53. Christ in the New Testament is called "man," and "the Son of
man," eighty-four times,--egregious and dishonorable misnomers, most
certainly, to apply to a supreme and infinite Deity. On the other hand,
he is called God but three times, and denominates himself "the Son of
God" but once, and that rather obscurely.
54. The Father is spoken of, in several instances, as standing in the
relation of God to the Son, as "the God of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Acts
iii. 2.) "Ye are Christ's, and Christ is Gods." (i Cor. xi. 3.) Now,
the God of a God is a polytheistic, heathen conception; and 1 no
meaning or interpretation, as we have shown, can be I forced upon such
texts as these, that will not admit a plurality of Gods, if we admit
the titles as applicable to Christ, or that his scriptural biographers
intend to apply such a title in a superior or supreme sense.
55. Many texts make Christ the mere tool, agent, image, servant, or
representative of God, as Christ, "the image of God" (Heb. i. 3),
Christ, the appointed of God (Heb. iii. 1), Christ, "the servant of God"
(Matt. xii. | 18), &c. To consider a being thus spoken of as himself the
supreme God, is, as we have demonstrated, the very climax of absurdity
and nonsense. To believe "the servant of God" is God himself,--that is,
the servant of himself,--and that God and his "image" are the same, is
to descend within one step of buffoonery.
56. And then it has been ascertained that there are more than three
hundred texts which declare, either expressly or by implication,
Christ's subordination to and dependence on the Father, as, "I can do
nothing of myself;" "Not mine, but his that sent me;" "I came to do the
will of him that sent me" (John iv. 34); "I seek the will of my Father,"
&c.
57. And more than one hundred and fifty texts make the Son inferior to
the Father, as "the Son knoweth not, but the Father does" (Mark viii.
32); "My Father is greater than I;" "The Son can do nothing of himself"
(John v. 19), &c.
58. There are many divine titles applied to the Father which are never
used in reference to the Son, as "Jehovah," "The Most High," "God
Almighty," "The Almighty," &c.
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