each is co-equal and co-eternal, and how can there be three co-equals and co-eternals unless there are three Gods? Reason, reader, you have a right to. God has invited you to reason, and it is only a false way out of a difficulty to say "it is irreverent to pry into these matters."
4. God is not a Trinity of persons, but One God
PROPOSITION 4.
God Is Not a Trinity of Persons, But One God
Proof:
Deut. 6:4; Mark 12:29–Hear O Israel, the LORD our God is one LORD.
I Cor. 8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things.
Eph. 4:6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God …
Do you think that if Christ was co-equal and co-eternal with God, and therefore "God very God" He would have addressed the Father as the "only true God?" That would have been one "co-equal" telling another co-equal that He was the only true God. Where then would lie the co-equality?
5. Jesus Christ–Son of God by begettal, Son of man by birth
PROPOSITION 5.
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ Is Not A Third Part Of A Triune God, But The Son Of God By Begettal Of The Holy Spirit, and Son of Man By Birth
Son of God
Luke 1:35 The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power o/the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also that holy thing that shall be born of thee shall be called THE SON of GOD.
Matt. 3:17 This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased
John 3:35 The Father loveth the Son,, and hath given all things into his hand.
SON OF MAN
Acts 2:22 Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles.
I Tim. 2:5 One mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Gal 4:4 God sent forth his Son, made of a woman.
I Cor. 15:21 By man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
Rom. 5:15 The gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Jesus was not God, very God, as the creed of the religious world claims; for He Himself disavows any such claim. How could God be tempted like as we are? How could God die and be buried? Do not allow yourself to be deceived by the sophistry that it was His humanity that was tempted died and was buried, as if He Himself was not; for that would be admitting that He escaped temptation and death and that the "Christ" of popular religion did not die--could not die, being immortal; that only His body--not He--died. The Bible says Christ died, Christ was buried, etc.; and what is the use of perverting such language to suit a religion that is far astray from the Bible? Instead of Christ’s being "co-equal and co-eternal with God," "God very God," He
Was of Man's Nature and Depended Upon God
Heb. 2:17; 4:15 In all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren. * * *' He was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
John 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing.
John 14:28 I go unto the Father, for my Father is greater than I
Heb. 5:7, 8 He was heard in that he feared; though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.
6. The Holy Spirit not a person, but the effluence proceeding from God.
PROPOSITION 6.
The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit Is Not a Person, But It Is The Effluence That Proceeds From God, as the Light and Heat of the Sun Proceed from the Sun.
The Holy Spirit is not a third part of a Triune God, but God's power, effluence and influence. It is said that "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power." Now, reader, we appeal to your common sense. If each -- God, Christ and the Holy Spirit -- were "God very God, co-equal and co-eternal, how could the first be said to anoint the second with the third in order to impart "power" from the first to the second through the third? If they were co-equal, the imparting of power from one to another would destroy the "co-equality". If they were co-equal what "power" would one have to impart to. another that the other was not already in possession of? Will your common sense allow you to believe that one of three co-equals anointed a second co-equal with a third co-equal? Can you think for a moment that one person anointed a second person with a third person? Note the following testimonies:
Psa. 104:30 Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created.
Job 33:4 The Spirit Of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Luke 1:35 The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
Acts 10:38 God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. … .
There is, therefore, only one God and Father of all; and Jesus Christ is the Son of God, having been begotten of God through the Holy Spirit. God was the one who begat; the Holy Spirit was the power or influence emanating from Him under the direction of His will in the begettal; and Christ was the Son of God begotten, who, alter growing in wisdom and stature, was made perfect by the things which he suffered (Heb. 2:10).
7. The nature of man–mortal, a creature of the dust.
PROPOSITION 7.
The Nature of Man Man Is Mortal, a Creature of the Dust
Now, dear reader, I want to appeal to you upon another subject. You know that it is the belief of the religious world that man is an immortal soul, and that when death takes place the real man does not die -- he simply forsakes his body and continues to live without a body. If he has been a good man, he goes to heaven to live in happiness; if he has been a bad man, he goes to hell (supposed to be a place of torment) to
