Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1915-03-12
Denying the Son of God.

OF the DeNu.
Denying the Son of God.
Billy Sunday has Joined other
| preachers in the slanderous misstate-
ment that Pastor Russell denies that
Jesus is the Son of God. How foolish
/ it is for them to make such deliberate
misstatements in our day when even
tually their falsehoods will be found
out! People realize that only despera-
ton, attempting TO support weak
cause. could lead Il professed minister
Of the Truth thus to do it violence
The Pastor declared that really it is
he who believes that Jesus is the Son
of God; but that the great majority of
preachers and evangeliSts do not clear
~ so teach; that they confuse their ar
gument and bewilder their hearers by
telling in one breath that Jesus is the
Son of God and in the next breath
that He is His own Father Accord
ing to them. Jesus is Jehovah. who
sent His Son into the world to die.
and He is the Son, who sent Himself.
as the Father; when lie prayed to the
Father it was mockery; for He was
the Father-"One in person.
When He said. My Father is great
er than l." He misrepresented facts.
according to these preachers and creed
makers. He spoke of the Cup which
His Father had poured for Him, of
how He could do nothing of Himself,
of how He would return to the Fa-
Their; He prayed. My God! Why hast
Thou forsaken Me?" and He said TO
Mary. Il have not yet ascended TO My
Father and your Father. My God and
your Cod" But these wiser-than-the-
Bible teachers contradict Him. and feel
like saying. Jesus must have been Il
Millennia Dawner. But We know
better than He did
Such teachers. he asserted. make
void the Word of God through their
traditions In claiming that Jesus is
jehovah the Father they really deny
that He is the Son of God; for COM
mon sense tells everybody that 4 son
proceeds from. receives his life from.
the father. This is exactly what the
Bible tells us in respect 10 Jesus.
Truthful Criticisms Invited.
The Pastor invites truthful criticism
Of his teachings; but his opponents
know that TO treat him fairly would be
to turn all thinking people to his side |
the Bible side. For thirty years they !
ignored him. lest people should find |
out; but as his sermons now reach |
preachers are alarmed for the
safety 5f their musty cTeeds. and re-
sort TO falsehoods. Misrepresentation
Ind slanders-the weapons OF moral
towards. who realize their weakness.
If they charged him with disbeliev-
ne in the doctrine of the Trinity, that
.hree ones are one. he would cheerful
y admit, and point them 10 the fact
hat the word Trinity is not found in
he Bible. and that the thought OF a
Trinity is not there except in one pas
age which all scholars Of all denomt
nations admit to be a forgery. See
John 81, s, Revised Version.
The Pastor believes In the Heavenly
Father, Jehovah God; in the Heavenly
Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who left
he Heavenly nature, took the human
nature. died for our sins. and was aft
rward highly exalted TO the Divine
Iature: in the Holy Spirit, the Spirit
4 Truth. the Spirit OF God, the Spirit
f Christ. the Spirit Of all who are on
;od's side. His crime. he declared, is
hat he does not believe that the Fa-
her, the Son and the Holy Spirit are
one in person. equal in power and
lory." neither one existing before the
Their. neither one the Son and neither
ne the Father. really. The Bible. he
sserted. says nothing OF this kind. and
e is glad that his head is not so IL
ogical as TO lead him TO deny the BIZ
lie and common sense for the sake Of
eing in harmony with creeds made in
be Dark Ages.
The remainder of the discourse was
evoted to thorough discussion of
very text in the Bible relating to the
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