It's Not Semantics, It's Bible!

Jesus will accept us the way we are so long as we confess him as Lord and Savior and truly ask him for forgiveness from a repented heart. God draws us and we do not draw God. God is the positive charge drawing the negative that is being transformed from our conformed old ways into the positive Way, the positive Truth, and the positive Life in Christ Jesus (Son of God Son of man).

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved (KJV, Rom.10:9)

It's not semantics, it’s Bible! Christ Jesus and Jesus Christ have different meanings. A person who believes unto salvation must believe in the death of Jesus (His Body) and the resurrection that is the Christ (His Blood). Though the body died the blood was alive and that is why it is said, “the death (Jesus the body-Son of man) and resurrection (Christ the blood-Son of God)”.

You have to believe in the likeness of the Son of man (Jesus) before you can be transformed in the image of the Son of God (Christ). We find the use of Christ Jesus, as seen in the following scriptures:

Phi. 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Phi. 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

Phi .2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

Phi. 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

If Jesus was made in the likeness of man then we too need to be made in the likeness of the last Adam (Jesus) the Son of man. Paul said, Christ Jesus (Son of God Son of man) mind, was to be in us. The work on the cross