Misrepresentations of the Godhead
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The Father cannot be described by the things of earth. The Father is
all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and is invisible to mortal sight.
The Son is all the fullness of the Godhead manifested. The Word
of God declares Him to be “the express image of His person.” “God so
loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Here is
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shown the personality of the Father.
The Comforter that Christ promised to send after He ascended to
heaven, is the Spirit in all the fullness of the Godhead, making manifest
the power of divine grace to all who receive and believe in Christ as a
personal Saviour. There are three living persons of the heavenly trio;
in the name of these three great powers—the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit—those who receive Christ by living faith are baptized, and
these powers will co-operate with the obedient subjects of heaven in
their efforts to live the new life in Christ.—Special Testimonies, Series
B, No. 7, pp. 62, 63. (1905).
The Pre-existent, Self-existent Son of God—Christ is the pre-
existent, self-existent Son of God.... In speaking of his pre-existence,
Christ carries the mind back through dateless ages. He assures us
that there never was a time when He was not in close fellowship with
the eternal God. He to whose voice the Jews were then listening had
been with God as one brought up with Him.—
The Signs of the Times,
August 29, 1900
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He was equal with God, infinite and omnipotent.... He is the
eternal, self-existent Son.—
Manuscript 101, 1897
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From Everlasting—While God’s Word speaks of the humanity
of Christ when upon this earth, it also speaks decidedly regarding
His pre-existence. The Word existed as a divine being, even as the
eternal Son of God, in union and oneness with His Father. From
everlasting He was the Mediator of the covenant, the one in whom
all nations of the earth, both Jews and Gentiles, if they accepted Him,
were to be blessed. “The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Before men or angels were created, the Word was with God, and was
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God.—
The Review and Herald, April 5, 1906
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Christ shows them that, although they might reckon His life to
be less than fifty years, yet His divine life could not be reckoned by
human computation. The existence of Christ before His incarnation is
not measured by figures.—
The Signs of the Times, May 3, 1899
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