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For a while in the USA, there was a Protestant campaign ‘Know Jesus.’<\/p>\n

Many who claim Christianity do not know the real Jesus. The Apostle Paul warned that this type of thing could happen:<\/p>\n

2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted \u2014 you may well put up with it!\u00a0 (2 Corinthians 11:2-4)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The world is happy with a false version of Jesus–but you should not be!<\/p>\n

While Pastor General of the old Radio Church of God, Herbert W. Armstrong published the following in the November 1963 Plain Truth<\/em> magazine:<\/p>\n

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Millions Do Not Know What Christ Really Was!<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

By Herbert W. Armstrong …<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most people want to scoff at the idea that the Creator has power to intervene in human affairs. Yet man today is swiftly reaching the point where the world’s only hope will be the intervention of God to REDEEM misguided humanity from the horrible result of our wrong ways.<\/p>\n

God alone has power to SAVE man from the inevitable result of competition, greed, selfishness, and resulting world war. God alone has made it possible for man to be saved from the results of SIN. “For God so LOVED the world, that he GAVE his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).<\/p>\n

Do we realize what a tremendous sacrifice had to be made to redeem humanity from sin and give us eternal life? God so loved this world of sinning, wretched mortals that He gave His own Son to save us. God is love!<\/p>\n

Collectively, man is about to reach the end of his rope. Man will finally come to realize God’s great LOVE when he is supernaturally saved from world suicide. And individually, we need to really understand just<\/p>\n

HOW God has made it possible for us to be spared from the penalty of our wrong ways.<\/p>\n

The problem of just how God ordained that the penalty of human sin be paid is one that has puzzled theologians for generations. In fact, it was the basis of the first heresies during the very lifetime of the apostles.<\/p>\n

How Is It Possible?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The doctrine of Salvation requires clear thinking and a willingness to be corrected and reproved by the Word of God \u2014 our only infallible source of information. We must be careful to consider ALL the scriptures on this subject, and realize that one scripture cannot be used to contradict another \u2014 for God does not contradict Himself, and as Jesus said, “The scripture cannot be broken” (John 10:35).<\/p>\n

First of all, we need to understand what is the reward of sin. The penalty for SIN \u2014 for going the wrong way \u2014 is DEATH. God’s inspired Word says: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23).<\/p>\n

When Jesus took our sins He paid the penalty we have incurred. What was that penalty? Not eternal life in hellfire, but DEATH. “Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures” (I Cor. 15:3).<\/p>\n

But if Jesus were only human, His life would pay the death penalty for only. ONE other person. No one human being could save mankind. The full penalty for everyone’s sins must be paid!<\/p>\n

Yet God alone could not of Himself pay the penalty of man’s sins. The penalty is the forfeiting of human life \u2014 not animal or any other kind of life. And God, as the source of all life and the One who has life within himself, and is a spirit being, cannot die (John 5:26; II Cor. 4:18).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Therefore it was absolutely necessary that there be One \u2014 The Messiah \u2014 who was both human and divine.<\/p>\n

Christ Was Divine<\/strong><\/p>\n

In order to pay the penalty for your sins and mine, it was necessary that Christ be Divine \u2014 that His life be worth all our human lives put together.<\/p>\n

Man does not have life inherent within himself. He has only a chemical existence which soon ends. As God told Adam after his sin: “For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return” (Gen. 3:19). Then God drove man out of the Garden of Eden “lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever” (Verses 22-24). So we see that Adam had no eternal life whatsoever inherent within himself \u2014 and God did not permit him to attain it at that time.<\/p>\n

The New Testament also dearly proves that man has no eternal life inherent within himself. “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him” (I John 3:15).<\/p>\n

God alone has and can give eternal life. “For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself” (John 5:26). Again we read of Christ: “In Him was LIFE; and the life was the light of men” (John 1:4). Jesus told Martha, “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live” (John 11:25). Paul described Christ as the One “Who only bath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto” (I Tim. 6:16).<\/p>\n

If Christ were only human, He could have saved but one other human, and given eternal life to none. To do this required God \u2014 the life of the Creator.<\/p>\n

Christ Is Creator<\/strong><\/p>\n

In John 1:1-2, we read that Christ \u2014 the Word or Spokesman \u2014 was with God the Father in the beginning. “All things were made by him (Christ)” (verse 3). Paul wrote of Christ: “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth” (Col. 1:16). Christ is also proved to be the One who did the creating in Hebrews 1:8-10. Christ, the Word, the Divine Spokesman, “spake and it was done.”<\/p>\n

Therefore Christ’s life is the life of the Creator God. Paul called Him “God our Savior” (Titus 1:3). Yes, in the person of Jesus Christ, the very Creator became our Savior!<\/p>\n

Christ is our Maker and a member of the Godhead \u2014 the God Family. Therefore, His life which He gave for us is of greater value than the total of all human beings.<\/p>\n

In Hebrews 7:1-4, we find a description of One who “was made like unto the Son of God” and now “abideth a priest continually” (verse 3). The entire book of Hebrews reveals the present office of Christ as our High Priest. This description can fit none other than the One who came in the flesh as Jesus the Christ.<\/p>\n

He is described as being, “Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life” (verse 3). Hence, we see that He was not the “Son” of God until He was born of the virgin Mary.<\/p>\n

Then Jesus, the One through whom the Father had created the heavens and the earth, was translated into flesh and born of a human virgin. Matthew writes that Mary “was found with child of the Holy Spirit” (Mat. 1:18).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0An angel spoke to Joseph telling him the child was conceived of the Holy Spirit and commanding him: “Thou shalt call his name Jesus (meaning Savior): for he shall save his people from their sins” (verse 21).<\/p>\n

The narrative continues: “Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us” (verse 23).<\/p>\n

Here we see that even Jesus Christ’s name revealed Him both as Savior, and God with us \u2014 a divine being with us, in the flesh \u2014 to SAVE us from our sins.<\/p>\n

Only His life \u2014 that of the Creator \u2014 could pay the full penalty of sin for all mankind.<\/p>\n

Jesus Was Also Human<\/strong><\/p>\n

In order to pay the penalty of human sin, it was not enough that Jesus was Divine. He must also have been human.<\/p>\n

The Bible definition of sin is this: “Sin is the transgression of the law” (I John 3:4). God’s spiritual law was given to man \u2014 not the plants, nor the lower animals. The Ten Commandments govern the relationship between men, and between man and God. The transgression of this law constitutes sin. And the wages, or reward, of sin is death (Rom. 6:23). God exacts the forfeiture of human life as the penalty for sin.<\/p>\n

“For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins” (Heb. 10:4).<\/p>\n

It required HUMAN BLOOD!<\/p>\n

Christ, then, must have been human in order to pay this penalty.<\/p>\n

Paul explains in I Cot. 15:21-22: “For since by man (Adam) came death, by man (Christ) came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” Since eternal LIFE is made possible only by MAN’S resurrection \u2014 and the resurrection to eternal life is made possible for all men only by the resurrection of the ONE MAN \u2014 CHRIST \u2014 and since He was resurrected from the dead \u2014 therefore the DEATH of the ONE MAN, Jesus Christ, was necessary to pay MAN’S penalty.<\/p>\n

Adam, the father of the human race, introduced sin into the world. And all of us have succumbed to it. It is the human race that is under the death penalty for sin \u2014 and that penalty must be paid \u2014 BY HUMAN LIFE!<\/p>\n

So since only God has power to save and give life \u2014 and since only man can pay the penalty of sin \u2014 the only possible way to save mankind was for Yahweh \u2014 the “Lord” or “Eternal” of the Old Testament, the One who executed the creation for God the Father \u2014 to come in the flesh as a HUMAN \u2014 GOD become MAN \u2014 and die for the sins of the world.<\/p>\n

Only thus could the penalty of all human sin be paid by one man as Savior of the world. That life was the life of our MAKER, become HUMAN, for the very purpose of death \u2014 a life greater than the sum-total of all human lives! MARVELOUS MYSTERY!<\/p>\n

Jesus Had HUMAN Nature<\/strong><\/p>\n

God came in the flesh as Jesus Christ, lived without sin, and thus was able to die and pay the full penalty of sin in our stead.<\/p>\n

The Apostle Paul was inspired to write: “But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To REDEEM them that were under the law,… that we might receive the sonship” (Gal. 4:4-5).<\/p>\n

Jesus Christ was made of a woman \u2014 born of the Virgin Mary. He was made “under the law” \u2014 His very purpose in coming in the human flesh was to take our sins upon Himself, which would put Him “under the law” \u2014 under its penalty, death. He did this to redeem all humanity which is “under the law” \u2014 under the penalty of DEATH. Jesus was GOD made mortal human flesh, “for the suffering of death” (Heb. 2:9) \u2014 FOR THAT VERY PURPOSE!<\/p>\n

So Jesus took human nature upon Himself and was made subject to death in order to be our Savior. “He also likewise (as the children are partakers of flesh and blood) took part of the same” \u2014 took on HUMAN NATURE \u2014 became flesh and blood \u2014 “that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil” (Heb. 2:14).<\/p>\n

Jesus was really DEAD during the three days and nights His body was in the grave. He who had been one of the personalities in God \u2014 was changed into flesh so He could DIE for our sins.<\/p>\n

Paul explains that Christ: “Being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be EQUAL with God: But made himself of no reputation” \u2014 EMPTIED Himself of His divine glory and power \u2014 “and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the LIKENESS of men… and became obedient unto DEATH” (Philip. 2:6-8).<\/p>\n

When Christ was in the human flesh, He said: “I can of mine own self do NOTHING: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me” (John 5:30). Jesus had emptied Himself of His divine glory and power. He plainly said he could of Himself \u2014 in His own human strength \u2014 do NOTHING.<\/p>\n

In John 14:12, Jesus said: “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” Here we see that any outside help and power that Jesus had \u2014 coming from God the Father \u2014 we may also have, and may accomplish greater works through the power of the Holy Spirit which He went to heaven to send.<\/p>\n

In living a perfect life, in doing great miracles, Jesus did NOT have any special help from God the Father that we cannot also have.<\/p>\n

Christ, one of the beings in the Godhead, had now been changed into flesh \u2014 still having the personality and will to do right which distinguished Him as an entity \u2014 yet now had become human, having HUMAN NATURE with all of its desires, weaknesses and lusts \u2014 and subject to death just like any other human.<\/p>\n

This is a truth about which millions are DECEIVED!<\/p>\n

Doctrine of Anti-Christ<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Satan-inspired doctrine that Jesus was not human, that He did not inherit the human nature of Adam, that He did not have all the normal human passions and weaknesses against which all of us have to struggle \u2014 in a word, that Jesus did not really come “in the flesh” as a normal human being \u2014 this is the doctrine of the Anti-Christ. Notice Romans 8:3: “God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh.”<\/p>\n

“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” (I John 4:3).<\/p>\n

Millions are being taught, in one form or another, this deception of Satan the Devil! Some believe that Jesus had a “special” kind of blood in His veins \u2014 not containing human nature with all its weaknesses. Then there is the belief that denies the fact that Jesus inherited human nature from His mother, Mary. This theory thwarts the meaning of the many scriptures showing that Christ Jesus came as the son of man \u2014 inheriting His human nature from a normal, human mother.<\/p>\n

Yes, as the scriptures clearly state, this Satan-inspired doctrine of Anti-Christ is “even NOW” in the world \u2014 and some honest and sincere people are being deceived by it.<\/p>\n

Doctrine Explained<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, listen! The underlying PURPOSE of Satan \u2014 the Adversary \u2014 in formulating the doctrine of Anti-Christ is this: It is an attempt to deny the fact that a normal man \u2014 with HUMAN NATURE \u2014 could, with the help of God’s Holy Spirit which is now accessible to every man (Acts 10:34-45), live in perfect obedience to the LAW OF GOD as Jesus Christ did. Again notice WHY Christ came in the likeness of sinful flesh: “… and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh” WHY \u2014 “that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled IN US, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (Rom. 8:3-4).<\/p>\n

The idea Satan is trying to put across is that it is impossible for man to keep the spiritual law of God, and so Jesus came as our Savior \u2014 not “in the flesh” with normal human nature \u2014 but through some “special process” so that He could keep the law of God in our stead! And therefore we don’t have to keep the Spiritual Law. What Christ did in our stead was to die for us! But His obedience was our EXAMPLE!<\/p>\n

Those who believe this doctrine seem to forget that Jesus obeyed God in every way, “Leaving us an EXAMPLE, that ye should follow his steps” (I Peter 2:21-22), that Jesus taught, “IF thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments” (Mat. 19:17), and that He said of all mankind: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God” (Luke 4:4). We are not only to keep the letter of the law, but to follow it as it is magnified throughout the Bible in “every word of God.”<\/p>\n

As Jesus explained throughout Matthew 5, we are to DO and TEACH even the least of the commandments (verse 19), and should go far beyond the scribes and Pharisees by obeying even the spirit, and intent, of God’s great law of love as summed up in the Ten Commandments.<\/p>\n

Satan the Devil, through His false ministers who appear as “ministers of righteousness” (II Cor. 11:13-15), is trying to deceive the world into believing in a FALSE CHRIST \u2014 a Christ who did away with the Father’s spiritual law and made it possible for us to inherit eternal life without having to build, with the help of God’s Spirit, the kind of holy, righteous CHARACTER which would enable us to obey God’s eternal, spiritual LAW both now and forever.<\/p>\n

Truth Made Clear<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now that we understand the real motive behind the doctrine of Anti-Christ, let us consider a few final scriptures which will clear up the truth of this matter once and for all time.<\/p>\n

In James 1:13-14, we read:<\/p>\n

“Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for GOD CANNOT BE TEMPTED WITH EVIL, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”<\/p>\n

How plain! How abundantly clear! Not having human nature with its passions and lusts, God CANNOT be tempted with evil. And on the contrary, every man is tempted by his own lust \u2014 because every man does have human nature.<\/p>\n

Now turn to Hebrews 2:17-18. Here God shows that Christ is qualified to be a merciful and faithful high priest \u2014<\/p>\n

“For in that he himself bath suffered being TEMPTED, he is able to succor them that are tempted.”<\/p>\n

Again, in Hebrews 4:15 we read:<\/p>\n

“For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but WAS IN ALL POINTS TEMPTED like as we are, yet without sin.”<\/p>\n

Could anything be more CLEAR?<\/p>\n

God CANNOT be tempted. Yet Jesus Christ WAS tempted in all points like we are. He was HUMAN. He was tempted through the lusts of His HUMAN NATURE.<\/p>\n

He said:<\/p>\n

“I can of mine own self do NOTHING” (John 5:30).<\/p>\n

In the days of fleshly weakness, He cried out to God who was able to save Him from death (Heb. 5:7).<\/p>\n

In spite of having human nature just as we do, with all of its passions and weaknesses, of being “tempted in all points like as we are,” He was “yet WITHOUT SIN.”<\/p>\n

He willingly suffered every human trial, privation, and persecution, “Leaving us an EXAMPLE, that ye should follow his steps: Who DID NO SIN, neither was guile found in his mouth” (I Pet. 2:21-22).<\/p>\n

Jesus Kept Commandments<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though having human nature, Jesus did not sin! And what is the Bible definition \u2014 God’s definition \u2014 of sin?<\/p>\n

“Sin is the transgression of THE LAW” (I John 3:4).<\/p>\n

Then Jesus, though having human nature, obeyed God’s LAW. He said, “I have kept my Father’s commandments” (John 15:10). He instructed: “If thou wilt enter into life, keep the COMMANDMENTS” (Mat. 19:17).<\/p>\n

So it is not only possible \u2014 but obligatory \u2014 that we obey God’s spiritual law, the Ten Commandments, as they are magnified throughout the Bible. Keeping them in the spirit does NOT mean “spiritualizing” them away, but really obeying them as Jesus set us the example, thru the power of God’s Holy Spirit, which He gives to them that OBEY Him! (Acts 5:32)<\/p>\n

By clearly twisting, distorting, and misapplying scattered scriptures, Satan \u2014 operating through his false ministers preaching the doctrine of Anti-Christians been able to deceive nearly all of professing Christianity on this subject.<\/p>\n

Peter knew that men would especially try to twist and pervert the writings of Paul in regard to the law of God. He was inspired to write that Paul’s epistles contained “some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction” (II Peter 3:16).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0God does not contradict himself, and literally hundreds of plain, clear scriptures teach us to OBEY the commandments of God, the holy, spiritual LAW of God. And your Bible clearly reveals that Jesus \u2014 born into the human flesh and having human nature even as you and I \u2014 kept His Father’s commandments and set us a perfect example.<\/p>\n

Exercising Character<\/strong><\/p>\n

The … difference between Jesus and any other human is that He was conceived of the Holy Spirit. Therefore He obeyed God’s laws from birth \u2014 and never had to go through the process of repenting of going the wrong way, of unlearning wrong ideas and habits, and of gradually learning to exercise His will to do right continually.<\/p>\n

He, who had been God, was now changed into human flesh with all its weaknesses and lusts. Nevertheless, He retained in His personality the determination, the WILL to obey God always.<\/p>\n

The temptation to do wrong, the idea of sinning entered Jesus’ mind. Yes, it DID occur to Him to disobey God. He WAS tempted in all points like we are!<\/p>\n

But from birth, Jesus would always reject these wrong ideas, these temptations. He said, “Get behind me, Satan!” He WILLED to do right. He went to God the Father for POWER to do always right. And, praying for the strength He needed through the Holy Spirit, He always did right.<\/p>\n

But it WASN’T easy! Jesus had exactly the same day-to-day battle with sin that we do.<\/p>\n

Jesus needed outside help sorely. And He knew where to get that help. “And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there PRAYED” (Mark 1:35). When He needed strength to go through the terrible ordeal of the crucifixion,<\/p>\n

“Being in an agony he prayed more EARNESTLY: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44).<\/p>\n

Perhaps now we can better understand Paul’s inspired statement in Romans 8:3:<\/p>\n

“For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of SINFUL flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.”<\/p>\n

Yes, Jesus had sinful flesh \u2014 human nature. But by exercising the WILL to always obey God, and by receiving the extra help He needed to master His fleshly desires, Jesus repudiated the sway of sin in the human flesh and showed that the law of God could be kept.<\/p>\n

Right here let us understand the scriptures which show that Jesus was worshipped while He was yet in the human flesh. In Matthew 2:11; 8:2 and seven other places in the gospels, we find accounts of how men worshipped Jesus.<\/p>\n

Yet we know that the Bible forbids us to worship another man.<\/p>\n

To understand this, we must realize that in Jesus<\/p>\n

“God was manifested in the flesh” (I Tim. 3:16).<\/p>\n

Men were permitted to worship Jesus because He was the personality and perfect will of one who was God \u2014 and He exercised the character of God. They were not worshipping Jesus as just another man, but as the holy, righteous, perfect character of God manifested in the flesh.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He was God \u2014 in the human flesh!<\/p>\n

God’s Great Purpose<\/strong><\/p>\n

And so by exercising the WILL to obey God, Jesus “condemned sin in the flesh” for what purpose?<\/p>\n

Here is the real ANSWER to why God had to come in the human flesh! Here is the real PURPOSE for the great SACRIFICE Christ made in emptying Himself of His divine glory and power, and coming to strive with sin in the flesh and finally DIE the ignominious death of the cross!<\/p>\n

The answer is given in the very next verse of Romans 8. Christ came to condemn sin in the flesh \u2014<\/p>\n

“That the righteousness of the LAW might be fulfilled in us, who walk NOT after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (verse 4).<\/p>\n

Christ came in the flesh to set us a perfect example, then to DIE in payment for our sins and make it possible for us to be reconciled to a holy, righteous God and receive of His Spirit \u2014 His very life and character implanted within us.<\/p>\n

Then He was raised from the dead and ascended to heaven, having now qualified through human experience to be our merciful and faithful high priest \u2014 now to guide us and strengthen us through the Holy Spirit so that we, too, can learn to OBEY God’s laws perfectly, can WILL to do right always, can develop the holy, spiritual CHARACTER of God \u2014 and finally be found worthy to inherit eternal life as the born sons of Almighty God.<\/p>\n

How great is God’s love in coming into the human flesh to save us and make us His own!<\/p>\n

How wonderful is His plan when we really understand it!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, the real number who have not known is in the multiple billions.<\/p>\n

More about Jesus can also be found in our free book, online at ccog.org, Proof Jesus is the Messiah<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nVirgin Birth: Does the Bible Teach It?<\/a>\u00a0What does the Bible teach? What is claimed in\u00a0The Da Vinci Code?<\/a>
\nWhy Does Jesus Have Two Different Genealogies listed in Matthew 1 and Luke 3?<\/a>\u00a0Matthew 1:1-16 and Luke 3:23-38 seemingly list two different genealogies for Jesus. Why? Here is a version in the Spanish language:\u00a0\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 Jes\u00fas tiene dos genealog\u00edas diferentes las cuales aparecen en Mateo 1 y Lucas 3?<\/a>
\nDid Early Christians Think the Holy Spirit Was A Separate Person in a Trinity?<\/a>\u00a0Or did they have a different view?\u00a0A related sermon is available:\u00a0Truth about the Holy Spirit: What THEY do not want you to know!<\/a><\/em><\/a><\/span>
\nDid the True Church Ever Teach a Trinity?<\/a>\u00a0Most act like this is so, but is it? Here is an old, by somewhat related, article in the Spanish language\u00a0LA DOCTRINA DE LA TRINIDAD<\/a>. Two related sermons are available:\u00a0Trinity: Fundamental to Christianity or Something Else?<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Godhead and the Trinity<\/a>. A brief video is also available:\u00a0Three trinitarian scriptures?<\/a>
\nWas Unitarianism the Teaching of the Bible or Early Church?<\/a>\u00a0Many, including\u00a0Jehovah’s Witnesses<\/a>, claim it was, but was it? Here is a link to a related sermon:\u00a0Unitarianism? How is God One?<\/a>
\nDid the Archangel Michael become Jesus?<\/a>\u00a0The\u00a0Jehovah’s Witnesses<\/a>\u00a0teach this, and\u00a0SDA Ellen White<\/a>\u00a0did, but does the Bible allow for this? Here is a link to a related video message:\u00a0Is Jesus the Archangel Michael?<\/a>\u00a0Here is a related article in the Spanish language:\u00a0\u00bfSe convirti\u00f3 el Arc\u00e1ngel Miguel en Jes\u00fas?<\/a>
\nHow Many Creators?<\/a>\u00a0Did the ancient Mayans know the truth about the Godhead at creation?
\nBinitarianism: One God, Two Beings Before the Beginning<\/a>\u00a0This is a longer article than the\u00a0Binitarian View<\/a>\u00a0article, and has a little more information on binitarianism, and less about unitarianism. A related sermon is also available:\u00a0Binitarian view of the Godhead<\/a>.
\n<\/b>Hope of Salvation: How the Continuing<\/em> Church of God Differs from Protestantism<\/a> The CCOG is NOT Protestant. This free online book explains how the real <\/em>Church of God differs from mainstream\/traditional Protestants. Several sermons related to the free book are also available: Protestant, Baptist, and CCOG History<\/a>; The First Protestant, God\u2019s Command, Grace, & Character<\/a>; The New Testament, Martin Luther, and the Canon<\/a>; Eucharist, Passover, and Easter<\/a>; Views of Jews, Lost Tribes, Warfare, & Baptism<\/a>; Scripture vs. Tradition, Sabbath vs. Sunday<\/a>; Church Services, Sunday, Heaven, and God\u2019s Plan<\/a><\/a>; Seventh Day Baptists\/Adventists\/Messianics: Protestant or COG?<\/a>; Millennial Kingdom of God and God\u2019s Plan of Salvation<\/a>; Crosses, Trees, Tithes, and Unclean Meats<\/a>; The Godhead and the Trinity<\/a>; Fleeing or Rapture?<\/a>; and Ecumenism, Rome, and CCOG Differences<\/a>. These sermons also cover materials not in the book. As far as some changes affecting Protestantism, watch the video Charismatic Kenneth Copeland and Anglican Tony Palmer: Protestants Beware! <\/a> [Portugu\u00eas: Esperan\u00e7a do salva\u00e7\u00e3o: Como a igreja do deus difere da maioria de protestantes<\/a>].
\nBeliefs of the Original Catholic Church: Could a remnant group have continuing apostolic succession?<\/a> Did the original \u201ccatholic church\u201d have doctrines held by the Continuing<\/em> Church of God? Did Church of God leaders uses the term \u201ccatholic church\u201d to ever describe the church they were part of? Here are links to related sermons: Original Catholic Church of God?<\/a>, Original Catholic Doctrine: Creed, Liturgy, Baptism, Passover<\/a>, What Type of Catholic was Polycarp of Smyrna?<\/a>, Tradition, Holy Days, Salvation, Dress, & Celibacy<\/a>, Early Heresies and Heretics<\/a>, Doctrines: 3 Days, Abortion, Ecumenism, Meats<\/a>, Tithes, Crosses, Destiny, and more<\/a>, Saturday or Sunday?<\/a>, The Godhead<\/a>, Apostolic Laying on of Hands Succession<\/a>, Church in the Wilderness Apostolic Succession List<\/a>, Holy Mother Church and Heresies<\/a>, and\u00a0Lying Wonders and Original Beliefs<\/a>. Here is a link to that book in the Spanish language:\u00a0Creencias de la iglesia Cat\u00f3lica original<\/a>.
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