The main difference is they have a false christ who is only a man
The “false Christ” is the one who was claimed by “the church” to be “God” in the flesh. No scripture says this. John 1:1 doesn’t say in Greek what is falsely translated into English.
Jesus was never “only a man”...he was Adam’s exact equivalent....100% mortal, otherwise he could not have died for mankind’s sins.
Yahweh is immortal which means that it is impossible to kill him. “The only true God” “sent” his son to become a human on earth so that he could offer to God a ransom for the sin of Adam. (John 17:3; 1 Cor 15:22) If Christ did not die, then the ransom was not paid....and we still stand condemned.
It is a requirement of God’s perfect justice...”
eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, life for a life”.
Under God’s law, a person who caused the death of someone else as a premeditated or deliberate act, forfeited their own life.
Adam passed sin and death onto his children as an inherited debt. Under God’s law, someone who could not pay a debt had to be in servitude to the creditor until the debt was paid, either by his own efforts or the generosity of a benefactor. But Adam’s debt was so enormous that no human descendent of his could ever pay it.....it required a perfect sinless life to be offered for the perfect sinless life that Adam lost for all his children. This is why Christ cannot be “God” in the flesh....a mortal human had to die in our place. To suggest that Almighty God had to die to ransom his children is to fail to understand the mechanics of the ransom. If God had come in the flesh, it would have made the ransom invalid.
God cannot die, but his “holy servant”, his most trusted son who became the man, Jesus, willingly did so.....as pictured by Abraham being asked to offer his son Isaac. (Gen 22:2; Acts 4:27) The willingness of both parties, pictured the willingness of Yahweh and his son to carry out the unthinkable. This is why God chose Abraham as the one through whom all nations would be blessed. (Gen 22:16-18)
and they deny the bodily Resurrection, Ascension and 2nd Coming of Christ. So in actuality they deny the gospel. Their false christ is a spirit creature now.
Again, this is ignorance speaking. We do not deny the resurrection of Christ, nor his ascension nor his second coming, which are all recorded in scripture. What we do not believe is that Christ took back the body he sacrificed. He “appeared” to his disciples on many occasions after his resurrection, but he did not remain with them for any length of time (as he had done for the previous three and a half years).
He was able to “appear” and “disappear” at will, so in accord with biblical accounts of other spirit beings appearing to God’s earthly servants in human form, we believe that Jesus also had that ability, since mortals are confined to the earth as God created them to be.
Peter tells us that Jesus was “put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit”. (1 Pet 3:18) He will never be a flesh and blood human again.
His ascension was seen only by his closest companions and as he rose into the air, a cloud obscured him from their vision, allowing him to dematerialise and return to his Father in heaven. The spirit realm is only inhabited by spirits. God himself is a spirit. (John 4:24)
The angels who appeared at that time told his disciples that he would return in “the same manner” (not the same body) as he had left......it was not with any public display or fanfare, and only his trusted apostles saw him leave the earthly realm.
In Matt 24:3-14 Jesus gave them a “sign” of his “parousia” which is his “presence”, not his “coming”.
If his return was clearly visible and discernible, then why did he need a “sign” to indicate that he had arrived?
There is so much taken for granted by Christendom’s churches that simply argue with what the Bible says about many things. No one seems to want to even investigate why there are so many “denominations” in Christendom who all argue over their differences, but seem to assume that Christ is among this disunited rabble....when he says at the judgment, “I NEVER knew you”.....he means it. He was never in the church system that you all claim is his own. He has NEVER set foot in it.