The Bible Shows No Covering In Jesus’ Righteousness

Nowhere in the Bible does it say we are covered or imputed with Jesus’ righteousness.  Not one verse.

Moral character cannot be transferred.

The false doctrine of Once Saved, Always Saved (OSAS) would have us believe that Jesus’ righteousness is imputed to us. Nowhere does the Bible say this. One's faith is imputed or counted as righteousness. (Rom. 4:5)

One of the passages used to try and prove Jesus' righteousness is transferred to us is the phrase “the righteousness of God.” That says nothing of Jesus’ righteousness imputed to us (by "impute" they mean transferred).

Neither sin nor righteousness can be transferred between humans or between Christ and man.

Only One Elohim and Savior?

Reading through scripture, the word Elohim is not a divine title belonging to God alone, nor the word Savior.   We call Jesus the Messiah our Savior, and rightly so, but let’s look in Isaiah 43:11 where it says, 

“I, I am the LORD [Yahweh], and besides me there is no savior.” 

The conclusion in Trinity and Oneness doctrine is that Jesus is the heavenly Father. (Trinity doctrine believing three persons in one God but Jesus not the Father, and Oneness doctrine of three manifestations of the one God.)  No matter how it is viewed, Jesus ends up being the Father because there is only one savior and there is none beside Him.

No Fellowship? No Problem!

By Chip Brogden

You will never truly appreciate or benefit from fellowship until you have learned how to live without it.

There already is a fellowship of saints.  It is a spiritual fellowship, and it is based on Christ having the preeminence - not the fellowship having preeminence.  All this yearning for fellowship and being with others is the result of being hung-over from the religious system.  You're trying to fill a void that religion used to fill.

Are They Telling You the Truth About the Gospel?

By Anthony Buzzard  

Restoration Fellowship

Ask any student of the Bible and he will probably tell you that the Gospel message of salvation consists of two great truths:

1. Jesus died for our sins.
2. Jesus rose from the dead and ascended to the Father.

Few have stopped to ask themselves: Is this only what the Bible teaches?

Open a Bible and begin to read the accounts of Jesus’ preaching of the Gospel. Remember that Jesus was commissioned by God to give us the Gospel of salvation (Heb. 2:3). What facts did Jesus present to the public as the Gospel? Did he urge people just to believe in his death and resurrection?  He did not. Not according to Matthew, Mark and Luke. Jesus began in Galilee with an announcement of the Gospel. He called it the Gospel about the Kingdom of God:

The Shorthand Way of Saying "The Gospel of the Kingdom of God." ("The word" or "word of God.")

Excerpt from book by Anthony Buzzard: The Amazing Aims and Claims of Jesus - What you didn't learn in church.

I invite you, if possible with open Bible, to notice the verses which immediately follow Jesus’ great and classic statement about the whole point of his mission and about Christianity, in Luke 4:43. You will find in Luke 5:1 that people listening to the Gospel of the Kingdom were listening to what Luke calls the “word of God.” Now that phrase “word of God” is one which you really must understand, if you are going to make sense of the Bible and especially the New Testament books.

Our Righteousness As Filthy Rags?

How many times are we told "Our righteousness is as filthy rags."

People like to take passages of Scripture and apply them to the wrong people.  It may be true that the sinner who thinks he can buy his salvation by doing good deeds; that his own goodness will merit points while his heart is far away from God, his righteousness is as filthy rags.  His motive is not pure.  There are a lot of sinners who are capable of doing good deeds, but this does not score points with God when they think they are doing Him a favor by their good deeds.

I And My Father Are One (John 10:30)

John 10:30 is one of the verses used to try and prove Jesus is God simply because Jesus says, "My Father and I are one."

We must realize that Jesus uses the concept of being "one” in other places of Scripture. For instance, in John 17:11,21-22, Jesus prays that all his followers may be “one” as he and God are "one". Does this make Jesus or us God?

Waiting for God To Clean Up Your Life?

People who believe in the dreadful doctrine of Original Sin claim that they can't help but sin because they are born sinners, which the Scriptures never teach.   One of the passages most often quoted is Jer. 13:23.  

"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil."

Note first that it says "accustomed to do evil," not that they were born that way.  And if a person can't make any effort to stop sinning, why would Jesus give the command to "go and sin no more?"  

Jesus Taught Monotheism But Many Ignore Him

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? Psa 11:3 

Monotheism is something central to the heart and mind of Jesus – monotheism is what Jesus taught, it is at the foundation of his teaching.  In fact the word “monotheism” is found in the Bible in Jesus’ own words, were in his prayer to God, the Father, he says, “this is eternal life: that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent” (John 17:3). 

It is important also to notice carefully that Jesus’ words in John 17.3 has to do with eternal life, and that this involves two essential components: (1) that they may know you the only true God” and (2) “Jesus Christ whom you have sent.”  Having eternal life is not merely a matter of “believing in Jesus” as some preachers would have people believe.  Jesus himself tells us that one must first come to know

All Things Were Made by What?

Everyone is so thankful to William Tyndale for giving us our first English translation of the Bible based upon the Hebrew and Greek text.  His New Testament was published in 1526 and revised to its final state in 1534.

However, William Tyndale would probably be considered a heretic for translating John 1:3-4 as,

“All things were made by it, and without it, was made nothing that was made. In it was life, and the life was the light of men.

Tyndale used “it” rather than “him.”  From what I understand, “It” is a translation of the Greek “autou” meaning “he, she, or it.”  Since Tyndale did not read Jesus the Messiah into the “logos” or “word,” it shows he was not influenced by the Latin Vulgate of Wycliffe.

“I and the Father are one.” John 10:30

The trinitarian view is to get us to believe that this means Christ and the Father are of one essence or equality, when that is not what the verse teaches. The context is disregarded, for the context tells us about the good shepherd in contrast to the evil shepherds (see Eze. 34) Christ, our shepherd keeps the sheep away from the wolves, they cannot snatch us out of his hand, but that doesn’t mean we can’t walk away from the shepherd. As long as we are faithful to the shepherd, the wolves cannot snatch us out of his hand.

What is missing here is that the Father and

The Prodigal Son

Last night when I went to bed, I was thinking about the story of the prodigal son. I was also thinking how Jesus went about preaching the Gospel, which is the “Good news!” This Gospel he preached was about the Kingdom of God. Jesus gave many illustrations of what the Kingdom of God is like. This Gospel Jesus preached for 3 ½ years before he was crucified. The disciples (along with seventy others) preached this Gospel before Jesus went to the cross, so the Gospel is more than about the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus (this is important just as well). 

John preached to “repent and believe the Gospel” and Jesus said, “Repent! For the kingdom of Heaven has drawn near.”

"Repent" is not just about “sin management” by threatening hell over the heads

Nothing Has Two Natures

If Jesus had both a human nature and a God nature then he must simultaneously have perfect knowledge and limited knowledge. This is an impossible and contradictory position.

This is not to mention that to speak of anything as having

THE LOGICAL IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE TRINITY

The general teaching of the Trinity involves the following:

1. The Father is God.
2. The Son is God.
3. The Holy Spirit is God.
4. The Father is not the Son – the Son is not the Holy Spirit – the Holy Spirit is not the Father.
5.There is only one God.


If #1, #2, #3 and #5 are true then - the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are one entity. Yet this means that #4 cannot be true because the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are separate entities.  The average Christian seems to

Do The “Unelect” Really Hate And Reject God?

Those who follow Reformed Theology will say that people go to hell because they “reject God and hate Him.” They say God only died for the elect and eternally loves the elect, but doesn't eternally love the unelect. They believe God did the electing before anyone was born. So if a believer in Reformed Theology has a family member, say his mother, who is not one of the elect, then Christ didn't love her enough to die for her. So in reality it had nothing to do with the mother rejecting and hating God. God made the decision before the mother was born. His mother may hate and reject God, but that

Did Jesus See Abraham?

Someone said,

Jesus must have been delusional according to the Pharisees. He actually thought he had seen Abraham a long time back. Who knew? He did.

Does Jesus actually say he saw Abraham?  Jesus didn’t see Abraham.  Jesus actually said, Abraham rejoiced to “see my day.” (John 8:56).  What did Abraham see?  Jesus?  No.  By FAITH Abraham saw