The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-08-22

L nv" lhS poSSdSS III thC oiu man
uscripts. and how the forgery to sup
port the trinitarian theory was adroit-
ly accomplished
"To Us There Is One God"
The Old Testament = ptures rep
resent the Divine Message of four
| thousand years. and say not a word
| respecting the trinity On the con-
trary. they declare. Hear. o Israel.
| Jehovah thy God Is one God; Thou
| shalt have no other gods" To keep
in line with this definite statement.
| the trinitarian theory claims that this
one God has three persons, although
others claim that there are three Gods
but only one person. 1t seems impos-
sible to get trinitarian to decide
what he really believes; he hedges
with the word Mystery"
The New Testament is as explicit as
the Old in its statement that there is
but one Supreme God Jesus testified
to this. declaring. MY Father is great
er than I"-greater than ALL John
l4:2S.l Jesus declared that Of Himself
He could do nothing: that He was
merely the Mouthpiece of God in His
teachings and the Finger of God in
His working Of miracles He directed
that His followers should worship the
Father, and declared. when leaving. II
ascend to My Father and to your Fa-
ther. to My God and to your Cod
John 20:17.
Our Lord did indeed declare the one
ness. or harmony. between Himself
and the Father, but He explained that
this was because He ignored any will
of His own, coming not to do His own
will. but the will of the Father who
sent Him. He eXhorted His disciples
similarly to have the same mind. the
same will, the same spirit. which ac-
tuated Him-the Holy Spirit, the mind
or disposition to do the will Of the Fa-
JVAer in Heaven. His prayer for His
disciples was to the same effect, That
they all may be one'-even as Thou.
Father. and | are-one in heart. mind.
will, disposition. or holiness Of spirit.
harmony with God.-John 1920, 81.
What could be more explicit than
our text, ITO US there is one God. the
Father, of whom are all things; addi-
tionally, ITO us there is one Lord Tor
Masterl. Jesus Christ. by whom are all
things, and we by Him? The Apos-
tie here not only shows the relation
ship between the Father and Son. but
he ignores and thus disowns entirely
the Holy Spirit as another God. Clear
ly and plainly enough he sets forth
time and again that the Holy Spirit is
the spirit, will. mind, power. disposi
ton. ETC.. in fullest conformity to that
of the Father There is no mystery
about the matter. none whatever.
1.-THE Alpha and the Omega"
Our Lord Jesus declared Himself to
be the Alpha and the Omega of the
Divine direct creation. Revelation
l:SJ He was its Beginning and it's
End, according to John 1:1-5. Our Re
deemer. knowns before He became a
of the Divine creation and the End Of
it in that. ever after the creation Of
the LOgos. Jehovah operated In and
through Him in respect to all the stu
pendous works Of creation. His name.
the Logos. Indicates all this; it signi-
fies the Divine Message. or Messenger,
the One through whom Jehovahs ut
terances and DEGREES went forth.
So we read in the Greek. I'm the be-
ginning was the Logos. and the Logos.
was with the God. and the Logos was
god. The same was in the beginning
with the God. By Him were all things
made that were made, and without
Him was not one thing made. And
the Logos was made flesh and dwelt
among US, and we beheld His glory as
the glory of the Only Begotten of the
Father. full of grace and Truth"
Constantine the Trinity Maker.
The Roman Emperor Constantine
saw vision-prObably when wide
awake-a vision of greater prosperity
for himself and his Empire, by a rec
ignition of Christianity as the religion
of his Empire instead of paganism.
which had previously been recognized.
For that moment certain portion of
the Church Of Christ had long labored.
Abandoning the thought of the Second
Coming Of Jesus to esta blish His King
dom, they desired marriage, or union.
with earthly empire. thus to be set as
queen upon the throne of earthly
dominion and honor.
Constantine's influence In Church af-
fairs became great. He proposed the
calling of a council of all the bishops.
numbering about one thousand He
wanted to know why these apostolic
bishops. all inspired with the same
Spirit of God, taught so differently.
He offered to pay the expenses of all
the bishops to the Council at Nice: but
the majority. fearing that the Emperor
would be under the control of the Ro-
man bishop mot yet claiming to be.
pope1, declined to attend
Only 1884 came. But even they were I
unable to agree. the great point of dis.
pute being the one we are discussing.
Many held to the Bible teaching that
Jehovah Is the One Supreme God: that
the Lord Jesus Christ was His Son
and honored Agent in all His creative
work; and that He, having manifested
faith and loyalty to the Father to the
extent of leaving the Heavenly glory. !,
becoming man and dying. the Just
for the unjust. had been exalted by
the Father to His own right hand of
majesty and power.
But the justification thought of