The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-26

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plain Scriptures. The new translation
rules out or corrects several of the
Trinitarian passages.
! (5.) The enemies of Jesus are the
only ones who say Jesus claimed to be
equal with the Father and they did it
as pretext to stone him. 1.-The Jews
sought to kill him because he had not
only broken the Sabbath but said God
was his father, making himself equal
with God" Remember Jesus only
said, "God was his father and when
they said be thus made himself equal
with God, he denied it at once in these
strong words "The son can do moth
ing of himself but what he seeth his
father do''-''1 can of myself do moth
ing. AS hear judge and my judg-
ment is just, because l seek not my
own will but the will of the Father
who hath sent me-"
Again they attack him for blasphemy,
because they said, "Thou being man
makest thyself God" But he imme-
diately denies the charge by saying, If
it was no blasphemy in their scrip
lures to call them gods to whom the
word of God came, how can it be bias
phemy for me whom the Father sane
tried and sent, to say II am the son of
God"
What spectacle; not God nor the
disciples, nor the apostles. nor the sa-
cred writer's, nor any friend of Jesus
claims that he is equal with God, Only
his enemies make the claim; and they
not because they believe it, but as a
pretext to kill him. And yet the
church took up this false charge gener-
atiOns after and made it the creed of
Christendom.
| Co. The doctrine of the Trinity was
not known to the Jews and can not be
found in the Old Testament from
Adam to Jesus. 1t is not plainly taught
in the Bible, so say Chalmers, Mean
der and Professor Shedd. Newton and
Locke and Milton, all great students OF
the Bible, denied it. The word trinity
or triune God is never used in the Bi-
bic nor by any Christian writer for q
hundred and fifty years after Christ.
The simple gospel is "Jesus is the
son of God" "God is my Father.
Sonship does not imply equality, fol
Jesus denied it. And if you make
them equal then you have two Gods.
i t779' But denying his deity does.Aot
deny his divinity. We are all made in
the image of God and his spirit dwells
in us. If this is true of US as the Bible
affirms, it must be true of 1.-THE man
Christ Jesus, who was full of grace and
truth"
Jesus was born, lived, grew, was
tempted, waved strong in spirit and
was filed with wisdom. There is divin.
ity in us all-how much we know not.
How then shall we measure that which
was in Jesus So grandly did he live
that the glory of the Father was re-
vealed in the face of Jesus Christ,
have seen the glory of father in the
face of his son. So does the glory OF
God, the love of a Heavenly Father
shine in the face of his son Jesus,
Is this making Christ mere man
Then tell me what is "a mere man.
Have the possibilities of the human
soul ever been measured All thai
has ever come out of humanity the
genius Of Shakespeare, the wisdom OF
Bacon, Humboldt, the artists, sculp
tors, poets and inventors-all these
are in the possibilities of a "mert
man.
This does not degrade Christ, it ex-
alts humanity. What he WIS, we may
be. What he taught we may learn and
enjoy. AS he lived we may live also
Thus he is our Saviour, brother, friend
our example, our ideal lie shows us
the truth and makes us love it. He
shows us the Father. He reveals God
lie is God in the flesh, or as much OF
Gods love and wisdom as you can
bound by the flesh of man, and so he
shows us how we may become sons OF
God. He came to conquer the world
and make ali like himself obedent sons
of God. This he is doing and will dc
until he has subdued all things unto
himself, and when all things shall be
subdued unto himself chen shall the
son also be subject unto him that put
all things under him, that God may be
all in all. "
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