The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-12
WILMINGTON. n. c.
RELIGIOUS EDITORIALS FOR
SUNDAY

doctrine of the Trinity leIt out anu
the Divine Sonship Of Christ omitted.
That there are three Persons in the
Godhead is accepted by all Christians.
That the Father and the Son and the
Holy Spirit are God, and that the
<Lord our God is one Lord" are truths
accepted by all people who can be
correctly classed as disciples Of Christ,
as true believers, as Christians. To
reject the Trinity and to reject the
Divinity of the Lord Jesus are to re-
pudiate the whole orthodox scheme,
and to deny the very fundamentals.
The Holy Scriptures teach both. They
teach the Unity of the Godhead, of the
Divine Essence and yet they teach the
Trinity Of Divine Persons. There is
mystery necessarily, and we cannot
comprehend how it is, and we need
not to understand it, for it is a matter
of both revelation and faith and is,
therefore, true. The finite intelligence
cannot comprehend many of the
deep things of God, and it cannot
fathom the depths of the mysteries Of
the Infinite. We are not going into
an attempted explanation as to the
Trinity nor are We about to essay a
defence of the doctrine of the Divinity
of the Saviour. We are merely stat
ing two fundamentals in the Chris
tian scheme-that are to be received
as truths because so taught in the
Book, as matters of faith. The sub
lime mysteries are clearly set forth
in the Book Of all wisdom to be re-
ceived with faith however inexplica-
BILE and difficult and incOmprehensible
they may appear. They are in the
Word of Jehovah and are basic truths.
No man can properly call himself a
Christian who rejects the blessed truth
of God recorded in His Word of Life.
There is no contradiction in either
doctrine, however obscure or incom-
prehensible they may seem to you.
o cannot learn of the Trinity from
nature, but must go to the Holy Bible
to b. taught concerning it. The uni
verse will not convince or e%nlighten
you, but only Gods Book can. We
remark that in the Bible there are
clear indications of a Trinity. The
frequent occurrence Of the word
Elohim indicates plurality in the God
had DIT uyo do mot npt0, 1ynnr fhn
argument here. Go to the biological
books that bear upon the most impOr-
tant doctrine if you would have some
thing of the argument ~favoring the
doctrine. The very first verse in the
first book in the Old Testament opens
with the use of a word in it's plural
ginning God created'-Elohim-"the
heaven and the earth" But if you
will search you will find much to in
terest you as to the doctrine. In
Gensis, Deuteronomy, Joshua, 2 Sam
uel, and the Psalms you will find the
doctrine indicated, and in Hebrews,
Isaiah and Zechariah you will find
confirmation. Their is positive proof
also that the plurality of the Bible is
truly a triad-not two or four Persons
but three in the Godhead. Not only
is there much Bible evidence but not
little hat is collateral that is to be
found in the belief and teachings of
Hbo oor1x, Ch,;ct;o~ x-,;&o,1 Wy oon
not undertake to set forth in our limi.
ted space even a faint outline of the
evidence. AS to the Divinity of the
Lord and Saviour, the Messias,-tha
the Word became incarnate, that
Christ is vertically God as we'll as Mar
there is no lack Of proof in the
Bible. in both Testaments. 1t is toe
full to undertake it's discussion here
The proofs are full, direct, conclusive
overwhelming. If you accept the
Bible, as inspired, as the Truth OF
God, you will be forced by overwhelm.
ing evidence to accept the Statement
that Jesus Christ is Jehovah, is 1.-THE
True God," "The Only True God" will
all of the attributes of God, the Kins
immortal, eternal and invisible, tn,
Emmanuel of both the Old and thu
New Testaments, King Of kings ans
Lord of lords, immutable, omnipre
sent, omniscient, almighty. You can
not read Johns marvellous and mos
precious Gospel, half of which is no
to be found in the other three Cos
pels, and that from first to last dwell
upon the Divinity of the Son of God
you cannot read it understandings.
without accepting from the very be