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?