We will notice one other philosophical absurdity involved in the
doctrine of the divine incarnation--one other solecism comprehended
in the childish notion which invests the infinite God with finite
attributes. It is a well-established and well-understood axiom in
philosocomplete God; and thereby that the Son could not be
omnipresent, and that "the less cannot be made to contain the
greater." A pint bottle cannot be made to contain a quart of wine. For
the same reason a finite body cannot contain an infinite spirit. Hence
philosophy presses the conclusion that "the man Christ Jesus" could not
have comprehended in himself "the Godhead bodily," inasmuch as it would
have required the infinite God to be incorporated in a finite human
body. We are therefore compelled to reject the doctrine of the incarnate
divinity, the belief in the deityship of Jesus Christ, because (with
many other reasons enumerated elsewhere) it involves a direct tilt
against some of the plainest principles of science, and challenges, ay,
virtually overthrows, some of the fundamental laws of both natural and
moral philosophy. No philosopher, therefore, does, or can believe in
the absolute divinity of Jesus Christ.
CHAPTER XXXVII. PHYSIOLOGICAL ABSURDITIES OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE
INCARNATION
THERE is also a physiological principle (discovered by the author)
comprised in the doctrine of the Divine Incarnation fatal in its
practical and logical application to the divinity of Jesus Christ,
and all the other incarnate or flesh-invested Gods of antiquity. It is
evidently fraught with much logical force. It is based upon the law of
mental and physical correspondence. As is the physical conformation, so
is the mentality, is a law of analogy which pilots us to nearly all our
practical knowledge of the natural world. A knowledge of either serves
as an index to the other.
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