Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-12-19

sented in The Kings Lo0os.
Common Version. Accurately translat-
ed 1t reads, "The Logos was with the
God, and the Logos was a god. The
same was in the beginning with the
God" Here our Redeemer's majesty
In His prehuman condition Is fully set
forth. and yet He is shown distinctly
to be the Son and not the Father.
The word god signifies mighty one;
but there is only one God Almighty.
st. Paul affirms this great truth, say
ing, ITO us there is only one God, the
Father, of whom are all things; and
one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are
all things, and we by Him." Il CORN
thians 8:6.) This is the claim that
Jesus made-not that He was the Fa-
Their, Jehovah, but that He was the
Son of God, who came to do the will
of His Father in Heaven.
The s~o-called doctrine Of the Trinity,
put into the Nicene Greed by Emperor
Constantine, A. d. 1926, has been the
cause Of much Of our confusion when
studying the Bible, which contains mel
Their the word trinity nor any sugges-
ton of it. except in the one passage
acknowledged by all scholars to be
spurious, namely. l John 5:7. This
passage is not found in any of the old
Greek manuscripts.
The Redeemer was not deceitful
when He prayed to the Father with
strong cryings. my Godi My God?'
nor when He declared to Mary, 81
have not yet assembled to My Father
and your Father, to My God and your
God" He declared His oneness with
the Father, and desired a similar one
ness among His followers-oneness Of
spirit, of purpose.-John 1909.
"The Loeos Became FIesh.y
st. Paul tells us that He who was
rich for our sakes became poor. Our
lesson. agrees. st. Paul declares that
our Lord stopped from His high posi-
ton, took the bondman's form, and
was found in fashion as a man, of
Abraham's seed. But lest we get the
wrong thought. that He was a sinful
man, we are assured that He was
''holy and separate from sinners" We
are also assured that His body was
especially prepared. different from 9th
ers, all of whom were of Adamic stock.
tainted with sin and death.
But we must guard against the
thought that the Logos remained a
spirit being while on earth and merely
appeared in human form. This I'M
scriptural thought is held by many, and
styled incarnation. Angels incarnated
when they materialized at times, as de-
scribed In the Old Testament.
After His resurrection, Jesus mate
rallied, or ~incarnated, to teach His
disciples certain lessons. Then He was
again a spirit being. and appeared and
disappeared. He taught His disciples:
~ That He was no longer dead. but
risen:
(2) That He was no longer a man,
but a spirit b~eing-"put to death in
flesh, but quickened In spirit."-1 Pc
ter 3:1S.-Diaglott.
A Ransom, or Corresponding Price.
The perfect man Adam sinned and
was condemned to death; and under
the Divine Law he could be redeemed
only by the sacrifice of a perfect man
The Law declares, IAN eye for an eye.
a mans life for a mans life" Hence
the blood of bulls and goats could new
err make atonement for Adams sin.
Because mankind were Adams chill
dren and sharers in his death sentence.
therefore mo man could give a ran
son for his brother" Adam and his
race could be redeemed only by the vol
untary death of
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