Jesus Christ Still “Coming in the Flesh”
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Let’s make this even stronger. Let’s directly connect antichrists to evil works. So many do not understand John’s warnings—actually God’s through him—against those who “confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh” (I John 4:3 and II John 7). The Williams translation (among others) renders “is come” more clearly as “continues to come,” meaning Christ “is still coming” in flesh today.
Although Jesus came in the flesh 2,000 years ago, He is also coming in the flesh right now—in the lives of true Christians. He is actively working in them, living His perfect, sin-free life through them daily (Gal. 2:20). He is guiding them to become perfect (Matt. 5:48)—spiritually mature—just like Him (I John 3:1-3). You must grasp this.
Acts 5:32 explains that God only gives His Spirit to those who obey Him—who keep His commandments. This permits Christ to live His perfect life through them. Notice this: “And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight” (I John 3:22). Followed by, “He that keeps His commandments dwells in Him [Jesus], and He [again, Jesus] in him [the individual]. And hereby we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit which He has given us” (1 Jn 3:24).
Antichrists deny Christ by their evil works. These preachers claim (and the masses tragically believe them) that Jesus “kept the law for Christians.” Therefore, one need not obey those “harsh commandments”—they were “nailed to the cross.”
This thinking is ANTICHRIST! And you should now see why. So many forget (or never knew, because preachers never speak about it) that Paul wrote how God’s Law is “holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good” and “spiritual” (Rom. 7:12, 14).
The Bible states, “They profess that they know God [and millions do]; but in works they deny Him [did you see how people deny Christ?], being abominable, and disobedient [this can only be to GOD’S LAW], and unto every good work reprobate [Greek: unapproved]” (Tit. 1:16).
So then, antichrists are against God’s laws, and they are against the idea of any kind of qualifying for (not earning) eternal life through good works. In this way they deny the POWER of Christ at work in His servants.
Many technical attempts are made to explain away this truth. I have read them—and the ignorance and confusion they reflect are almost breathtaking. But these efforts should be transparent to you.
Understand. Jesus came in the flesh! And, since His Resurrection, He is sending His Spirit into Christians, to relive His righteous life through them. Properly understanding these things is vital to discerning any spirit not of God!
Our book The Ten Commandments – “Nailed to the Cross” or Required for Salvation? covers everything discussed here in detail.
The Trinity Doctrine in Its True Light
Now for a second way to deny Christ—and it will absolutely SHOCK you! Again, read carefully—and without bias. What follows is very serious—and to YOU! The popular trinity doctrine, taught to and believed by billions for centuries, promotes that God is “one Being, in three Persons, with one Nature,” and that Jesus is “one Person, with two Natures.” As referenced earlier, supposedly one “nature” of Jesus came to Earth and died at the crucifixion, while the other remained alive, still in heaven.
Let’s stop and consider—let’s “reason together” (Isa. 1:18), using the central question: How can one-half of one third of one Being die? Are you confused? You should be! This IS doctrinal confusion—and “God is not the author of confusion” (I Cor. 14:33).
Here is what the New Catholic Encyclopedia openly admits about the trinity. Read carefully: “…one should not speak of Trinitarianism in the New Testament without serious qualification…when one does speak of an unqualified Trinitarianism, one has moved from the period of Christian origins to, say, the last quadrant of the 4th century. It was only then that what might be called the definitive Trinitarian dogma ‘one God in three Persons’ became thoroughly assimilated into Christian life and thought.
“Herein lies the difficulty. On the one hand, it was the dogmatic formula ‘one God in three Persons’ that would henceforth for more than 15 centuries structure and guide the Trinitarian essence of the Christian message…On the other hand, the formula itself does not reflect the immediate consciousness of the period of origins; it was the product of three centuries of doctrinal development.”
In other words, the idea of “three persons in one God” did not originate in the Bible. Neither Christ nor the original apostles taught it. Nor did Paul. Instead, the trinity doctrine simmered in the minds of false Christians for three centuries. It originated with the Roman Catholic Church. By the fourth century, it became the official doctrine of the universal church.
It was never the teaching of God’s Church. This “god” is manmade—a human invention.
Grasp this. The trinity denies and limits the nature of God. It falsely teaches that God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, which denies God is a Family, and that He is reproducing Himself, expanding His Family with many sons (Rom. 8:29; Heb. 2:10). These sons are Holy-Spirit-begotten, which empowers them to develop righteous godly character. At Christ’s Return, they will be changed from mortal to immortal, from physical to spirit, from the human kind to the God kind. The trinity doctrine both limits God and denies His Master Plan of Salvation for mankind.
Plainly then, and for many reasons, the doctrine of the trinity is ANTICHRIST!
To understand much more about this false view of God, and why—how—it completely overthrows the entire Purpose of the true God, read our thorough book, The Trinity – Is God Three-In-One? To learn how God’s Master Plan involves you, read our book The Awesome Potential of Man.
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