He is part of a cult. By Bill Schlegel

People have said that I’m part of a cult. They mean it, of course, in a derogatory sense.

These same people that derogatorily accuse me of being part of a cult believe that God is somehow a combination of three persons in one essence. They also believe that one of those persons of the three-person god also has a human essence (or nature).

So, this belief system that accuses me of being part of a cult has for their god:
Three persons in one essence, but one person in two essences.

But I’m the one, supposedly, who is part of a cult with a strange belief system.

And they don’t notice that in their definition of who God is, they have eliminated the possibility that Jesus the Messiah (Christ) is a real human person. Otherwise their god definition would be three persons with two essences (a divine essence and a human essence).

Again, according to them, I’m part of a cult with a strange belief system.

I believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Christ. The God of Jesus the Messiah, like your God and my God, is the God whose name has been revealed to us in the Bible, spelled with the four Hebrew consonants יהוה.

My belief lines up word for word with what Jesus said after his resurrection:
“I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God” (John 20:17).

My belief lines up word for word with what the Apostle Peter preached on the first Pentecost (Shavuot) after Jesus was raised from the dead.

“Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know - this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. 
God raised him up… (Acts 2:22-36).

My belief lines up word for word with what the Apostle Paul wrote: “For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim. 2:5).

Let’s just say for a moment that I and a growing number of others are hearing Jesus, Peter and Paul correctly, taking their words at face value and not adding to them.
Jesus, a human, the Messiah (Christ), was put to death and raised from the dead by God.

Could it be? Is it possible? What if the Trinity and the “deity of Jesus” are incorrect interpretations made by people in the decades and centuries after Jesus, in lands and cultures distant from Jerusalem?
What if the post-biblical Alexandrian (Egyptian), Cappadocian (modern Turkey) and Roman interpretation of God and Jesus is departure from biblical truth? What if they are wrong -- that in fact their three person in one essence god and their one god person in two essences god-man is the aberration -- not the real God or Christ?

Who would be part of a cult then?

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He is part of a cult.