Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Jesus did not "lay aside his divinity" at the incarnation as Bill Johnson says, but is already "from the Holy Ghost" in his mother's womb and becomes "God with us"

A heretic of Christianity is discussed here who teaches that Jesus laid aside his divinity in the incarnation and performed his ministry entirely according to his human nature by the subsequent gift of the Holy Spirit received at his baptism by John, in order to pave the way and make it possible for his followers to receive the same, and do the same and greater things.

Utter nonsense, of course, which the author of Matthew would not have accepted:

Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. ... But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. ... "Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel" (which means, God with us).

-- Matthew 1:18, 20, 23