THE DOCTRINE OF INCARNATION UN-SCRIPTURAL
But we had greatly been troubled about the subject of incarnation, as even some of the Truth people seem to be; for they still misuse this word. There is nothing in the Bible on this subject, and there is no truth in this doctrine.
*Incarnation means an assuming of a human body. It would mean that our Lord in His pre-humen existence assumed flesh--materialized, just as He and two angels did back in the days of Abraham. (Gen. 18:1, 2.)The three were incarnated. They were still spirit beings, but appeared to Abraham as men, and ate and talked with him.
But this was not true with our Lord Jesus at His First Advent. He who was rich became poor for man's sake--not that He merely pretended to be poor; not that He acted as if He were poor and so assumed an inferior body for a while. On the contrary He "was MADE flesh"--NOT assumed flesh.
Do you perceive the difference?
He was "the Man Christ Jesus," NOT "appeared to be the Man Christ Jesus." He left the glory which He had with the Father before the world was; He laid it aside; He divested Himself of that glorious condition on the spirit plane, and exchanged His life on the spirit plane for a human nature, in order to be a corresponding-price for the man who sinned--Adam.
The Bible explains that it was a perfect man that sinned. Therefore whoever would ransom him must himself also be a perfect man--a corresponding-price. No matter how great the angel, no matter how glorious the Logos, NO ONE ON A HIGHER PLANE OF BEING WOULD DO. Nor would anything below the human plane do. The finest bullock in the entire world could not be a real sin-offering or actually takeaway sin.
Nothing higher or lower than perfect humanity would atone for the sinner. A perfect man had sinned. Only a perfect man could redeem the sinner.--Psa. 40:6-8; Heb. 10:1-10.
Then the thought came: How could this one Man Christ Jesus by this one death redeem all mankind--Adam and his thousands of millions of children? When my mind perceived the Scriptural teaching on this subject, I received a wonderfully broad thought of God's Wisdom, by which He planned it all in advance, so that only one death was necessary.
Then I saw the marvelous economy of the Divine Plan for human salvation. Nobody but God could have thought of such beauty and symmetry. Only one man was tried at the bar of Divine Justice, and condemned to death. By the laws of heredity his condemnation came upon all his posterity, all of who must die because of HIS original sin. If God had tried and condemned two men or ten men or a hundred men or more, their redemption would have required an individual redeemer for each one.
God had already known that even had He tried each individual separately that they would all in due time fall into sin due to their lack of knowledge and experience with sin, that in such a case in order to redeem them He would have to find a suitable corresponding sacrifice for each individual, so instead he chose a more expedient and prudent plan, rather than try each individual separately He would try just the one man and all his yet unborn posterity in him would share in the results of his trial. Now at first this might seem a bit unfair, but actually it is a very wise decision for in trying all men in one man (Adam) it now would only require one man (the Man Christ Jesus) to redeem them all.
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*Incarnation means “to be put into the flesh”. The Trinitarian view is that the eternal God’s self, came in the flesh. God became a man in the person of Jesus. God became a human.
Incarnation is the union of divinity and humanity in the person of Jesus. Incarnation is a divine being wrapped around with a cloak of flesh.
The incarnation of God in the person of Christ is a mystery, which lies at the heart of all Catholic belief and the majority of Protestant groups. The concept of incarnation when the Word became flesh has become an ordinance of Orthodoxy. It was a special sanction of Mary that Jesus Christ was conceived. This was the moment of incarnation. The eternal Son of God, second person of the Trinity, assumed the flesh of a human nature uniting it in his person with the divine nature. Christ is, in every sense, God. He is also in every sense, man. This is the mystery of incarnation. As the Trinity is the mystery of the unity in three persons, the incarnation of Christ is a mystery of one person in a duel nature. In this incarnation view, it should be emphasized that it is God who takes on the cloak of flesh. The trinity concept insists that Jesus had to be a God-man to be the Savior. If he were mere man, how could he take upon himself the sins of the whole world? Orthodoxy claims that Jesus must be a god-man in order to erase the sins of the world.
A failure to rightfully comprehend the Ransom and what it truly implies has led to this erroneous teaching.
Continued with next post.
But we had greatly been troubled about the subject of incarnation, as even some of the Truth people seem to be; for they still misuse this word. There is nothing in the Bible on this subject, and there is no truth in this doctrine.
*Incarnation means an assuming of a human body. It would mean that our Lord in His pre-humen existence assumed flesh--materialized, just as He and two angels did back in the days of Abraham. (Gen. 18:1, 2.)The three were incarnated. They were still spirit beings, but appeared to Abraham as men, and ate and talked with him.
But this was not true with our Lord Jesus at His First Advent. He who was rich became poor for man's sake--not that He merely pretended to be poor; not that He acted as if He were poor and so assumed an inferior body for a while. On the contrary He "was MADE flesh"--NOT assumed flesh.
Do you perceive the difference?
He was "the Man Christ Jesus," NOT "appeared to be the Man Christ Jesus." He left the glory which He had with the Father before the world was; He laid it aside; He divested Himself of that glorious condition on the spirit plane, and exchanged His life on the spirit plane for a human nature, in order to be a corresponding-price for the man who sinned--Adam.
The Bible explains that it was a perfect man that sinned. Therefore whoever would ransom him must himself also be a perfect man--a corresponding-price. No matter how great the angel, no matter how glorious the Logos, NO ONE ON A HIGHER PLANE OF BEING WOULD DO. Nor would anything below the human plane do. The finest bullock in the entire world could not be a real sin-offering or actually takeaway sin.
Nothing higher or lower than perfect humanity would atone for the sinner. A perfect man had sinned. Only a perfect man could redeem the sinner.--Psa. 40:6-8; Heb. 10:1-10.
Then the thought came: How could this one Man Christ Jesus by this one death redeem all mankind--Adam and his thousands of millions of children? When my mind perceived the Scriptural teaching on this subject, I received a wonderfully broad thought of God's Wisdom, by which He planned it all in advance, so that only one death was necessary.
Then I saw the marvelous economy of the Divine Plan for human salvation. Nobody but God could have thought of such beauty and symmetry. Only one man was tried at the bar of Divine Justice, and condemned to death. By the laws of heredity his condemnation came upon all his posterity, all of who must die because of HIS original sin. If God had tried and condemned two men or ten men or a hundred men or more, their redemption would have required an individual redeemer for each one.
God had already known that even had He tried each individual separately that they would all in due time fall into sin due to their lack of knowledge and experience with sin, that in such a case in order to redeem them He would have to find a suitable corresponding sacrifice for each individual, so instead he chose a more expedient and prudent plan, rather than try each individual separately He would try just the one man and all his yet unborn posterity in him would share in the results of his trial. Now at first this might seem a bit unfair, but actually it is a very wise decision for in trying all men in one man (Adam) it now would only require one man (the Man Christ Jesus) to redeem them all.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
*Incarnation means “to be put into the flesh”. The Trinitarian view is that the eternal God’s self, came in the flesh. God became a man in the person of Jesus. God became a human.
Incarnation is the union of divinity and humanity in the person of Jesus. Incarnation is a divine being wrapped around with a cloak of flesh.
The incarnation of God in the person of Christ is a mystery, which lies at the heart of all Catholic belief and the majority of Protestant groups. The concept of incarnation when the Word became flesh has become an ordinance of Orthodoxy. It was a special sanction of Mary that Jesus Christ was conceived. This was the moment of incarnation. The eternal Son of God, second person of the Trinity, assumed the flesh of a human nature uniting it in his person with the divine nature. Christ is, in every sense, God. He is also in every sense, man. This is the mystery of incarnation. As the Trinity is the mystery of the unity in three persons, the incarnation of Christ is a mystery of one person in a duel nature. In this incarnation view, it should be emphasized that it is God who takes on the cloak of flesh. The trinity concept insists that Jesus had to be a God-man to be the Savior. If he were mere man, how could he take upon himself the sins of the whole world? Orthodoxy claims that Jesus must be a god-man in order to erase the sins of the world.
A failure to rightfully comprehend the Ransom and what it truly implies has led to this erroneous teaching.
Continued with next post.
