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Misrepresentations of the Godhead
Let People Know Our Position—Our policy is, Do not make
prominent the objectionable features of our faith, which strike most
decidedly against the practices and customs of the people, until the
Lord shall give the people a fair chance to know that we are believers
in Christ, that we do believe in the divinity of Christ, and in His pre-
existence.—
Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers, 253
(1895).
We Shall Have to Meet Erroneous Teaching—Again and again
we shall be called to meet the influence of men who are studying
sciences of satanic origin, through which Satan is working to make a
nonentity of God and of Christ. The Father and the Son each have a
personality. Christ declared, “I and My Father are one.” Yet it was the
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Son of God who came to the world in human form. Laying aside His
royal robe and kingly crown, He clothed His divinity with humanity,
that humanity through His infinite sacrifice might become partakers
of the divine nature, and escape the corruption that is in the world
through lust.—
Testimonies For The Church 9:68
(1909).
Positive Truth Versus Spiritualistic Representations—I am in-
structed to say, The sentiments of those who are searching for advanced
scientific ideas are not to be trusted. Such representations as the fol-
lowing are made: “The Father is as the light invisible: the Son is as
the light embodied; the Spirit is the light shed abroad.” “The Father
is like the dew, invisible vapor; the Son is like the dew gathered in
beauteous form; the Spirit is like the dew fallen to the seat of life.”
Another representation: “The Father is like the invisible vapor; the
Son is like the leaden cloud; the Spirit is rain fallen and working in
refreshing power.”
All these spiritualistic representations are simply nothingness.
They are imperfect, untrue. They weaken and diminish the Majesty
which no earthly likeness can be compared to. God cannot be com-
pared with the things His hands have made. These are mere earthly
things, suffering under the curse of God because of the sins of man.
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