Jesus Christ

Jesus is the human Son of the creator God of the Bible – Jehovah. He was conceived about 2000 years ago in the womb of a virgin named Mary by God’s power. He fulfilled all the Bible prophecies about God’s special Savior to save His people from death and hell, so He is called the Messiah or Christ – the anointed one of God. Time is measured before and after His birth.

Because He was God with a human body, He had two natures – one divine and one human. He is the perfect Godman – able to know your temptations and troubles to help you, and yet also God able to relate to the Godhead. He died as a substitute sacrifice for His people, was buried, rose again, sits at God’s right hand ruling the universe, and He will come again soon to destroy the world and gather together those that love and obey Him to spend an eternity in heaven.

No, the historical record about Jesus written by several different writers in the Bible says much more about Him. He was God. He was sinlessly perfect, unlike any other man. He had full divine power to perform any miracle. He rose from the dead and ascended into heaven, where He rules the universe.

Well, not like this:

See Revelation 3:20 Reclaimed for more.

Because God has testified this fact about His Son, and He expects you to believe it (I John 5:9-13)? The Bible is the inspired record about Jesus Christ as the Son of God (John 20:30-31). This is the greatest fact in the universe – far greater than anything else you believe. Your response to this fact – either belief or rejection – determines God’s blessing on you in life and eternity.

Jesus is Lord of all – period (Matt 28:18; Acts 10:36; Eph 1:20-22). He rules heaven and earth. All angels, good and bad, report to Him as His servants. They can do nothing without His approval.

Jesus is Savior of His people – for that is what His name means (Matt 1:21). He came to fulfill His Father’s will, which was to save every single one of God’s elect (John 6:38-39; 10:26-29).

Those Christians that think a decision for Jesus is what saves them have tried to separate the Lordship of Jesus Christ from His salvation. Some of them say you must confess and declare both. Others say you only must accept Him as your Saviour in order to be saved.

The problem with their whole foolish controversy is that no one is saved by their decision for Jesus. Salvation depends on God’s choice of them, which makes Jesus absolute Lord of each of life. If you want to assure your heart that you are God’s elect, then you must believe on Jesus as both Lord and Savior, because He is both of all God’s elect.

Because Jesus Christ of Nazareth is the Godman that did not exist as such until His incarnation in the womb of the virgin (Luke 1:30-35). The central doctrine of the New Testament is that Jesus is the Son of God (Matt 16:13-18; Acts 8:37; I John 5:4-5). The question must be asked, when did Jesus Christ of Nazareth come into existence? We maintain that Jesus of Nazareth came into existence at His conception in Mary. While His divine nature, the Word of God, was eternal God, Jehovah Himself, His human nature had a very definite beginning in the fullness of time and was made by a woman (Gal 4:4).

The language and doctrine of Origen’s eternal generation of the Son of God are pagan and anti-Christian heresies. We have no use for them or any council such as Nicea or any church such as Rome or Baptists that adopt either. We totally reject Origen’s “begotten god” in John 1:18 (see the NASB) and his “a god” in John 1:1 (see the NWT). We believe Jesus Christ of Nazareth is the Son of God – fully God and fully man – but not eternally generated in any sense.

See Also

For more about the eternal sonship of Jesus and its refutation: Sonship of Christ.

Did Jesus descend into hell and preach to the lost there?

No, this is a heresy of the Apostles’ Creed, which was first mentioned 300 years too late to have been seen or approved by any apostle. The fourth article says Jesus descended into hell, but Jesus Himself said to the thief that they would be in Paradise that day in the presence of God, for He also commended His spirit into God’s hands at the moment of death (Luke 23:43,46).

No, this is a heresy resulting from a bad interpretation of I Peter 3:18-20, which actually describes the Holy Spirit of the divine nature of Jesus Christ assisting Noah to preach to the disobedient men of his generation while the ark was being built under the longsuffering of God, the spirits of which men at the time Peter wrote his epistle were in the prison of hell.