The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1914-01-01

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is not fully repre- '" ~ ~"'>'~
sented in our The Kings Logos.
Common Version. Accurately translat-
ed it 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 vet 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 afirms 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" q Corin-
thians 500 This is the claim that
Jesus made-not that He was the Fa-
ther, Jehovah. but that He was the
Son of God. who came to do the will
Of His Father in Heaven.
The so-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 nei-
ther the word trinity nor any sugges-
ton Of it. except in the one passage
acknowledged by all scholars to be
spurious, namely, John 81. 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 God! My God"
nor when He declared to Mary, 81
have not vet 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 17:2O-23.
1.-THE Loeos Became FLESH"
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
AbraLam's seed. But lest we get the
wrong thought. that He was 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
spirit being while on earth and merely
al rnd t. hlYuN
scriptural thought is held by many. and
styled incarnation. Angels incarnated
when they naterialized 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 spirit being. and appeared and
He taught His disciples:
ID That He was no longer dead. but
risen;
~ That He was no longer a man.
but spirit being-"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 perfect man
The Law declares. IAN eye for an eye.
a mans life for mans life." Hence
the blood of bulls and goats could new
er make atonement for Adams sin.
Because mankind were Adams chill
dren and sharers in his death sentence,
therefore mo man could give a ran
som for his brother" Adam and bis |
race could be redeemed only by the vol
NnfarY death of