The Deity of Jesus

Some members of the Tribes will say that Jesus (“Yahshua”) is God incarnate and will affirm the traditional Christian perspective on the Trinity.
Other members will say that Jesus is not God. And others aren’t sure.
Historically, the Tribes’ official beliefs (regarding Jesus and the Trinity) have evolved over time. Presumably, when Gene Spriggs was still in Chattanooga (and associated with a Presbyterian church), his organization held to a traditional view of the Trinity. Even in July 1994, a teaching called “The Trinity” was produced by Spriggs in Boston, which comfortably used terms like “Trinity” and “Godhead.” It stated that “God is three in one” and “God is one in His essential being. In this being there are three persons…” Yet, Spriggs had begun asking questions about the exact nature of the Trinity, and eventually pursued those questions in a direction that caused him to depart from this traditional view of the Trinity.
The official doctrine of the Tribes is that Jesus (“Yahshua”) was conceived as a pure/sinless human (similar to the first man, Adam) and then became a container for Divinity. He had no existence prior to His birth. They believe the Trinity is not the “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit” but rather the “Father, Word, and Holy Spirit.” They believe that “the Word” is God and that the Word was united with “the man Yahshua” who was merely human. Essentially, they believe that Yahshua was two persons in one body.

Response

The Tribes hold to an uncommon view typically known as Dynamic Monarchianism.
This view is not what God tells us in the Bible. There are a long list of passages that show that Jesus was existing as the Son of God prior to His birth.
The offspring of a bird is: a bird. The child of a human is: a human. And the eternal son of God is: divine.
The effect is that Jesus becomes less special, and the Tribes (seeing themselves as able to become like Jesus in nature) gain the confidence of being more special. by

Explanation

Jesus and Adam didn’t come from “the same seed” (as the Twelve Tribes teach). The Bible doesn’t say anything about two seeds.
Jesus did things that Adam could never have done. Jesus talked about Himself in ways that Adam would have never talked.
The man Jesus existed before John the Baptist, and in context, He is identified as eternal (John 1:15, John 1:30).
The Son of Man descended from heaven and “comes from above” (John 3:13, John 3:31).
The Trinity (including the eternal Son) is referenced in Genesis 1:26 when God says “Let us make man in our image” (see also Genesis 3:22).
Jesus is explicitly called “God” (John 1:1, John 1:3). Jesus is called “the only God” (John 1:18). Jesus existed in the beginning as “the Word” who was both “with God” and “was God” (John 1:1–3).
Jesus is called “God over all” and is praised forever (Romans 9:5).
God the Father explicitly addresses Jesus as “God” (Hebrews 1:8) and calls Him “Yahweh” or “LORD” (Hebrews 1:10).
Jesus possesses the full “fullness of deity” in Himself, confirming His nature as uncreated God (Colossians 2:9).
Jesus accepts worship when addressed as “my Lord and my God” without rebuking the claim, proving His inherent deity (John 20:28).
Jesus is designated as “our God and savior” (Titus 2:13, 2 Peter 1:1).
Jesus existed eternally in the “very nature [form] of God” and equal with God, voluntarily emptying Himself of heavenly glory to take on human flesh without losing His divine essence (Philippians 2:5–8).
Jesus is prophetically titled the “mighty God” (Isaiah 9:6).
Jesus claims divine Old Testament titles reserved exclusively for Yahweh, specifically “the first and the last” and “Alpha and Omega” (Isaiah 41:4, Isaiah 44:6, Revelation 1:17, Revelation 2:8, Revelation 22:13).
Jesus explicitly claims the divine identity of the Old Testament God, stating “I Am” (Exodus 3:14, John 8:58).
The enemies of Jesus recognized that He was claiming to be equal with God (John 5:18, John 10:33).
Isaiah’s vision of Yahweh seated on the heavenly throne was specifically a vision of the pre-incarnate glory of Jesus (Isaiah 6:1–6, John 12:38–41).
Jesus shared in the unique glory of Yahweh prior to the creation of the world (John 17:1–5).
Jesus is the active Creator through whom all things—including the physical world and everything in Heaven and on earth—were made, excluding Him from being a created thing (John 1:1–3, John 1:10, Colossians 1:15–17).
All things exist and endure through Jesus, as He personally laid the foundations of the earth in the beginning (1 Corinthians 8:6, Colossians 1:16–17, Hebrews 1:10, Hebrews 2:10).
Jesus is the dynamic source and “Author of life,” and God the Father created the entire universe through Him (Acts 3:15, Hebrews 1:2).
Jesus holds the divine authority to judge the living and the dead, standing at the center of final judgment alongside God (Psalm 50:6, John 5:22, John 5:27, Romans 14:10, 1 Corinthians 5:12–13, 2 Timothy 4:1, Hebrews 10:31, Hebrews 12:23, Hebrews 13:4, 1 Peter 1:17, 1 Peter 2:23, Revelation 16:5–7, Revelation 18:8, Revelation 18:20, Revelation 19:1–2).
Jesus sits at the center of the heavenly throne as the divine Lamb and Shepherd who receives worship, sharing the singular heavenly throne and divine glory with the Father as the unified source of eternal light (Revelation 7:10, Revelation 7:17, Revelation 21:23, Revelation 22:1, Revelation 22:3).
Jesus is explicitly titled “Lord of lords and King of kings,” a designation belonging only to God Almighty (Deuteronomy 10:17, Psalm 136:3, 1 Timothy 6:15, Revelation 5:6–10, Revelation 17:14, Revelation 19:16).
Jesus dispatching “His angel” identifies Him directly with the God of the prophets who sends “His angel” (Revelation 22:6, Revelation 22:16).
Jesus is identified directly as “the true God and eternal life” (1 John 5:20).
Jesus’ statement that “the Father is greater than I” refers to His temporary earthly subordination and human position, not a difference in essential nature (Galatians 4:4–5, John 14:28, Hebrews 2:9, Hebrews 2:14–18).
Jesus challenged the young ruler on the absolute goodness of God to reveal His own divine identity, as He alone is sinless and truly good (Matthew 19:16–17, Mark 10:17–18, Luke 18:18–19, Hebrews 5:9, Hebrews 7:28).
Plural titles and pronouns used for God in the Old Testament point to the divine plurality of the Trinity, which includes the Son (Genesis 1:26, Genesis 3:22, Genesis 11:7, Ecclesiastes 12:1, Isaiah 6:8, Isaiah 54:5, Hebrews 1:8).
The “Angel of Yahweh” in the Old Testament represents a manifestation of the pre-incarnate Christ appearing as God Himself (Genesis 16:7–13, Genesis 22:11–18, Exodus 3:2–6, Judges 6:11–24, Judges 13:15–22).
Early apostolic fathers such as Polycarp and Ignatius of Antioch affirmed Jesus as eternal God and Christ (Polycarp, Martyrdom of Polycarp 14 and Letter to the Philippians 12:2; Ignatius, To the Ephesians 7).