By Nick Bibile
1 John 2:22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.
Matthew 10:33 whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.
Today there are so many who believe in Christ but when it comes to the heart of the matter they deny Christ. Denial of Christ has to do with the gospel as the Father has offered Christ in the gospel.
In the gospel there is Christ and without the gospel there is no Christ. In the gospel we see Christ, the holy one of God, God incarnate in human flesh, tabernacle among men fulfilling all the law of God, on his death we see the good news as his righteousness charged to the believing sinner. On the other hand the false teachers believe in Jesus but deny who he is. History confirms it.
Arius who was in the church robbed the divinity of Christ. Today Jehovah's Witness, Iglesiani Christo, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, known as Mormons, Oneness Pentecostal churches, and many others who deny that Jesus is not God who came in the flesh are liars.
Then in the 3rd century we see Sabellian heresy that identified the Son and the Father are one in person differing only in name, he denied the Trinity. Sabellius denied the Son of God. We see the same heresy today in United Pentecostalism and Jesus only oneness movement.
Then we see Pelagius who believed in the essence of Christ but reduced Christ to nothing, when his grace and power are set aside.
Whoever denies the true essence of Christ, his work on the cross that Christ alone we are saved he is antichrist. Antichrist is a person who not only comes against Christ like the atheists but also one who substitutes for Christ.