Another Jesus and the true Biblical son of God"..cometh preacheth another Jesus.." II Cor. 11:4
TRINITARIANISM: This is the most prevalent view that involves "another Jesus." It asserts that God exists as three co-eternal, co-equal, co-powerful, distinct persons—God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost. Largely dependent upon the unscriptural and fallacious ideas of "God the Son", "eternal Son", "eternal sonship", "eternally begotten", "eternal generation", "eternally generated", “Almighty Son”, "mother of God [Mary-Jesus]", "two natures". All self-contradictory, unbiblical terminologies developed in the post-apostolic era by theologians formulating the extra-Biblical trinitarian creed. The very idea of an “eternal son” abandons all soundness of doctrine and language as a son is one born, thus has a beginning, not eternally existing. In direct contrast to this dogma, Christ is set forth in the Scriptures as the one begotten of God before the world was (the creation), marking the beginning (Proverbs 8:22-31, Col. 1:15-17). At which time the only LORD God (the eternal, self-existent Spirit) became Father by the issuing forth of his life.
ARIANISM (similar - Jehovah Witnesses): Arius, in his struggle against a 3 headed God, set forth a view that was in conflict with the trinitarian position. He said the Son was not of the identical nature (essence, substance) of God (the Father) but was of similar substance—altogether subordinate to God. While the trinitarians particular thought of the son being of the same nature as God the Father was correct, their resultant conclusion of him as a second person of God eternally begotten was wrong. As well, Arius conclusion was awry, saying that Jesus was not of the same life (which would preclude God being his literal Father) and that he was a created being, created from nothing. God was only with Christ, not in him (JW). Also, that Christ did not retain his resurrection body to glorification and exaltation, but it was disposed of and replaced with a spirit body (JW).
UNITARIANISM: This belief is that God is one person - the Father (true). The doctrine errs in failing to acknowledge that before the world was, the son proceedeth forth from the Father (spiritual birth) “and” subsequently came into the world ( physical birth, made of a woman) - John 16:28. The teaching is that the son of God is of David's literal genetics through Mary's ovum and therefore of the earth i.e the first Adam. That he did not exist until Bethlehem, and thus was a created being, which contradicts many scriptures that affirm otherwise. That God created all things (Gen.1 creation) through him and for him (the son-firstborn), (Col.1:16b, 1 Cor. 8:6) is negated. The focus is largely on the distinction of Father and Son as opposed to the inseparable unity that God and Christ share. The necessity and fact that God was literally in Christ in redemption—if believed isn’t conveyed.
ONENESS (aka Apostolic, Pentecostal Oneness, Jesus Name, Jesus Only, Onenessism): The Oneness, in rejecting the trinitarian 3 person God, correctly recognized that God is one (one person, being, personality), but went to an opposite extreme and proclaimed that Jesus is both Father and Son (one being). This dogma posits that God is one person in three manifestations, offices, modes. That Jesus is the Father, Jesus is the Son, Jesus is the Holy Ghost. The "son" refers to Christ's humanity or flesh body only. That he was not "son of God" until he was born in Bethlehem although this flies in the face of many scriptures that affirm the origin of the SON of God before the world was and the one through whom God created all things. This doctrine (like trinitarianism) is a denial of both the Father and the Son (1 John 2:22). Both doctrines inherently deny that God had life (to be Father) within himself (John 1:3, 1 John 1:2) and that the only begotten Son was the literal offspring of God making God to be Father, and the son the firstborn of all creation—possessing all the fulness of the attributes of God (Rom. 8:29, Heb. 2:9-17, Col 1:15,18-19, Col 2:9).
***Trinitarianism and Onenessism hold in common the extra-Biblical Chalcedonian creed from 451 AD in order to solidify their dogma. The creed declares that Christ possessed two natures. That he was a dual being - fully God and fully Man. While the creed denies the separation of Christ that is exactly what it sets forth in make him a dual person. It is not scripturally based, and is heretical. Also many hold that Christ's physical body was of Mary's ovum and therefore genetically of the first Adam. The conclusion of this idea would result in Christ being tainted by original sin.
THE BIBLICAL LORD GOD and his son, the Lord Jesus Christ: The Scriptures have declared that the Father alone is the only LORD God (Deut. 6:4, Mark 12:29, John 17:3, 1 Cor. 8:6, Jude 1:25). The son of God said, “I proceeded forth (“came out”, “came forth” [exerchomai -"be born of"] from the Father AND am come from God into the world” (John 8:42, 16:27-28). In other words, his origin was that of the “FIRSTBORN (or first begotten) (not created nor eternally begotten) over (or superior to) all creation” (Col. 1:15, Proverbs 8:22-31, Micah 5:2), and he subsequently came from God into the world (John 8:42). Being born of the uncreated life of God (all there was before the creation to be formed from), he was made of the same nature as God his Father and not another nature, yet he was the son of God not an angel, neither a second person of God because God is not born. God is the “existing one”, without beginning and has innate characteristics such as being eternal, sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient, immutable, inviolate that are unique to him alone—these are non-transferable, and why he declares that beside him there is no other God (Is. 45:5). Even so, God was in Christ doing all the works as Jesus said, “the son can do nothing of himself” (John 5:19) and “my Father that dwelleth in me doeth the works” (John 14:10). In the beginning, preceding the physical creation of all things, the son was born of God, and existed in the "FORM OF GOD" (Phil. 2:6) as the image of God (Gen 1:26, 2 Cor. 4:4, Col. 1:15, Heb. 1:2-3) and shared a glory with the Father before the world was (John 17:5). He was the one in whom and for whom God created all things (Gen 1:26, 1 Cor. 8:6, Col. 1:15-17, Heb. 1:2-3). Intelligible language defines a "son" as one born/begotten/having a point of origin, and a Father is one that begets. Therefore the son of God is he of “origin” (Micah 5:2) begotten/brought forth/fathered/sired (of the spiritual genetics) of God and NOT created out of nothing (“ex nihilo”)(Arianism) neither eternally co-existing nor co-God (Trinitarianism) or the LORD God (the Father) himself (Oneness). At the appointed time, Christ divested himself of his lofty position as the firstborn son of God and heir of all things and took upon himself the form of a servant (Phil. 2:6-8). “Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor” (2 Cor 8:9). He did not assume another nature, but has only the divine nature of his heavenly Father. He said, "I am from above" and "I am not of this world" (John 8:23). His forming and birth as a human being was by the created blood cell of God (Acts 20:28) and had absolutely nothing to do with Mary's ovum. He is reckoned as the seed of David (“came to be of the seed of David, according to the flesh.” Rom.1:3-Rotherham) because Mary was his surrogate mother. He came only in the “likeness” (similitude) of sinful flesh (“human nature”-Weymouth NT) (Rom. 8:3, Phil. 2:7). Christ specifically showed that God was his Father and not David in his conversation with the Jews in Matthew 22 in which they were unable to answer him how Messiah was David’s Lord. He did not possess the old adamic, sinful human nature which is the negative. God is of a truth the Father of Jesus Christ and therefore he was no ordinary man but the "new man" from birth, having bypassed the original sin by the virgin birth. There was nothing in his divine nature (IN HIM) that was enticed by sin or found sin attractive. Christ felt the full weight of the infirmities and weaknesses we experience - apart from sin (Heb 4:15). He was not buffeted by a nature contrary to God because the new man is created after God. The last Adam was not of the first Adam. The Scriptures attest that the Father is greater than the Son (God is sovereign - John 14:28), yet as to the creation, as firstborn son and heir of God, the son shares equality with God (Phil. 2:6-8). God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself (2 Cor. 5:19). God hath made his son both Lord and Christ (Psalms 110:1, Acts 2:36). In the final analysis, God in and through Christ created the world and all therein, redeemed the world, and will judge and ultimately rule and reign over the earth in the kingdom to come.
“...every one which seeth [to perceive,to discern, to ascertain] the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life:” -John 6:40
“I am my Father are one.” -John 10:30
“We know that Jesus Christ the Son of God has come and has shown us the true God. And because of Jesus, we now belong to the true God who gives eternal life.” -1 John 5:20 - CEV
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TRINITARIANISM: This is the most prevalent view that involves "another Jesus." It asserts that God exists as three co-eternal, co-equal, co-powerful, distinct persons—God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost. Largely dependent upon the unscriptural and fallacious ideas of "God the Son", "eternal Son", "eternal sonship", "eternally begotten", "eternal generation", "eternally generated", “Almighty Son”, "mother of God [Mary-Jesus]", "two natures". All self-contradictory, unbiblical terminologies developed in the post-apostolic era by theologians formulating the extra-Biblical trinitarian creed. The very idea of an “eternal son” abandons all soundness of doctrine and language as a son is one born, thus has a beginning, not eternally existing. In direct contrast to this dogma, Christ is set forth in the Scriptures as the one begotten of God before the world was (the creation), marking the beginning (Proverbs 8:22-31, Col. 1:15-17). At which time the only LORD God (the eternal, self-existent Spirit) became Father by the issuing forth of his life.
ARIANISM (similar - Jehovah Witnesses): Arius, in his struggle against a 3 headed God, set forth a view that was in conflict with the trinitarian position. He said the Son was not of the identical nature (essence, substance) of God (the Father) but was of similar substance—altogether subordinate to God. While the trinitarians particular thought of the son being of the same nature as God the Father was correct, their resultant conclusion of him as a second person of God eternally begotten was wrong. As well, Arius conclusion was awry, saying that Jesus was not of the same life (which would preclude God being his literal Father) and that he was a created being, created from nothing. God was only with Christ, not in him (JW). Also, that Christ did not retain his resurrection body to glorification and exaltation, but it was disposed of and replaced with a spirit body (JW).
UNITARIANISM: This belief is that God is one person - the Father (true). The doctrine errs in failing to acknowledge that before the world was, the son proceedeth forth from the Father (spiritual birth) “and” subsequently came into the world ( physical birth, made of a woman) - John 16:28. The teaching is that the son of God is of David's literal genetics through Mary's ovum and therefore of the earth i.e the first Adam. That he did not exist until Bethlehem, and thus was a created being, which contradicts many scriptures that affirm otherwise. That God created all things (Gen.1 creation) through him and for him (the son-firstborn), (Col.1:16b, 1 Cor. 8:6) is negated. The focus is largely on the distinction of Father and Son as opposed to the inseparable unity that God and Christ share. The necessity and fact that God was literally in Christ in redemption—if believed isn’t conveyed.
ONENESS (aka Apostolic, Pentecostal Oneness, Jesus Name, Jesus Only, Onenessism): The Oneness, in rejecting the trinitarian 3 person God, correctly recognized that God is one (one person, being, personality), but went to an opposite extreme and proclaimed that Jesus is both Father and Son (one being). This dogma posits that God is one person in three manifestations, offices, modes. That Jesus is the Father, Jesus is the Son, Jesus is the Holy Ghost. The "son" refers to Christ's humanity or flesh body only. That he was not "son of God" until he was born in Bethlehem although this flies in the face of many scriptures that affirm the origin of the SON of God before the world was and the one through whom God created all things. This doctrine (like trinitarianism) is a denial of both the Father and the Son (1 John 2:22). Both doctrines inherently deny that God had life (to be Father) within himself (John 1:3, 1 John 1:2) and that the only begotten Son was the literal offspring of God making God to be Father, and the son the firstborn of all creation—possessing all the fulness of the attributes of God (Rom. 8:29, Heb. 2:9-17, Col 1:15,18-19, Col 2:9).
***Trinitarianism and Onenessism hold in common the extra-Biblical Chalcedonian creed from 451 AD in order to solidify their dogma. The creed declares that Christ possessed two natures. That he was a dual being - fully God and fully Man. While the creed denies the separation of Christ that is exactly what it sets forth in make him a dual person. It is not scripturally based, and is heretical. Also many hold that Christ's physical body was of Mary's ovum and therefore genetically of the first Adam. The conclusion of this idea would result in Christ being tainted by original sin.
THE BIBLICAL LORD GOD and his son, the Lord Jesus Christ: The Scriptures have declared that the Father alone is the only LORD God (Deut. 6:4, Mark 12:29, John 17:3, 1 Cor. 8:6, Jude 1:25). The son of God said, “I proceeded forth (“came out”, “came forth” [exerchomai -"be born of"] from the Father AND am come from God into the world” (John 8:42, 16:27-28). In other words, his origin was that of the “FIRSTBORN (or first begotten) (not created nor eternally begotten) over (or superior to) all creation” (Col. 1:15, Proverbs 8:22-31, Micah 5:2), and he subsequently came from God into the world (John 8:42). Being born of the uncreated life of God (all there was before the creation to be formed from), he was made of the same nature as God his Father and not another nature, yet he was the son of God not an angel, neither a second person of God because God is not born. God is the “existing one”, without beginning and has innate characteristics such as being eternal, sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient, immutable, inviolate that are unique to him alone—these are non-transferable, and why he declares that beside him there is no other God (Is. 45:5). Even so, God was in Christ doing all the works as Jesus said, “the son can do nothing of himself” (John 5:19) and “my Father that dwelleth in me doeth the works” (John 14:10). In the beginning, preceding the physical creation of all things, the son was born of God, and existed in the "FORM OF GOD" (Phil. 2:6) as the image of God (Gen 1:26, 2 Cor. 4:4, Col. 1:15, Heb. 1:2-3) and shared a glory with the Father before the world was (John 17:5). He was the one in whom and for whom God created all things (Gen 1:26, 1 Cor. 8:6, Col. 1:15-17, Heb. 1:2-3). Intelligible language defines a "son" as one born/begotten/having a point of origin, and a Father is one that begets. Therefore the son of God is he of “origin” (Micah 5:2) begotten/brought forth/fathered/sired (of the spiritual genetics) of God and NOT created out of nothing (“ex nihilo”)(Arianism) neither eternally co-existing nor co-God (Trinitarianism) or the LORD God (the Father) himself (Oneness). At the appointed time, Christ divested himself of his lofty position as the firstborn son of God and heir of all things and took upon himself the form of a servant (Phil. 2:6-8). “Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor” (2 Cor 8:9). He did not assume another nature, but has only the divine nature of his heavenly Father. He said, "I am from above" and "I am not of this world" (John 8:23). His forming and birth as a human being was by the created blood cell of God (Acts 20:28) and had absolutely nothing to do with Mary's ovum. He is reckoned as the seed of David (“came to be of the seed of David, according to the flesh.” Rom.1:3-Rotherham) because Mary was his surrogate mother. He came only in the “likeness” (similitude) of sinful flesh (“human nature”-Weymouth NT) (Rom. 8:3, Phil. 2:7). Christ specifically showed that God was his Father and not David in his conversation with the Jews in Matthew 22 in which they were unable to answer him how Messiah was David’s Lord. He did not possess the old adamic, sinful human nature which is the negative. God is of a truth the Father of Jesus Christ and therefore he was no ordinary man but the "new man" from birth, having bypassed the original sin by the virgin birth. There was nothing in his divine nature (IN HIM) that was enticed by sin or found sin attractive. Christ felt the full weight of the infirmities and weaknesses we experience - apart from sin (Heb 4:15). He was not buffeted by a nature contrary to God because the new man is created after God. The last Adam was not of the first Adam. The Scriptures attest that the Father is greater than the Son (God is sovereign - John 14:28), yet as to the creation, as firstborn son and heir of God, the son shares equality with God (Phil. 2:6-8). God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself (2 Cor. 5:19). God hath made his son both Lord and Christ (Psalms 110:1, Acts 2:36). In the final analysis, God in and through Christ created the world and all therein, redeemed the world, and will judge and ultimately rule and reign over the earth in the kingdom to come.
“...every one which seeth [to perceive,to discern, to ascertain] the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life:” -John 6:40
“I am my Father are one.” -John 10:30
“We know that Jesus Christ the Son of God has come and has shown us the true God. And because of Jesus, we now belong to the true God who gives eternal life.” -1 John 5:20 - CEV
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