About The Lord Jesus Christ
NOT BELIEVING IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
IF BELIEVING HE IS A MAN?
“I heard people saying that your Church
doesn't believe in the Lord Jesus Christ because you reject His divinity and
believe that Jesus is a man. Is it true that you don't believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ?”
WE DEFINITELY BELIEVE in the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of God (cf. Matt. 16:16), our Lord (cf. Acts 2:36), our Savior (cf. Acts 5:31) and the founder and owner of the Church of Christ (cf. Matt. 16:18; Rom. 16:16). Now, if believing that the Lord Jesus Christ is a man means not believing in Him, this
would mean that Jesus don't believe in Himself because Jesus Himself said that
He is a man:
“I
am a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God, but you are trying
to kill me. Abraham did nothing like that.” (John 8:40, NCV)
The Lord Jesus did not only said He is a man, but also showed that He is different from God. He said, "I am a man who has told you the truth which I HEARD FROM GOD." Also, when the Lord Jesus Christ said
that He is a man, it is an admission that He is not God because the Bible
explicitly said that "man is not God":
“Son
of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy
heart is lifted up, and thou has said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in
the midst of the seas; yet thou art man, and not God...” (John 8:40, NCV)
The Lord Jesus Christ Himself
said, "I am a man." God Himself said, "man is not God."
Thus, when Jesus said "I am a man" it only means that He is not God. Even
the apostles of the Lord Jesus like Apostle Paul explicitly said that Jesus Christ
is a man:
“For
there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (I
Timothy 2:5, NIV)
Apostle Paul did not only said
that Jesus Christ is a man, but also showed that the Lord Jesus is different
from the Lord God in saying that the man Jesus Christ is the Mediator between
the one true God and men. Thus, in saying that the man Jesus Christ is the
mediator between the one true God and men is also an admission that Jesus
Christ is not the one true God. Apostle Peter also explicitly said that the
Lord Jesus is a man:
“The
God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has glorified HIS SERVANT JESUS.
You handed Jesus over to Pilate. You rejected him in Pilate's presence, even
though Pilate had decided to let him go free. You rejected THE MAN WHO WAS HOLY
AND INNOCENT. You asked to have a murderer given to you.” (Acts 3:13-14 God’s
Words, emphasis mine)
Like the Lord
Jesus Himself and Apostle Paul, Apostle Peter clearly said the Lord Jesus is a
man. He said, “You rejected the man who was holy and innocent.” Also, like the
Lord Jesus and Apostle Paul, he showed that the Lord Jesus Christ is
different from God. He also said, “The God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob has glorified HIS SERVANT JESUS.” These words of Apostle Peter that that the holy and innocent man Jesus
is the servant of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a plain admission that
Jesus is not God.
Therefore, it is wrong to say
that because we believe that Jesus is man and not God we don't believe in
Jesus, because if so, then Jesus doesn't believe in Himself because He Himself said that He is a man, and the apostles
don’t believe in Him because they also preached that the man Jesus Christ is the mediator between the one true God and man.
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