To Him That Has An Ear Hear What The Bible Says Is The Christian Confession

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1 2016 Wayne L. Atchison Edited: March 18, 2016 To Him That Has An Ear Hear What The Bible Says Is The Christian Confession The Biblical Confession Affirms That Jesus The Christ Is Right Now Still In The Flesh! In our society, it is not politically correct to use the Bible to make personal judgments against people. Nevertheless, it is our duty to make personal judgments so that we may know the difference between right and wrong. We must make personal judgments every day, but only God has the right to make final eternal condemnations. In 1-John 4:2, God provides His children with a test. We are to use this test to make a very serious judgment about others. The test tells how to discern between the spirit of God and the spirit of Antichrist. Even without assigning condemnation, this is a very serious accusation to make against someone else. Those that pass the test can be called very nice things. However, those that do not pass this test are called Antichrists. Certainly, such a serious accusation must be backed up by a very clear test. Quoting the King James Bible, 1-John 4:2: Hereby, know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist In the English language this test seems to be simple enough. Certainly all Christians can pass this test. However, the trouble is that this test is too simple. Many people of other religions can also pass this same test. Many Jews do not deny that Jesus lived, and some will allow that he was an anointed Messiah, but, a Messiah only in the sense that King David was also an anointed Messiah too. The Muslims also believe that Jesus lived, and was a prophet that will come again. So the Muslims can pass this test. Many of the eastern religions also believe that Jesus lived as a spiritually enlightened man, that he was a great prophet, even a Messiah, just like Buddha. Even those in the eastern religions can pass this test. It appears that this test is just too easy to pass. However, ask yourself: is it prudent to believe that God provided His children with a worthless test? Why provide a test at all, if it is not really a good test? Well, 1-John 4:2 is a good test. The traditional English translations do not have it translated correctly, on purpose. Reading the confession in the Greek Text reveals just how serious of a test it really is. In the Greek language, this verse forms a confession so serious, that the first reaction of most Christians is, No, this cannot be true! In this test is the affirmation against the traditional teachings about the nature of the Christ. In this test is the affirmation that Christ is not a spirit God-Person sent from heaven. The Trinity and other preexistent views of the Christ are directly refuted by this Biblical confession. In this test, the confessor affirms that the vast majority of traditional Christianity is in serious doctrinal error..

2 The following Grammatical Analysis of the Greek Text is taken from: 1. "The Complete Word Study New Testament with Parallel Greek" 1992 Spiros Zodhiates and AMG International, Inc. AMG Publishers. 2. "Analytical Greek New Testament" 1981 Baker Book House Company. 3. "Net Bible, New Testament Clarified and Explained in 15,950 Footnotes" 1998 Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. 4. "Thayer Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament" (Lexicon) 1977 Baker Book House Company, Twelfth printing March Primary Source: the 2 nd Century Greek Grammar written in the Canon of Apollonious of Dyscolus. It says this about anarthrous proper names! Throughout this article the Greek Text is being quoted. The Greek Text uses the word 'Ieesous', which is translated as Jesus (English, Aramaic 'Yahoshua'). This author will therefore use this name Jesus for the Messiah in this article. Normally, the author personally prefers to use the Aramaic pronunciations, Ya-ho-wah for YHWH, and Ya-ho-shua for Jesus. Getting Started To understand this confession we will concentrate on these words from the King James Bible: [confesseth that] Jesus Christ is come in the flesh In the Greek Text, there are only five words to be understood, in this order: " Jesus + Anointed + in + flesh + is-come " Now we will dive into the Greek grammar. Why talk about Greek grammar? Because the Bible was not written in English, it was written in the Greek language, so we must understand the Greek grammar to understand what the author is telling us. This is not as hard as you may think. We just let the Greek scholars tell us how to do this. Ask: if the Greek Text was not in the Bible, but was instead written in anything else, then how would the Greek scholars analyze and translate this text? Nouns in the Greek Anarthrous Form What is the difference between the words brother and brotherhood? Both are nouns, but one is a specific thing, while the other is a generalized thing as a concept. One refers to a relationship, while the other refers to the more abstract concept of feeling such a relationship, or belonging to such a relationship. The Greek grammar has a special condition to distinguish such differences. Every time a noun is used, that noun can either have the word the with it, or not. The Greek Text will use the same word, brother, but when it wants to refer to the specific thing, it puts the word the with it, and when it wants to refer to the generalized thing, it omits the the, it is not there. So in Greek I would have the following: Greek That is my the brother English That is my brother the person Page 2 of 11

3 That is my brother That is my brotherhood the concept, the group When reading the Greek Text, it is paramount to notice whether or not the the is there with the noun. It makes a huge difference in the meaning of the sentence. In English, we also have this difference expressed as two different words, such as the difference between the President and the Presidency. In Greek grammar this same thought could be expressed by simply using the primary noun, President, and either including or excluding the the. The noun President, written in the anarthrous leaving out the the, would tell the Greek reader to think Presidency instead. Greek English This is my the President This is my Present the person This is my President This is my Presidency - the concept, the office-of If you want to know more about this, here is one reference: And here is an even better reference from an ancient source, explaining the grammatical rules written by someone who wrote about Greek grammar in the same time-frame as this verse was written. Please go to this website: : The canon of Apollonius of Dyscolus, a secondcentury grammarian, states that two nouns in regimen [back-to-back] are either both articular or both anarthrous.. an, nn (G2424) is an Anarthrous Noun Here is the Greek grammar of this verse Jesus Anointed in + flesh is-come an nn (G5547) "in" == (G1722) and pfp (G2064) is an Anarthrous Noun "flesh" == an, nn The Verb The word means (G4561) anointed. Saying Preposition, plus is an Christ is making an Anarthrous Noun interpretation. N-AM-S Jesus : Noun, accusative, masculine, singular Anarthrous: Not the noun, but the qualities of the noun. Expresses the nature or character of the noun. Such as the noun s attributes, classification, what it means to be like that noun. Jesus : the character of Jesus everything that Jesus stands for, His renown, Jesus the hero, Jesus the legend. N-AM-S Anointed : Noun, accusative, masculine, singular Anarthrous: Not the noun, but the qualities of the noun. Expresses the nature or character of the noun. Such as the noun s attributes, classification, what it means to be like that noun. Christ : is the word anointed, so the Anarthrous is the qualities of being anointed everything that being the anointed stands for, the renown, PD and N-DF-S "in": Preposition, dative "flesh": Noun, dative, feminine, singular. The indirect object, Jesus + Anointed is this it is fleshly Anarthrous: Not the noun, but the qualities of the noun. Expresses the nature or character of the noun. Such as the noun s attributes, classification, what it means to be like that noun. in flesh : the qualities of being in flesh everything that being in flesh stands for, the condition, the experience. VPRAAM-S come : Verb, participle, perfect, active, accusative, masculine, singular Perfect Participle: Stresses the state brought about by the finished results of the action. Stresses that the verb, is still present or still happening, now. is-come : and that result of is-come is still true, right now: having come and is-still-now-come. Whatever has arrived, that noun is still here, Page 3 of 11

4 the hero, the legend. now. A primary point is that there is no past tense in this sentence! You cannot say [He] came in the past, but now something about [He] is different. Notice that the Greek text did not use the past-tense form of this verb; instead it makes this confession in the right now, present tense. From : [quote] Perfect Tense The basic thought of the perfect tense is that the progress of an action has been completed and the results of the action are continuing on, in full effect. In other words, the progress of the action has reached its culmination and the finished results are now in existence. Unlike the English perfect, which indicates a completed past action, the Greek perfect tense indicates the continuation and present state of a completed past action. For example, Galatians 2:20 should be translated "I am in a present state of having been crucified with Christ", indicating that not only was I crucified with Christ in the past, but I am existing now in that present condition. [end quote] Summarizing the above grammar, we are to: "Confesses + Jesus [the hero] + Anointed [the promised Messiah] + in + flesh [as a body-experience made of fleshly material] + is-come-and-now-is-still-here [without any past tense thinking in this sentence]". Here is the problem. Most people cannot make this confession! They have been taught since childhood that Jesus Christ was a spirit being God before He was born, and is now a spirit being God back in heaven again with The Father today. This is what is taught in Sundayschool. But the problem is that this Catholic/Protestant concept of The Christ cannot have the Christ be in the flesh, not both at the same time! That is, people are taught that God cannot be in heaven, and be in the flesh, both at the same time, never. Why? This would make God touch the lower nature of man, the flesh, caused by the original sin. God and Heaven would then touch sin! But the Greek Text says that Jesus Anointed is still right now, at this very moment, present tense, in the flesh! Most Christians see an immediate contradiction with this, and cannot agree to believe it, nor can they say the original confession of faith. Do Not Be Shocked! Do not be too shocked about this is still right now in the flesh assertion within the confessiontext. The earliest Bishops believed this. For example Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, writing to the Smyrnians in Asia Minor toward the close of the first century, insists upon the reality of Jesus' physical (flesh and bone) resurrection from the dead, he writes: But I know that even after his resurrection he was in the flesh; and I believe that he still is so. And when he came to those who were with Page 4 of 11

5 Peter, he said to them, Take, handle me, and see that I am not an incorporeal spirit. And straightway they felt and believed, being convinced both by his flesh and spirit. ", (9-10). Even years later the early bishops understood that the confession of faith included that Jesus the Messiah was resurrected in the flesh, and still remained in the flesh, even to their day. Through history we can trace Ignatius teachers back to the original disciples, the actual eye witnesses of the resurrection. What did they see? They saw the man Jesus resurrected from being dead. They recognized Him. They saw that he was composed of flesh and bone (Luke 24:39), not flesh and blood as we are. Jesus was no longer flesh and blood, but nevertheless He was still in the flesh, as flesh and bone. They touched Jesus, stuck their hands into His flesh-wounds. He ate fish (flesh) and honey with them. He walked and He talked with them, doing all this as a resurrected man now composed of flesh and bone, no longer subject to death via flesh and blood. Consider, there are no scriptures that say anything other than what you have just read above. Nothing says the resurrected Jesus was composed of anything else, except flesh and bone. They also saw Him taken up into heaven, and they were told that this same Jesus will come back in the same manner. Consider and ponder deeply: Who is the surviving entity of the resurrection? Answer: It is the DNA son of Abraham, the Jesus, not anyone else, nor anything else. Understand from another point of view: what is this confession NOT saying? This confession does not tell us that Jesus is one person, and that Christ is another second person. It does not support what is taught in Sunday-school. Instead it tells us that Jesus is the primary character being confessed, and that He is Anointed. Jesus holds the tile of being the Anointed one. Jesus has the title of being The Christ The Messiah, Matthew 1:16. There is only one personality being confessed, only one entity, the Jesus who is the Anointed who is in the flesh now come. That resurrected exalted person is still right now in the flesh! Please notice that as soon as you remove the errant doctrine that the Christ is a separate preexistent spirit God-Person sent from heaven, and instead read the Greek Text as it is written, as Jesus Anointed, then the confession becomes easy and uncomplicated. Jesus is the resurrected and exalted man who has the title of being the Anointed, and who still is flesh and bone to this day, right now. Luke 24:39 "... see my hands and my feet, for breath [wind] does not have flesh and bones as you see me having..." This of course was after the resurrection. It is extremely significant that the confessor must think Present Tense, and recite that the Jesus in the flesh is come and is still here in the flesh right now! The surviving personality of the resurrection is the Jesus, and He was given a new body of flesh and bone that cannot die anymore. It is this same the Jesus who is now in heaven with the Father, at this very moment in the flesh. We will be given similar new bodies in our own resurrection too! Job 19:25-27 "... yet even after my skin they [worms] surround, yet this from my flesh I will see God whom I will see for myself and my eyes shall see..." Page 5 of 11

6 Isaiah 26:19 "... your [the earth s] dead ones shall live, my dead body they shall rise awake and sing..." Ezekiel 37:3-14 "... and the bones drew near a bone to its bone... the sinews and flesh came upon them and the skin spread over them... and the breath came into them and stood on their feet a very great army..." Still Having Trouble Understanding the Original Confession? Just change the words to talk about something else. For example, you are in a courtroom, and a lawyer tells the Judge that: General Smith in uniform is come to testify. No one would let you get away with imagining that actually General Smith had earlier come in uniform, but is now testifying wearing something else. Likewise, you cannot image that the original confession is actually saying that Jesus the Anointed had earlier come in the flesh, but is now no longer in the flesh. Why, because the confession has no past-tense in it! The confession is present tense, right now, still here, is come in the flesh. What Have You Been Taught? It is all a matter of what you have been taught to think is the definition of the Christ. The Greek word means anointed. The whole reason for making this confessing is to assert your belief that the anointed is the promised Anointed of YHWH. This Anointed One is the hero that YHWH promised to Abraham to come from his own seed (DNA) to be the Messiah (Hebrew/Aramaic) the Christ (Greek). The whole significance of the word the anointed is that you know this refers to the Anointed of YHWH, which He promised to Moses that would come after Moses as the Prophet. It is of paramount significance that the confessor is to believe that Jesus is the Anointed one promised by YHWH, in the flesh, is come, and is still here, in the present tense! Not only does this confession directly refute the doctrine of the Trinity, but we are to understand and believe that the Anointed the Messiah the Christ is still at this present time come as promised in the flesh, and is still come as such! Both of the Greek grammar objects, Jesus and Christ, are in the flesh, right now, and this confession directly refutes what is taught by traditional Christianity. For those who believe in the Trinity, or that Jesus preexisted as a spirit God-Person, ask yourself: What do the scriptures teach about who survived death by being resurrected back to life again? Is it the man Jesus, or is it the spirit God-Person Christ that survived? The scriptures say that it is the Jesus who was resurrected back to life. That it is this same man, Jesus, that is the Anointed (Messiah) of God, the one who is called the Christ (Matthew 1:16), the Anointed is His exalted title. This teaching is not some kind of Blasphemy! It is not a blasphemy to talk about the Jesus the Christ as not being a preexisting spirit God- Person. We are never told in any New Covenant Text that we must believe that the Christ preexisted as a God, nor that the resurrected son of God is now God too. Nor are we told anywhere that we must believe that the Christ preexisted and came down from heaven, and become incarnate in the flesh of the man Jesus for a short time, and then the Christ returned Page 6 of 11

7 back to heaven as a spirit-person. There are no such textual examples of these ideas, none. So why do people believe them? We are told in the Text that we must believe in the resurrection of the man born by Mary. That Jesus was dead, and was resurrected back to life again. We are told to believe that Jesus is The Son of God, who is now the promised Anointed (the Christ, the Messiah) of YHWH, and who is now at the right hand of God The Father in heaven. These are the teachings we are told to believe, not some other Catholic/Protestant teachings. We are told that salvation comes from believing these teachings. It is therefore improper for anyone to shout out: Blasphemy!. This is a very significant subject, but this subject should never be elevated to the level of telling people that they are going to hell if they do not believe in the Trinity, or believe in a preexistent spirit God-Person as the Christ. Let the Greek Text tell us what we are to believe in order to be saved, and this confession is one of those teachings. Summarizing Reading the confession directly from the Greek Text reveals why this confession can actually tell the difference between the spirit of Satan and the spirit of God? It is suppose to be a very serious test, and behold, it is indeed a very serious test which most people just cannot pass. This confession is very divisive. Can you visualize pointing your own finger at someone else, who could not honestly believe this confession, and say to him that he is an errant follower of Satan s counterfeit lies? Do you now understand just how very serious this confession is? The Biblical Confession Is The Giving Of Our Allegiance By this you know the spirit of God, every spirit which confesses [that] Jesus [the hero] + Anointed [the promised Messiah] + in + flesh [as a bodyexperience made of fleshly material] + is-come-and-now-still-is-here [right now, without any past tense thought in this sentence] is of God Can you confess this without mental tricks? No yah but insertions of your own added words, no qualifications, and no saying afterwards but it really means something else? What Happened In History To Teach People Something Else? In 325 AD there was a major history changing event. The Nicean Counsel was convened by Roman Emperor Constantine. You can read all about this on the Internet. This conference is well documented, as they recorded everything that happened. Resulting from this conference was the Roman legal decree that all Christians from then on must confess (believe) that the Christ preexisted, is composed of Light, and is God. The Nicean Page 7 of 11

8 Creed was written at this conference, and everyone there was forced to sign this confession (a few refused): "I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from Heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the virgin, Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate;..." Christendom is taught that The Christ preexisted with The Father in heaven as God, and came down from heaven to manifest Himself as a man, Jesus, and then The Christ went back to heaven again as a spirit God-Person. But all of this is just made up by men; it is not in the Greek Text. All of this is the result of a legal decree by Rome. Compare The Confession To The Nicean Creed Consider this very seriously: If the Nicean Creed were in reality true, then 1-John 4:2 could not have been written as it is written. Think about this! The Biblical confession could not focus on the Jesus as the primary entity. It would instead have to focus on the primary entity the Christ spirit God-Person that came down from heaven and went back up again. The Text would have to somehow make the focus on that spirit God-Person that preexisted, who incarnated Himself into a man for only a short time, and then the spirit God- Person went back to heaven again. The confession could not just use the Greek word the Anointed and leave it at that. The Greek reader would never get-it, that the Anointed was in fact a preexistent spirit God-Person. The Greek reader would never be confessing that the Christ is that God-Person who incarnated Himself into the flesh of Jesus for awhile. The confessional-words would have to be much different. Somehow it would have to tell us to confess our belief that the Anointed is the preexistent spirit God-Person that just used the body of Jesus for awhile. The confession could not use the Greek words in the flesh and just leave it at that. In order to avoid having the Christ spirit-person be composed of flesh, and touch sin (the flesh), the sentence would have to somehow keep in the flesh away from the Christ. The confession would have to add more words, and rearrange them so that the spirit God-Person Christ would never be implied to be in the flesh. The confession would have to be rewritten so that we affirm that the God-Person Christ came down, and used Jesus flesh for awhile, but now is back in heaven as a spirit God-Person again. The confession could not use the Greek word is come and is still come. Consider the ambiguity by leaving it as it is written. If in fact the Christ is a preexistent spirit God-Person that is now back in heaven as God again, composed of Pure Light, and if in fact the Jesus died and was buried (the fleshly body decayed), then neither of these two entities can still now be in the flesh! This part of the confession would also have to be completely rewritten. If the Nicean Creed is indeed a fact, then this Biblical confession is simply too ambiguous to be any kind of a serious test. The confession would not say what it is suppose to say. It would not be Page 8 of 11

9 clear, it would not be asserting anything close to the imagery of the Nicean Creed, and it does not have the focus of confession on the God-Person Christ. But the Greek Text confession does not say anything close to the Nicean Creed! That is because the Nicean Creed was made-up by men. The Greek Text focus is on Jesus, who was a flesh and blood man. We are to confess Jesus Anointed in the flesh has come and is still come. No mention of a preexistent Christ spirit God-Person. Just the opposite. These two grammar-objects of the confession are still in the flesh, right now, still here! Consider Who Has The Focus? Consider just how simple the Gospel really is, by reading Acts 3:13-21: The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers [this has to be YHWH], has glorified His servant-child the Jesus [ask who is glorified? the Christ or the Jesus?]... You killed the founding-leader of life whom God raised from the dead [who was raised from death? It was the Jesus ]... And on the basis of faith in Jesus name... The faith that is through Jesus... God foretold long ago that His Messiah would suffer... so that He may send the Messiah appointed for you that is Jesus. [ the Jesus is the Messiah, which is the Anointed/Christ, which is the Anointed of YHWH. It is the Jesus who is the resurrected and exalted entity!] Please read the whole chapter: It is the man Jesus who is the focal entity we are to recognize as being God s Messiah, the Anointed. Further, we are told that the Jesus was resurrected as flesh and bone (Luke 24:39), and that He ate fleshly fish and honey. Also consider: If it were true that the Jews and Romans had just killed a divine spirit God- Person on the cross, do you think that such a grave sin would not be a major point to be revealed later in the scriptures? But the scriptures do not talk about a spirit God-Person performing manifestations as a man, nor that this spirit God-Person was killed. The scriptures use simple language to talk about a bloodline descendant of Abraham (DNA) becoming YHWH s promised Messiah and second Prophet, as predicted by Moses, who is the man the Jesus whom YHWH (the God of our Fathers) resurrected back to life again, as flesh and bone (not flesh and blood). Traditional Christianity Confesses The Nicean Creed Today, traditional Christianity uses the Nicean Creed as their final test for who is a Christian, or not. They use this Creed as if it were the test confession of 1-John 4:2. For example, in 1999 the Church of God 7 th Day was denied radio time in Bend Oregon solely because the denomination Is Not Trinitarian. The Christian radio station does not consider anyone who does not confess the Trinity (the Nicean Creed) to be a real Christian. It is interesting that it seems to be acceptable for traditional Christianity to use a man made-up confession (Nicean Creed) as their only test for a true Christian, but 1-John 4:2 effectively identifies traditional Christianity as being those that are teaching the lies of Anti-Christ! The Other Evidence Shows That There Is No Doubt There is more evidence. This same confession-test is repeated in two other places: 1-John 4:3 and 2-John 7. Page 9 of 11

10 In 1-John 4:3: the same test of the previous sentence is repeated, but is negated with the words confesses not. In the Greek the confession words are exactly the same words as used in verse 2, with the single exception that the word Jesus is not in the anarthrous. This time in verse 3 the word Jesus is literally the Jesus in the sentence. This sentence unambiguously identifies the Jesus as the focus of the confession, and the person-entity having the other grammar-objects as His; the Anointed in the flesh is come and is still come. As we analyzed above, any way you want to translate this sentence, it is saying that the Jesus and the Anointed is still, at this very moment, in the flesh. In 2-John 7: the Greek words are again exactly the same words as used in 1-John 4:2, with two exceptions. The word come is listed in front of in flesh, and it is solely in the Present Tense! Verse 7 confesses: the Jesus the Anointed is come in the flesh Right Now! This verse confirms that the above analysis is correct. The two grammar objects the Jesus and the Anointed, is come, Present Tense, right now in the flesh! Conclusion The Biblical confessions of 1-John 4:2, 1-John 4:3, and 2-John 7 are indeed very serious tests. The Greek Text confession forces most Christians to add words and make excuses to the Text before they can say it. The analysis of the Greek Text shows that this confession is saying that the Christ is still, at this very moment, in the flesh. Those believing that the Christ is a preexisting spirit God-Person cannot say this Biblical confession. They are too bound up by the Catholic/Protestant confessions they were taught. The readers who find themselves at odds with the Greek Text confession need to seriously investigate and rethink what they have been taught. The doctrine of the Trinity and the Christ being a spirit God-Person who preexisted in heaven as a spirit-being, and then came down from heaven to incarnate Himself into a fleshly man Jesus for a short time, are all man-made-up doctrines. These concepts have their historical origins, and they can be investigated on the Internet by those who are seeking. Such concepts are not in the Greek Text. Please read the other articles on John 1:1 and Colossians 1:16. In the Greek Text, the confession-test emphatically denies the traditional Christian teachings about the nature of the Christ. We are to confess the Christ in the flesh. Not the Christ in the spirit as a God-Person. The Biblical confession is our affirmation of our allegiance to our living hero: The resurrected Jesus, The Anointed (Messiah) in The Flesh is come and still is here ; Present Tense, Right Now! Why is this Biblical Test Important? The Text says that this Test is used to perceive the difference between truth and error, between the breath of Satan versus the breath of God. With a little thought it is understood that this Test is not talking about everything and anything that a person can teach you. Anyone can say the Test words, and then proceed to tell you something that is not right. For example, you can say the Test words, and then tell us that this doctrine is just like that doctrine, but it is just not true. Page 10 of 11

11 With a little thought it is understood that the context of this Test is meant to be used when someone is teaching you something about Jesus (English, Aramaic Yahoshua) the anointed (Messiah). Many good things can be said about Yahoshua the resurrected and exalted Messiah without drifting into the arena of needing to understand what substance He is currently composed. Whether Jesus is now composed of flesh and bone, or light, or whatever else can be thought of, is not germane to most Bible studies. That is, we can talk about the Bible for a very long time without ever having to focus on the composition of Jesus current body. From this point of view this Biblical Test is not important. However, there is another important point of view. The Catholic/Protestant teaching about Jesus is from the point of view of The Trinity. This doctrine, of God being a Triune Personality, is not just a Christian tenet; it is pervasive around the world, in all of the major religions. With a little research you will verify that the worship of the Triune God (Trinity) is taught by the Oriental religions, by the Buddhist, by the Hindus, by the Zoroaster religions, as well as the Catholic/Protestant religions. The early Spanish missionaries found that the worship of the Triune God was already being taught by the pagan priests, from South America to the islands of the Pacific. When we look for a doctrine taught all around the world by almost all religions, we will conclude that the pervasive doctrine being taught is the worship of a Triune God (Trinity), using the sign of the cross as its symbol. This fact must be seen as a red flag to all those understanding that the whole world is now deceived by Satan, and that the whole world is actually worshipping Satan through his Mysteries, but not YHWH. From the point of view of the worshipping of Satan as the world s god, versus the worshipping of YHWH as the only true God, then the doctrinal defeat of the teaching that God is a Triune God (Trinity) becomes paramount, even vital. This Test directly defeats the Triune God (Trinity) doctrine. The doctrine that Christ is a preexisting God-Person having his own intellect and personality is false. The doctrine that the human born man Yahoshua was resurrected back into life again, and was anointed by YHWH as the exalted Messiah of all mankind, is exactly how the scriptures read. The added assurance that the resurrected Yahoshua is now composed of flesh and bone, and is now in heaven at the right hand of The Father, is a complete defeat of the world s Triune God worship system. From this point of view this Biblical Test is very important. In Service To The Brethren, Wayne L. Atchison, an Elder in the Body of the Messiah Two Tassels Ministry Living By Both Covenants, Empowering His Communities Page 11 of 11