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Jesus is NOT THE CHURCH.

Jesus is THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH.

The CHURCH belongs to Almighty God: YHWH.

• “And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he may have the supremacy” (Col 1:18)
• “To the church of God that is in Corinth…” (1 Cor 1:2)

Knowing that ‘Church’ is just a word meaning ‘Congregation of like-minded persons’, will aid the understand.

 

No, not ‘God’, but, IN A CONTEXT, ‘GODS’.

Angels are mighty in power and authority even greater than man ‘made in the image of God’ IN THIS PRESENT AGE AND TIME. They have GREAT POWERS and are fully authorised to exhibit those powers when needed. As such they are therefore obviously ‘Gods’ above all created things BUT under the Will of their creator, and WITHIN their own limited Will (Example: They gave Job time to try to get his family together despite their straight instruction to get the family out of Sodom. They also exercised their Will by giving way to Job’s request to go into the mountain rather than the town God instructed the angels to take them to! The Angel with the flaming sword chose not to kill Ahab but to reason with him for defying God’s command…!)

Remember the definition is referring to a TITLE of an entity considered as contextually SUPREME (etc.). Therefore a person of humanity IN CONTEXT OF OTHER PERSONS OF HUMANITY can be considered as A GOD if that person (OR GODS if ‘THOSE PERSONS’!!!!) are MIGHTY IN DEEDS, powers, authorities, etc greater than others:

• ‘A judge in the GOD in his courtroom’ (why is this applicable?)
• ‘Lions are considered the GODS of all animals of the African plains” (question as above)
• ‘A Chess Grandmaster is considered a GOD of his game’ (question as above!)
• ‘A Father in his household (pre-wokeness) is considered as the God of that household’ (same…)
• ‘Mankind is ‘GOD’ over the animal kingdom’ (same..!)

But scriptures tells us that, ‘Though there are Gods … aplenty, for us [who believe the truth] there is only one God: The Father….’

That is to say, as scriptures also says: ‘[He is GOD above all whom are called Gods’.

IOW’s there is a pyramid, a heirachy, of greatness and supremacy of beings which culminates in ONE ULTIMATE GOD above and in all in context!
Hence, even a judge in his courtroom is not GOD outside of it but gives way to the lawmakers of the land. And those lawmakers give way to international lawmakers, and …. By rights all should give way to the supreme one God but religious differences thwarts that ideal FOR HUMANITY!

And though the lion is considered king of the beasts, it is obvious that mankind is ‘A God above’ the lion…

The rest follows.

 

Jesus is not deity. It’s as simple as that.

It’s nothing to do with Unitarian or trinitarian or whateverarian… it is simply the truth.

 

Jesus is the head of GOD’s church: the congregation of believers.

God appointed Jesus to be the head of His church.
Jesus appoints the positions within the body of the church to those who are worthy of such positions (of course there will be ‘wolves in sheep’s clothing’ - appointments not commissioned by Jesus!)

 

Jesus Christ is head of GOD’s church….

The rest of what you said is desperate logic - illogic!

Christ is not God. God is not Christ.

‘Christ’ means ‘Anointed one’. God is not anointed.

An anointment is to be set aside (consecrated / Sanctified) for priesthood and/or Kingship. Do you see God being either? By whom would God be set aside by?

 

You did not supply a scripture verse which says that Jesus is God.

The scriptures says:

• “yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.” (1 Cor 8:6)

Also the difference between God and mankind is shown here by analogy:

• “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.“ (John 15:1-2)

You will notice that ‘the gardener’ and ‘the vine … and ‘the branches’ are different objects. The same is with:

• God (Spirit/Gardener) and with
• Jesus (Sinless Human/Vine) and with
• the believers (sinful human/Branches)

Also, Jesus disputed with the Jews for claiming that Jesus called himself, ‘God’:

• “Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world: Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God? ” (John 10:36)

Here, Jesus had just told the Jews that God is his Father. The Jews DESPITE THEMSELVES CLAIMING GOD AS THEIR FATHER claimed Jesus was ‘Making himself EQUAL TO (!!!??) God’ by saying he was the Son of God. Of course this is pure paganism which is from the types like Egyptians who claim their pharoahs were Gods because they viewed themselves as SONS OF THE GODS.

In fact, i suspect that such a verse is not valid scriptures. In my research I asked many times for anyone to show me where the Jews ever claimed that ‘A Son is equal to his Father’ I received either NO ANSWERS or replies saying there was never any such claim.

Can you do better?

Can you answer as to why the Jews accused Jesus of claiming to be ‘EQUAL TO GOD’ just because Jesus said that ‘God is my Father’? And this, even as the Jews themselves claimed God is their Father … does this seem credible - does such a verse tie in with the belief of the Jews who throughout their history knew of only one God whom they called ‘Father’ (Their creator)?

Oh, and, by the way, ‘Son’ means:

• “He who fully does the Will of [He who gives him the command]’

Jesus ‘fully’ carried out the Will of God, wherefore God called Jesus: ‘My Son’.

The holy angels always carry out the Will of God, wherefore they too are called ‘Sons of God’.

Jesus, in defending himself from the false accusations of the Jews told them:

• “[I only said that God is my father…] If I am not doing the works of my Father then do not believe me…!”

Here, Jesus is emphasising what it means to be ‘Son of God’ but the Jews fail to understand. However, they didn’t fail to understand the same when said to them by Jesus:

• ‘You are sons of YOUR FATHER. He was a liar from the beginning…!’

Of course Jesus mean that they were doing the bad deeds and works of Satan. The Jews did not think Jesus was saying that they were literally birthed by the satanic spirit given that awful name! How then are we supposed to believe that they claimed Jesus was EQUAL to God for being ‘Son of God’?

And note carefully: Being EQUAL to something does not mean you ARE that something. If you think I’m wrong, give me an example of your thinking!

Scriptures NEVER claims Jesus IS NOT GOD directly because NO ONE EVER CLAIMED Jesus WAS GOD….. no! Even The great trinitarian misinterpretation of Phil 2 does not claim Jesus is God because if misclaims that Jesus was ‘IN THE FORM OF GOD’ which, again, does not claim ‘IS GOD’. Testament is by the fact also that it says that Jesus did not think of being EQUAL TO GOD a thing to be GRASPED AT. Trintarians cannot understand that ‘Grasping’ for something does not mean it is already in hand … but means ‘Reaching out to TRY TO GRAB’.

So, Jesus, though HAVING THE POWER OF GOD (by anointment with the Holy Spirit (Acts 10:37-38) did not seek to misuse that power but rather he humbled himself to be like ordinary man even to being killed on a cross (The taunt of ‘Physician save thyself’ is a clue as to what this means!!)

 

The Spirit is OF God.