Jesus Christ Our High Priest And Savior According To Scripture: Not By Man's Doctrines

For there is verily a disannulling

of the commandment going before

for the weakness and unprofitableness

thereof. For the law made nothing

perfect, but the bringing in of a better

hope did; by the which we draw nigh

unto God. And inasmuch as not without

an oath He was made priest: (for those

priests were made without an oath by

Him that said unto Him, The Lord sware

and will not repent, Thou art a priest

forever after the order of Melchisedec):

by so much was Jesus made a surety

of a better testament. 

Hebrews 7:18-22

     Last blog my title stated that the argument was and is settled, at least for those who will take the time to examine Scripture. How is it settled? There must be an argument that has proof as to its postulate, and in this case the postulate is that Jesus Christ is the promised Messiah and Savior, One in whom we can have a sure hope. How can a person find the truth? How can an argument be proved? Evidence, a preponderance of evidence, nothing else will do. Men may propose a theory and that theory may even sound true, but is it true and does it have evidence to prove this theory, nothing else will do than evidence. Orthodox Christianity has held as its foremost doctrine that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, and is the Savior, and is the One in whom man can put their trust for everlasting life. Orthodox Christianity has always held that Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of God, and is God, true God of true God. Other religions claiming to be Christian: i.e., Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, do not hold to the definition of Jesus that Orthodox Christians hold, for one says that He is a god, a created being, that there is no Trinity as do the Jehovah Witnesses, and the Mormons that claim similar teaching as to Jesus Christ, that He is their Lord and Savior, and creator of all things, the Only name by which a person can be saved, the Only Begotten Son of God in the flesh, born of a virgin, Mary, in Bethlehem, died on the cross taking the sins of all mankind and was the first fruits of the resurrection of mankind and a free gift to man. Now, all this sounds to good, much like Orthodox Christianity. But is it? No! One must dig deeper into the teaching and belief to come to a factual understanding. There are differences that must be recognized, Mormons do not believe in the Trinity, that Jesus is of the same substance as God the Father, therefore it is not necessary to believe in the Trinity to be called a Christian. Let us dig deeper: Mormon doctrine teaches that we are all eternal beings, that we first existed as intelligences, then God organized our spirits. We lived with God in our pre-mortal state for some unknown period of time. As Spirit children we had the right to choose right from wrong and that God revealed to us His plan for our salvation to become more like Him, the Mormons call this the "Plan of Happiness."
      The Mormons teach that Jesus was more intelligent than all others and that God probably organized the spirit of Jesus before all the worlds were created. Mormons teach that Jesus offered to become our savior and our creator. Jesus would offer Himself as the ransom for man. The Mormons teach that there was another one in heaven, another eternal being, Lucifer, a powerful and charismatic spirit and due to his pride of being intelligent above others he desired glory for himself and willfully decided to rebel. Are Jesus and Satan brothers as some say? Mormons teach that all are brothers and sisters for all are spirit creature of God, therefore we are all related: taken from this site: 
 Since both Christ and Lucifer were born of the Father, they were brothers in a spiritual sense, as all of us are brothers and sisters in that sense ─ we are all the sons and daughters of God. 
 http://mormonfaq.com/mormon-beliefs/jesus-christ/is-lucifer-the-brother-of-jesus
     While the Mormons teach much similarity to Orthodox Christianity when examined it is found that the similarity ends where their doctrines and beliefs begin so they are not similar in actuality. They have no proof for their suppositions and theories, they have only their theological bent. The writer of Hebrews faced similar challenges by the Gnostics, and other sects that held different views of Jesus and in his book he is clearing up the matter: Jesus is the Savior, and is the promised one seen in the Old Testament far back as Adam and emphazised in the narrative of Melchisedec and brought to conclusion in Hebrews as well as other Scriptures. God, the Father did make Him to be Priest, Savior, the Only Begotten Son, but not from some eternal spirit, rather He came Himself by putting flesh upon His Wisdom ensuring that the Only Begotten Son, and this can only be true if the Only Begotten Son was begotten from the same substance as the One begotting. 
     Do not be fooled by Jehovah Witnesses, or the Mormons, or any other religion that does not teach the truth from Scripture but have added their theological bent to their theology, no matter how good it may sound, it is not the truth and the Bible, not the Book of Mormon, which is very controversial, and the translation of the New World Translation of Jehovah Witnesses. Put your faith, your hope, in Jesus Christ as revealed in the Bible, the Bible translated from manuscripts that are extant and have always manifested the truth: there is no need for another "bible." 
     This blog may be long, but important for we must learn the truth, not some "good" sounding philosophy that you can get from watching Dr. Phil, no, by learning the truth from the Bible that has always been the Bible, ensuring that your faith will stand against those who attempt teach another gospel.

Some trust in chariots
    and some in horses,
but we trust in the name
    of the LORD our God.
               Psalm 20:7

Trust In the Lord taught by the Apostles

Richard L. Crumb     



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