The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-30
Jesus Christ Ii God.


Jesus Christ Is God.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
In the "Religious Intelligence" OF the HERALD Of
Sunday, July 2s writer, signing himself George
H. b., has ventured upon what ne calls "a Reply to
| Truth on the Nature or Cod" A reply9 Does he
| say a replya Surely he cannot be serious. Moses
says-Gen. l., lin the beginning GOD created the
heaven and the earth" 1t Is simply declaration
nothing more. George II. B." says this verse-Gen.
H. l-'describes creative effort Of God, which re.
suited in the existence and presence OF every needed
ingredient and element These came In chaotic
pile" NC Mark reader, this words of Moses are
declarauve, they describe nothing The description
George II. b." gives is his own. He describes a
theory OF his own imagining, and attributes 1t to
Moses.
Let US now connect the first and second verses as
In Genesls-"In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth. And the earth was without
form, and void; and darkness was upon the
face OF the deep.n Mind the words sthe earth
was"-that is, 1t was there. preexistent eternal,
formless, chaos, void of all life, light or
motion, utterly senseless. dark AMI dead. 1t
was death in its eternal root. Gen. T.,
Sand God said, let there be light, and
there was light" But George II. B." says Light
was not the result Of a creative effort, but of the
combination Of efforts ALREADY existing produced
by that first comprehensive EFFORT" &C., &C. Here
we detect how rife the imagination Of man Is to rob
God OF his glory for. let the reader observe, that
light was the first thing created Nothing had been
created until God, by the virtue OF word speak ing
made light to appear. AS we said in former article
the almighty power OF God consists in the truth Of
His Word. 1t was the infinite faith He had in the
truth and power OF HIS word to produce the thing
| spoken OF that produced 1t, and therefore when
! God said "Let there be light" the light came.
Passing over Geo II. Bs' conceit that the bodies of
the inferior living were first created. and
! that second or "new creation" was superadded
| TO the structure-sense. instinct, &c.-we come
TO his description OF the creation Of man; and, lest
we may be supposed TO mlsrepresent him. we quote
the passage in full. He says-The same process Is
seen In the making OF man. FIRST his body Is
formed in which the crude system OF nourishment'
assimilation, &C., seen in vegetation, enters: then
the senses instincts, &C., OF beasts; and when man
Is thus matured God superadds another and higher
piece OF creation-the sou-verse q, chapter H. viii
All these creations, Mr.. Weiss very Justly init.
mates in nature In perfect keeping with the mind
creating them. They are the legitimate births bear
rig the impress OF the author" Mark, reader, here
are less than four separate and distinct creative
actions attributed to God in His creation OF man
FIRST, his BODY Is formed; second, the crude sys-
enters; third. then the senses, Instincts, &c, OF
beasts; and, fourth, when man is thus matured God
the soul now and an s
the Creator to the level OF mechanic bringing the
charge he shamelessly and untrutnfully makes
against Truth" to recOi upon himself Now, what
does all this imaginary nonsense avail against the
simple and sublime relation OF Mosesf BE tells us
that the wOIk OF creation was done by words
words And God said.N There was 40 handicraft
needed. Gods word alone brought living forms out
or senseess dead pre-exisung matter, as aforesaid
In the fifth PARAGRAPH Of the article IN the HERALD
What He Is" sighed Truth" the word ''world" is
| four times substituted fer "word." Your cores
Gus; he might have added that it was gross per.
version OF the text. In the following 1.-THE slxthl
Was suSstuted for sanctdcer these were errors
Of the press The correction OF the first error VIII
serve present purpose; the quotation n, repeated
nng was the Word, and the Word was with God.
ana the Word was God. The same was IN the begin.
ming with Cod All things were made by Him; and
| without Him was not anything made mat was made.
He was in the world, ana the world was made
| the Word was made Hesb and dwelt among us, and
we pehed His DRY. the glory as OF the only begoten
seen thai the Word was God; then we see that the
| Word which was God, was made flesh. and dwet IN
i tH be but Cnrst w1o said Of Himself st John x
3O 81 and my Father are onen Again lst John
xiii. 45, Jesus SAID he that seeth Me seeth Him
that sent Me.n Again (St. John, VI, as so, 81, So
| 62L II am that bread or life. This Is the bread
which cometh down rom heaven; ! am that living
! bread which came down from heaven, and the
bread when / will give is My flesh. This IS tina
| bread which came down from heaven. What ther
was before p Again (st. John, ILL, 81. az HE thai
cometh from above Is above all: he that Is OF the
earth is earthly, and speaketh OF the EARTH de ina
God hath sent speaketh the WORDS OF God: for Goo
g1veth not the Spirit by measure unto Him. AGAIN ;
the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the
mighty one OF jacob Jude, the last verse, ITO the
only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty
Again ist John, XIV to ~, "li ye had known
have .e 1nn HIM. Philip saith unto Him, Lord snev
us the Father and 1t sufnceth u.s. Jesus saith untt
HIN. Have been so long time with you, and ye
, seen Me hath the Father, and how sayest Tho
then, Shew us the Father BelIevest thou not tina
an, in the Father and the Father IN Ne I'M
| but my Father, that dwelleth In Me- he doetn III
works. Believe Me that am in the Father ana N
Father In Me-" Again. ST. John. Xxx, 24-2s, endin
with Thomas surrendering his doubt In the presenc
e or the disciples, Thomas answered and said unit
4 Jesus, My Lord and my Cod The Law and tn
% Gospel are both dlled with sayings and d0ings Q
like import all OF which go 10 prove tnat the WORD
a which was God, was In the beginning with God, an
a therefore 1T Christ says II am that living bres
| which came down from heaven" and "What II y
' shall see the Son OF Man ascend up where lie wa
before y, And thus it is shown that God (he Fathe
came down from heaven and became nesn in tn
womb CT the virgin, who was told by the angel tina
she should conceive IN her womb and bring forth III
son OF God, whose name should be called Jesus LUX
l. a. 3o-35), "Wno shall be called the mighty God an
everlasting Father lis. TX e I'm whom are hid all I'll
81: 'For In Him dweeth all the fulness OF the Got
: head bodilyn tColossians H., o. This brings us
comprehend tne dlnerence between GoPuaon an
| view by the immortal person or God soul and bod
= entering into tue Virgins womb, and there dyii
tally OF the seed OF the Virgin, becoming the GO
man In flesh, the Son or God by the Fathers SID
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