In Reply to: Re: About Jesus posted by Charlsey on July 25, 2009 at 08:41:29:
Charlsey, what an important question...but I am quite sure, that I can't/will not answer to your satisfaction...
It must have been any of those Christmas-season-letters where Berg talks about this theophany-like impregnation by Gabriel, just based on Luke 1:28...I imagine...
In any way, the cult-"theologists" of COG should really answer that...also I don't know whether the word/topic search in the online "Mo-libraries" really works...never tried it too much...for Jesus would get countless hits anyway in a search...but someone with patience could restrict the search a bit (with some other word like trinity e.g.)
For right now I have not much the desire nor time, though I think it to be a worthy subject...after all, that's where there have been some very major differences in church-movements in history...also the JW come to mind, who seem to be really arian in their doctrine and there is also this Gabriel thing with them to some extent too
On the other other hand I must say, that I don't remember Berg teaching any Arianism at all...it all sounded all very much trinitarian...
In the comparatively super few TF pubs I still have, I made a little search (first since ages) and that in the MOP Volume 1...section Jesus..6.
"Jesus is God, in a way, part of God, part of the Trinity or a part of the oneness of God, the same way we're one Family, where husband and wife are one but they're different personalities."
Obviously Berg hadn't understood marriage and the oneness in it very well...
This is quite representative of TF-thinking/believing...some Bible-based truth with lots of other weirdness mixed in...some deadly cocktail