"We have an advocate with Jesus, God the righteous." (1 John ii. 1.)
"Jesus gave all power to God." (Matt, xxviii. 18.)
"God abode all night in prayer to Jesus." (Luke vi. 12.)
"God came down from heaven to do the will of Jesus." (John vi. 38.)
"Jesus has made the Father his high priest." (Heb. x. 24.)
"Last of all, the Son sent the Father." (Matt. xxi. 39.)
"Jesus will save the world by that God whom he hath ordained."
"Jesus is God of the Father." (John xx. 17.)
"Jesus hath exalted God, and given him a more excellent name." (Phil.
ii. 9.)
"Jesus hath made God a little lower than the angels." (Heb. ii. 9.)
"God can do nothing except what he seeth Jesus do." (John v. 19.)
Now, the question arises, Is the above representation a true one? Most
certainly it must be, if Jesus and the Father are but one almighty
Being. A change of names and titles cannot alter the truth nor the
sense.
To say that Chief Justice Chase has gone south; Secretary Chase has gone
south; Governor Chase has gone south; Ex-Senator Chase has gone south,
or Salmon P. Chase has gone south, are affirmations equally true and
equally sensible, because they all have reference to the same being; the
case is to plain to need argument.
The above reversal of names and titles of Jesus and the Father may sound
very unpleasant and rather grating to Christ-adoring Christians, simply
because it is the transposition of the tides of two very scripturally
dissimilar beings, instead of being, as generally taught by orthodox
Christians, "one in essence, one in mind, one in body or being, and one
in name," as the Rev. Mr. Barnes affirms. Most self-evidently false
is his statement, based solely on scriptural ground. If Jesus is "very
God," and there is but one God, then the foregoing transposition cannot
mar the sense nor altar the truth of one text quoted.
CHAPTER XLI. THE PRECEPTS AND PRACTICAL LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST; HIS TWO
HUNDRED ERRORS
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