Yahushua Christ: Is He A Created man?

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Question: Yahushua Christ: Is he a created man?

Answer: As there is only one true G-d, Yahuwah, Yahushua is not G-d. He was born a man. Only a sinless man with flesh and blood could be the perfect sacrifice for our sins.

1) Only one G-d

Bible speaks about G-d and his creation. As we have only one true G-d, Yahuwah, the Father, all other beings must be part of His creation.

Deuteronomy 4:35
To you it was shown that you might know that Yahuwah, He is G-d; there is no other besides Him.

Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel! Yahuwah is our G-d, Yahuwah is one!

Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I, I am He, And there is no G-d besides Me; It is I who put to death and give life I have wounded and it is I who heal, And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

1 Chronicles 17:20
O Yahuwah, there is none like You, nor is there any G-d besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

2 Samuel 7:22
For this reason You are great, O Yahuwah adonay; for there is none like You, and there is no G-d besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

If there is only one true G-d and His name is Yahuwah, there is no way to call anybody else G-d too.

Exodus 20:2
I am Yahuwah thy G-d, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other G-ds before me.

2) Who is our Savior?

Most Christians believe, that Yahushua has to be G-d in order to be our Savior. The logic of this argument begins with the premise that only G-d can save. Beside the influence of pagan thought, this idea comes from the fact that G-d is called "Savior" in Scripture. For example:

Isaiah 43:11
I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no savior.

They argue that Yahushua has to be G-d in order to save us, and if he is not G-d, then he did not save us, and we will die in our sins. But this is a fallacious argument because it fails on several counts.

a) Correct translation is this:

Isaiah 43:11
I, even I, am YAHUWAH, and apart from me there is no savior.

The title "LORD" is wrongly used insteed of the name "Yahuwah" in original text, which is misleading millions of believers. Yahuwah is our only loving Father and Savior!

b) Most people fail to recognize the distinction between G-d as the Author of salvation and Christ as the Agent of salvation.

1 Timothy 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Yahushua Christ by the commandment of G-d our Saviour, and Lord Yahushua Christ, which is our hope;

1 Timothy 2:3
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of G-d our Saviour;

1 Timothy 4:10
For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living G-d, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

c) If Yahuwah, the living G-d, is the Savior of all men, who else is the Savior? None. There is just one Saviour, the Father Yahuwah, and he has agents, coworkers helping Him to save men.

d) Yahuwah, Yahushua and others are all referred to as "savior," but that clearly does not make them identical. The term "savior" (H3467, yasha) is used for many people in the Bible. This is hard to see in the English versions because, when it is used of men, the translators almost always translated it as "deliverer." For example:

Nehemiah 9:27
So you handed them over to their enemies, who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion you gave them deliverers [saviors], who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.

This in and of itself shows that modern translators have a Trinitarian bias that was not in the original languages. The only reason to translate the same word (H3467, yasha) as "Savior" when it applies to Yahuwah or Yahushua, but as "deliverer" when it applies to men, is to make the term "Savior" seem unique to Yahuwah and Yahushua, when in fact it is not.

G-d’s gracious provision of "saviors" is not recognized when the same word is translated "savior" for Yahuwah and Christ but "deliverer" for others. Also lost is the testimony in Scripture that Yahuwah works through people to bring His power to bear. Of course, the fact that there are other "saviors" does not take away from Yahushua, that he is the only one who could and did save us from our sins and eternal death.

e) The term "savior" must be understood in relationship to what people were being "saved" from. The "saving" that G-d did prior to His Son’s coming was rescuing His people from their various bondages and captivities, not the ultimate salvation of saving His people from their sins. That job had to wait until the birth of the man who was the Lamb of (from) G-d, not the G-d who became a Lamb.

f) Next problem with this argument is that it fails to take into account a common idiom employed in prophetic utterances, namely that actions are often attributed directly to G-d when in fact they will be carried out by His agents.

"Yahushua" means "Yahuwah saves" or "Salvation of Yahuwah":

Matthew 1:21 (KJV)
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

His name means "Yahuwah saves," and yet it says that "he [Yahushua] will save." This kind of language has a rich biblical background that must be understood clearly to avoid confusion.

Jesus (Yahushua) is the same name as the "Joshua" of Old Testament fame. By studying the relevant biblical records we learn that Yahuwah did not "save" Israel by doing the job Himself or by becoming Joshua. Joshua "saved" Israel by obeying G-d and leading the children of Israel out of the wilderness into the Promised Land.

The salvation was wrought by G-d empowering both Joshua and the people who went forth in faith to claim the victory that G-d guaranteed for them if they would go get it. Yet leading up to this victorious accomplishment of Joshua’s were several prophetic utterances spoken by G-d Himself, strongly stating that He would do the job. For example:

Exodus 23:23, 27, 28
(23) My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.

(27 I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run.

(28 I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.

It seems very clear in verse 23 that Yahuwah said that He Himself would do the delivering. But in this same context a few verses later He says that the Israelites will drive His enemies out:

Exodus 23:31
I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River. I will hand over to you the people who live in the land and you will drive them out before you.

Is Yahuwah the "savior" here or not? The fact is that this is typical of prophetic language. The principle we see over and over in Scripture is this:

Yahuwah says that "He will do" something that in fact He will empower His servants to do with His help. More specifically, when Yahuwah says that He will do something, He means that He will send someone with whom He will work to bring His will to pass.

In the above case, it was Joshua, but also Moses, Gideon, the other judges, David and many others who were active agents of the salvation that G-d "wrought."

In the case of sending someone to die for our sins, He sent Jesus (Yahushua), the namesake of Joshua. Only rarely in Scripture does G-d act sovereignly (i.e., without a human agent), and in the case of Yahushua, He did not take matters into His own hands, but entrusted His will into the loving and obedient hands of His beloved Son.

Yahuwah, as His manner has always been, sent the perfect person into the battle and worked with him until the job was done. So in a very real sense, both Yahuwah and Yahushua "saved" us, as Old Testament heroes saved Israel, and therefore it is appropriate that each should be called "savior."

3) Was Yahushua G-d or man?

We agree that man in his fallen condition could never produce a qualified candidate for the job of Messiah, nor initiate anything resulting in the redemption of mankind. Because sin is inherent in mankind and because the wages of sin is death, the death of a sacrifice was required to atone for it.

Hebrew 9:22
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

Animal blood, though provisionally adequate before Christ by the grace of Yah, failed to meet the requirements of a complete atonement. G-d, being spirit, has no blood; furthermore, G-d, who is immortal and eternal, cannot die.

Therefore the only solution was that a man with perfect blood (that is, a sinless man) had to die. But because all men have been tainted by sin, there would be no possibility for a sinless human to exist without some kind of direct divine intervention.

However, we must reject the proposition that the only way G-d could satisfy the requirements of redemption was by becoming a man Himself.

Contrary to the assumption that Christ must be G-d for redemption to be accomplished, we find that the opposite must be the case:

Unless he was a man, Yahushua could not have redeemed mankind. G-d’s "infinite" (immortal) nature actually precluded Him from being our redeemer, because G-d cannot die. He therefore sent a man equipped for the task, one who could die for our sins and then be raised from the dead to vanquish death forever. This is the clear testimony of Scripture.

Romans 5:15
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man [Adam], how much more did G-d’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Yahushua Christ, overflow to the many!

1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one G-d, and one mediator between G-d and men, the man Christ Yahushua; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

If it were a major tenet of Christianity that redemption had to be accomplished by G-d Himself, then this section of Romans would have been the perfect place to say it. But just when Scripture could settle the argument once and for all, it says that redemption had to be accomplished by a man.

The theological imaginings of "learned men" that only G-d could redeem mankind are rendered null and void by the clear voice of G-d Himself speaking through Scripture: a man had to do the job.

Not just any man, but a sinless man, a man born of a virgin— the man Yahushua, now the man exalted to the position of "Lord" at G-d’s right hand.

John 8:40
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of G-d: this did not Abraham.

Acts 2:22
Men of Israel, listen to this: Yahushua of Nazareth was a man accredited by G-d to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which G-d did among you through him, as you yourselves know.

Acts 2:23
This man was handed over to you by G-d’s set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.

Acts 17:31
For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.

The crux of the Christian faith is not a mythical and mystical "incarnation" by which G-d supposedly became a man, but the historical event of a purely righteous man’s death on a tree, and then his being raised from the dead by G-d to everlasting life. It is this simple but powerful truth that began to be exchanged for a "mystery."

4) Creation, not Incarnation

Yahushua makes clear reference to two distinct categories in John 3:6 when he says that the "Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit."

Yahushua clearly declared G-d to be "spirit". He did not say "I am spirit" or "G-d is flesh".

John 4:24
G-d is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Placing "G-d" in the category of "spirit", while he himself is clearly a man of flesh and blood, Yahushua effectively excluded any possibility that he was G-d.

If G-d, being spirit, could incarnate Himself as a man, then the clear scriptural distinction between flesh and spirit disintegrates. But G-d the Creator, who is spirit, can create flesh, as He did in Genesis 1. His spirit brooded upon the face of the water, speaking into being things that had not existed before. These things were in "the flesh," but were not He. They were His creation, but He stood apart from them and judged them to be very good.

He caused a human life to begin in the womb of Mary by an act of supernatural creation, not mystical incarnation:

Matthew 1:18
Now the birth of Yahushua Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

Luke 1:35
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of G-d.

Yahuwah waited for a willing woman to bear this child, a woman whose confession and testimony were befitting the honor bestowed upon her. In this way He brought into the world a human being who fulfilled the necessary conditions for becoming the Messiah.

Then He had to work with the growing child to help him maintain his sinless condition until the time he could be anointed with holy spirit and thus be empowered to do the work to which he was called (Acts 10:38).

Yes, G-d had to provide (by creation) the body that could be sacrificed, but Yahushua had to obey Him flawlessly for his body to finally be the perfect sacrifice that it needed to be. Thus, Yahuwah and Yahushua each had a responsibility that the other could not perform, and upon which our redemption depended.

5) First and Last Adam

Yahushua Christ was also a created being, made a man in the same way Adam was originally made. Yahushua could have no intrinsic advantage over Adam, or his qualification as Redeemer would be legally nullified. He was the Last Adam, not the first G-d-man. The differences between Adam and Yahushua were circumstantial, not essential:

Adam started tall with no navel;
Yahushua started short with a navel.

Adam was created fully formed and fully able to comprehend the voice of G-d.
Yahushua had to learn from his parents.

Adam did not have to suffer the indignity of a humble birth.
Yahushua did.

Adam had only to dress and keep the garden and care for his wife. He had to keep from eating the fruit, or die and bring death to all his descendants.
Yahushua had to drink the cup of suffering and die so he could be raised to conquer death and make it possible for others to eat of the "fruit" of eternal life.

In a head-to-head comparison, Adam had every advantage, yet Yahushua overcame where Adam fell. He chose to obey Yah’s will, which was that he present himself as a perfect sacrifice for sin.

For the legal requirements of redemption to be satisfied, whatever Adam was, Yahushua Christ had to be. Scripture declares very clearly that Yahushua was a created human being like Adam was. In fact, they were both the result of G-d’s direct creative activity.

The whole Bible is simply the story of two Adams. Except for the initial genetic perfection that they shared in common, the contrast between them is stark. Here is perhaps another way to summarize Romans 5:12-21:

Two Adams
Two created beings
Two Sons of G-d
Two men
Two gardens
Two temptations
Two choices
Two attitudes
Two decisions
Two results
Two races

Conclusion: The Bible explicitly states that "G-d is not a man…" (Num. 23:19), which defines two distinct categories: G-d and man. If G-d is not a man, then if someone is a "man," he cannot be "G-d." Yahushua is called a man. Therefore he is one of us, the second Adam. G-d is spirit, but Yahushua had blood and flesh.

1 John 4:3
And every spirit that confesseth not that Yahushua Christ is come in the flesh is not of G-d: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.