Guilty of All
A Riddle for the Logical Mind
Three verses. One logical answer. Can you find it?
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James 2:10 (KJV) For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
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1 Peter 2:22 (KJV) Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
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Matthew 4:10 (KJV) Then saith Jesus [Yahushua] unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord [Yahuah] thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Read all three. Lay them side by side. What must be true?
He said it Himself outside the tomb.
John 20:17 (KJV) Jesus [Yahushua] saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
- Break one point and you are guilty of all. — James 2:10
- Yahushua broke no point. — 1 Peter 2:22
- The first point is to worship Yahuah, and Him only. — Matthew 4:10
Yahushua had a God, and His God was Yahuah.
A co-equal God has no God above Him to worship. He would fail the first command and stand guilty of all.
Why It Matters
The church teaches that Yahushua was fully God and fully man, and as God in the flesh He kept the whole Law. James 2:10 sets the standard: break one point and you are "guilty of all." Peter says Yahushua "did no sin" (1 Peter 2:22), so He kept every point, the first commandment included. Matthew 4:10 shows how He kept it. Facing the adversary, He answered from Deuteronomy 6:13: "Thou shalt worship Yahuah thy God, and him only shalt thou serve."
Here is the riddle. Yahushua kept the first commandment by worshipping Yahuah as His own God. If He is Yahuah, He worshipped Himself, which no commandment asks. If He is a second person who is also God, then two stand as God and one serves the other, which is the very thing the first commandment forbids. Only one answer keeps 1 Peter 2:22 true: Yahushua is not Yahuah. He is the Son who worshipped Yahuah perfectly.
More verses press the same point. Elohim "cannot be tempted with evil" (James 1:13), yet the Son "was in all points tempted like as we are" (Hebrews 4:15). He "learned obedience" (Hebrews 5:8). A being who cannot be tempted and cannot fail learns nothing.
The two-natures formula comes from the Council of Chalcedon in 451. It was written to hold the Nicene creed together, and it is stated nowhere in Scripture. It asks the reader to believe that one person was tempted and untemptable, mortal and immortal, at the same moment.
This matters because it erases the example. Peter says Messiah left "an example, that ye should follow his steps" (1 Peter 2:21). A man who kept the Law in the power of the Spirit proves the Law can be walked. A God who kept it proves nothing about anyone else. The doctrine that exalts His nature in the end excuses His followers from His path.
Even glorified, He still names a God above Him. "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God" (Revelation 3:12). He calls His people to the same road: "even as I also overcame" (Revelation 3:21).