What are the beliefs of "Jesus only"churches?

Question

Im having a debate with someone at the moment. They say that Jesus only churches use the nameof Jesus to baptise, pray etc rather than all three (father son, holy spirit)

Is there any scriptural backing to explain why they may do this?

Answer 1

I'm a Christian and I can't say there is really any backing to that belief, but I don't just pray to Jesus; I pray to God and the Holy Spirit as well. I just don't end my prayers with in the name of the father the son and the holy ghost etc... Maybe I'm not in one of those Jesus' only churches though, but I usually end my prayer in Jeusus' name.

Answer 2

There are several scriptural reasons they do this. Isaiah 9:6, John 1:1,14, Col. 2:1:15, Col. 2:9-10, Titus 2:13, I Tim. 3:16, Micah 5:2, Matthew 1:23, John 10:30, John 14:8-11, Rev.21:6-7, Matt. 1:21, and Acts 4:12. I go to one of "these" churches. Please feel free to ask me anything! Basically, we are saying Jesus is God manifest in the flesh. Father-God in parental relationship to us.Holy ghost-God in activity as spirit. Son of God-(Humanity). As in a fleshly person, a physical son of Mary.

Answer 3

Well a Jesus only Church does not follow scripture. It is true that Jesus is the only way to achieve salvation we need to look at what he did say. Look into the NT scriptures and you will see that Jesus does say believe in me and the one that sent me. Every time Jesus spoke he was in the role of the servant. Ask the father in my name. He later told them the Father would send the comforter who would guide them. So if Jesus spoke of the Father and Comforter why would we say through Jesus alone? It was God who created, Jesus who redeems, and the Spirit who guides.

Answer 4

I think Jesus was quoted in the Bible as saying something like "The only way to the Father is through Me." I'm definitely not a Bible expert, but I'm pretty sure there is a statement like that.

Sometimes people will form a entire religious movement based on a single detail like that.

Maybe some people believe the simpliest way is the best.

Just my opinion.

Answer 5

Yes if you want to interpit scripture to your belief isn't that what all protestants do Sola Scriptura... you might ask a few of these questions to him.

1. Who do you think God used to preserve the Scriptures? Was it not the Catholic Church? Martin Luther admitted to as much…will you?
2. Were they Lutheran/Presbyterian/Baptist/Methodist,etc. monasteries, or Catholic monasteries?
3. Is not the word “scripture” itself from the Latin word scriptura (which means “written things”)?
4. Which Church was it again that used Latin?
5. Where in the Bible does it say that we should go by the Bible alone when it comes to all matters pertaining to faith and morals? Scripture verse?
6. Where in the Bible does it list the books which should be part of the Bible? Scripture verse?
7. Where in the Bible does it say that public revelation ended with the death of the last apostle? Scripture verse?
8. Do you believe the writer of the Gospel of Mark was inspired by the Holy Spirit? Yes or no?
9. If yes, where in the Bible does it say that the writer of the Gospel of Mark was inspired by the Holy Spirit? Scripture verse?
10. Do you believe the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews was inspired by the Holy Spirit?
11. If yes, where in the Bible does it tell us that the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews was inspired by the Holy Spirit? Scripture verse?
12. Where in the Bible does it tell us who the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews was? Scripture verse?
13) Do you interpret the Bible? Yes or no?
14) If the answer to #13 is yes, is your interpretation infallible? Yes or no?
15) If the answer to #14 is no, then will you admit that your interpretations of the Bible could be wrong in one or more places? Yes or no?
16) If the answer to #13 is yes, then does anyone have the authority to tell you, that your interpretations of the Bible are wrong? Yes or no?
17) If the answer to #16 is yes, then who? Just one name please.
18) Can those who do not have God’s approval be saved? Yes or no?
19) Did the Apostles teach different doctrines to different people? Yes or no?
20) Did the Apostles and other leaders of the early Church believe it was okay to have false doctrines within the Church? Yes or no?
21) Did the Apostles break fellowship with those who were teaching different doctrines than they were teaching? Yes or no?
22) Did Jesus and the Apostles demand conformity to the doctrines they taught? Yes or no?
23) Were the Apostles infallible in their teaching on faith and morals? Yes or no?
24) Can you be “one” with someone who believes in false doctrines? Yes or no?
25) In your church, can two walk together if they are not in agreement? Yes or no?
26) Did Jesus give his real flesh or his symbolic flesh for the life of the world? Real or symbolic?
27) Did Jesus say that the bread he would give us to eat, which, if we ate we would live for ever, was the flesh that He would give for the life of the world? Yes or no?
28) Did Jesus say that we had to eat His flesh and drink His blood in order to have eternal life? Yes or no?
29) Did Jesus say that His flesh was food indeed and that His blood was drink indeed? Yes or no? 31) Do you believe the Body of Christ, the church, with Jesus as its head, can teach error in the areas of faith and morals? Yes or no?
30) Do you believe the Body of Christ, the church, with Jesus as its head, can teach error in the areas of faith and morals? Yes or no?
31) Can God appear to you under any form He chooses? Yes or no?
32) Is the correlation I am drawing between the flesh that Jesus shall give for the life of the world and the bread that Jesus shall give us to eat, found in John 6:51? Yes or no?
33) Do we need to eat the flesh and drink the blood of Jesus Christ in order to have eternal life? Yes or no?
34) If the answer to #35 is yes, then can we say that His flesh does indeed profit us? Yes or no?
35) If the answer to #36 is yes, then does verse 62 of John 6 mean that it counts as nothing to eat Jesus’ flesh and to drink His blood? Yes or no?
36) Does Jesus’ flesh “count for nothing?” Yes or no?
37) Are you an authentic interpreter of Scripture? Yes or no?
38) If #37 is yes, is your interpretation of Scripture infallible? Yes or no?
39) Am I an authentic interpreter of Scripture? Yes or no?
40) If you are not an authentic interpreter of Scripture, then who is?

Answer 6

Yahoshua does not have a church He is jewish and keep the Torah.

Answer 7

They do, but they are twisting the scriptures.