The Dual Nature of Christ (part 2)
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The lamb taking the book
The lamb taking the book
We see the lamb taking the book from the one on the throne in the Book of Revelation?
1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?
6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
This is a scene of the Son of God (humanity) taking the book from the Father (deity).
The right hand in verse 7 is again symbolic of power, referring to deity.
The lamb in verse 6 is symbolic of the man, Christ Jesus, being the sacrificial lamb.
Later in Revelation 22:3, we find the Lamb in the throne. Again this is symbolic of the place of power (Ephesians 1:20-23; Matthew 28:18).
3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
we see the place of power explained in the bible further.
20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Colossians 2:9-10
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Conclusion: The Father did not just lose His power to the Son. The Son is simply the visible image of God for all to behold and worship.
Summary: Jesus was fully God and fully man.
He had all the power of the Almighty, yet all the limitations of humanity.
The dual nature of Christ fits perfectly with the Oneness concept, while it presents a problem for the co-equal power of The Trinity.
THE SUPREME DEITY OF CHRIST
THE SUPREME DEITY OF CHRIST
If Jesus is not exclusively divine, then we must parcel out the divine attributes of deity into three separate lots, giving the Father one part, Jesus one part, and the Holy Ghost one part.
Scripture reveals that Jesus did not just possess a part of Deity. Instead, Christ was the Supreme Deity.
The bible records that the the Jews asked him (Jesus) Tell us plainly if you are the Christ…
24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.
30 I and my Father are one.
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
The Jews wanted to know plainly if Jesus was the Christ.
The word Christ means Messiah.
They were looking for their Jehovah to come and be their Savior.
Jesus affirms His Supreme divinity by saying “I and my Father are one.” The Jews understood this to mean that he was declaring Himself to be Jehovah God. This was blasphemy to them, so they immediately took up stones to stone Him.
Jesus was claiming to be God…not just equal with God.
61 But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?
62 And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
63 Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?
64 Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
This passage makes it plain that Jesus claimed to be Christ, the Son of God.
This claim meant to the Jews that Jesus was claiming to be God, which was blasphemy to them.
Son of God means equal with God.
Son of God means equal with God.
18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
Christ here calling himself the Son of God meant to the Jews that he was making himself equal with God.
Paul confirmed this statement
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Trinitarians believe this teaches that Jesus was a separate person who was equal with the Father. However, to be equal with God is to be God.
For no created being, however exalted, can be equal or compared with the uncreated Jehovah
Isaiah 40). Jesus was originally in the form of God, but at His birth, He took on the form of man.
He assumed human nature at His incarnation.
The Jews also understood that being equal with God meant that he was making Himself God.
They brought this accusation to Pilate and this is the reason Jesus died.
Jesus declared His Supreme Deity by not denying or refuting the charge.
Creation proves the Supreme Deity of Christ.
Creation proves the Supreme Deity of Christ.
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
These two passages declare the Supreme Deity of Jesus.
Jesus was God in the beginning (John 1:1). If creating the universe is not proof of His Supreme Deity, then we have no proof that such power exists.
THE PRE-EXISTENCE OF CHRIST
THE PRE-EXISTENCE OF CHRIST
Trinitarians believe that Jesus pre-existed as a separate person before his incarnation.
The Oneness adherents believe the pre-existence of Christ was not of his human body, human spirit, or his human soul, but he pre-existed as the eternal Spirit known as the Father.
Jesus possessed the Spirit of God without measure
34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
meaning that the spirit within Christ was not just a partial spirit..as we have the earnest of our inheritance..but in full measure…undivided and complete.
Jesus claimed His Supreme Deity when he told the Jews,
58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
This was the title the Jehovah God of Israel revealed Himself by to Moses
14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
and this expression of Christ therefore shows that He claimed to be no less than God Himself.
Since Abraham predeceased Jesus by two thousand years, then Jesus was not older than Abraham in the natural. He was speaking of His divinity.
Jesus prayed to the Father.
Jesus prayed to the Father.
5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
This does not prove Christ’s pre-existence as a person. It rather proves that Christ was glorified in the mind of God before His incarnation.
This does not mean that Jesus was glorified in eternity past just as He had not been crucified in eternity past.
At the time of this prayer, Jesus’s crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, and glorification were all future events.
However, all of these events had taken place in the mind of God before the world began. (Romans 4:17; Jeremiah 1:5)
17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
David’s Lord or Son?
David’s Lord or Son?
41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David.
43 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,
44 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?
45 If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
Jesus, in his human nature, is David’s offspring. Thus, he is called the son of David.
However, in his divine nature, Christ is David’s Lord or God.
Thus, he is called the son of David, and yet David acknowledges him as his Lord.
This fits perfectly with the dual nature of Christ.
THE TERM “ETERNAL SON” IS A TRINITARIAN INVENTION
THE TERM “ETERNAL SON” IS A TRINITARIAN INVENTION
The term “eternal son” is not found in the Bible, however, the term “begotten son” is found.
The words “eternal” and “begotten” are contradictory and mean the complete opposite.
Begotten means you had a beginning; eternal means you never had a beginning.
If you are eternal, then you have never been begotten. If you are begotten, then you are not eternal.
The dual nature explains that Jesus was begotten in his flesh, but his divinity was eternal.
Being in the bosom of the Father
18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
and being sent from the Father
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
does not mean that Jesus was with the Father in his humanity or that Jesus was a separate spirit or person before he was begotten.
The word begotten is attached to the human nature of Christ, not the divine nature.
Furthermore, the Sonship is finished at the end of the millennium. (Matthew 26:64; Acts 17-31; John 5:22)
64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
THERE ARE NOT THREE SPIRITS IN THE GODHEAD
THERE ARE NOT THREE SPIRITS IN THE GODHEAD
The Father and the Son are the same Spirit.
· There is one Spirit (Ephesians 4:4)
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
There is one Lord, Jesus Christ
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
the Lord is that Spirit
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Jesus and the Holy Ghost are the same Spirit.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
we see this is Christ in you , the hope of glory.
26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Jesus and the Holy Ghost are the same intercessor.
Jesus and the Holy Ghost are the same intercessor.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
we see that both Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are our intercessors....
are they multiple intercessors? or just one in the same spirit.
Thomas called him Lord and God.
Thomas called him Lord and God.
28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
Thomas made this statement after touching the nail prints and pierced side of Jesus.
Perfectly satisfied of the reality of our Lord’s resurrection, Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God”.
Thomas was the first who gave the title of God to Jesus and Jesus did not reprove him for it.
Could Jesus have been honest to permit his disciple to indulge in a mistake so monstrous and destructive, if it had been one?
would he have allowed them to put other Gods before the almighty?
God is a jealous God....
Oneness does not teach that the flesh of Jesus was deity but it does teach that the Spirit within Him and fused with Him was deity.
Therefore, we can say that Jesus was the Supreme Deity.
This does not mean that Oneness believers are “Jesus only” as some have falsely accused.
We affirm the role of the Father as much as anyone.
We affirm the role of the Son more than most,
and we affirm the role of the Holy Spirit far more than any other group.
Thus, the “Jesus only” label is not an accurate description of Oneness Theology.
“Jesus name” would be a more accurate statement.
Moreover, Oneness is not Unitarianism which teaches a form of Oneness but denies the deity of Christ.
The dual nature clearly demonstrates the deity of Jesus Christ.
Furthermore, Oneness is not Patripassianism which teaches that the Father Himself suffered at Calvary.
Trinitarians Change Words
Trinitarians Change Words
1 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, Until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Trinitarian translators have changed the words to read:
Yahweh said to Yahweh.
This would have one God speaking to another God.
The dual nature helps us understand that this is the Supreme Deity speaking to the humanity of Christ.
In Hebrew it reads: The Lord (Yahweh, 3068) said to my Lord (Adoniy, 113). The word Adoniy means: lord, master, owner (Strong’s 113).
IS JESUS IN THE GODHEAD OR IS THE GODHEAD IN JESUS?
IS JESUS IN THE GODHEAD OR IS THE GODHEAD IN JESUS?
Dr. Gordon Magee, a Oneness theologian and popular radio speaker, wrote a pamphlet on the Godhead in which he framed the question for his title Is Jesus in the Godhead or Is the Godhead in Jesus? The simple answer from scripture is that the Godhead is in Jesus.
Dr. Gordon Magee, a Oneness theologian and popular radio speaker, wrote a pamphlet on the Godhead in which he framed the question for his title Is Jesus in the Godhead or Is the Godhead in Jesus? The simple answer from scripture is that the Godhead is in Jesus.
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.