Church of Scotland report denies Jesus was the promised Messiah

Christians should not believe those parts of Scripture where God promised that a virgin would conceive: Isaiah 7:14 didn’t really refer to a promised messiah: it was just about a general plan of salvation. And he wasn’t born in the long-promised Bethlehem either – that’s just a metaphor for anywhere, like Slough. And he didn’t have to be a ‘he’ either – that’s just a metaphor for all humankind. And his name didn’t have to be Jesus (Mt 2:21) – meaning ‘The Lord saves’, because it could have been Brian or Steve: there’s no real promise that the Lord will save us from our sins (Zech 3:9). He is not ‘God with us’ (Mt 1:23), and he didn’t need to suffer (Is 53:7) because there’s no real reward for obeying the word of God (Lk 11:27). Jesus isn’t the visible image of the invisible God through whom all things were created (Col 1:15f) – that’s just silly. He didn’t reconcile us to himself through the cross (v20), and he’s not the glory of the nations (Ps 96:3; 39:21). And when God promises that nothing shall separate us from the love of Christ (Rom 8:35), he didn’t really mean ‘nothing’ – he meant God’s love is completely dependent on the which side of the bed he gets out of in a morning.

Oh, hang on. His Grace has got it wrong.

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