The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-16

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Surely many have failed to appreciate
not only the divine personality OF Je-
hovah. but also the greatness of him
who is styled 1.-THE Son OF God"
Oneness Merely OF Will.
There was time when Gods people
language, and when education to read
II was extremely limited. and when no.
body possessed such wonderful Bibles
with references and concordances) as
are common today. 1t should not sur
prise us that In that far-off time confus-
ing errors crept into the traditional faith
Jews was that Jesus of Nazareth was an
impostor and that his mighty works were
done under the influence Of the fallen an
ahe9 IN he heat sns
Some OF the followers OF Jesus would
make extravagant claims for him In theii
endeavor to oppose the tn theory that rnad7
1t does not surprise us. therefore. that
early In the third century claims were
put forward in the name Of Christ and
his apostles which neither he nor they
ever authorized The apostles declareG
him to be the Son of God with power"
and that he was "holy, harmless. unde-
aled and separate from sinners. Ole
hrews VIII 26l: The Master himself de,
clared. "My Father is greater than L.
"He is above ALL 'He sent me. II
heaven and not mine own will II de-
light TO do thy will. oh my God; thy
law is written in my heart
Decries Doctrine of Trinity.
True he also declared. II and my Fa
ther are one" but he showed In what
this oneness consisted-that II was one
ness OF will. of purpose. OF work. Be
cause he had fully submitted his will to
the Fathers will and had made the Fa-
TIERS Will his own. therefore they were
one.
The Master again illustrated this one
ness when he prayed for his disciples
that they all might be one. even as thou
Father and / are one lJohn XVI. II;
! 21 22) Evidently the Master did not
pray that his disciples should all become
one In persons, bat that they should all
become Of one mind. OF one heart or one
disposition through their loyalty and ODE.
dience 10 the word and TO the spirit of
God, And this oneness. he declared, was
the kind which subsisted between the
Heavenly Father and himself.
Leaving the simplicity of the teachings
Of Jesus and OF the Apostles, come went
to the extreme of declaring that Jesus
his soN own and ny 5ha ali ehe
to one person who manifested himself
! to mankind In three different ways cor
responding to these names-one God In
three manifestations. Others took a still
| moro different view and claimed that the
| Father Son and Holy Spirit were three
Gods who operated as one. In proportion
! as these unscriptural human theories
were received, they produced confusion:
And when asked how three persons could
/ logically be one person, and how ono per-
son could be three persons equal in glory
and power, OF course no answer could be
Pgiven. Then the subterfugc was raised,
This is great mystery which nobody
| can explain
II should not surprise us from what we
know OF the structure of human nature
] that these extreme views were opposed
! by others OF tho opposite extreme, some
! that he was born as are other men, that
Joseph was his father etc. Thus we be
/ mold The danger Of any variation what
/ ever from the precise teachings OF the
] Word OF Cod.
1t should be needless to say TO Bible
students that there is nothing in the
! Bible which declares n trinity OF Gods.
| There is just one passage OF Scripture
quoted in proof of the Trinity O.. John,
( Y. -, and 1t is never quoted by scholars.
| because all scholars know that II was
! tampercd with. several words having
been added in the seventh century which
are not found In any New Testament
| manuscript of earlier date. And those
! added words make the statement as a
! whole foolish.
If YOU viii turn in your Bibles to this
passage you may strike out the spurious
! words as follows in verse seven: I'm
heaven the Father. the Word and the
| Holy Ghost and these three are one ;
! and in verse eight the words, and there
arc three that bear witness In earth.
Some Spurious Additions.
After thus eliminating the spurious
additions. after thus removing from the
precious ointment this dead fly OF false
hood which was Inserted for the very
purpose Of deceivine. and because NO
scripture could be found to give color
! 10 the doctrine of the trinity-then you
will be able 10 read that portion Of the
word Of God In Its purity and simplicity
from it forever. II win he In fun ac-
cord with the entire Bible declaring, "TC
US there is one God, the Father, OF whom
are all things. and one Lord. Jesus Christ
~ tarrc ,,,l Inv Ia
g. Corinthians viii, 81 How absurdlS
the passage reads in our common version
stating that the Father and the Son and
the holy spirit are bearing witness In
heaven that Jesus is the Son of Cod
The pure word of God presents sim
ply and beautifully the fact that the great
creator. The Father of all mer2ies, Is
Jehovah Cod and that he has an only
begotten Son who is yet to be the Savior
or deiverer Of all of Adams race will
Ing To accept the grace Of God provided
the spirit of truth. the spirit of wis
DOM. the spirit Of sound mind. the
spirit OF power. energy, will, mind Of the
Father-whch is also the spirit Of the
disposition mind. Will OF all those who
now come unto the Father as sons through
the adoption which is in Christ Jesus.
The Only Begotten Honored.
Before the beginning of the creation o.
God, before the Only Begotten OF the
,
the Father had wonderful purposes T
himself respecting all his great plan for
the everlasting future. II included this
world, and mankind, and tine permission
OF sin, and the redemption OF man from
sin and its penalty, and the restoration
10 be accomplished by Messah's kingdom
and the glorious work Of eternity in fur
ther creations in world after world.
But. as the Master declared, these
things The Father had kept in his owl
power-in his own hand. He divulgrC
them not IL the angels. nor even 10 hi
dearly beloved only 0eGotteu Son" W.
have scen how this divine secret, dvin,
purpose, was symboIlcally represented IL
the scroll In the hands nf Jehovah n!
pictured In Revelation V. We hsv'
seen that this revelation was dclivere
to the Lamb. the only begotten One, afte
he had been saln-after his coDsecratiol
al Jordan. and in its fulncss after hi
death at Calvary. when he ascendad ul
on high sloglticd at the right hand o
the Fathers majesty.
But before the Logos was made Gssl,
before he undertook To be mans rc9ee NJ
er. The Heavenly Father set before hin
the glorious proposition. lie ipforrnc
him that he had a plan. a scroll. an