The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-05-31
RUSSELL'S WORDS:

Volume 5, Page 63) The idea Of claim
ing three Gods, and at the same time claim
ing only one God, was a masterstroke ir
theology.
| Volume 5, Page 64) The implied threat
that whoever denied the doctrine of the
Trinity was taking the straight road tc
eternal torment
A belief in this incomprehensible, unrea-
sonable, and unscriptural doctrine is yet
made test of orthodoxy.
Volume 5, Page ~ The Word God
head should never be found in the Bible
Volume 5, Pages 75-82) How strange
that any should pervert John 1890" "My
Father and | are One and make it sup
port the unreasonable and unscriptural doc
trine Of the Trinity
What did Our Lord wish us to understand
by the words, "He who hath seen Me hath
seen the Father" John IA 10y? He meant
us to understand that it is impossible for a
man to see God, Spirit-being; but what has
this to do with the Trinity?
Philippians 20 is also used to bolster up
the Trinity If our Lord was equal with
! the Father how could it be thought "rob-
| berry" to claim that equality? This text
strongly opposes the doctrine of the Tri-
Inity and places itself in entire harmony
with the Word of God, and with common
sense and reason.
Volume 5, Page 1867 Though our Lord
Jesus has since His cruci6xion) been high
| ly exalted to the Divine nature, and is no
longer human, yet as the Life-giver or
Father of the whole human race in the Mil
lennium, He is not equal with the Father,
nor is~Ie another God; but He derives His
Life-g giving powers from the Father
ROMANS 14:s-To THIS END Christ
might be Lord Cor Life-giyer only since His
lresurrection) both of the dead and of the
| living.
| Volume 5, Page 134) Truly the Logos,
a lord, high one in authority, as he is styled
a god mighty or influential one. The
Man Christ Jesus was styled "a Lord" by
His disciples. But this is far different to
an equality with God the Father, Whose
Son He is, and not His Own Father
/ Volume 5, Page 1877 The Man Christ
Jesus was not the second Adam, but the
L
/ Corinthians Is AZ, He WILL in His sec
ond advent come from heaven and as
sumo the duties Of a Father to the hui
man race. The purchase of the race
from under the sentence of death and
ljustice was necessary before it was possible
for Our Lord Jesus to be the Life-giver OF
the race He comes, at His Second Advent
to lift up the entire race by restitution pro
cesses, and to give eternal life to all who lost
it under the first Adam.
| (Volume 5, Page 1887 Our Lord Jesus
Ibid, in the days of His flesh, take hold on
the first Adam and his race, through the
seed of Abraham Hebrews 2:16), and was
made lower than the angels (changed from
1.-THE angelic nature to the human plane)
for the suffering of death that He by
the grace of God might taste death for every
man. l. e., He thus bought every man, and
Twill, sooner or later, Sin due time claim
him. Having bought every man, He was
raised from the dead, not back to the angelic
mature, the archangel Michael, but to the
Divine nature - the Son of God But this
does not constitute Him another God, equal
with the Father
/ Again: 1t was His sacrifice of Himself
as the man only, in obedience to Gods
lplan, that secured, not only His exaltation
to the Divine nature, but purchased to Him
self all the race of Adam, and Adams right
as the father Of the human race. Thus He
became the Second Adam, and must take
possession of the entire human race.
(Volulne 5, Page 14O) This is termed
restitution - the restoration of all mankind
to what they lost under the first Adam, or
father of the race Acts 3:1o-23).
Now, how could He be equal with the
| Father, another God, the so-called Second
Person in the Trinity, and yet not be Divine
until His resurrection, until constituted the
lSecond Adam?
| Volume 5, Page 1881 No wonder, if all
are to be astonished "in due time
Volume 5, Page 1867 How could there
be three in one? If the three are one in
Substance, how could they be equal? If
God is One, He cannot be three. If it were
not for the fact that this Trinitarian non
sense was drilled into us from infancy, no
body would give it a moments serious
thought. How the great adversary ever
succeeded in foisting it upon the Lords
people to, bewilder and mystify them, and
render much of the Word of God of none
effect will probably never be solved.