Believing Jesus to be in some sense God (as distinct from a person with a god status), detracts from saving belief that God (the Father) has made Jesus His Christ, His right hand man who represents Him to the utmost and fully shows what He is like. It detracts from acknowledging that Jesus is the total master of each believer and of believers as a whole, the Lord. Belief that this Lord Jesus is the Christ, come in the flesh, is crucial. This then is foundation for saving belief that this Christ died for you. It is the belief he died for you, to provide for rightful purification from your sins, in God’s will, that opens the way for you in your heart to receive purification by the Holy Spirit, turning you from sinful ways. It is the belief in Christ’s death on the cross paying for sins according to God’s ways. It is the foundation for saving belief that God (the Father) has raised him from the dead, and he lives forever. This is the gospel preached by the apostle Paul, which Jesus revealed to him, and the good news that Gentiles are to live lives free from the need to keep the Law of Moses, and free to believe these truths, and to receive and live by the truth of the Holy Spirit who glorifies Jesus Christ. It is freedom to live instead by the Law of Christ and so to have fellowship with Jesus and the Father. There should be no detraction from the real truth that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God (he is the Son of the God who is the Father).
