The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-01-18
Leaving the simplicity of the teach

Leaving the simplicity of the teach-
tngs of Jesus and of the Apostles.
some went to the extreme of declaring
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
naines--one tiod IN three manifestu-
tons. Others took still different
view and claimed that the Father
Son and holy Spirit were three Gods
who operated ~ one In proportion as
these unscriptural human theories
were received. they produced .confn
sion. And when asked how3three per
sous could logically lip 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 is 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 were
opposed by others of the opposite ex-
IRENE, 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 trinity of Gods.
There is just one passage of Scripture
quoted in proof Of the Trinity q 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 whole foolish
If you will turn in your Bibles to
this passage. you may strike out the
fspurious words as follows in verse
seven: an 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 toitness 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 its pu-
rity and simplicity. Then the ''mys-
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, O.. How absurcly
the passage reads in our common YER
Son and the holy Spirit are bearing
witness in heaven that Jesus is the
Son of Cod
The pure Word of God presents
simply and beautifully the fact that
the great Creator, the Father of all
mercies. is Jehovah God. and that he
has an only begotten Son who is yet to
Adams race willing to accept the
grace of God provided in him. And
there is one holy Spirit, "the spirit of
truth" 1.-The spirit of wisdom" 1.-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
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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
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 it's
penalty, and the restoration to be ac
complished by Messiahs 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 divulrcd
them not to the angels. liol even to biz
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, /. 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 its 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 he had plan,
scroll, and that the execution thereof
was to be given to one who would
prove himself worthy, by demonstrat-
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-
tusal of which would have meant Di-
vine displeasure and his own degrade
tion On the contrary vve understand