The entire Iwaasa family is accursed. The lying angel of Moroni gave another gospel to Joseph Smith (actually Smith just made it up) in his "Another Testament of Jesus Christ" which is really another Jesus Christ altogether. Notice they struggled for a title for this other gospel or other testament, because the "New Testament" was already taken and was already sufficient. No need for another testament.
"But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed" (Gal. 1.8). What is this other gospel? It is that salvation is no longer by faith alone, but by works, and that Jesus is not the uncreated Creator in the Triune Godhead who created all things, but entirely a different being than the Father and Spirit in which God use to be a man, as once God was man is now they say. Whereas the Bible says God was never a man, but always spirit, and you can never see spirit.
For man to appreciate obedience unto God, God manifested Himself as Father, Son and Spirit, whereby the Son showed perfect obedience unto the Father and gives us the Holy Spirit if we are born-again to indwell our spirit. But before time and space, there was not Father, Son and Spirit just the 3 Persons in the Godhead which shows God's tri-personal being having fellowship in the Godhead. So this prevents all these Satanic man becoming god teachings--henotheism and polytheism--and the fantasy life of pumping out spirit children on another planet.
"Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble" (James 2.19). Even Satan knows Jesus is God but that doesn't make him saved.
Watchman Nee wrote in The Spiritual Man (CFP white cover only),
Spiritual work aims to give life to man’s spirit or to build up the life in the spirit. Our labor will be nil in worth or effectiveness if it is not directed towards the spirit lying in the very depths of man. What a sinner needs is life, not some sublime thought. A believer needs whatever can nourish his spiritual life, not mere Bible knowledge. If all we communicate are excellent sermonic divisions, wonderful parables, transcendent abstractions, clever words, or logical arguments, we are but supplying additional thoughts to people’s minds, arousing their emotions once again, or activating their will to make one more decision. With a moribund spirit do they come and with just as moribund a spirit do they depart despite our heavy labors on their behalf. A sinner needs to have his spirit resurrected, not to be able to argue better, shed profuse tears, or make a firmer resolve. Likewise a believer does not require outward edification, since his real lack is inward life more abundant—how he can grow spiritually.
Should we focus our attention on the outward man and neglect the inward man, our work will be utterly vain and superficial. Such work equals no work at all, and perhaps it is even worse than no work, for a lot of precious time is undeniably wasted! Man can be moved to tears, can confess his sins, can consider redemption reasonable, can profess his interest in religion, can sign a decision card, can read the Bible and pray, can even testify with joy; but still his spirit has not received God’s life and therefore remains as dead as before. Why? Because man’s soul is capable of performing all these things. To be sure, we do not despise these motions; nevertheless we recognize that except the spirit is quickened these pious acts are but rootless blades which will be totally withered beneath the scorching sun. When a spirit [in a man] is born anew it may display these same manifestations in the outward soul: in the depth of its being, however, it receives a new life which enables the person to know God and to know Jesus Christ Whom God has sent. No work possesses any spiritual effectiveness save that which quickens the spirit into an intuitive knowledge of God.
We ought to perceive that it is quite possible to exercise “false faith” and experience “false regeneration.” Many confuse understanding with believing. The former simply means the mind understands the reason of the truth and reckons it believable. The latter, according to the spiritual sense, involves being united; that is, by believing that the Lord Jesus died for us we unite ourselves with His death. People can understand doctrine without necessarily believing in the Lord Jesus. What we stress is that men are not saved by their good deed [see John 10.28], rather do they obtain eternal life through believing the Son of God. Men must believe in God’s Son [whom is One Being with the Father and Spirit]. Many believe the [similar] doctrine of atonement but fail to believe in the Savior Who atones. Their regeneration is false should they only fill the basin with the blood of the lamb without applying it on the doors of their heart. Countless are the professing [false] Christians who lack the intuitive knowledge of God, although they live like true regenerated Christians—clean, pious, helpful, frequently praying and reading the Bible, even attending services. They can hear and converse about God, yet they do not know God, they have no personal knowledge of Him. “My own know me. . . and they will heed my voice” (John 10.14, 16). Those who neither know the Lord nor heed His voice are not His sheep.
Since man’s relationship with God begins at regeneration and is carried on completely in the spirit, it is evident that all our work must have its center here. To court apparent success by merely whipping up people’s enthusiasm results in a work without God. Once having learned the central place of the spirit, our efforts should undergo a drastic change. We do not labor without objective, simply following what we think is good; we have a distinctive aim, that of building up man’s inner depths. In the past we laid stress on the natural; now must we emphasize the spiritual. Spiritual service means nothing other than our working by our spirit for the quickening of the spirits of others. Nothing else can be so termed.
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