Word is sent as the Divine Expression. The Holy Ghost is the power of God and the Spirit form of Jesus Christ as the Ghost. Notice the following verse. “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he wil guide you into al truth: for he shal not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shal hear, that shal he speak: and he wil shew you things to come. He shal glorify me: for he shal receive of mine, and shal shew it unto you.” (John 16:13,14). Al know that the Spirit of God is the Father. But Jesus is referring to the different offices of Himself as God. The Holy Ghost in the verse above hears from the Father who leads or administrates, and He then glorifies the Son of God (redemption office of God) by showing it to the body of Christ. There are not three persons mentioned in this scripture concerning the Holy Ghost, but three 187
The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 5: Jesus Christ is the Almighty God offices or roles of the same Spirit of God. Holy Ghost is the Spirit form of Jesus, which is why Jesus had to go back to heaven before the Holy Ghost, could be given to the church or body of Christ. The Father is the Administrator in al offices and the Son of God is the redemptive office of God; viz. God manifest in the flesh. Where does wisdom dwell or house permanently? “In whom are hid al the treasures of wisdom and knowledge”. (Colossians 2:3). Al wisdom and knowledge are in Jesus Christ. Wisdom claims that “counsel” is His.
(Proverbs 8:14). Jesus Christ is the “Counselor”. (Isaiah 9:6). “The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old”. (Proverbs 8:22). Who is the LORD that possessed wisdom in the beginning of his way? “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him”. (Colossians 2:6). “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.”
(Luke 2:11) How much clearer can the Word of God be when it declares plainly that Jesus Christ is the Lord Jehovah? He is the One God as “Elohim” that created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1).
One more Hebrew word that the author would like to make reference to is “eht” meaning “aleph/tahv”. With the seven first Hebrew words of the Word of God, is created a seven golden candlestick or menorah with its thigh or “Shamash”, the Servant Lamp. This middle lamp is called “Ner Elohim”, the Lamp of God.
This center Shaft of the Candlestick is the “Servant Lamp” that supplies the other branches and has the pre-eminence in the Lampstand. The purpose of the Candlestick is to give light and has “7”
as its pattern throughout the Word of God. With any given “seven” in the Word of God, one can form a candlestick with its 7 branches, with the center or fourth branch being the Servant Lamp. Without a great deal of discussion concerning the Candlestick, one point of interest in the seven Hebrew words that form the first sentence of the Bible, is the fourth word “eht”. “Eht” is the Hebrew for “Aleph/Tahv” which is the “First” and “Last” letter of the Hebrew alphabet. This corresponds to the Greek “Alpha” and “Omega”, the “First” and the
“Last” letter of the Greek alphabet. The very center chapter of the 188
Book of the Word of God is Psalms 119, which contains the Hebrew Alphabet. This is because the “Aleph/Tahv” is the central focus of the Word of God being God’s “A, B, C’s”. Jesus Christ is the “Alpha and Omega” proclaimed in Revelation 1:8, therefore He is the “Aleph and Tahv” also. Jesus mentions again in Revelation 22:13 that He is the
“Alpha and Omega”, He is the First and the last Letters of these Alphabets and every Letter in between. Jesus Christ is the Greek and Hebrew Alphabet, inclusive of al letters comprising the Alphabets.
Thus, the Candlestick created by the first seven Hebrew words of the Word of God has “eht” as the Servant Lamp, or the fourth Hebrew word, who is none other than Jesus Christ, the “Aleph/Tahv” Who created al things. In the book entitled The Wisdom in the Hebrew Alphabet, by Rabbi Michael L. Munk, Jewish scholars have taught that each of the Hebrew letters of the Alphabet is a reflection of Elohim’s creative power. They believe the alphabet to be the manifestation of God’s essence and attributes. There is but One Alphabet, but many letters. There is but One God, but He is Plural in His Attributes; thus the ELOHIM. The “eht” is Aleph/Tahv, the First and Last letters of Hebrew Alphabet and is the Servant Lamp, Jesus Christ, the Light of the World.
Jesus is the “Eht”
ha’eretz
va’eht
hashamayim
Eht
Elohim
barah
Bereshit
(the
earth)
(and)
(the heaven)
(Aleph/Tahv)
(God)
(created)
(In the
beginning)
These are the first seven Hebrew words of the Bible and are read from right to left. Bereshit (In the beginning) barah (created) Elohim (God) Eht (Aleph/Tahv) hashamayim (the heaven) va’eht (and) ha’eretz (the earth). Elohim’ attributes are the “Aleph” through the “Tahv” of the Hebrew Alphabet, in other words, the “A” through the “Z” of the English Alphabet. Aleph/Tahv is the first and last letter of the Hebrew Alphabet whereas Alpha/Omega is the first and last letter of the Greek Alphabet. Jesus claimed to be the “Alpha and 189
The Errors of the Trinity Chapter 5: Jesus Christ is the Almighty God Omega” or the “Aleph and Tahv” by John: “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty”. (Revelation 1:8). Jesus is stating that He is the manifestation of God in His total and complete attributes, “Elohim”, the plural of God’s attributes. If the “eht” were not present in this first verse of the Bible, then the trinity doctrine would at least have a better chance of defending its position on its theology of the Godhead. But, “eht” is present in al its glory in the first verse of the creation in the embryonic or beginnings book of the Bible. For many that have a problem with Jesus Christ being the Elohim: the “eht” wil prove that He is indeed the “Elohim”, God Almighty, the “El-Shaddai”.
