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True Knowledge of God
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excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said He at
any time.
“Thou art My Son,
This day have I begotten Thee?
And again,
I will be to Him a Father,
And He shall be to Me a Son?”
Hebrews 1:1-5.
The personality of the Father and the Son, also the unity that
exists between Them, are presented in the seventeenth chapter of
John, in the prayer of Christ for His disciples:
“Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on Me through their word; that they all may be one; as Thou,
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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.”
John 17:20, 21
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The unity that exists between Christ and His disciples does not
destroy the personality of either. They are one in purpose, in mind,
in character, but not in person. It is thus that God and Christ are one.
Character of God Revealed in Christ
Taking humanity upon Him, Christ came to be one with hu-
manity, and at the same time to reveal our heavenly Father to sinful
human beings. He who had been in the presence of the Father from
the beginning, He who was the express image of the invisible God,
was alone able to reveal the character of the Deity to mankind. He
was in all things made like unto His brethren. He became flesh even
as we are. He was hungry and thirsty and weary. He was sustained
by food and refreshed by sleep. He shared the lot of men; yet He
was the blameless Son of God. He was a stranger and sojourner on
the earth—in the world, but not of the world; tempted and tried as
men and women today are tempted and