Friday, June 20, 2014

God Robed in a Body of Flesh?

Modalist and Trinitarians claim that God dwells within Christ and therefore is God Himself, and "Christ" ends up simply as "God robed in a body of flesh."

The scriptures speak of the special abiding presence within the anointed one, the Messiah, the Son of God.  Nowhere does it say Christ is God Himself or that Christ is God in a particular form, such as "robed in a body of flesh."

Because Christ was filled with the fullness of God does not make him God Himself no more than it would make us God who are "filled with all the fullness of God" (Eph. 3:19).  Since Christ is a "living human being" like us, in whom God dwells, that does not make Christ or us God.  If Christ were God, that would make TWO beings who are God.

And if Trinitarians and Oneness Pentecostals want to say "Christ" was simply "God in a body of flesh," or "robed in flesh," then "Christ" is not a being but a "THING."  If "Christ" is a "Thing" (simply a body, not a person) in whom God dwells, then he, or rather "IT," is not a living being.

The scriptures show Christ with all the characteristics of a living human being, who was just that, a living human being!


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