Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-08-18

uscripts, aud how the forgery TO sup
port tue trlnitarmn theory was udrolt-
ly accomplished
ITO Us There Is One God"
The Old Testament Scriptures rep.
resent the Divine Message of four
thousand years. and say not word
respecting the trinity. On the CON
! trary, they declare. "Hear. Israel
Jehovah thy God Is one Cod; Thou
shalt have no other gods" 10 keep
In line with this definite statement,
the trinitarian theory claims that this
Zone God has three persons. although
Others claim that there are three Gods
but only one person. 1t seems imp0s-
sible to get trlnltarian 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 l"-greater than all. gohn
14:2S) 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, 81
ascend to My Father and to your Fa-
ther, to My God and to your God."-
John .20I7.
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 aci
tuated Hlm-the Holy Spirit, the mind
or disposition to do the will OF the Fa-l
ther in Heaven IFS prayer for His
disciples was to the same effect, "That
they all nay be one'--eren as Thou,
Buther, and are-one In heart, mind,
will. dispositions, or holiness of spirit,
harmony with God, d,--John 1920 y.
| What could be more explicit than
our text, ITO us there is one God, the
Father, of whom are all things; addi-
tionally, "ro us there is one Lord LOr
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, nonewhatever.
"The Alpha and the Omega"
Our Lord Jesus declared Himself to
be the Alpha and the Omega of the
| Divine direct creation (Revelation
lSj He was Its Beginning aud Its
End, according to John l;l-5. Our Re
deemer, known before He became a
man as the LVgos, was the Beginning
Of the Divine creation and the End of
1t In that, ever ufter 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 Jehovah's ut
terances and DEGREES went forth.
SO we read In the Greek, In the be.
ginning was the Logos, and the Logos
was with the God, and the Logos was a
god The same was IN the beginning
with me Cod by Him were i'll things
made that Were made, and without
Him was not one thing made And
the L0gos was made flesh and dwelt
among u.s. and we beheld His glory as
the glory Of the Only Begotten of the
Father, full OF grhce and Truth"
Constantine the Trinity Maker.
The Roman Emperor Constantine
saw vision probably when wide
awaken vision of greater prosperity
for himself and bis Empire, by a rec.
ognltion OF Christianity as the religion
OF his Empire Instead of paganism
which had previously been recognized
For that moment certain portion Of
che Church OF Christ had long labored
Abandoning the thought OF the Second
| Coming Of Jesus to establish His King
dom, they desired marriage, or union,
with earthly empire, thus to be set as
a queen upon the throne of earthly
dominion and honor.
Couslantiue's influence In Church af.
fairs became great He proposed the
calling Of council OF all the bishops,
numbering about one thousand He
wanted TO know why these apostolic
bishops, all Inspired with the sume
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
pOpel declined to attend.
Only SSl Came. But even they were
unable to agree, the great point Of dis
pute being the one we are discussing,
] Many held n tbs Bible teochIng that
\ Jehovah Is the One Supreme God; that
the Lord Jesus Christ was His Son
| andNhonored Agent In nh His creative
\ work; and that He having manifested
faith and loyalty to the Father to the
extent OF leaving the Heavenly glory,
\ becImlng Il man aud dying, the Just