Hi Dino246,
Quote: I don't recall reading anything of the sort anywhere in the Bible. Perhaps you could post the verses.
Response: --- I had used these verses in a previous post where I said, --- ‘But Jesus, being human, was caught up as a saved soul to heaven to be the High Priest,’ as is recorded again in Hebrews 12:2 “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of
our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
--- But notice that the location was not ‘at the right hand of God,’ --- but ‘at the right hand of the throne of God.’ --- And this is explained in Hebrews 8:1 “Now
this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
2 a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.”
--- And it says in Hebrews 7:21 “The Lord has sworn and will not relent, ‘You
are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.’ ”
22 “By so much more Jesus has become a [
g]surety (guarantee) of a better covenant. 24 But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
25 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.” --- So that identifies where Jesus is, and will be forever.
In the meantime, Christ was still on earth, and He went the opposite direction as it said in 1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,
19 by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,
20 who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah.
--- So it was Christ who went to Hades to meet and defeat Satan on his own turf. ---This is explained in Ephesians 4:7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
8 Therefore He says: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.” --- (An explanation of, ‘He led captivity captive,’ is --- “He took captive that which had taken us captive; like sin, Satan, and death.”)
9 (Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
10 He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.)
11 And He Himself gave some
to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the [
e]edifying (building up) of the body of Christ,
13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—
16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
Christ is the Head of the Church, and it is Christ, the Son of Man, who will be coming for His Church, in Matthew 24:30 “They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”
--- And Paul tells us where Christ is now in Colossians 3:1 “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4 When Christ
who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.”
Blessings
It is a flaw in their theology.