Deity and Nature of Christ
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all things. The words spoken in regard to this are so decisive that
no one need be left in doubt. Christ was God essentially, and in the
highest sense. He was with God from all eternity, God over all, blessed
forevermore....
There are light and glory in the truth that Christ was one with
the Father before the foundation of the world was laid. This is the
light shining in a dark place, making it resplendent with divine, orig-
inal glory. This truth, infinitely mysterious in itself, explains other
mysterious and otherwise unexplainable truths, while it is enshrined
in light, unapproachable and incomprehensible.—
The Review and
Herald, April 5, 1906, p. 8
.
The King of the universe summoned the heavenly hosts before
Him, that in their presence He might set forth the true position of His
Son, and show the relation He sustained to all created beings. The
Son of God shared the Father’s throne, and the glory of the eternal,
self-existent One encircled both.—
Patriarchs and Prophets, 36
.
However much a shepherd may love His sheep, He loves His
sons and daughters more. Jesus is not only our shepherd; He is our
“everlasting Father.” And He says, “I know Mine own, and Mine own
know Me, even as the Father knoweth Me, and I know the Father.”
John 10:14, 15
, R.V. What a statement is this!—the only-begotten Son,
He who is in the bosom of the Father, He whom God has declared to
be “the Man that is My fellow” (
Zechariah 13:7
),—the communion
between Him and the eternal God is taken to represent the communion
between Christ and His children on the earth!—
The Desire of Ages,
483
.
Still seeking to give a true direction to her faith, Jesus declared, “I
am the resurrection, and the life.” In Christ is life, original, unborrowed,
underived. “He that hath the Son hath life.”
1 John 5:12
. The divinity
of Christ is the believer’s assurance of eternal life.—
The Desire of
Ages, 530
.
Silence fell upon the vast assembly. The name of God, given to
Moses to express the idea of the eternal presence, had been claimed as
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His own by this Galilean Rabbi. He had announced Himself to be the
self-existent One, He who had been promised to Israel, “whose goings
forth have been from of old, from the days of eternity.”—
The Desire
of Ages, 469
.