Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-01-17

| ings of Jesus and of the Apostles.
some went to the extreme of declaring
that Jesus was his own Father; that
the terms Father, Son and holy Spirit
all applied to one person who mani
| tested himself to mankind in three diff
| ferent ways corresponding to these
| names-one God in three manifesto
| lions. Others took a still 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, hey produced confu-
sion. And when asked how three per-
sons could logically be one person, and
| how one person could be three persons
equal in glory and power. of course no
| answer could be given. Then the sub
terfuge was raised, This lis a great
| mystery which nobody can explain"
| 1t should not surprise us from what
| we know of the structure of human
| nature that these extreme views We're
opposed by others of the opposite ex-
| treme, some claiming that Jesus was
| a mere man; that he was born as are
| other men; that Joseph was his father,
etc. Thus we behold the danger of
any variation whatever from the pre-
| else teachings of the Word of God.
| 1t should be needless to say to Bible
| Students that there is nothing in the
| Bible which declares a trinity of Gods
| There is just one passage of Scripture
quoted in proof of the Trinity Il John,
V, y, and it is never quoted by schol-
| ars, because all scholars know that it
was tempered with, several words hav-
| ing been added in the seventh century
which are not found in any New Tes-
lament manuscript of earlier date.
| And those added words make the
statement as a whole foolish.
If you will turn in your Bibles to
this passage, you may strike out the
| spurious words as follows in verse
seven: I'm hearen the Father, the Word
and the Holy Ghost, and these three are
one" and in verse eight the words,
"and there are three that bear luitness in
| earth"
After thus eliminating the spurious
| additions, after thus removing from
| the precious ointment this dead fly OF
| falsehood which was inserted for the
very purpose of deceiving, and be-
cause no Scripture could be found to
| give color to the doctrine of the trim
| ity-then you will be able to read that
portion of the Word of God in it's pu-
1 ,.;% nd CT ic;+
| terry" part will be gone from it for
| ever. 1t will be in full accord with the
entire Bible in declaring ITO us there
| Is one God, the Father, of whom are all
| things, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by
whom are all things and we by him"
Il Corinthians viii, g.. How absurcly
the passage reads in our common YER
I sion, stating that the Father and the
Son and the holy Spirit are bearing
| witness in heaven that Jesus is the
| Son of GOdl
The pure Word of God presents
simply and beautifully the fact that
the great Creator. the Father of all
mercies, is Jehovah Cod and that he
has an only begotten Son who is yet to
| be the Savior or Deliverer of all of
| Adams race willing to accept the
grace of God provided in him. And
there is one holy Spirit, 1.-The spirit of
| truth" "the spirit of wisdom ''the
spirit of sound mind the spirit of
power, energy, will, mind of the Father
which is also the spirit of the Son,
!, and which must be also the spirit, dis
| position, mind, will of all those who
now come unto the Father as sons
through the adoption which is in
| Christ Jesus.
The Only Besotten Honored.
Before the beginning of the creation
! Of God, before the Only Begotten of
the Father became the Alpha of Crea-
ton, the Father had wonderful pur-
poses in himself respecting all his
great plan for the everlasting future
1t included this world and mankind
| and the permission of sin, and the re-
| demption of man from sin and its
penalty, and the restoration to be ac-
complished by Messiah's Kingdom and
| the glorious work of eternity in fur
| Their creations in world after world.
But, as the Master declared, these
| things the Father had kept in his own
| power-in his own hand. He divulged
them not to the angels, nor even to his
| dearly beloved "only begotten Son."
We have seen how this Divine secret,
Divine purpose, was symbolically rep
resented in the scroll in the hands
of Jehovah, as pictured in Revelation
| V, 1. We have seen that this revela-
| ton was delivered to the Lamb, the
Only Begotten One, after he had been
slain-after his conservation at Jordan,
and in it's fulness after his death at
| Calvary, when he assembled up on high,
glorified at the right hand of the
Fathers majesty.
But before the Logos was made
| flesh, before he undertook to be mans
Redeemer, the Heavenly Father set
before him the glorious proposition.
He infomed him that ne had a plan,
a scroll, and that the execution thereof
was to be given to one who would
prove himself worthy, by demonstrate
ing his loyalty to the Divine will.
| We read that God sent his only be
gotten Son into the world, but we are
not to understand from this that he
came under Divine commands, the re-
fusal of which would have meant Di-
vine displeasure and his own degrade
ten. On the contrary, we understand
the matter clearly when we hearken
1
clares that Messiah left The glory,
which he had with the Father before
| the world was, and humbled himself
to take upon himself mans form and
| then consecrated himself even unto
death-all because of the joy that the
Father had set before him.
The JOY set before the Logos was %
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