Doctrine of Christ

This is something that I wrote in response to a brother in a message discussion board on Facebook.

May the Lord bless each of you in your study of the truth. I appreciate each of your hearts and your love for the truth. I enjoy this sharpening and fellowship around the word of God. 

I do not think that God erased the memory of Jesus neither did God divest himself of his eternal attributes. Scripture does not teach these ideas. That is more like the movie Men in Black than the bible.  j/k Jesus came forth in the fulness of time, he began in the womb of Mary. He did not pre-exist his birth through the virgin. The angel Gabriel told Mary “the Holy Ghost shall overshadow you…THEREFORE that holy thing that shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” Therefore means based upon this fact or because of this. Because of the Holy Spirit overshadowing Mary is Jesus the Son of God, not because he pre-existed, but because the Spirit of God created him in the womb of a virgin. 

God cannot divest himself of something that he is intrinsicly in himself. God cannot lose the attributes of omniscience, omnipresence or omnipotence. He says, I AM WHO I AM, He does not change. If he takes away some of his attributes to become a man he has then changed. God did not take away any attributes from himself. He simply created a perfect man, with divine life. He was not the eternal God in himself, he was a man. He had a soul, spirit and body separate and distinct from God. He was not a dual personality, at once communicating with the God part as a man and the man part communicting with the God part, etc. Jesus was a man that received visions and commandments from God, he responsed in obedience to do the will of God, “lo I am come in the volume of the book it is written of me, to do thy will o God.” He was a perfect man separate and distinct from the invisible, eternal God who is Spirit. God is a Spirit and not a man. Jesus is a man and he was the man that God created in order to manifest himself perfectly through. God was in Christ. It does not say, God WAS Christ. His Father is the invisible God and Jesus is the man who manifested this invisible God. He was the perfect representation and manifestation of God. You could say he had a dual nature, but the two natures were not fused into one because Jesus always referred to the Father as being greater than he was and that it was the Father doing the works through him. “How GodanointedJesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.”Acts 10:38 They were separate just as the Holy Spirit is a separate person from you. The only three differences are these. 1. Jesus had the fullness of the Godhead 2. Jesus was created directly by God in a virgins womb. He had no sin 3. He was born to be the perfect manifestation of God. 

Jesus was so perfectly in line with the will of God that when you saw Jesus you were looking at invisible God. It is “I AND my Father are one.” Not “I AM my Father.” There are two there, I (the Son) and the Father and they are one. The Father dwells in the Son doing the works and the works that you see the Son doing its not him it’s the Father dwelling in him. God was in Christ. He that has Christ has BOTH (not one, not three, but two) Father and Son. Br. Branham said Jesus and God are not one like your finger is one.

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