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At Morris Fork Baptist Church, we believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, as the second Person of the Triune Godhead, is God, always has been God, and always will be God. The Bible explicitly states that Jesus is God (Isa. 9:6; Mat. 1:23; Jn. 1:1; 20:28; Acts 20:28; Rom. 9:5; Phil. 2:6; I Tim. 3:16; Tit. 2:13; Heb. 1:8; I Jn. 5:20). In our opinion, it is no mere coincidence that most modern translations of the Holy Scriptures (e.g., the RSV, NASV, and NIV) change or cast unnecessary doubt upon many of these key Bible verses.

Religious liberals do not believe in the eternal deity or everlasting Godhood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Instead, they regard Him simply as a devoutly religious man through whom God worked in a unique way, as a great teacher or prophet, as a totally-committed martyr, or as a model man who was ahead of the rest of the human race in His evolutionary development. While these liberals are willing to “tip their hats” to Jesus, they are not at all willing to fall on their faces before Him and worship Him as Almighty God.

Ernest Pickering issues a timely warning to Christians living during this Laodicean age of apostasy when he writes: “Until fairly recent times almost all orthodox Christians have held to the doctrine of Christ’s deity. Unfortunately, the church has fallen upon evil days and now many pulpits are occupied by men who deny this major and basic Biblical truth. Leading religious figures no longer take seriously the Biblical evidence for Christ’s deity. Some unbelieving preachers and professors, however, do not always express themselves as plainly as others. They prefer double talk. Sometimes modern liberal preachers declare that they believe Jesus Christ is God; but if you understood their language, you would realize they do not mean what the Bible means. Christian people need to develop sharp spiritual discernment so they will not be taken in by everyone who claims to believe in the deity of Jesus Christ.”

Religious liberals believe in a Jesus other than the Jesus revealed in Holy Writ (Jn. 8:23-24; II Cor. 11:3-4; Gal. 1:6-9; I Jn. 4:1-3; II Jn. 7-11). The Jesus they believe in has never existed in human history, but is a figment of their wicked imaginations and an invention of their depraved minds and hearts. Religious liberals cannot be considered Christians in the Biblical sense of the word. True Christians believe in the Jesus of the Bible!

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