Shocking though it is, millions of sincere believers are deceived by a diabolical deception.
ANTICHRIST IS HERE ALREADY!
Perhaps YOU have been misled!
Was Christ human, or Divine?
Read the TRUTH about this vital subject that has puzzled millions.
Your very SALVATION depends upon it!
REAL "UTOPIA" is just around the corner. God is about to intervene in world affairs and SAVE this world from itself!
Prophecy foretells it. World events show it is coming. Many of you will see it with your own eyes.
God Must Step In
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.
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).
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!
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 HOW God has made it possible for us to be spared from the penalty of our wrong ways.
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.
How Is It Possible?
The doctrine of Salvation requires clear thinking and a willingness to be corrected and reproved by the Word of God — 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 — for God does not contradict Himself, and as Jesus said, "The scripture cannot be broken" (John 10:35).
First of all, we need to understand what is the reward of sin. The penalty for SIN — for going the wrong way — 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).
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).
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!
Yet God alone could not of Himself pay the penalty of man's sins. The penalty is the forfeiting of human life — 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).
Therefore it was absolutely necessary that there be One — The Messiah — who was both human and divine.
Christ Was Divine
In order to pay the penalty for your sins and mine, it was necessary that Christ be Divine — that His life be worth all our human lives put together.
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 — and God did not permit him to attain it at that time.
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).
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).
If Christ were only human, He could have saved but one other human, and given eternal life to none. To do this required God — the life of the Creator.
Christ Is Creator
In John 1:1-2, we read that Christ — the Word or Spokesman — 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."
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!
Christ is our Maker and a member of the Godhead — the God Family. Therefore, His life which He gave for us is of greater value than the total of all human beings.
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.
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.
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).
An 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).
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).
Here we see that even Jesus Christ's name revealed Him both as Savior, and God with us — a divine being with us, in the flesh — to SAVE us from our sins.
Only His life — that of the Creator — could pay the full penalty of sin for all mankind.
Jesus Was Also Human
In order to pay the penalty of human sin, it was not enough that Jesus was Divine. He must also have been human.
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 — 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.
"For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins" (Heb. 10:4). It required HUMAN BLOOD!
Christ, then, must have been human in order to pay this penalty.
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 — and the resurrection to eternal life is made possible for all men only by the resurrection of the ONE MAN — CHRIST — and since He was resurrected from the dead — therefore the DEATH of the ONE MAN, Jesus Christ, was necessary to pay MAN'S penalty.
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 — and that penalty must be paid — BY HUMAN LIFE!
So since only God has power to save and give life — and since only man can pay the penalty of sin — the only possible way to save mankind was for Yahweh — the "Lord" or "Eternal" of the Old Testament, the One who executed the creation for God the Father — to come in the flesh as a HUMAN — GOD become MAN — and die for the sins of the world.
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 — a life greater than the sum-total of all human lives! MARVELOUS MYSTERY!
Jesus Had HUMAN Nature
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.
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).
Jesus Christ was made of a woman — born of the Virgin Mary. He was made "under the law" — His very purpose in coming in the human flesh was to take our sins upon Himself, which would put Him "under the law" — under its penalty, death. He did this to redeem all humanity which is "under the law" — under the penalty of DEATH. Jesus was GOD made mortal human flesh, "for the suffering of death" (Heb. 2:9) — FOR THAT VERY PURPOSE!
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" — took on HUMAN NATURE — became flesh and blood — "that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil" (Heb. 2:14).
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 — was changed into flesh so He could DIE for our sins.
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" — EMPTIED Himself of His divine glory and power — "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).
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 — in His own human strength — do NOTHING.
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 — coming from God the Father — we may also have, and may accomplish greater works through the power of the Holy Spirit which He went to heaven to send.
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.
Christ, one of the beings in the Godhead, had now been changed into flesh — still having the personality and will to do right which distinguished Him as an entity — yet now had become human, having HUMAN NATURE with all of its desires, weaknesses and lusts — and subject to death just like any other human.
This is a truth about which millions are DECEIVED!