Jesus of Nazareth, Who Is He? by Arthur Wallis

Author:Arthur Wallis
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: The Gospels & Acts, Deity of Christ, Biblical Biography, New Testament, Jesus, Religion, Inspirational, Jehovah's Witnesses, Watch Tower, Biblical Studies, Christology, Arianism, Watchtower, Christian Theology
ISBN: 9780875085586
Publisher: CLC Ministries
Published: 1959-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

his own image"? The serpent said of the forbidden tree, "In the day ye eat thereof . . .ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil"; and when they had eaten "Jehovah said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil." 1 Such passages are inexplicable according to the unitarian concept that insists on God being a single Person. "God is love" is one of the profoundest statements of the Bible relative to the nature of God, and was true of him before the beginning of time, or the first creature was created. But how can love exist in isolation? Let the reader ponder Augustine's thought-provoking dictum: "If God is love, then there must be in him a Lover, a Beloved, and a Spirit of love."

A Moslem law student who had been given a Gospel of John brought it back with the request that the opening statement might be explained. Said he, "This book speaks of one called the Word of God, and says he was both with God and was God. How can a person be with himself?" The Christian replied, "If there was a problem in mathematics that you could not solve, and you took it to your tutor and he could not solve it, it would at least be clear that neither you nor the tutor had invented the problem. Now here is a problem, not in mathematics but in theology, that is, the being and nature of God as a trinity. Thousands of the ablest minds of the centuries have pondered this problem, and no one has been able to explain it; who then invented it? What man can invent man can explain; what man cannot

Genesis 3:5,22; cp. 11:7; Isaiah 6:8.

—J

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explain man cannot have invented. It must be a revelation." Needless to say, he found no answer to-this.

Some pour scorn on the doctrine of the Trinity simply because it is a mystery. This would imply that to them there are no mysteries in the Godhead: all is simplicity. .It would appear that they worship a God that they can comprehend within the narrow confines of their finite understanding. "Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?" 1 Present to us "a god" whom we can comprehend and explain, who has ceased to be in his infinite being shrouded in mystery, and we will refuse to worship, this creation of your finite mind, and from his holy habitation the God of heaven will thunder: "Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee." 2

CONCLUSION

Before the first coming of Christ, men might hide their real attitude to the Almighty by lightly professing their devotion to an invisible, intangible God. Their conception of God was often vague, shadowy, and unreal. But when in the fullness of time "God sent forth his Son,

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