"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning" (Jas.1:17).  In another place he says, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work"(Jn.4:34).

The bread is a symbol and coming down from heaven a figure of speech.  It has no basis in physical reality.  It is a spiritual metaphor.  The power of Jesus and the miracles at his hands "came down" from heaven because God was the force behind it all and because the power to do so was a gift from God.   False Armstrong binitarians teachers, their disciples, and others like to be "literal" with the Bible, but a literal reading of these passages is irrational in the extreme and borders on the fanatical. It is irrational to imply that Jesus actually came down from heaven as the "bread of heaven."

(9).  JESUS AND THE FATHER ARE ONE--

PBC: "Jesus says 'my Father and I are one'…  If you do not have Jesus, you do not have the Father.  This is basic doctrine, they cannot be divided, to worship God you must worship God.  God is the Father and the Son."

REF: Jn.10:30: "I and my Father are one."   RESPONSE: Opinion is not biblical proof.  Next, using binitarian logic, all believers are God, too.

"And the glory which you gave me I have given them, that they may be one just as we are one" (Jn.17:22).  They are only one in the sense that believers and disciples receive the same glory and exaltation the Father gave to Jesus.  Believers will be resurrected (raised up) and made to sit on the same throne as Jesus (Rev.3:21).  Indeed, believers, through baptism, are already "raised up" with Jesus (Rom.6:5-6). Notice the promise of a resurrection by the apostle Paul.  Now notice that Paul, in writing to the Ephesians, states that a resurrection or a "raising up" has already taken place for believers.

"But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ…, and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus" (Eph.2:4-6).  True Believers are ALL one in Christ the moment they are brought up out of the waters of baptism, if not before.  For Christ to be one with the Father does not mean they are "of the same substance," as some wrongly teach.  They have no proof, only opinion, which results in the teaching of lies.  It is mystifying how some would-be binitarian "scholars" and their disciples will grasp the least reference, like this one, as though it were solid proof of preexistence and God-status of Jesus, when it is nothing of the sort.

(10)  ONLY A GOD COULD SAVE MILLIONS OF SINNERS--

PBC: "In order for a sinless life to be equal to all sinful mankind, that sinless life had to be equal to all human lives--that is, he had to be equal to the Creator of all human life, or [be] that Creator himself!"  RESPONSE: Translated: "No one but a God is worthy to die for mankind."  The problem with this assertion is that it is only a man's opinion.  And although we are free to express our opinions, we are not free to teach these opinions as facts of the Bible.  This popular and dogmatically stated opinion is totally unsupported in Scripture -it is not a fact of the Bible.  That makes it deceitful and a lie when it is taught as truth.  Further, the argument expressed removes the option from Yahweh to do as he pleases with what is his own and the practitioner of such an idea arrogantly locks him into something he never agreed to.  So, this silly multi-god opinion from silly multi-god practitioners should be dismissed out of hand.

"For he says to Moses, 'I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.'  So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.  For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, 'For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show my power in you, and that my name may be declared in all the earth' " (Rom.9:15-17).  By the same token, God raised up Jesus (Acts 2:29-33) so that God's name might be declared in all the earth and so that the only true Yahweh God (Jn.17:3) will receive glory and honor.

God will have mercy and compassion upon whomever he will, regardless of our notions.  God can set any standards he wants and he does exactly that.  He decided that Jesus was to be the final bloody sacrifice.  It is our place to accept it.  What does it matter that Jesus is not a God?  He is the sinless sacrifice--the Lamb of God--determined by God to be the Messiah, whether we agree to the conditions or not.  When man begins to set standards for God, it's time for man to get out of religion.  God tossed the first-century Jews out of his revealed religion and destroyed their beloved temple (Matt.21:43). And he can toss you out, too.  "I can of myself do nothing.  As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is righteous, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the Father who sent me" (Jn.5:30).

Only God can save sinners.  TRUE. And God saves sinners through Yahshua, Jesus, who is Yahweh's son—God's AGENT OF SALVATION.  Apart from the Father, even as Jesus stated, he cannot personally save anybody.  Jesus is not an independent savior; he depends entirely upon the Father.  Jesus said: "I can of myself do nothing."  (END)