From time to time one will see an advertisement on TV in which a certain religious body will offer to give you a free copy of the King James Version of the Bible, and in this advert they proclaim their allegiance to Jesus Christ and family virtues. However, those who pay for these advertisements do not believe in the Christ of the Scriptures. As a matter of fact, a man who is called an “apostle” by this group of people made this statement, “And virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ.” What this man means by “millions of apostate Christendom” is every person in the world who believes in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, but does not believe in the Christ these folk accept.
These people believe and teach that all human beings lived prior to this life in what is called “the preexistence.” The same “apostle,” from whom we quoted above, teaches that Jesus attained the status of a god in the preexistence. His exact words are these, “He [Jesus] is the Firstborn of the Father. By obedience and devotion to the truth he attained that pinnacle of intelligence which ranked him as a God, as the Lord Omnipotent, while yet in his pre-existent state… Inasmuch, however, as Christ attained Godhood while yet in pre-existence, he too stood as a God to other spirits.” Notice the words “a God,” which implies along with another group of people who deny that Christ and the Father are one, that Jesus is only one of many gods. Any way you look at this view, it is polytheism!
Regarding the Savior, these do not believe that He is the eternal God of whom we read in the Bible, but a person conceived by Mary when she cohabited with God the Father. Notice these words, “The body in which He performed His mission in the flesh was sired by that same Holy Being we worship as God, our Eternal Father. Jesus was not the son of Joseph, nor was He begotten by the Holy Ghost. He is the Son of the Eternal Father.” The writer goes on, “Thus, God the Father became the literal father of Jesus Christ. Jesus is the only person on earth to be born of a mortal mother and an immortal father.” You will notice that the above writer made a particular point of mentioning that Jesus was neither the son of Joseph nor of the Holy Spirit. This does not at all align with the statement made by the inspired Luke who quoted an angel as saying directly to Mary, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God”(Luke 1:35 NKJV). We never cease to marvel at how people who teach that which is false will use the very words of Scripture to deny the teaching of Scripture. An angel told Mary she would conceive by the power of the Holy Spirit, meaning the Spirit would miraculously cause her to conceive, but the above writer said that Mary and God cohabited and she conceived by him.
Another of the great leaders of this cult said, “The birth of the Saviour was as natural as are the births of our children; it was the result of a natural action. He partook of flesh and blood – was begotten of his Father, as we were of our fathers.” Another great leader among these people said, “I will say that I was naturally begotten; so was my father, and also my Saviour Jesus Christ. According to the Scriptures, he is the first begotten of his father in the flesh, and there was nothing unnatural about it.” If there was nothing unnatural about the birth of Christ, there was no miracle involved. If there was no miracle involved, He was, indeed, an illegitimate child as His detractors claim. If He were just some illegitimate child, conceived and born like the men who wrote these statements, then their Jesus is not mine, nor is their Jesus the divine Son of God. These people disgrace and dishonor Jesus Christ by claiming that he had a natural birth just like theirs, when the Bible plainly says he was born of a virgin (Matthew 1:22-23), to fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah 7:14.
