IGLESIA NI CRISTO
(CHURCH OF CHRIST)
Doctrines, Beliefs and Practices
ABOUT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
“We believe
in Jesus Christ and accept Him as the Son of God, Lord, Savior, and the
Mediator between God and Man”
We accept Jesus Christ as the Son
of God:
“And
when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, heard his cry and saw
how he died, he said, ‘Surely THIS MAN WAS THE SON OF GOD!’” (Mark 15:39, NIV, emphasis mine).
We accept Jesus Christ as our
Lord:
“So,
all the people of Israel should know this truly: GOD HAS MADE JESUS — THE MAN
YOU NAILED TO THE CROSS — BOTH LORD AND CHRIST.” (Acts 2:36, New Century
Version, emphasis mine)
We accept Jesus Christ as our
Savior:
“The
God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had murdered by hanging Him on a
tree. GOD EXALTED THIS MAN TO HIS RIGHT HAND AS RULER AND SAVIOR, to grant
repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.” (Acts 5:30-31, Holman Christian
Standard Bible, emphasis mine)
We accept Jesus Christ as the
Mediator between man and the one true God:
“For
there is one God and ONE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MEN, THE MAN CHRIST JESUS” (I
Timothy 2:5, NIV, emphasis mine)
Because we believe that there is
only one true God, the Father, thus, Jesus is not the true God, but the Son of
the one true God. The Lord Jesus Christ Hiself explicitly proclaimed that the
father alone is the true God and He is the Son of the one true God, whom the
Father has sent:
“Jesus
spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: "Father, the
hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You...
“And
this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus
Christ whom You have sent.” (John 17:1,3 NKJV)
To attain eternal life is to
believe that the Father is the only true God, and Jesus is the one sent by the
one true God. The Lord Jesus Christ Himself attests that He is indeed a man in
nature:
“As
it is, you are determined to kill me, A MAN WHO HAS TOLD YOU THE TRUTH that I
heard from God. Abraham did not do such things.” (John 8:40 NIV, emphasis mine).
The Bible clearly tells us that “God
is not man” and “man is not God”:
“I
will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy
Ephraim: FOR I AM GOD, AND NOT MAN; the Holy One in the midst of thee; and I
will not come in wrath.” (Hosea 11:9 ASV, emphasis
mine)
“Son
of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy
heart is lifted up, and thou hast 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, though thou didst set
thy heart as the heart of God.” (Ezekiel 28:2 ASV, emphasis mine)
Thus, we reject the teaching that
Christ is God.
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