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I. LAMB OF GOD & DEATH
The most important fact of the Bible that proves Jesus is NOT God is that Jesus died, which is required for the title Lamb of God.
The role of the Lamb of God is to take away the sins of the world by substitutionary punishment. The penalty of sin is death – real death, fully dead, truly and completely dead – and God could not pay this price for us since he never dies, is eternal and unchanging.
Trinitarians allege that Jesus has 2 natures and only his human part died. It means that who died on the cross was another Jesus. A trinitarian had the audacity to claim yesterday that the trinitarian Jesus is far greater than the unitarian Jesus. This is false because the sacrifice of the unitarian Jesus is greater, total; All of Jesus died on the cross and this and only this is the divine payment for the sins of the world.
II. FIRST FRUITS & MAN
If Jesus were God incarnate who merely took on the form of a man and only appeared to die, it has no theological significance at all, for God is all powerful and can do anything. 1 Timothy 2:5 (NLT) There is one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and humanity—the man Christ Jesus. Interestingly, the emphasis here is the distinction between 2 Beings - God, in his singular, unitarian nature (not 3-in-1) and the man who is leveraged for the purpose of reconciliation - to God. IF this verse emphasized the God Jesus, it would be quoted as proof of the trinity but with no rejection criteria, the emphasis on Jesus being a man is given no weight and dismissed via dualism. According to this verse, if Jesus were God, we would have no means to reconcile ourselves to God. The theological importance of Jesus NOT being God cannot be over-stated! He is the fulcrum upon which the destiny of the world depends to satiate God’s divine standard of justice. This is what Jesus was Anointed by God to do.
Christianity's end game verse should get a lot more focus. Jesus is the 1st, meaning a series of like to follow, first of mankind - no dual nature Being. Christianity's end game verses emphasize repeatedly that Jesus is a man AND NOT God.
20 But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead. He is the first of a great harvest of all who have died.
21 So you see, just as death came into the world through a man, now the resurrection from the dead has begun through another man. 22 Just as everyone dies because we all belong to Adam, everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life. 23 But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back.
24 After that the end will come, when he will turn the Kingdom over to God the Father, having destroyed every ruler and authority and power. 25 For Christ must reign until he humbles all his enemies beneath his feet. 26 And the last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For the Scriptures say, “God has put all things under his authority.”[a] (Of course, when it says “all things are under his authority,” that does not include God himself, who gave Christ his authority.)
1 Corinthians 15:20-27 (NLT)
God is not under the man Jesus' authority. Profound.
Acts 17:31 emphasizes that God selected this man. If Jesus were any kind or part of God, such an absurd verse meaning ‘God selected a man, who is himself in the form of a man’ would never be written because it serves no purpose and violates 2 Cor 1:13 (VOICE) We are not writing to you in anything resembling codes or riddles
Colossians 3:12 points out that we too are chosen by God. John 1:12 says that we too are sons and daughters of God. So, while Jesus was the only son of God, as all firstborns are, he is no longer the only son of God. This is the theological inheritance the Bible speaks of. Jesus is one of ‘us’ (teaching us to pray to God as a brother to our father), not one of ‘them’ (pray to me or to F, S & HS).
The Bible repeatedly and explicitly says Jesus is a man and never claims he is God. Moreover, to fulfill his role as the Lamb of God, Jesus cannot be God who cannot die but a man and only a man. To be the first of a great harvest of all mankind, Jesus must be a man and only a man, not a 2 nature Being. Otherwise, he would not be the first of the harvest.
The most important fact of the Bible that proves Jesus is NOT God is that Jesus died, which is required for the title Lamb of God.
The role of the Lamb of God is to take away the sins of the world by substitutionary punishment. The penalty of sin is death – real death, fully dead, truly and completely dead – and God could not pay this price for us since he never dies, is eternal and unchanging.
Trinitarians allege that Jesus has 2 natures and only his human part died. It means that who died on the cross was another Jesus. A trinitarian had the audacity to claim yesterday that the trinitarian Jesus is far greater than the unitarian Jesus. This is false because the sacrifice of the unitarian Jesus is greater, total; All of Jesus died on the cross and this and only this is the divine payment for the sins of the world.
II. FIRST FRUITS & MAN
If Jesus were God incarnate who merely took on the form of a man and only appeared to die, it has no theological significance at all, for God is all powerful and can do anything. 1 Timothy 2:5 (NLT) There is one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and humanity—the man Christ Jesus. Interestingly, the emphasis here is the distinction between 2 Beings - God, in his singular, unitarian nature (not 3-in-1) and the man who is leveraged for the purpose of reconciliation - to God. IF this verse emphasized the God Jesus, it would be quoted as proof of the trinity but with no rejection criteria, the emphasis on Jesus being a man is given no weight and dismissed via dualism. According to this verse, if Jesus were God, we would have no means to reconcile ourselves to God. The theological importance of Jesus NOT being God cannot be over-stated! He is the fulcrum upon which the destiny of the world depends to satiate God’s divine standard of justice. This is what Jesus was Anointed by God to do.
Christianity's end game verse should get a lot more focus. Jesus is the 1st, meaning a series of like to follow, first of mankind - no dual nature Being. Christianity's end game verses emphasize repeatedly that Jesus is a man AND NOT God.
20 But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead. He is the first of a great harvest of all who have died.
21 So you see, just as death came into the world through a man, now the resurrection from the dead has begun through another man. 22 Just as everyone dies because we all belong to Adam, everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life. 23 But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back.
24 After that the end will come, when he will turn the Kingdom over to God the Father, having destroyed every ruler and authority and power. 25 For Christ must reign until he humbles all his enemies beneath his feet. 26 And the last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For the Scriptures say, “God has put all things under his authority.”[a] (Of course, when it says “all things are under his authority,” that does not include God himself, who gave Christ his authority.)
1 Corinthians 15:20-27 (NLT)
God is not under the man Jesus' authority. Profound.
Acts 17:31 emphasizes that God selected this man. If Jesus were any kind or part of God, such an absurd verse meaning ‘God selected a man, who is himself in the form of a man’ would never be written because it serves no purpose and violates 2 Cor 1:13 (VOICE) We are not writing to you in anything resembling codes or riddles
Colossians 3:12 points out that we too are chosen by God. John 1:12 says that we too are sons and daughters of God. So, while Jesus was the only son of God, as all firstborns are, he is no longer the only son of God. This is the theological inheritance the Bible speaks of. Jesus is one of ‘us’ (teaching us to pray to God as a brother to our father), not one of ‘them’ (pray to me or to F, S & HS).
The Bible repeatedly and explicitly says Jesus is a man and never claims he is God. Moreover, to fulfill his role as the Lamb of God, Jesus cannot be God who cannot die but a man and only a man. To be the first of a great harvest of all mankind, Jesus must be a man and only a man, not a 2 nature Being. Otherwise, he would not be the first of the harvest.
