The fool-killer., 1919-08-01
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THE OF THE
TRINITY.

IL dOcLIlne OF the lf1nlCy is
a mystery that most people ac-
cept and believe in, but nobody is
able to understand OF explain. I
do not deny it, and yet | am not
SO certain that [ accept it as
other people do.
The popular teaching on this
subject has always seemed to
me more like a piece of arbi-
trary guess-Work than anything
else. We are asked to believe
things for which there is neither
proof nor reason, and we must
believe them just because some
body with a long black coat on
says we must.
Now, in all meekness and rev.
erence, and without any desire
to be sacrilegious, let us ex-
anime briefly the three Persons
of the Trinity.
The Father.-The first of the
Trinity is called God the Father.
You can't possibly get away
from the conviction that God
the Father must have existed
first of all-that He was the
Great First Cause. He never
had a beginning, but existed
and was the only thing that did
eXist-as far back as Eternity
reaches. There is no use to ar
que that point.
So we are forced to conclude
that the existence of God the
Father goes back through all
past Eternity, and keeps on 60
ing, and NEVER STOPS.
The Son-The second Person
in the Trinity is called God the
Son. During His life on earth
we knew him as Jesus, the
Christ, but we understand that
He had an existence long before
that. The question is-was He
a Son before He was born into
this world? If He was it indi-
Gates that IIe had a beginning,
and was therefore not co-exis-
tent with the Father. It seems
that some act OF process of the
Father must have brought the
Son into existence. In all the
course Of nature a 0 is al
ways younger than his father;
and if God the Son is not young
Ell than God the Father, why,
then, is He called a Son at all?
The Holy Ghost.-The third
Person in the Trinity is called
God the Holy Ghost. This part
Of the Godhead is commonly be-
lieved to be more entirely a
spirit Being than the other two
parts. But this is another big
, puzzle, because the Bible teaches
, us that God the Father is Him.
, self a spirit Being, having no
, material body, and if both are
spirit Beings, how can one be
more of a spirit than the other?
It seems to be a distinction with
out a difference.
The only reason [ can see for
having two parts Of the same
Spirit is this: Maybe it is true,
as | suggested in this paper
several months ago, that God
and Electricity are the same. In
that. case there wou4dnaturally
be the positive and negative
spirits Of God to correspond with
the positive and negative forces
of electricity. You know there
are two different kinds of cleo
tricity, and you've got to pro-
vide two different conductors for
the two kinds Of current to oper-
ate on before you get any re
suits. If there is such a close
analogy between God and cleo
tricity as [ think entirely proba-
bic, then this explanation of the
two Spirits Of Deity must be the
correct. one.
But there is still another puz-
zIe in it. We are told that the
Virgin Mary was with child by
the Holy Ghost, the third Person
in the Trinity. So if the word
Father" has any reference to
who is the Father Of Jesus, it
: looks like the Holy Ghost would
: get that honor. But in our
theology it does not. If the
Third Person Of the Trinity per
formed the act that resulted in
the birth of Jesus, the Son, why,
, then, is the title of Father APP
piled to the First Person of the
; trinity who did not perform the
l act?
I am not putting forward any
. theory of my own about this. !
am Just thinking and wondering
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