Every attribute and trait which characterizes God the Father is true of Jesus likewise. He temporarily gave up His infinity and some of the other attributes. Christians declare that Jesus is fully human. He resisted Satan by the strength of the Spirit and the commitment of His human will. The radical theologians and New Age advocates today are teaching that deity is bound up with all creation, and flows through everything that is.
Deity is the life-force that brings forth and inhabits all things and all persons.
During the past two years, a number of events in the Church of the Brethren indicate an increasing breakdown of belief in the full deity and the full humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Pacific Southwest District has ordained a person to the ministry who says that Jesus is not exclusively the only way, truth, and life, and that to believe that Jesus atoned for humanity's sins seems to glorify suffering as good. More than twenty Brethren leaders attended the ReImagining Conference in Minneapolis where women claimed they were starting a Second Reformation, and tried to construct a god from their own human experience. This, Eller says, is frightening many Brethren and causing them to wonder what is happening to their Church. The Church of the Brethren faces the peril of abandoning the Christian faith and thereby becoming disloyal disciples of Jesus Christ.