Aunty Jane
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Indeed…..the devil will corrupt even the smallest detail in order to perpetuate his lies.This is spot on. Why does any Christian think the doctrine of Christ is immune from the devil slipping any of his old myth making into it? If that were the case, then God would not have needed Peter warn against it.
We see even in the translation of the Greek scriptures, the omission of one very small word, that changes the whole meaning of a passage of scripture used to promote a foundational “Christian” doctrine.
Study of the original languages of the Bible can reveal these omissions and it’s easy to see how these false beliefs were accepted gradually, virtually unopposed.
Those who believe such lies have no idea that it isn’t true. Most who identify as “Christians” have no idea that 99% of their doctrines are based on satanic lies masquerading as truth. The “angel of light” doing these things is not identified and therefore what he promotes is accepted by the majority.For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
All the principle elements of old pagan pantheonism for 'god-born' heroes, are repeated in the the super-christ myth of pure blood and immortal body.
isn’t that what happened to the Jews in Jesus‘ day? The Jewish religious leaders were so far removed from what their scripture taught that they did not recognize their own Messiah…..he wasn’t what they expected him to be…..so he needed to be silenced while they aggrandized themselves and waited for the real one, who would promote them in the kingdom of God.…….They are still waiting.
We accept Jesus for who HE said he was…..”the son of God”. A uniquely created being….not just “an angel”.Even the JWs don't buy into that one. (But that may only be due to their created christ angel myth, with natural mortal body.)
He is the Commander of the angelic forces. Only two persons in scripture are said to command the angels
…Michael and Jesus. Since we have no belief in the trinity, there is no scriptural impediment to Jesus having many roles and many names.
What made him sinless in coming into the world through a sinful human woman was his DNA. There was no trace of the defects of sin in his body because it was created by God and implanted by holy spirit.
Her body fed him as he grew inside her womb, and her milk nourished him as a baby, but he was not a son of Adam. He was a replacement for Adam in giving up his sinless life to buy back what Adam threw away for all his children. He fulfilled God’s law….”eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, life for a life”…only a sinless life could be offered, and only a mortal can die. Jesus the man, was both.
As for Christ being a “created angel“, Jesus himself said that he was “the beginning of God’s creation”. (Rev 3:14) Paul describes him as “the firstborn of all creation” (Colossians 1:15-17) which makes him part of that creation. He was then used as the agency “through“ whom all things were made.
Proverbs 8:30-31 describes him as God’s “Master Workman” at his Father’s side in bringing all things into being.
As “the only begotten son” of his God and Father, he could volunteer to do what God could not do, and did not need to do….that is to become one of his own creation. To become his own “servant”. (Acts 4:27)
How could an immortal God die to redeem mankind? Jesus was not a spirit in a man’s body but he was 100% human and died the same death as any other mortal creature….he stopped breathing and they buried him in a tomb, where he lay lifeless for three days and nights, just as he said he would. “On the third day he rose form the dead”…..not by himself, but by the power of his God to bring him back to life. (Acts 2:29-32)
He returned to heaven 40 days later after “appearing” to his disciples and others on many occasions. There is no record that he stayed with his apostles during that time because he was not raised in the flesh, needing food and shelter, he was raised in spirit form. (1 Peter 3:18) Only spirits can inhabit the spirit realm where he was returning.
After his return to heaven, he still called Jehovah his God….four times in this one verse.…Rev 3:12.
“The one who conquers—I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will by no means go out from it anymore, and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem that descends out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.”
I believe that there is more evidence for what what JW’s believe about Jesus than any butchered doctrines from Christendom…..I was raised with those doctrines, and found them all to be from non-biblical sources.
The word “Catholic” is used to describe only one branch of “Christianity”, yet it describes way more than that…..it literally means “universal” or ‘accepted by all’…..and it was the only “Christianity” for many centuries, growing more and more corrupt……but it’s where Catholic doctrines come from that is interesting….their core teachings permeate all false worship….multiple gods…..an immortal soul…and a hell of torment for the wicked or a heaven of bliss for the good…..only the names are changed to promote the lies.
Christianity has no nationality, so any church that identified as “Roman” or any other geographical location is not genuine. (Acts 10:34-35) Rome adopted “Christianity” on its own terms and carried its false teachings into what became a fusion of Roman mythology and practices, with a very weakened Christianity of the times. An astute Roman emperor consolidated his divided empire by giving the people one state religion….a religion that catered to all….a “universal” (Catholic) church, peppered with false religious ideas that catered to both persuasions……and then these were carried over into Protestantism when the defection from the completely corrupt Catholic church could not be stopped. The ‘daughters’ unfortunately, took a lot of their mother’s dirty laundry with them when they left.
If anyone thinks that the divided churches of Christendom teach real Christianity, then they are seriously misled by the one who wants to guide them into traveling the wrong road…..only a hated “few” will be found on the cramped and narrow road to life, “doing the will” of the Father. (Matt 7:13-14; 21-23: John 15:18-21)
Genuine Christians are not hated because of what they do or believe, so much as for what they refuse to do and believe. There is only one truth. We will not find it on our own. (John 6:44, 65)