Who Is the Liar?

Who is the liar? Is it not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ?
He who denies the Father and the Son—this is the antichrist.
Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either;
whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also. (1 John 2:22–23)

The one who says, “I know Him,” yet does not keep His commandments,
is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him.
By this we know that we are in Him.
Whoever says he abides in Christ ought to walk in the same way He walked. (1 John 2:4–6)

Before meeting Jesus, Paul possessed the Old Testament Scriptures,
yet he could not proclaim Jesus as the Christ.
This was because he did not believe that Jesus was Yehowah God who became man.
Even today, unless one believes that Jesus Christ is Yehowah who came in the flesh,
no matter how exceedingly zealous one may be for God,
one cannot proclaim Jesus as the Christ using the Old Testament Scriptures.

The Bible testifies that those who cannot believe
that Yehowah God Himself came as the Son are liars.
For they believe they will enter the kingdom of heaven by their own zeal,
without knowing that Jesus Christ the Truth is Yehowah God who became man.

Toward those who are unmoved and stubborn in their own zeal,
God continues even today, through Scripture, to proclaim His righteousness:
that He is the Root and the Offspring of David,
that He is the everlasting Father who came as a child,
that He is the Creator and the Savior,
that the writings of Moses, the Psalms, and the Prophets testify about Him,
that we must abandon our own righteousness and return to Him,
that whoever denies the Son does not have the Father,
that if one does not know the Son is the Father, the truth is not in him,
that He became flesh and blood like us, died, and rose again.

And yet are not the cries of the Father returning only as a distant echo?

Enter through the narrow gate.
For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction,
and many enter through it.
But small is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to life,
and few are those who find it. (Matthew 7:13–14)