This is a response to on-going controversy in Israel within the Body of Messiah:
For the present controversy over the authority of rabbis or any other religious office, it’s also important to re-affirm the deity of the Son of Man, and also His humanity. . . . the belief of some believers who are recognized as brothers in the Body of Christ here, but who apparently deny the full humanity of the Son of God, saying that since God can not physically suffer, Jesus could not have been fully human and suffered in His death on the cross, or something like that!
In general, these are the points that I think need to be clearly stated in whatever statement is put out by the group you are putting together, and with supporting Scripture references:
–that Yeshua, as the Son of God, is God who came in the flesh, but also that He willingly emptied Himself of His glory. (This last part is important because Jesus needed to pray to God His Father, and He did not — at least while here — know all things; for example, the day and hour of His coming to gather His elect.)
–that Yeshua, as the Son of Man, came in flesh and blood, and will come again in the flesh. (His coming both times personally in the flesh is important, because the denial of this is of the antichrist.) At His first coming, Jesus was without sin, but was made sin for us in His sacrificial death; at His second coming, He will come again apart from sin.
(These points are important to distinguish Him from the rest of humanity, as all of us have sin in us, and we sin.) Yeshua is truly and fully Man in the express image and likeness of God.)
–that born-again believers are under no other authority but of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Head of the Body, which is the church, and of His Apostles, through whom we have the New Testament Scriptures. All believers, in whatever capacity we serve God in Messiah, are under the authority of the Holy Spirit-inspired written Word of God.