The Search For Jesus

Pastor Reckart ask the question: Who is the real Jesus?

No other Apostolic preacher or writer among the Apostolic Oneness have asked this question in the past 111 years. Since none have asked the question NONE have given an answer! How is it possible that within Apostolic Oneness Christianity the importance of believing in the real Jesus does not matter? Why is it so many believe in a Jesus that is not the Jesus of the Bible? They act as if any face, mask, identity, theory, or belief automatically makes the real Jesus become what they apply to him.  Several Oneness Ministers stamp the name Jesus on Michael the archangel. They will stamp the name Jesus on all kinds of false Jesus'. This has become such a delusion Pastor Reckart has decided to address it. Into which Jesus are they baptizing when they say: in the name of Jesus Christ?" They have all kinds of Jesus' being called Christ.

No other Apostolic Pastor or Minister has cared or attempted to deal with this great apostasy. I am sure when the contents of this blog posting is read, it will be quickly bicycled to Pastors and Ministers to get them to say something even if it is nothing but denouncing me. I have written this posting because I am continuing my attack and refutation of the divine logos flesh doctrine, the doctrine Jesus had celestial logos flesh and it was divine.  Read on and be blessed. Or realize the curse upon you if you are one that believes Jesus was not manifested in human flesh descended from the seed of David. Realize your accursed condition if you do not believe in the dual nature of Jesus as man and God, the son and the Father, Christ the Lord.

There is only one real Jesus of Nazareth. There was only one real Jesus born in Bethlehem. There was only one real Jesus who was born Christ the Lord. There are so many facts about the real Jesus, that I am so glad I know. Because it is this true Jesus in whom I believe.

When I became a Christian by my own faith, I accepted and chose to be a disciple of the Jesus who was born of a virgin, was the son of man, was the begotten Son of God, preached unto the world, was believed upon by many thousands, was crucified, was buried, and resurrected, who founded the New Testament Church, and who was the Savior and Head of this holy nation.

You could not understand my surprise as a young novice to discover that many were preaching "another Jesus" who was not the true Jesus depicted by the Apostles and contained in the Gospels and Epistles. At first these people who preached "another Jesus" did not confront my faith. In fact they have never affected my faith in the true Jesus. It was only after I was called into the Ministry, accepted the calling and responsibility, that I was forced to become an apologist not only for the true Jesus but many other New Testament doctrines.

Yes, I do stand out nearly alone in the world among Apostolic Oneness in the matter of publicly confronting false doctrine and many erroneous beliefs and teachings. This has made me a target for many hateful men and women. When I reject their darkness and refuse to call it Light, they join ranks to attack me, distort what I write, and pervert biblical doctrines for the sake of confusion and leading men and women into error.

My pursuit of the real Jesus has led me to know the real Jesus personally. I believe the real Jesus has spoken to me many times. Guided me many times. And has given me understanding in the Scriptures that most have never experienced. I am a disciple and a Minister under the true Jesus.

I want to introduce you to several religious sects and cults who do not preach or teach the true Jesus of the New Testament. Yes, like all apostates, these will use the very Scriptures we use but they will pervert not only the meaning, they will pervert the doctrine of the Scriptures in such a way they make up another Jesus who is not the Jesus who died on Calvary. They will make use of gnostic speculation which many know as spiritualizing.  There are many of these groups now in the world. And there are multiplied millions in bondage to them. These millions are deceived. They have been tricked. They have had men understanding dark sentences to persuade them in darkness so great, they will never come to know the real Bible Jesus. How great is this darkness? Yes, they will still have the name Jesus around their churches and homes. Yes, they may or may not use the Cross as a symbol they are Christians. Yes, they may claim they are saved. Many claim to be Apostolic Oneness. And yes, they may claim they believe in the true Bible Jesus. But they do not.  I have found them to be liars. I have discovered they believe in "another Jesus." Ask them questions about the Bible Jesus and you will soon see they believe in "another Jesus," one not really the Jesus in the Gospels or the Epistles.

Lies that developed the first non-biblical Jesus came from the Temple and the Pharisees and Saducees. All later non-biblical Jesus' either made use of these lies or developed even greater distortions.

JERUSALEM--The Temple Cult (hereinafter TC) denied Jesus was the Messieh Christ. He was not the son of the Blessed. The first non-biblical Jesus was said by the TC to be created. He was totally a man. This was the first Monophysite doctrine concerning Jesus. They denied he was the only begotten son of God.  "God has no begotten sons" was their claim. All human beings after Adam and Eve were begotten by some man. That is, Jesus had an earthly father. The TC claimed he was a created human being by virtue of conception, creation in the womb, and born. They denied Jesus was born of a virgin birth. They rejected he was a descendant of David with heir rights to the throne. The TC also claimed the non-biblical Jesus was not holy or divine: He was a liar, Beelzebub, insane, a false prophet, a deceiver, and a blasphemer. The TC Jesus was not God in any manner. There was a belief among the TC that all humanity was created by God and God could not and never would assume or dwell in human flesh. They perverted the interpretation of the text "God is not a man" (Numbers 23:19). The TC produced the first non-biblical Jesus and this birthed many other non-biblical Jesus theories.

SAMARIA--The conflict between Peter and Simon Magnus in Acts 8 produced what has become the greatest "another Jesus." It was claimed by the pre-Nicene fathers that Simon perverted everything he heard about Jesus and transferred it into a new religion of hidden or secret gnosis (knowledge). Simon was a sorcerer. He was well educated in gnostic mysticism as it was then applied to Jewish and Gentile religious beliefs. It is believed Simon had knowledge of the mysticism of the Jews known as the Kabbalah. The Kabbalah is Jewish mysticism embodying gnostic principles and theories. It is no secret that Philo, a contemporary of Simon had already himself adapted gnosticism to the whole Jewish religion.

Josephus writes of a Simon magician who was a Jew. If Simon Magnus was a Jew, then the origin of all "another Jesus" teachings come from two branches of Judaism which the Apostle John called antichrist. Simon was a master of his craft. He had bewitched many hundreds of people with his tricks and doctrines.
Simon was not converted after his baptism and became angry at Apostolic Christianity (following the Apostles in matters of faith and doctrine). He then decided to alter and pervert everything the Apostles were then preaching about Jesus in their Gospel. He transferred the Jesus the Apostles preached into a new gnostic Jesus. His Jesus had one nature like the Jews but he added a new Monophysite (one body) theory where the flesh of Jesus was absorbed into his being the divine Christ. Jesus was a divine gnostic Christ whether it was his pre-Calvary fleshly body or his post-resurrection spiritual body. This would later birth the Apollinarian heresy which would place more emphasis on the logos body of Christ and Jesus having one nature as divine. It is this doctrine that Teklemariam Gezehagne of Ethiopia would merge with the UPC doctrine on the logos and at last come to embrace Apollinarianism. This has been called the divine flesh doctrine, the celestial flesh doctrine, heavenly logos flesh doctrine, and docetism where the body of Jesus was some kind of non-human physical phantom being.

So far as we know, Simon was the one who created a mystical Jesus derived from his post-resurrection appearances wherein he had a spiritual, ghost, or phantom like body. This post-resurrection Christ was then backward placed as a mask over the pre-resurrection Jesus. The pre-Calvary Jesus was then also a phantom being who appeared to be human but he was not in any way connected to the human race. He was something divine although not believed to be totally God. This enabled his Jesus to appear and disappear and even walk on water during his life.

Who developed Simon's another Jesus into other gnostic interpretations in Egypt, Israel, Syria, and Greece we are not sure. But we know they happened because parts appear in several different Christian sects in the world in the late first century (Egypt (origin of Pachomius monk mystic Plato philosphers), Israel (Philo gnosticism, Simon gnosticism, Ebonites, Nazorians), Syria (what became Nestorianism/Marconianism), and Greece (Nicolatians).  These are the sources of the so-called Gnostic Gospels. Simon's gnostic non-biblical Jesus birthed all other gnostic Jesus'.

At issue here is the dual nature of the real biblical Jesus as testified by the eye-witnesses as compared to those who never saw or met Jesus at all. Did Jesus have only one human nature as the Jews claimed? Did Jesus have a Christ nature before death and another Christ nature after the resurrection? Which was the real Jesus? There were many now. Was he a mystical Christ? Was he the mind part of God, the logos? Was he Christ because he was the logos in some human form?

The fact Jesus was the Messieh king of Israel was no longer important. This means the Kingdom as the Church was no longer important. Greek philosophy would invade this gnosticism so that by 325AD 318 bishops did not even know who the real Jesus was. I want to inject here, that a great reason why the trinity doctrine is false is because Jesus as the second person in a triad of gods is "another Jesus" and not the Jesus of the Bible.

A new another Jesus theory spread that as a Christ, Jesus was a reacurring mystic christ-teacher who had already appeared in other nations and among other religions. The Gnostics came to see their Jesus as the Jewish chance to have a Christ philosopher of mysticism among them. But the Bible Jesus was not a Kabbalist or a Talmudist or a mystic. He was not a sorcerer.

Within gnosticism many theories developed: Jesus become Christ at his birth; he was the Greek logos intermediate deity; no he became Christ and the logos at his baptism; no he became Christ and the logos at his resurrection? The logos Jesus was a new another Jesus. Was he created? Was he begotten? Or was he created and begotten?  We are sure he was begotten because of John 3:16. Jesus was not created. The Creator cannot be created!

It was within all the gnosticisms that philosophers and mystics created that Christ was seen as the logos and mystical separate person who was now one with God. This another Jesus was not God manifest in the flesh but he was considered divine and co-existing with God the Father. This new another Jesus had no earthly fleshly body. He was a special created being made from the logos, the spoken Word of God, or his body proceeded forth out of the logos mind of God. When he was upon the earth he appeared as a man but he was in no way a human being. The new another Jesus had no connection to the human race at all. He was totally and fully divine but he was not the Father. Herein was birthed Arianism of two-gods: one uncreated and one created but both considered divine.  Here began the foundation of the trinity doctrine. Out of all this came another Jesus who had divine flesh and blood. He had one nature with his flesh and being Christ all one divine being. Quite different from the Jesus of the TC who claimed he had one nature as a human being. And neither of these two "another Jesus," false Christs, are the Jesus of the Apostles who had a dual nature of human flesh and God.

MANY ANTICHRIST--John tells us that in his day, nearing the end of the first century, there were many antichrist. By the use of the word "many" we understand not only a great number but also many different kinds.  He gives us the basic identification of them.

1.) Those who deny Jesus is the Messieh of Israel;
2.) Those who deny the Father and the Son (meaning the dual nature of Jesus as the only begotten son incarnated with the Father);
3.) Those who confess not Jesus was come in human flesh.

These three areas when properly explored will kill all "another Jesus" false teachings.

We find also the words of the Apostle Peter who speaks of Paul's writings, which he says are hard for some to understand: and then says they wrest them and other scriptures to their own destruction (2Pet 3:16).  At issue here is "another Jesus." Those who develop these "other" Jesus' and try to make the real Jesus accept the mask they put upon him, will come to destruction. They will be damned. This is what stands behind Paul's great warning:

"For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye had not accepted, ye might well bear [stand up against] with him" (2Cor 11:4).

I am herewith standing up against all who preach another Jesus and thus another false gospel.

Writing about the very same things in opposing the law-keeping Judaizers, Paul told the Galatians these words:

"As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed" (Gal 1:9).

Anyone who preaches Jesus was only a man is accursed; that preaches Jesus was totally divine and had one nature is accursed; that preaches any Gospel that the Apostles did not preach is accursed: all these persons are accursed.

Any person who denies Jesus was God come in human flesh is an antichrist and accursed. Any person who denies Jesus is God is accursed. Anyone who has believed in another Jesus that is not the real Jesus of the Bible is accursed.

Because of gnosticism infiltrating Christianity many now believe Jesus was totally divine and they are all accursed.

Because of this doctrine the early gnostics had to escape Jesus from the Cross because a totally divine person could not die. A totally divine Jesus cannot even submit himself to die because his nature would be eternal. Gnostics invented a Jesus who escaped the Cross and made up the lies that someone else died in his place. They claim the totally divine Christ stood off viewing the scene laughing at the Jews. And many believe all or parts of this "another Jesus" and they are accursed

Make sure you have not been deceived by any person to accept being accursed. Make sure your Jesus is indeed the true Jesus the Apostles preached. Do not accept a Jesus with a mask on him created by reprobate men perverting the Truth. Do not accept any doctrine about Jesus the Apostles did not preach. 

If your Church does not believe in the dual nature of Jesus as God and man, get out of it right now it is accursed. If your Church believes Jesus had only one nature GET OUT OF IT, it is accursed! If your Church believes the flesh of Jesus was divine and was celestial flesh, heavenly logos flesh, GET OUT OF IT, you are in an accursed church!

Do not remain among false churches using the name of Jesus but who preach "another Jesus."

Redeem yourself from the accursed.

In search of the true Jesus. I found him in the Gospel Paul preached. I found he was both God and man and had a dual nature.

I found him. And that is why and how I have great wisdom and understanding in the Truth. I have a great Teacher. He is the true Jesus. He is the true Lord and Savior. He is Christ the Lord.

I write this in honor of my Shepherd, my Bishop, my Apostle: JESUS!

Bishop Reckart
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Celebrate the day of Pentecost June 12, 2011, the birthday of the Church. Pastor Reckart will give a Church birthday present to all in attendance at Jesus House in Tampa.