29. A Mighty God is Born! Oh, Really?

Isaiah's Second Son

For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; 

And the government will be upon His shoulder. 

And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, 

Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isa. 9:6-7.

Because of our background, it is easy to see this prophecy referring to the Messiah.  We must be careful not to tear the text out of its context.  Isaiah was still speaking about his own time frame.  

In 7:14 he announced that his second son would be born; the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, in 9:6 the fulfilment of that prediction is announced: unto us a Child is born.  As far as Isaiah was concerned that was the end of that part of his story; the predicted son had been born.

You would look long and hard before you would find any theologian in the Christian church who would admit that our mighty God was born in Bethlehem.  Yet that is exactly what theologians say when they insist that that special child, born in Bethlehem, is equal in every way to Jehovah.  

So, was the church's mighty God born, or not?  If Isaiah 9:6-7 refer to Christ, and if Christ is equal to the Father, as Trinitarians tell us He is, then, our mighty God was born.  If we admit that Jehovah was born we, of course, must admit that He is not eternal.

John Piper, speaking of the deity of Christ and quoting, the words of the Pharisees in, John 5:18: He was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God, said, that because Christ "let it (that statement by the Pharisees) stand", it must be true that Jesus is equal with Jehovah.  The fact that Christ "let it stand" proves nothing except that Christ did not want to argue that point at that time.  To make it say anything more than that is to make the Bible say something that is not written there.

Matthew took the words of Isaiah 9:6-7 and applied them to Christ.  So we, of course, have been taught, that Christ is a mighty God.  In contrast note that a leading Hebrew lexicon records that the word god used by Isaiah is applied elsewhere in Scripture to men of might and rank, as well as to angels. Who is Jesus by Anthony F. Buzzard. 

For a few examples of this use of the word god(s): 

• I have said, You are gods; and all of you sons of the Most High. Psalms 82:6.
• Jehovah says to the false prophets Prove that you are gods by making your predictions come true. Isaiah 41:23. 

With that in mind, we can see that just because Matthew quoted that verse from Isaiah it does not mean that he thought of Jesus as a Mighty God.  In as far as the prophecy applied to Jesus, it meant only that he would be a man of might and rank.  It should be remembered that Matthew wrote his gospel years after Christ was crucified, so he already knew that Christ had been a man of might and rank.

As for “eternal father,” this title was understood by the Jews as “father of the coming age.” Who is Jesus by Anthony F. Buzzard.  

To render the words, Everlasting Father, into Hebrew, scripture4all.org/ writes, Father-of-future.  This change takes all the strength out of the argument that Isaiah was writing about a God that would be born in the future and abide eternally. 

If, for the sake of argument, we allow that Isaiah was speaking of Christ the most that he said, and Matthew understood him to mean, was that Christ would be a man of might and rank and that he would rule in the future.

Therefore, if Jesus isn't (a) God, He is not eternal, as theologians tell us that Jehovah is. About this idea, Anthony F. Buzzard writes: Matthew and Luke trace the origin of Jesus to a special act of creation by God when the Messiah’s conception took place in the womb of Mary. It was this miraculous event which marked the beginning—the genesis, or origin—of Jesus of Nazareth (Matt. 1:18, 20). Nothing at all is said of an “eternal Sonship,” 

A person does not exist before he is begotten.  Neither did Christ!

A few notes about the birth of Christ.

1. If one believes that the Lord of the Jews is a saucerian, then one must also believe that Jesus Christ is the son of a saucerian, namely: Jehovah of the Old Testament. 

2. Here is one teaching that the church has held for about twenty centuries which is actually found in the Bible.  A message was given to Mary: The Holy Spirit will come down to you, and God’s power will come over you. So your child will be called the holy Son of God. Luke 1:33-35.

3. The idea that the gods had offspring with human women is a recurring thought in ancient writings.  It is found in Greek Mythology, in Babylonian, Hindu and Egyptian writings as well as in the Bible: When the sons of the gods had intercourse with the daughters of men, the Bible tells us, their offspring were mighty men of renown. Gen.6:4 New American Bible.

4. Many theologians, ever since the days of Saint Paul, have agreed that sin entered the human race through Adam, not through Eve.  Paul wrote, Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world. Rom. 5:12.  Eve was deceived, and so, not at fault, but Adam knew what he was doing, therefore he is to blame. 

Isn't it reasonable then, to argue that if a child is born to a virgin, without a human father's involvement, that child would not be burdened with the sinful traits imparted by a human father?

5. Jehovah had made a deal with Satan; simply stated, the deal said, either a perfect human must pay the ransom price for the mortal race or none of mankind will have a chance at eternal ecstasy.  Jesus Christ being both human and the Son of God fulfilled all the requirements laid down by Satan.  

The Lord, having chosen the young woman from among the Jewish people, sent an angel, whose name was Gabriel.  The angel was bearing the divine seed with him, and through artificial insemination, implanted the seed, and the young virgin was pregnant.  Christ is, in fact, the Son of Jehovah and the son of human lineage.

About the statement, Jehovah had made a deal with Satan, someone wrote that Jehovah does not make deals.   Let's not feel so sure about that.  A look at the story of Job might change our mind.  So Satan answered the Lord and said, ... “But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person. Job 1:9-12.  Satan had the deal he was looking for!

This post has brought us directly to the border of the Christian Church's biggest theological error.  Next week I plan to start a series of posts in which I attack that error.