Well, we don’t see it happening at all today because we are so weakened.
I was just thinking about John’s testing of the spirits/antichrists, that anyone who denies Jesus came in the flesh is an antichrist. But have you ever heard anyone claiming to be a Christian say Jesus did not come in the flesh?
No Christian can say that Jesus never came in the flesh.....scripture clearly states that he did.
But who was Jesus before he became a human? Where does the Bible tell us that God was “with” himself...or “beside himself” before part of him came to earth on a rescue mission? How does part of God stay in heaven whilst the other equal part of him becomes a man and dies? Who did Jesus pray to? Who was the one who attested to Jesus as his son when he was baptized? Who resurrected Jesus after those three days he was in a tomb?
If Jesus was God then you have two gods.....trinitarians have three. The Jews never worshipped such a God. The only trinities in existence were in paganism. The Jewish God was “one”... a singular entity. So important was this fact that the Shema was recited to keep reinforcing this truth in a world where people worshiped multiplicities of gods. (Deuteronomy6:4)
Mark 12:28-32....
“One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?” Jesus answered, “The foremost is, ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord; 30 and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” The scribe said to Him, “Right, Teacher; You have truly stated that He is One, and there is no one else besides Him”. (NASB)
I’ve never heard it, not even once. I think he meant denying that God came in the flesh because John said, and He was God.
We have many who deny THAT.
Yes, and I am one of them for the simple reason that NO scripture says that God came in the flesh. John 1:1 does not say in Greek, what is biasedly translated into English.
God “sent” his son...he did not send himself. (John 17:3) Jesus came from heaven where he enjoyed life at his Father’s right hand (John 8:23; John 6:62)....a place he had occupied since his creation. He was his Father’s “firstborn”....his “Logos”....the one who always spoke for his God and Father. He is a “servant” of his God like all created beings are. (Acts 4:27) God cannot be his own servant.
Clinging to scripture that you believe contradicts what other scripture says, is doing what many others are doing here. You claim that they are all true but cling only to those that appear to uphold what you want to believe, or twisting them to merge in some way. You are bound up in what you have chosen as your truth, and no one can tell you any different....that is as it should be. We should all have that kind of conviction, but conviction alone doesn’t mean that we embrace the truth.....it is just as easy to embrace a lie if it is told cleverly enough. The world is full of con artists who all rely on that fact.
Speaking from a purely scriptural point of view, the end will not be what most “ Christians” will be expecting. If “few” are on the road to life, that means that the majority are not. (Matthew 7:13-14)...and you can take that to the bank because it was Jesus himself who said so. “Many” are going to offer to Jesus their excuses on that day of judgment and he will reject them outright because they did not love the truth, but took pleasure in the unrighteous teachings that the devil sowed a very long time ago. (Matthew 7:21-23; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12)
I think that, and also the teaching that it is completely impossible to walk in the Spirit and not sin are antichrist and I think it is satan doing it so that the Holy Spirit will not manifest in US as He did in the apostles and the early church.
The Holy Spirit is operating in a different way today, that is true.....but the choices we make at this juncture are critical because like the people of Noah’s day, we are in a judgment period. We are living in critical times before the final judgment of this world, and our decisions will have lasting consequences....but they are ours to make and God will not make them for us.
It is we who tell God whether we are “sheep” or “goats” by what we accept as truth.
We will stand or fall by those decisions....so we must make them with full knowledge and understanding, for we have no excuse in these ‘critical last days’, not to. (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
The knowledge available to us in this “time of the end” is unparalleled in the history of mankind. (Daniel 12:4) Because of the abundance of that knowledge, many would “cleanse, whiten and refine” themselves in God’s eyes....ridding themselves of the spiritual filth that has become so much a part of the disunited condition of apostate Christendom. This makes his true disciples unique as they are “no part of the world”...satan’s world that is soon to be destroyed. Christ’s true disciples will be a hated minority. (John 15:18-21)
Make of that what you will.....
