Read the seventeenth chapter of John, and see if it does not completely upset the doctrine of the Trinity. Of one purpose in all the plan devised for man’s salvation. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one, even as we are one.” Of one heart and one mind. “That they all may be one as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. It is the same as the oneness of the members of Christ’s church. And in this very testimony he shows us in what consists the oneness of the Father and Son. His Father was in heaven and he upon earth. The seventeenth chapter of John is alone sufficient to refute the doctrine of the Trinity. Over forty times in that one chapter Christ speaks of his Father as a person distinct from himself. Almost any portion of the New Testament we may open which has occasion to speak of the Father and Son, represents them as two distinct persons. It is not very consonant with common sense to talk of three being one, and one being three. Or as some express it, calling God “the Triune God,” or “the three-one-God.” If Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are each God, it would be three Gods for three times one is not one, but three. There is a sense in which they are one, but not one person, as claimed by Trinitarians.Ģ. These positions we will remark upon briefly in their order.
There are many objections which we might urge, but on account of our limited space we shall reduce them to the three following: 1. What serious objection is there to the doctrine of the Trinity?ĪNSWER. WHITE: The following questions I would like to have you give, or send, to Bro.
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