Incarnation?

On Christmas Day from the Vatican in Rome to the Protestant world, it celebrates what is known as the "incarnation," meaning that at one time in history God became a human being.

The trinitarian teaching is that it was only the "man" part of Jesus who was conceived and then the "God" part of Jesus came along and merged with his "man" part in Mary's womb, but it was only the "man" part who was born. That scenario is just not the truth.

Flesh Does Not Mean "Sinful Nature."

People talk about “flesh” as though it is a separate entity from themselves.  “I was in the flesh today,” as someone might say because they hurt someone, whether verbally or physically, because they lost their temper.  

Flesh is nothing but an inanimate conglomerate of biological tissue, it has no moral quality.  If one lost their temper today it was the person who lost their temper, and cannot blame it on “flesh.”

Philippians 2:6

If Jesus was/is the form of God, then he certainly is not God.  Paul could have easily cut to the chase by saying "Jesus is God" to take away any doubt from the reader, but he does not, because he knows that Jesus the Messiah is not God.  

Phil. 2:6 is not talking about Jesus' "nature" (as the NIV translates it) or "substance" as God. In context, the passage has to do with rank or status, not substance.  When we try to make Jesus who he is not, this indoctrination of the trinity leads to nonsensical reasoning to make Jesus who he is not and to make the passages claim what it does not claim.  An example of this can be shown below:

Setting Aside a Special Day to Remember Christ’s Birth.

Sad to say, every year around Christmas time (and Easter) it seems to be a time when a number of Christians break fellowship with one another over these issues, which ought not to be.  And to add to this, much misunderstanding, confusion, and hurt feelings often result when trying to explain to a family member, or even a Christian, that what they are doing dishonors God and is an abomination to Him.  There are many, if they celebrate Christmas, are accused of following the way of the heathens for Christmas is said to be a pagan holiday. 

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.