KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

[F]or Christ. . .is no man but the DIVINE PRINCIPLE in every human being.4i Blavatsky

We learn to.. .be Christs ourselves .42 Spangler

Separating 'Jesus' from 'Christ' serves another purpose in the heart of new version editors. Westcott and others believe 'Christ' now is 'the church'. Denying his bodily resurrection he says: The Resurrection of Christ [is only] the church, which is Christ's body.. .through this each believer comes nigh to God. . .he that is in you [I John 4:4 means] that is in the Christian Society.43 'Christian' publications like Restoration Magazine and cults like the Church of the Living Word , "Rob Christ of his personhood by claiming he is now embodied in the church.. ."44

Here we have the roots of another popular but very serious error: the teaching that Christ is the Church. 45

This theme is not limited to small fringe organizations. Many large mainline Protestant denominations believe membership in their church is equivalent to receiving Christ, since they believe the members ’are Christ'. Even the Dogmatic Constitution "Lumen Gentuim," no. 14 from the Second Vatican Council says, the Roman Catholic Church is 'Christ'.

For Christ, made present to us in His Body, which is the Church, is the one Mediator and the unique Way of salvation .46

"Who is a liar," says the apostle John, but he who claims to be Christ. "Jesus is the Christ," not Buddha, a church, "each of us" nor the coming Antichrist.