assume, then, that Christ was God in the absolute or divine sense, and
the Father also God absolute, and yet that there is but one God, or that
the two could in any manner be united, so as to constitute but one God,
is not only a glaring solecism, but a positive contradiction in terms,
and an utter violation of the first axiomatic principles of philosophy
and mathematics. It also asserts the illogical hypothesis, that a part
can be equal to the whole; it first assumes the Father to be absolutely
God, then assumes the Son also to be absolutely God, and finally
assumes each to be only a part, and has to unite them to make whole and
culminates the theological farce. Such is Christian ratiocination.
Again, it is conceded by Christians, that the Father is an omnipresent
being; and we have shown that it is a mathematical impossibility for two
omnipresent beings, or two beings possessing any infinite attributes, to
exist at one and the same time. Hence the clear logical deducsequence,
not God. Again, we have another philosophical maxim or axiom familiar
to every schoolboy, that no two substances or beings can occupy the same
place at the same time; the first must be removed before the second can
by any possibility be introduced, in order thus to make room for the
latter. But as omnipresent means existing everywhere, there can be no
place to remove on omnipresent being to, or rather there can be no place
or space he can be withdrawn from in order to make room for another
being, without his ceasing to be omnipresent himself, and thereby
ceasing to be God.
It is thus shown to be a demonstrable truth that the omnipresence of
the Father does and must exclude that of the Son, and thus exclude the
possibility of his apatheosis or incarnated deityship. In other words,
it is established as a scientific principle upon a philosophical and
mathematical basis, that Jesus Christ was not and could not be "the
great I AM," "the only true God."
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