{"id":614,"date":"2021-07-29T09:13:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T16:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cag.clearthinking247.com\/?page_id=614"},"modified":"2021-12-16T09:22:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T17:22:05","slug":"christ","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cag.clearthinking247.com\/en\/christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Two ordinary persons – one male and one female who became Christs, first 2000 years ago in Palestine, and then 1991 in Henan, China.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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  1. In the Age of Grace, Jesus became Son of God at His baptism (Matt. 3:16-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22, John 1:32-34)<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  2. In the Age of Kingdom, a Chinese woman in Henan, China began prophesying and speaking the word of God in 1991. She later was identified as the second incarnation of Christ. ( See CAG’s arguments and explanations below; also see the<\/span> Doctrine of the Incarnation<\/span><\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  3. The second incarnation of Christ, Almighty God in the flesh, is not a descendent of David.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>
  4. No Old Testament and New Testament passages predicted the second incarnation of Christ of any kind.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>
  5. CAG claims Luke 17:24-25 has predicted the second incarnation of Christ: “24\u00a0<\/sup>For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. <\/span><\/span>25\u00a0<\/sup>But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.” (ESV) See the Doctrine of Incarnation<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    CAG claims that Jesus was an ordinary man, only empowered by the Holy Spirit at His water baptism: “[Jesus] did not do work before the baptism for two reasons: One, because the Holy Spirit had not officially descended upon Him to work (which is to say, the Holy Spirit had not bestowed upon Jesus the power and authority to do such work)<\/span><\/em>, and even if He had known His own identity, Jesus would have been incapable of doing the work He intended to do later on, and would have had to wait until the day of His baptism. This was God\u2019s time, and no one was capable of contravening it, even Jesus Himself; Jesus Himself could not interrupt His own work. Of course, this was the humbleness of God, and also the law of God\u2019s work; if God\u2019s Spirit did not work, none could do His work. Secondly, before He was baptized, He was just a very common and ordinary man, and no different from other normal and ordinary people<\/span><\/em>; this is one aspect of how God incarnate was not supernatural. God incarnate did not contravene the arrangements of the Spirit of God; He worked in an orderly way and He worked very normally. It was only after the baptism that His work had authority and power. Which is to say, even though He was God incarnate, He did not carry out any supernatural acts, and He grew up in the same way as other normal people. If Jesus had already known His own identity, had done great work all over the land prior to His baptism, and had been different from normal people, showing Himself to be extraordinary, then not only would it have been impossible for John to do his work, but there would also have been no way for God to start the next step of His work.”[1]<\/a><\/span><\/p>

    [1]<\/a> The Church of Almighty God, The Word Appears in the Flesh, \u201cConcerning Appellations and Identity<\/a>,\u201d accessed August 21, 2021, Google e-book, 2416<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>

    CAG’s Holy book, \u201cThe Word Appears in the Flesh<\/em>,\u201d says, \u201cso with Jesus, the meaning of God\u2019s incarnation was not completed, but only partially fulfilled.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>[2]<\/a><\/span><\/p>

    [2]<\/a> The Church of Almighty God, Judgment Begins With the House of God<\/em>, \u201cThe Essence of the Flesh Inhabited by God<\/a>,\u201d accessed August 21, 2021; Google e-book,<\/span><\/span> page 2637.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity – <\/span><\/strong><\/p>

    Jesus, one person, two natures (fully human and fully divine)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    1. God incarnated as Jesus the Christ. Jesus is fully God, and fully man (John 1:1-18; Col. 1:15-20; John 10:28-30; Phil. 2:6-11; John 8:24, 28, 58).<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
    2. Jesus the redeemer died, buried, physically resurrected on the third day, and ascended to heaven (all four gospels; 1 Cor. 15:3-8; Acts 1:9-11).<\/strong><\/span><\/li>
    3. Jesus the coming King will return from the sky at His second coming in the last days (Dan. 7:13; Luke 21:27; Mark 14:62; Matt. 24:30, 26:64; Acts 1:9-11).<\/strong><\/span><\/li>
    4. The Messiah will be the Son of David: “12\u00a0<\/sup>When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.<\/span> 13\u00a0<\/sup>He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.<\/span> ” (2 Samuel 7:12-13, ESV)<\/li>
    5. The Messiah, i.e. the Christ, is the Son of David: Matt. 1:1, Mark 12:35, John 7:42, Romans 1:3, 2 Timothy 2:8, and Rev. 5:5.<\/li>
    6. Christ was God Himself before the foundation of the world who became flesh. (John 1:1)<\/li>
    7. See the 100 Prophecies Fulfilled by Jesus<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>pamphlet.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>
    8. See the 351 Old Testament Prophecies Fulfilled In Jesus Christ;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0pdf file.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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      “15\u00a0He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16\u00a0For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities\u2014all things were created through him and for him.<\/span> 17\u00a0And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.<\/span> 18\u00a0And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.<\/span> 19\u00a0For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,<\/span> 20\u00a0and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.” (Col. 1:15-20, ESV)<\/span><\/span><\/p>

      “6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,<\/span>\u00a07 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.<\/span> 8\u00a0And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.<\/span> 9\u00a0Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,<\/span> 10\u00a0so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,<\/span> 11\u00a0and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Phil. 2:6-11, ESV)<\/span><\/span><\/p>

      “3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,<\/span> 4\u00a0that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,<\/span> 5\u00a0and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.<\/span> 6\u00a0Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.<\/span> 7\u00a0Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.<\/span> 8\u00a0Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.” (1 Cor. 15:3-8, ESV)<\/span><\/span><\/p>

      “9 And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.<\/span> 10\u00a0And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes,<\/span> 11\u00a0and said, \u201cMen of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.\u201d” (Acts 1:9-11, ESV)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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      1. CAG claims that Jesus was created being: “When Jesus called God in heaven by the name of Father as He prayed, this was done only from the perspective of a created man<\/em><\/span>, only because the Spirit of God had put on an ordinary and normal flesh and had the exterior cover of a created being<\/span><\/em>. Even if within Him was the Spirit of God, His exterior appearance was still that of a normal man; in other words, He had become the \u201cSon of man\u201d of which all men, including Jesus Himself, spoke. Given that He is called the Son of man, He is a person (whether man or woman, in any case one with the exterior shell of a human being) born into a normal family of ordinary people. Therefore, Jesus calling God in heaven by the name of Father was the same as how you at first called Him Father; He did so from the perspective of a created man<\/span><\/em>. Do you still remember the Lord\u2019s Prayer that Jesus taught you to memorize? \u201cOur Father in heaven\u2026.\u201d He asked all men to call God in heaven by the name of Father. And since He too called Him Father, He did so from the perspective of one who stands on an equal footing with you all<\/em><\/span>. Since you called God in heaven by the name of Father, Jesus saw Himself to be on equal footing with you<\/em><\/span>, and as a man on earth chosen by God (that is, the Son of God). If you call God Father, is this not because you are a created being?<\/em><\/span> However great the authority of Jesus on earth, prior to the crucifixion, He was merely a Son of man, governed by the Holy Spirit (that is, God), and one of the earth\u2019s created beings, for He had yet to complete His work<\/em><\/span>. Therefore, His calling God in heaven Father was solely His humility and obedience. His addressing God (that is, the Spirit in heaven) in such a manner, however, does not prove that He was the Son of the Spirit of God in heaven. Rather, it was simply that His perspective was different, not that He was a different person. The existence of distinct persons is a fallacy<\/span><\/em><\/strong>! Prior to His crucifixion, Jesus was a Son of man bound by the limitations of the flesh, and He did not fully possess the authority of the Spirit. That is why He could only seek the will of God the Father from the perspective of a created being<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0“[1]<\/a><\/p>

        [1]<\/a> The Church of Almighty God, The Word Appears in the Flesh,<\/em> \u201cDoes the Trinity Exist?<\/a>,\u201d \u00a0accessed August 21, 2021; Google e-book, 1999<\/a>.<\/p><\/li>

      2. Jesus\u2019 redemptive work did not completely cleanse man\u2019s sinful nature: (See the Doctrine of Salvation<\/a><\/span>)<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
      3. Christ has already returned in His second incarnation as a female. This time he does not perform miracle, does not heal the sick, does not cast out demons, rather he does the work of judgment and chastisement of the words: “In gender, one is male and the other female, so completing the significance of God\u2019s incarnation, and dispelling man\u2019s notions of God: God can become both male and female, and in essence, the incarnate God is genderless. He made both man and woman, and to Him, there is no division of gender. In this stage of the work, God does not perform signs and wonders, so that the work will achieve its results by means of words. The reason for this, moreover, is because the work of God incarnate this time is not to heal the sick and cast out demons, but to conquer man by speaking, which is to say that the native ability possessed by this incarnate flesh of God is to speak words and to conquer man, not to heal the sick and cast out demons.”[2]<\/a>

        [2]<\/a> The Church of Almighty God, The Word Appears in the Flesh<\/em>, \u201cThe Essence of the Flesh Inhabited by God<\/a>,\u201d accessed August 21, 2021; Google e-book, 2631<\/a>.<\/p><\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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        • Is the Nature of Christ important to the salvation of believers?<\/li>
        • If Christ was an ordinary man, he would have a sin nature just like any human being on earth. What makes Jesus, the Christ of the first century, unique?<\/li>
        • What makes the sacrificial death of Christ, the second person of the Triune God, different from the death of an ordinary man?<\/li>
        • Does the title “Son of Man” mean a man with a human nature only?<\/li>
        • Was the second incarnation or Christ predicted in the Bible, OT and NT?<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          The Christ Church of Almighty God Two ordinary persons – one male and one female who became Christs, first 2000 years ago in Palestine, and then 1991 in Henan, China. In the Age of Grace, Jesus became Son of God at His baptism (Matt. 3:16-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22, John 1:32-34) In the Age of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-614","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cag.clearthinking247.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cag.clearthinking247.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cag.clearthinking247.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cag.clearthinking247.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cag.clearthinking247.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.cag.clearthinking247.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"https:\/\/www.cag.clearthinking247.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cag.clearthinking247.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}