What is Life?

By

Lee

I was watching on the science channel a program called, “Through the Wormhole”, hosted by Morgan Freeman and it was about how we humans came to be.  The scientists approached life as the combination of certain elements, compounds and chemicals that under special conditions brought about life on Earth.  Over the years, science has attempted to reproduce those conditions to see if life would develop but it never has.  I realized that our modern science was looking for life in the wrong way and this because most of those involved in science would never consider the reality of what life is.  Science looks to the material and ignores all else with the focus being on matter and energy as though these things could produce life.  I rely on God for answers to the question of what life is, scripture reveals that human life, and all life is not in the body but in the spirit.  The Apostle James says that, “As the body without the spirit is dead so faith without works is also dead.” The book of Genesis says that all life forms including man are souls and that a soul is a living creature composed of two things, dust and spirit.  To study this fact you can read my article on this blog entitled, “Immortal Soul”.

This writing will deal with the source of life and using scripture give answers.  As James said the spirit is what gives life to the body for without the spirit the body is dead, has no life.  Modern science is attempting to answer the question by looking only at the matter from which our body was formed.  Our body is the dust of the ground just as Adams body was and when God first formed Adams body it had no life until God breathed into it the breath of life and then Adam became a living soul.  The breath of life is our human spirit and is what makes us alive, the spirit is life.  Science brings out the fact that our bodies are composed of elements, compounds and chemicals that make our flesh, hair, bones and blood and this agrees with scripture as our bodies were made from the dust of the ground.  This is the one-track mind of science that cannot accept anything that involves the idea of a creator God.  Science looks at the body as life not knowing that it is only an extension of life.  Your body is animated by your spirit and without the spirit; this animation will slow down or decay and eventually be devoid of any sign of life.  When the spirit departs the life force quickly fades and some functions fade faster than others, fingernails and hair may continue to grow after death but will eventually stop.  The body and spirit were designed to work in concert to make the complete human being but if the union of these two are broken this is called death.  In death, neither the body or the spirit will function and life completely ends, you cease to exist.  As long as science refuses to acknowledge God and spirit, they will never understand what life is and even if they did, could never find out life’s secrets because this is far beyond the ability of all but God.  In order to create life you would have to able to create spirit, matter of itself cannot have life.  That spirit part of us is how Adam and all of us are made after Gods image and likeness.  God is a spirit and man has a spirit but the spirit of man is far less than God so as to make man a shadow of his maker.  The words in the Hebrew for Image and likeness indicate a shadow, a phantom or poor quality copy and this is what we are compared to God.  The potential of man is to become “like” God and in His “image” in some way.  This is not to say that we will become Gods because Isaiah 43:10 dispels that notion but we are to be made similar to God is some ways.  Jesus was sent by God to us so that we could see God through Jesus.  Jesus was the fulfillment of what God is doing with man and we follow the example of Jesus and have the same destiny as Jesus.  God made us to exist as temporary mortal beings with a spirit that can only continue on forever if that spirit is in a body that can continue on forever.  This type of body is given to us only if we obey the message of the gospel and desire this change for ourselves.  We must come to know and understand Gods will for us and agree with it.  God has the power to put our human spirit that departed the fleshly body at death into a spiritual body at the resurrection when Jesus returns to Earth but until that time, we remain dead with no life of any kind.  This is the promise God gives to those who believe, everlasting life, a type of life that God and the angels have now.  The human spirit was created by God so that without a body, it cannot function in any way and this is why we need a new spiritual body in order to live forever.  This does not happen immediately after death but at the return of Jesus.  This is why it is the spirit that is the part of us that gives life to our mortal bodies now as well as to the spirit bodies we will receive.  Life is spirit and not matter or energy in some chemical compound and only God can create life.  God is called in scripture, “The Father of Spirits”, and weather we are a flesh being or spirit being God will always remain our Father. 

Are We Alone?

By

Lee

Time did not exist until the fourth day of what is called creation week. (Genesis 1:14-19) On the fourth day, God created the sun, moon, stars and other planets for days, month’s, seasons, signs and years.  This is when time, as we know it came to be. (Genesis 1:26-31) Adam was created on the 6^th day and lived until age 930, this means that only 24 hours or so had passed from the creation of time along with other planets until the creation of Adam.  If any other alien intelligent life exists, it could be no older than humanity and this would mean that technological advancement would have been similar and the aliens along with us would be incapable of interstellar travel.  The bible never mentions the existence of life on other planets and is concerned with humanity only.  You would think that if God created alien life salvation would have been offered to them as well.  (Revelation 21:6-7) In Revelation, when all of God’s purpose and will is completed, not only is there no mention of aliens being there but the physical heavens and Earth are burned up and replaced with a new heaven and Earth. (Revelation 21:1) & (2 Peter 3:10-13)  Would God destroy perhaps trillions of aliens if they existed and deny them salvation?  The answer is no.  This means we are alone and there are no aliens.  The physical universe of the heavens was created by God to prove God exists, (Psalm 19:1),  to inspire awe of God in the hearts of men and provide a celestrial clock. The only possible explanation for UFO and alien encounters are; natural phenomenon, demonic activity, human activity or lies told to gain attention.  The only intelligent life that exists is God, Jesus, the angels and humanity and in that sense we are not alone.

Thoughts

By

Lee

KJV Philippians 2:5-6

 5.  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

 6.  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

I gather from this scripture that I am to have the same mind Jesus did, the mind of God, to be equal to God in some way. The mind and the will are the same thing.

KJV John 5:30

 30.  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

Here Jesus said that he could do nothing but Gods will or Gods mind.

KJV John 5:23

23.  That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

Jesus and God have the same will, the same mind and we should honor the Son as we honor the Father.  To say that Jesus was capable of sin is to dishonor him and his Father.  Even though Jesus was a created being, God created Jesus with His will and His mind.  The quality of God of being unable to sin was also in Christ Jesus.

While Jesus was not omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent or eternal he was unable to sin and it is in this thing that Jesus was the image of the invisible God, the express image of His person, the brightness of His glory and that in Jesus was all the fullness of God in bodily form.

It is our thoughts that make us who we are and Gods thoughts that make God who He is.  Our thoughts must become His thoughts and His ways our ways.

KJV Psalms 139:23-24

 23.  Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

 24.  And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

David knew his thoughts could be sin.

KJV Proverbs 16:3

 3.  Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.

God has the power to establish your thoughts if you submit to His will.

KJV Isaiah 55:7

 7.  Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

KJV Matthew 15:19-20

 19.  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

 20.  These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

Jesus brings out the true cause of sin and it is our thoughts.

KJV Mark 7:21-23

 21.  For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

 22.  Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

 23.  All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

Our minds, our thoughts are what defile us. Jesus did not have a mind with evil thoughts and his mind was like Gods in this way. Jesus was like God in that he could not sin.

KJV Romans 2:15

15.  Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness,and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

The law could not address the thoughts and intents of the heart, the true place of our sins. By the Holy Spirit God begins to transform our minds to be like the mind of Christ that was equal to God.

KJV Hebrews 4:12

12.  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

This is how God will truly judge humanity.

KJV Genesis 6:5

 5.  And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

The evil thoughts of our minds, our hearts needs and inner cleansing by the Spirit of God.

KJV 1 Chronicles 28:9

 9.  And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

I know that some teach that Jesus could have sinned and I believe this to be because they use the temptation angle to try to prove that Jesus is not God.  This issue about temptation, cannot be used to prove Jesus was not God. This is because in the matter of temptation Jesus was exactly like his Father.

KJV James 1:13

 13.  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

KJV John 5:17-18

17.  But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

 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.

KJV Philippians 2:5-6

 5.  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

 6.  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

Jesus could not have sinned any more than God could sin because they had the same nature, will or mind.  In this Jesus was equal to God.

KJV John 5:19-20

 19.  Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.(Jesus could only have sinned if God could sin)

 20.  For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

Consider that God gave a testimony about His son long before Jesus was born by the words of the prophets and Jesus knew these words. Jesus knew that he was going to rule the kingdom of God, he told Pilate,

KJV John 18:37

 37.  Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

What this means is that Jesus knew that he would never sin and could not sin.

Consider also that if Jesus could have sinned on Earth what

would prevent him from sinning in heaven?  If Jesus is the same now in mind as he was when on Earth and it was possible for him to sin then perhaps God had better keep an eye on him.

KJV Hebrews 13:8

 8.  Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

God has no need to be concerned about Jesus because God created Jesus like Himself. Did not God say, “let us make man after our image and according to our likeness.”  Adam did not fulfill this, Jesus did.  There are many other ways to prove Jesus is not God but when it comes to the temptation way it will not work. 

Satan is the absolute master of temptation; after all, he tempted many angels to rebel against God. Remember that angels have seen the face of God and experienced the most high in all of His glory and yet they still sinned. Jesus went head to head with him and defeated him never once wavering. 

It has been said that if Jesus could not have sinned that the temptation would have been a farce, I will address that claim with my own thoughts and with scripture.

Since I was converted and came out of the law I learned the lesson of the schoolmaster, that lesson being that try as I may I could never keep the law because I always sinned.  Now that I have arrived and am with Jesus I find a teaching that says the Messiah I love had the ability to sin the same as me.  My desire is to become unable to sin to be like God and my hope to achieve that is the resurrection.

KJV 1 Corinthians 15:52-57

 52.  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

 53.  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

 54.  So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

 55.  O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

 56.  The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

 57.  But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

My understanding is that at the resurrection not only will I put on immortality but also be made incorruptible or unable to sin.  Sin was the problem that caused my death and I need to be changed so that I do not die.

This victory comes from God through Jesus Christ.  If I achieve this incorruption it had to have been made possible by a man who had been incorruptible, unable to sin.  When I sin today I know the blood of an incorruptible messiah can cover that sin so that I have the hope of some day becoming like him when he was on this Earth.  This knowledge provides me with great confidence and is proof from God to me that God is able to do for me what he did in the man Jesus.  This in no way diminishes Jesus being able to sympathize with us in our weakness but rather shows that he and the Father provided us with the hope of being raised in power.

KJV 1 Corinthians 15:43

 43.  It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

I am yet weak because I still sin and need forgiveness and these sins   cause me to hate this life of flesh and yearn for the change to come.

KJV John 12:25

 25.  He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life everlasting.

If Jesus was a potential sinner he could not provide for me what he himself did not have. I would always be a potential sinner just like Jesus, never truly being free from sin, unable to sin and become like my Father who cannot sin.  The only two potential sinners that ever lived were Adam and Eve and they became sin as all of their children are, we do not have sin we are sin.  Our human spirit, our mind and thoughts are sin and this is what defiles us and what we need saved from.

KJV Romans 6:22

 22.  But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

I am kept free from sin by the blood of Jesus looking to have my nature of sin changed to righteousness and holiness at the resurrection to everlasting life. I will never be completely free from sin until this change comes that is possible through God and Christ. At this time I have partaken of the nature of God only in part by the measure of His Spirit that I have been given but hope to put on the stature and fullness of Jesus when that change comes. I still sin but I know that will end when Jesus returns because then I will be like him and his Father, unable to sin.

This is not a farce but a living hope by which we draw close to God.

KJV Hebrews 7:19

19.  For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

Basic Understanding

By

Lee

The following are some basic things to understand in order to make sense of the scriptures.

Salvation or being saved is a future event that happens when Jesus returns. You do not have salvation now; it is a promise to the saints who continue in faith, obey the gospel and endure to the end.

Salvation is being changed from a sinful mortal flesh and blood human being into an immortal spirit being incapable of sin.

It is possible to lose salvation if you blaspheme the Holy Spirit and deny the faith and not obey the gospel.

Saints are still able to sin but these sins do not lead to death because repentance and forgiveness are available through Jesus.  Grace is the process the saints are under, not the law, but grace will not eradicate sin only cover and forgive sin, and the saints will always need grace because we will always have sins.  Grace is the straight and narrow way that leads us to salvation but is not salvation itself, the change from flesh to spirit and from sin to unable to sin is salvation.

Sin is a thought of our mind, which is our human spirit and can be manifested by outward acts and words. Sin can be hidden from other people if not acted out or spoken but not from God who sees our heart.  Sin is a spiritual thing and is not physical.  The human spirit is what is defiled by sin and our bodies are the vehicles we use to manifest the sins we speak or act out.  Lusting and coveting are a function of our human spirit and the source of all sin, you do not have to speak or act out sin just think it and it is sin.

The true definition of sin is whatever is not of God’s love.  We must become like God in love as Jesus demonstrated to us.  When we receive salvation at the return of Jesus and become immortal spirit beings unable to sin then for us grace will be over because we will be righteous and never sin again thus needing grace no more.  We are not immortal souls but mortal souls that die because of sin, sin brings death.  Jesus provided a way for us to escape the death sentence and the grace God provides or serves as a covering and loans God’s righteousness to us until we receive salvation and become immortal spirit beings with life and righteousness inherent.  Salvation is not a place where your immortal soul goes after death but is life itself, you are mortal and die, you need life of the kind angels have.  Salvation is being married, grace is the engagement period.

Jesus is not God, Jesus is God’s son and was a human being and a special one of a kind soul created by God in righteousness and true holiness incapable of sin.  The human spirit of Jesus was like ours will become when we receive salvation but in a human body.  Jesus came to reveal the Father in that he was as righteous as God but he was human and in this way, if you see Jesus you see the Father.

Jesus had the same character as God his Father but not the same abilities like omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience and being eternal with no beginning. 

No one goes to heaven or hell at death; they cease to exist until a resurrection from the dead after Jesus returns. 

There is no such thing as universal salvation, the idea that absolutely everyone will be saved, the lake of fire is the second death from which Jesus saves us if we obey the gospel.  Because of what God did through Jesus, two resurrections were made possible. All who have died that have not committed the unpardonable sin will be in only one of these two resurrections; the saints in the first and everyone else who was deceived in the second.  This means that our deaths are temporary and because we are mortal, we die naturally anyway; therefore, it is the second death, the everlasting death that Jesus saves people from.  If Jesus had not provided these resurrections then our physical death would have been everlasting. 

There are two kinds of righteousness; under the law, righteousness was of legal nature and will not provide the hope of salvation. God approved of this type of law righteousness if those who were under the law kept the law but God would not accept this law righteousness as equal to His own.  Righteousness of God by faith is the only type of righteousness God will accept and is not the same as righteousness under law because law righteousness was of the person under law and not of God.  The righteousness of God is by nature and not by command; it is how you naturally exist and not how you are commanded to exist.  God exists naturally righteous and needs no law to command Him to be righteous and that is what the saints are to become, naturally as righteous as God.

This confirms free will in human beings because God has free will and is bringing us to salvation by our free will desire for salvation.  The law had free will only to choose to obey or not but always brought death because no one could obey perfectly if the thoughts and intents of the human spirit could not be addressed under the law.  Under grace, there is a change of nature that addresses the human spirit where God’s love begins to change our way of thinking, to give true free will by being set free.  Under grace, spiritual knowledge is revealed giving us truth to understand our situation and the answers to our problem.  The love of God, God’s own nature of being righteous, is given to us by God’s Holy Spirit and we begin the process that leads to salvation called grace.

Again, grace is the engagement of us to Jesus but salvation is the actual marriage.  The marriage is yet future, the marriage supper of the Lamb.

 If Jesus is the first born of many and the first of the true creation of God and Jesus had no one to die for him in order to have salvation but was proclaimed to be salvation then Jesus had to be created by God with a human spirit that while being in a fleshly body was as ours will become when we enter the kingdom of God.  Our human spirits need glorified, changed so that we cannot sin but Jesus was created with a glorified human spirit and only needed a glorified spirit body.  Jesus was a human being with a glorified human spirit in a fleshly human body and this is why Jesus was incapable of sin.  Jesus was tempted with evil by Satan but Satan failed to tempt Jesus with evil.  The thoughts of Jesus during this temptation never included any evil or sin but he voiced his thoughts and countered every evil temptation Satan threw at him with the truth of God.  Jesus was victorious over Satan and had proved to us that what God promises to us He can deliver, salvation through a man who was unable to sin, a sure promise to all saints from Enoch to us today. 

I have not directly quoted any scriptures in this writing but have paraphrased many. I challenge all readers to search the scriptures with God only as your guide and believe them.

Unitarianism’s Greatest Error

By

  Lee  

While I am in total agreement with the truth of there only being one God and that Jesus was not God my disagreement with Unitarian teaching is their teaching concerning the person of Jesus.  In the quest to prove that Jesus is not God Unitarians have gone overboard with misguided zeal.  In this paper I will attempt to prove that Jesus did indeed have Gods own nature, divine mind and character and that this was necessary for Jesus to have been our messiah.

Proof #1.  The fulfillment of the law.

Jesus came to fulfill the law and in order to do that he had to be as righteous as God.  The law was a reflection of Gods righteousness but was designed with a flaw.  That flaw was that the law did not address the thoughts and intents of the heart, the thoughts of man, mans inner spirit that is what man really is.  It is the spirits of men that will inherit the kingdom and not the flesh of men.  Man is a soul or the combination of two things, body and spirit.  It is the spirit of man that God is interested in and offers salvation to.  This human spirit became defiled and evil, we became the children of the devil and do his will and this is the nature that must be transformed by God into His own nature.  Jesus was manifested to do this very thing and was a man with the nature of God displayed to us so that when we see Jesus we see the Father.  Jesus came into a world of spiritual darkness as a great light and we should not try to call that great light darkness in any way.

The savior of man could not himself walk in darkness if he is to save those who do.  The mind of Jesus was an exact copy of the mind of God and this is how Jesus was the express image of the person of God.  Jesus had none of Gods attributes like omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience or of being eternal but Jesus did have Gods nature of righteousness, love, holiness as well as being unable to sin. Jesus magnified the law and made it honorable by making the thoughts of sin equal to the act and receiving the same punishment.  This is how the flaw in the law was corrected and Jesus had to keep this law himself in order to fulfill it.  Adam was told that if he ate from the forbidden tree that he would surely die and this because he would gain the knowledge of good and evil but lack the ability to control the knowledge and would sin and therefore die.  With out God man cannot always do good and never do evil and to know good and do it not is sin.  This is how man became defiled and why the second Adam had to come and demonstrate to us the very righteousness of God so that we might see it, and realize we are sinners in need of saving.  There is no way a son of Adam could ever keep the law let alone after Jesus magnified the law to include the thoughts and intents of the heart.  It would require a new man, a man exactly like God in heart.  This new man would be the first of his kind a new creation that never existed before.  This man would have to be the son of God.  Jesus was not a descendant of Adam according to his human spirit but only to his human flesh, his spirit was the new spirit of man created after righteousness and true holiness.

KJV Ephesians 4:24

 24.  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

KJV Galatians 3:27

 27.  For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Jesus is the first new man and while in the flesh was the provider to us of all the things God wills for us. 

Proof #2. The testimony of the prophets

Jesus knew the words of the prophets and therefore knew that he was destined to rule the kingdom of God. The words of the prophets were Gods testimony of His son.  This means that Jesus knew that he would not be able to sin because this was against His Fathers testimony of him and would have destroyed his Fathers will. Since the foundation of the world, Jesus was the messiah and this by the will of God so how could anyone say that Jesus could have sinned and bring in doubt the faith and hope God gives to us.  Imagine David, who wrote about Jesus, looking forward to a messiah who could possibly sin, what would that do to David’s confidence in God and this future messiah?  This idea that Jesus could have sinned, in order for it to be true, would have to make prophecy an unsure word, make Gods will questionable and put all the promises to us on the gambling table.  The following scriptures would be untrue if Jesus could have sinned.

KJV Acts 2:25

 25.  For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:

KJV Acts 2:30-32

 30.  Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

 31.  He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.

 32.  This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.

Anyone that teaches that Jesus was a potential sinner is a blasphemer and a liar operating with a carnal mind needing revelation knowledge and later repenting asking God through the name they have profaned for forgiveness.

Proof 3. The resurrection of the saints

The saints are resurrected to immortality and also will be made incorruptible. Jesus, as a man, made both of these things possible and therefore had to be the first to have each.  While in the flesh the human spirit of Jesus was as ours will become at the resurrection, unable to sin, incorruptible. All Jesus needed was a glorified body for his human spirit to dwell in forever and he received this first, before us as well. Jesus did not have a human spirit with our nature but a human spirit with Gods nature because our natures are defiled by sin. The human spirit of Jesus was created after Gods own image and likeness and he, while in the flesh was the image of the invisible God but was visible to us so that we could see God in him.

Proof #4 The misunderstanding of the temptation of Jesus

KJV James 1:14

 14.  But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Unitarians say Jesus was a man just like all men with a nature like Adams children, he was human and not only could he have sinned according to Unitarian definition, he did sin by his own definition of what sin is.

If Jesus was tempted, he had to be drawn away by his own lust and enticed just as James describes above.  Below Jesus defines sin as lust and agrees with James above.

ASV Matthew 5:28

 28.  but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. (everyone includes Jesus ???)

It is plain that Jesus taught that sin begins in the heart and every man is tempted by his own lust, therefore if Jesus was tempted, as Unitarians insist, then he did sin according to his own definition.  If this is true then we have no Messiah.

Since Unitarians say Jesus had a nature just like ours, it is no wonder that he would be prone to commit sin by being tempted.  Further Hebrews tells us that Jesus was tempted and drawn away by his own lust in every point just as we are.

ASV Hebrews 4:15

 15.  For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.(How can this be)

If it was possible that Jesus could have sinned how could the above scripture in Hebrews be true, saying “yet without sin.”

How is it that even though Jesus being tempted and drawn away by his own lust could still be without sin?  Did God have to make some kind of exception for Jesus that he will not make for you and me? According to Unitarian thought, Jesus was indeed tempted, in order to be tempted you must have the desire and the ability to sin, and Jesus had both because he was indeed just a man like all men and was tempted just like all men, this is the Unitarian way of thinking.  What was the exception God made for Jesus?  For any temptation to be successful a man must lust and be enticed in his mind otherwise there would be no temptation, he does not have to commit the act only think about it.  Since Jesus was the image of God by nature of righteousness, holiness and love, there was in fact no temptation of Jesus for just as God cannot be tempted to sin neither could Jesus. After all look at the result, did Satan succeed?  No, Satan failed miserably, Jesus humiliated Satan. This shows us that we have a messiah that can indeed save us and set us free from our natures to be conformed to his nature, which is the nature of his God and Father.

If Jesus was a potential sinner he could not provide for me what he himself did not have. I would always be a potential sinner just like Jesus, never truly being free from sin, unable to sin and become like my Father who cannot sin. 

One and Only One God

By

Lee

This prophecy is speaking of Jesus Christ.  Take very careful note of the portions in bold and consider them because in them is a hidden truth.

KJV Isaiah 49:1-6

Isaiah 49

 1.  Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

 2.  And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a Polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;

 3.  And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

 4.  Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.

 5.  And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.

 6.  And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

KJV John 17:3

 3.  And this is life everlasting, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

KJV John 20:17

 17.  Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

KJV Matthew 27:46

46.  And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

KJV Mark 15:34

34.  And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Jesus Christ had a God and it was his Father.

KJV 2 Corinthians 11:31

 31.  The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

KJV Ephesians 1:3

3.  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

KJV Ephesians 4:4-6

 4.  There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

 5.  One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

 6.  One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

KJV 1 Peter 1:3

 3.  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

KJV Revelation 3:12

12.  Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

KJV Psalms 22:1-19

Psalms 22

 1.  My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

 2.  O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

 3.  But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

 4.  Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

 5.  They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

 6.  But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

 7.  All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

 8.  He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

 9.  But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

 10.  I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

 11.  Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

 12.  Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

 13.  They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

 14.  I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

 15.  My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

 16.  For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

 17.  I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

 18.  They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

 19.  But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

  

Jesus was 100% human and 0% God, he was a man.  The law demanded the sacrifice of a righteous man not a righteous God. Since by man sin came into this world God decreed that by a man salvation would come.  Jesus fulfilled the requirements of the law when no other human being could because he was filled without measure by the spirit of his Father.  The Holy Spirit of the Father empowered Jesus to say and do all that was needed to fulfill the gospel.  There are quite a few verses of scripture that men have changed to make it appear that Jesus is God but these scriptures were corrupted by those men who introduced the idea of the trinity in 325 AD.  Check out those verses word for word using a concordance.

HOW MEN CORRUPTED THE WORD OF GOD TO SUPPORT THE FALSE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY

 THE BIBLE WE USE TODAY WAS INTERPRETED USING MANUSCRIPTS THAT WERE WRITTEN LATE IN THE 3^RD CENTURY OR EARLY IN THE 4^TH CENTURY AD.  AT THIS TIME IN HISTORY THE ROMAN CHURCH WAS FORMULATING THE IDEA OF THE TRINITY.  GREEK PHILOSOPHY WAS USED TO IDENTIFY JESUS AS A THIRD PERSON IN A TRIUNE GOD.   THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON AND NICEA WERE CONVIENED PARTIALLY TO ADDRESS THE DIVINITY OF JESUS AND TO ESTABLISH THE TRINITY DOCTRINE.  THE SCRIBES USED THE OLDEST MANUSCRIPTS TO TRANSLATE THESE NEW EDITIONS OF THE BIBLE AND WERE INSTRUCTED BY THE CHURCH TO MAKE CHANGES TO CERTAIN WORDS AND PHRASES TO MAKE THE IDEA OF THE TRINITY MORE CLEAR TO READERS AND SUPPORT THE DOCTRINE THAT THE CHURCH HAD ACCEPTED AT THE TWO COUNCILES MENTIONED ABOVE.  THE CHURCH NO DOUBT FELT THAT THEY WERE DOING THE RIGHT THING BY CHANGING WORDS AND PHRASES TO SUPPORT WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS THE TRUTH BUT IN THE PROCESS INTRODUCED THE MOST TERRIABLE HERESY THAT HAS EVER ENTERED INTO THE PAGES OF THE BIBLE.

BELOW IS THE KING JAMES VERSION OF JOHN 1: 1-4.

KJV John 1:1-4

John 1

 1.  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

 2.  The same was in the beginning with God.

 3.  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

 4.  In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

THE ACTUAL MANUSCRIPTS USED TO INTPRET THIS VERSE WERE CHANGED BY THE SCRIBES AND THE PERSONAL PRONOUN “HIM” WAS INSERTED TO MAKE THE WORD A PERSON RATHER THAN A THING.

THE GENEVA BIBLE WAS ALSO INTERPRETED FROM THE SAME MANUSCRIPTS BUT RENDERS THE VERSE AS BELOW.

John 1:1

1.    In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.

2.    The same was in the beginning with God.

3.    All things were made by it and without it was not anything made that was made.

4.    In it was life and the life was the light of men.

A word is not a person but a thing.  The word is what God spoke at the beginning.

 This word later was made flesh in the person of Jesus who spoke his Fathers words.

This does not make Jesus God but God’s words being spoken by His Son.

The gospel of John chapter 17:5 as rendered in modern bible translations.

KJV John 17:5

 5.  And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

Now the verse as translated from the literal translation.

LIT John 17:5

 5.

   |2532| And

   |3568| now

   |1392| glorify

   |3165| me

   |4771| You,

   |3962| Father,

   |3844| with

   |4572| Yourself

   |3588| with the

   |1391| glory

   |3739| which

   |2192| was held for me

   |4253| before

   |3588| the

   |3588| of the

   |2889| world

   |1511| existence

   |3844| with

   |4671| You.

Strong's Ref. # 2192

Romanized  echo

Pronounced ekh'-o

including an alternate form scheo {skheh'-o}; used in certain tenses only); a primary verb; to hold (used in very various applications, literally or figuratively, direct or remote; such as possessions; ability, contiuity, relation, or condition):

KJV--be (able, X hold, possessed with), accompany, + begin to amend, can(+ -not), X conceive, count, diseased, do + eat, + enjoy, + fear, following, have, hold, keep, + lack, + go to law, lie, + must needs, + of necessity, + need, next, + recover, + reign, + rest, + return, X sick, take for, + tremble, + uncircumcised, use.

The glory Jesus is asking for was held for him or on hold for him.  This glory was with the Father and kept in store for the time it would be given to Jesus.  This is what Jesus is asking His Father for; the glory that was promised to him because he had fulfilled the work his Father gave him to do.

Jesus has his own glory that is separate from that of God.

KJV Luke 9:26

 26.  For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.

The prophet explains that God does not give his own personal glory of being God to anyone else.

KJV Isaiah 42:8

 8.  I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

KJV Isaiah 48:11

11.  For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.

Jesus did not pre-exist with the Father in glory but the glory of the son was held in safe keeping by the Father to be confirmed on him at his resurrection. God did not become a man descended from Adam because Adamic man is corruptible, God had to make a new kind of man, the man Jesus Christ. 

KJV Romans 1:23

 23.  And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

Jesus was sent into the world to give his life for our sins.

Death is the absolute end of life by any definition.  If Jesus did not die exactly the same way that you and I die then he was not dead.  This would mean there was no sacrifice and we are still in our sins.  Jesus ceased to exist when he died just like you and I will.  Jesus was a human being and called the second Adam.  Adam was called the son of God and so was Jesus and so are we if we are saints.  Being a son of God does not require pre-existence and Jesus did not pre-exist with the Father in eternity any more that we did.  Jesus was a prophecy in the old covenant writings, a promised Messiah, and did not exist until Mary gave birth to him.