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Show Franklin F. Eddy The Church of the Holy Ghost the Church of the Human 21 Spirit Which? - 1907 April WE or in READ John that Jesus said to His disciples in the course to them, "It is expedient for you that I of His last discourse go away; for if I go you" [John 1 6: unto not 7]. away the comforter will not come And in a later verse he assures them that "When He, the you unto all truth" spirit of truth, is come He [cf. John 16: 13]. Such words for the Christ of the Fourth enough Christ was a logos, and being as Gospel who incarnated the such much a creation of the from John gospel as gUide natural This spirit of wisdom, the monopolized during imagination, are to utter. is period principle of fictitious, as the existence in the human form the very corporate truth itself. But the Christ of John's will as of Milton's Satan. When read the other three gospels we are in atmosphere. fragmentary accounts of one Jesus of Nazareth, evidently enough a man, talking and acting as other men do. This man is strikingly we a turn different to We now get broken and different from the celestial visitant of Paul's vision, or the hero of that book of philosophical fiction we call the Fourth Gospel. This difference is fundamental. can construct must 208 differ The kind of with Christ the God-man radically from the church as we a church the central we figure build about the life and sayings of Jesus the Nazarene. We are all familiar with the church of the first type. It is the church which asserts a |
