JESUS SON OF GOD, SON OF MAN

By Bro. Manny, OTFS Chief Apologist

In Psalm 45:6-7 it says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of joy above Your fellows." In the original Greek version, this is what it says "
Ως εκ τούτου ο Θεός, ο Θεός σας, σας έχει έχρισε Με το λάδι της χαράς παραπάνω υποτρόφων σας"

The Greek word for God is Θεός it's used twice original Greek translation thus the one being addressed is God who has been anointed by his God with oil of joy above his fellows. 

The mystery in the Psalm is that there is a God who is anointed by his God. Which in effect would point to a God with a God? Are there two Gods? Is the Psalm referring to a God that is lesser than the God who anointed him? For the one who anoints should be greater than the one anointed. But its also very clear in the scripture that God is one and there is no other God. So what is Psalm 45:6-7 tells us? 

First to understand Psalm 45:6-7 in its proper context we need to know who is it referring to as the God who is anointed by his God. It is generally accepted by many knowledgeable Theologians and Scholars of the Bible that the scripture refers to Jesus who is the Christ, the Messiah, who is the anointed one of God. Jesus declared himself to be no other but the Messiah Himself, the Christ who is to come. Let us recall that Jesus started his public ministry with a declaration in the town of Nazareth, his hometown where he's known as the carpenter's son and his mother Mary and this what happened according to the Gospel of Luke 4:16-21 Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. And when He stood up to read, the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. Unrolling it, He found the place where it was written:

“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news (the Gospel) to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim deliverance to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,  to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” 

Then he rolled up the scroll, returned it to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him, and he began by saying, "Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing" 

It was an earthshaking declaration to the faithful Jews who knew that the scripture reading in Isaiah refers to the Christ, the Messiah who is the Holy One of God that will come to re-establish the kingdom of David. Apparently just like today many Jews did not fully understand the scripture. A mob of enraged Jews who may even be his neighbors and his childhood playmates in Nazareth began to gather around him. He was led out of the Synagogue to be pushed to the cliff and stoned to death for claiming to be the Anointed One, the Messiah. To their hearing, Jesus claimed to be the Messiah and thus knowing him as coming from their own town, he could not be and with that he just committed an act punishable by death, while saying "Isn't this the son of Joseph?"

In Jesus' own words he is the one referred to in Isaiah as the Anointed One and therefore the same one referred to in Psalm 45:6-7 as many theologians also agreed. But there is something more to the passage and that how can God anoint a God if they are just one God? I believe that it refers to Jesus as a Man-God. The Psalm recognizes that Jesus although he became man has not lost his original nature as God. The vision of the Psalmist who is believed to be King David, is that of Jesus his God, but he sees him also as a man in the flesh who calls on his Father his God thus the dual meaning of "God, your God" has anointed you. Therefore in the Old Testament, the one who is coming, the Anointed One of God is God. Jesus who is the Anointed one is God.

Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God.

It says in John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. This biblical scripture stressed out one very important point, "NO MAN HAD SEEN GOD THE FATHER AT ANY TIME" yet Jesus has come from his bosom as the ONLY BEGOTTEN SON and Jesus alone declared or made known the Father to us. If therefore he comes from the bosom of the father which means out from the Father then he must be of the same nature as the Father who is God and therefore God. Ok, let us further discuss the meaning of the word "begotten".

Begotten is past participle of the verb beget which means to generate or Father an offspring. It is typically used for male gender in generic meaning begotten is a reproduction of the parent. Beget is to reproduce or bring into being. Thus a begotten is one in substance and nature of one who begot him. It's different from creating or make because one can create or make something but not of the same nature or substance since to create or to make means something that is created or made does not have the same substance as the creator. This brings us to the Article of Faith of the Catholic Church that spells out the doctrine of Jesus Christ as Man and God in the following creed:

"I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man."

Here in the excerpt from the Nicene Creed it has aptly described what is the meaning of Begotten Son of God which is that Jesus is born of the Father before all ages, therefore Jesus is eternal for God is eternal and it is in eternity that Jesus was born. Before all ages mean before even time began and that is at the point when there is only eternity and there was no time yet for time is also created by God, thus to say Jesus is born before all ages mean he is eternal like the Father who has no beginning for how can one determine his beginning which is a point in time when there was only eternity and infinity. But then he said he is the beginning and end, that refers to creation which made the heavens and the earth from the beginning and he also will be the one to end them to create a new earth and new heaven. God has no beginning and end, he is eternal. Jesus is simply pointing out that he is from the beginning of creation because he is Word of God from whom all creation has come to existence including time and of which the end of the age will also come.

As God from God and Light from Light, Jesus is a true God because he is begotten (reproduction) of the Father who is the true God. Why? Would God the Father produce an offspring from his own substance and nature that is not God? Even by the nature of God that can be seen in his creation where man is reproduced from a man not of another being. Likewise God from God. That is why John said "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God". Thus Jesus is born of the Father, a distinct person in one Godhead, the Son of God by his nature, substance and power. He is therefore equal to the Father in all his attributes, qualities, nature, substance and power but he is obedient to him as his Son. Jesus being subservient to the Father has only his will to follow. They are not two but one and together with the Holy Spirit which preceded from them as One God in 3 divine persons equal in power but eternally united and undivided which we call the Holy Trinity. 

"Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to cling to, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross." Philippians 2:5-6

"Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place, and gave Him the name above all names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."

Jesus is the Christ and he is both man and God. The Son of Man and the Son of God. He is true God and true man in one person united in one physical body in one being but has retained the nature of each person. This union is inseparable and indivisible which is termed as hypostatic union of the divine and the human in one being or one person, not two but one.  The hypostatic union is the mystical union of the divine person and the human person in one being which is somewhat incomprehensible to our finite human mind but can only be understood in the eyes of faith. We know that this is true because it has been witnessed not just by the scriptures, the words of God and the angels but also by men who walked with Jesus and have known him up close and personal.

Being both God and man in one body, Jesus was raised from the dead with his glorified human body and HE ASCENDED TO HEAVEN BODY, BLOOD, SOUL AND DIVINITY as he sits at the right hand of the Father. What does this tell us? This tell us that Jesus as both God and Man is indivisible with his two natures eternally fused and unified in one being to the delight of the Father who created man to the image and likeness of God. God who is spirit and is invisible has never been seen by man until Christ came, no one has seen God. But with Christ, the Godhead suddenly can be seen, we can behold him. The Godhead has become visible in Christ in his glorious human body. This is the essence of Jesus telling Philip, have I not been with you and you look for the Father? If you have seen me, you have seen the Father also. Since the fullness of the Godhead is in Jesus Christ with his coming as man and ascending to heaven both as God and Man we have finally seen God who came to be in the world but the world did not recognize their creator. Having the physical body, man is able to relate with him and make an image of him in paintings, in statues that will remind men how Jesus looks and thus how God looks. Thus it is written by God with Us.

We know that Jesus is  a true human being because he was conceived and born of the Blessed Virgin Mary. While Jesus declared God his Father, likewise the Blessed Mother brought us the only Begotten Son of God in human form. Her flesh is his flesh; her blood, his blood; God chose to be born of woman and therefore became true human being with his Father, the true living God and his mother a true human being. He lived in obedience with her mother and was with her for his entire earthly life. No one knew Jesus up close and personal more than the Blessed Mother. Thus the Holy Spirit inspiring Elizabeth would have the son in her womb leaped with joy at hearing the voice of the Virgin Mary.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son to us. He who is true God lived with us, became truly human and one of us, suffered like us, experience pain and disappointments, prayed like us, cried and laughed like us he did everything as a normal ordinary human being except to sin. He rose from the dead and ascended into heaven with his glorified body. This is an absolute truth and revealed doctrine from God and that to teach and preach otherwise is a grave sin that can bring one straight to hell.

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BEWARE OF HERESIES, HERETICS, AND FALSE PROPHETS

By Bro. Manny, OTFS Chief Apologist

I have pointed out in my previous article that the Gates of Hell was dogmatically declared by the church councils and Popes to be that heresies that bring souls to their eternal death and eternal punishment in hell. That dogma has been declared by Popes and councils as the gates of hell which will not prevail against the Holy Catholic Church according to the decree of Jesus Christ when he founded the church. The Catholic Church has withstood all the heresies that have been brought in the church by heretics, generation after generation of the church existence. The prophetic words of the Lord have indeed come true and in spite of all the attacks by powerful people the church even grew stronger until Vatican II came forth.

Today in modern times, heresies are bountiful, they have multiplied such that the truth has been eclipsed. Such heresies have been widely accepted indeed for those who are perishing who choose to go through the gates of hell. It has been opened to tempt the faithful to leave the church which will bring them to sure home in hell.

Heretics have founded their own churches and many teach and claim they are the true church of Jesus Christ. The heretics style are very effective in that they will pick up some lines in the bible and then mixed it with their own interpretation which is already preconceived by them to justify their own beliefs and selfish motives in founding their own religions and churches not to serve God but to serve their own earthly and evil desires for Money, Fame, and Power. The result in mixing truths in the bible and lies from them are heretical doctrines that have deceived many people to the destruction of their souls.

But why are these people and their religions targeting the Catholic Church? Because the Catholic Church is the true church founded by the Son of God, Jesus Christ where salvation is guaranteed fro those that will persevere in faith until the end, whether that is the end of our life on earth or the end of time. Only in the Catholic Church can we find the Sacraments instituted by the Lord as the instruments of perfection of man in the eyes of God. Through them Jesus makes us perfect acceptable to God giving us the entrance to eternal life. Only to the church are the keys to the Kingdom of God given. Without therefore the church, it will be very hard for anyone to be accepted in the kingdom of God which holds the keys to heaven. Yes, the kingdom of God, that is the church, established by God on earth holds the keys to heaven. Thus the Dogma "Extra ecclesiam nulla salust" which means "Outside the church (Catholic Church), there is no salvation" has been declared by the Popes.

Jesus said "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through me." In the same way he said to Saul when the latter was pursuing and persecuting the church, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting" Thus the church that was persecuted by Saul is Jesus himself. The church is the mystical body of Christ and therefore, the Church and Jesus are one. If you believe that Jesus is the savior, therefore its in the Church that salvation can be found and that outside of the church means out of Jesus, there is no salvation.

Anybody therefore that teaches the faithful of heretical doctrines that deceived them to get out of the true church of Jesus Christ is an agent of the Devil that opens the Gates of Hell to those who will believe in their heresies. Those who propagate and promote heresies are heretics, the agents of Satan, the Devil.

I have pointed to one heretical church which is Iglesia ni Cristo but there are many more and just recently in the past 50 years the lists of heretics have grown and some of them are here presented with their false doctrines.

QUIBOLOY AND HIS "APPOINTED SON OF GOD" DOCTRINE

Pastor Apollo Quiboloy

When God revealed himself and his plans to his people he showed the beginning and the end. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. And he said, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away until all are fulfilled. It will be foolish therefore to listen to preachers who are teaching doctrines other than those already taught to us by the Apostles through the Catholic Church either by the scriptures which is in the bible or by oral tradition which is practiced in the church and handed down to us through generations of successions of Popes and Bishops, the only authorized teaching authority.

St. Paul was right when he foresaw how easy it is for many Catholics to give in "way to easy" to be deceived by those who will come pretending to be Christ when he said in 2 Corinthians 11:3-4 "I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the One you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it way too easily."

There are millions today who have put up with false doctrines way too easily as St. Paul has said. Some of these millions who have followed the false messiahs are now following another pretender savior who has made himself equal to Jesus, the so called Appointed Son of God in the name of Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, the founder of the heretical religion, "Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name". 

Its a man-made religion founded by a Quiboloy when he declared that he is at this age the Appointed Son of God and as such his followers regard him as the new Messiah likened to Jesus. He said Jesus was sent for the Jews while he is sent for the Gentiles in the modern world. What happened to Jesus? Well the Appointed Son of God teaches that Jesus is actually God the Father. And when Jesus revealed to him that he is the Father, he Appointed him as the Son of God. In his NEW DOCTRINE, Jesus is no longer the Son of God but actually the Father. He developed this doctrine apparently over the scripture passage in John 14:8-10 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, carrying out His work".

Using John 14:8-10 Quibuloy falsely claims for those who care to listen to him that Jesus Christ is actually God the Father. He and the Father are one means to Quiboloy that Jesus is in fact the Father also, they are one and the same person. This is the same oneness heresy that has long been condemned. And so Jesus who to Quiboloy is the Father has spoken to him and has appointed him as his son, the appointed son of God. This teaching is an absolute heresy and Quiboloy by preaching it is a heretic. The infallible doctrine is while Jesus and the Father are one yet Jesus is not the Father nor the Father, Jesus Christ. They are two separate and distinct persons in ONE GODHEAD. Thus the doctrine of Quiboloy of making Jesus as no other person but the Father himself is false doctrine and should be condemned. Why is it so difficult for people like Quiboloy to understand that the Son of God is not the Father and while they are two distinct persons they are nevertheless ONE GOD? Its the mystery of the Holy Trinity, One God in three persons each distinct of the other but they are fully united. In Luke 8:9-10 Then His disciples asked Him what this parable meant. He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, ‘Though seeing they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.' 

It is written in John 1:18 that "No one has seen God but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is at the Father's side has made Him known." If you are keen enough you would see clearly that here John presents two distinct persons the Father who is God that has not been seen by anyone and the Son who is himself God and who made the Father known to us. Here the two persons in the Holy Trinity, which is the dogmatic teaching of One God in three persons have been attested to by the Apostle John. 

Why is it hard for many people to understand the truth? Because they have disregarded and rejected one true teaching authority of the true doctrines of the Lord, of the meaning of the gospel of the kingdom to whom Jesus entrusted the teaching and preaching of the gospel to all the nations and to all the peoples. They have rejected the one true church of the Lord. And so the Lord has taken away the gift of understanding and they have deceived themselves to believing their own voice instead of believing in the true voice of truth of the Lord, the Catholic Church. To them the words of God in Deuteronomy 29:4  "Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear." And so they have deceived themselves and they deceived others with their own distorted understanding of the scriptures thus Jesus told them in Mark 12:24 "Aren’t you mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?"

Indeed there are many who are led into believing distorted interpretations of the bible and they easily believed the false doctrines of the anti-Christs that teach heresies and bring out faithful of the one true church out of the church to follow the heretics into the gates of hell. And so when a man like Quiboloy teach a new doctrine never been taught by the Apostles and the Catholic Church there are those with itching ears who easily accepted such and then more false doctrines follow in the new false religion founded on a false doctrine. The basic principle of his Doctrine is that Jesus is actually the Father, not as a separate and distinct person in the Trinity but in fact the Father as revealed to him in the passage. And so when they pray to the Father they are praying actually to Jesus and when his followers today pray to the Son, they are in fact praying to him, Quiboloy because he is Jesus Christ to the Gentile nations like the Philippines as Jesus is the savior for the Jews. In that Doctrine he has put himself on equal level to the works of the Son of God who is now the Father in modern times while he is the Appointed Son of God. This is not supported by both the scriptures in the Bible as well as the oral and written traditions of the Catholic Church.

IT IS A NOVELTY DOCTRINE  OF QUIBULOY.THAT MADE HIM VERY RICH.

With such teaching, the words of Quiboloy are now part of the new Gospel he is preaching. He is no longer limited to the scriptures and to the Bible because he now has what is called the Manna of Revelations that he is teaching. In one sweep, he has put himself and his followers outside of the gospel of kingdom and into their new kingdom of the Appointed son of God. The new revelations is receive by him directly from the Father and he makes it known to the World. He is calling the people of the world to join him in his kingdom in that part of Davao if one wants to be saved!

ELI SORIANO, MEMBERS CHURCH OF GOD INTERNATIONAL

Ang Dating Daan, Church of God Founder and Preacher

Eliseo Fernando Soriano present himself as the authority in the bible. A televangelist that use mainly the television as a medium for his bible teaching exposition. His main doctrine is that any teaching that is not in the bible is false. Stating that any question on faith let the bible answer. He is an extremist of a preacher not just a fundamentalist but we can put him in the extreme of the Protestants. His approach to is interpret the bible on its face value meaning in the literal sense of what is written not so much as on the context by which it is written. Thus the spirit of the scripture by which it was written is reduced to just plain letters while all the other questions as to why, how, who, etc no longer matter. What is written is "what it is" reducing the words of God into the letters and words in the bible.

Yet it is written in Hebrew 4:12 "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart."  The words of God cant be consigned to mere letters subject to interpretations of anyone itching to show the world he is wise but in reality he is just a fool. A blind leading the blinds to their destruction. 

An example of how foolish a boastful man like Eli Soriano debating everyone else of his so called "masteral" of the bible but when he was asked a question where is the Father? He answered simply that the Father is in heaven and not everywhere because Jesus taught us the prayer, "Our Father who art in heaven" therefore the Father is in heaven only and not everywhere. Why was he limited to answer such, because the nature and quality of God being omnipresent is not mentioned in the bible. the word Omnipresent is not in the bible and therefore true to Soriano's bible only doctrine to the extreme, the Father is only heaven because that is what is in the bible, the Father is in heaven. It therefore denies the nature and quality of God to be present anywhere, anytime, and everywhere because he is not bounded by time and space.

Yet the Omnipotence, Omnipresence, and Omniscience of God are all described in the bible. This is an example of how a word may not be in the bible yet it is explicitly confirmed as truth. Example is the word Trinity which is not in the bible. Believing in the Trinity is believing that the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. Yet there are not 3 Gods but only One Godhead in 3 distinct persons. The bible explicitly teaches that there is only one God, the Father but the Son is the word of God, who is God and the Holy Spirit who is the Spirit of the Lord who is God. Yet we don't find the word Trinity. The word is used to express the truth about the Nature of God.

In his arrogant ways, Soriano, attacks all religions though and consider his own beliefs according to his own understanding of what the Bible says as his only truth. While he has some basic doctrinal correctness but when he mixes it with his own kind of logic and beliefs that are false he ends up with heretical doctrines. He teaches heresy combining the truth in the matter with his own truth contrary to how the teachings have been handed down to the one true church, the Catholic Church, by the Lord through the Apostles and to the Church Fathers down to generations of Popes and Bishops. He believes that a Catholic is not a Christian and insists that he and his followers are the Christians in a true biblical way. He has mixed up his beliefs with the same beliefs as the Protestants and in that sense he is one with INC, with Quiboloy Church, and all the Protestant Denominations who are all against the Catholic Church.

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