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Show Ronald E. Clark 2 - One Jesus (no holy ghost) "Having proceed in thus given the second views of the our place to unity of God, observe, that we I believe in unity of Jesus Christ." Thus the idea that Jesus is made two minds, one human and one divine, etc., is the of up doctrine that Channing once again fails to find in the Bible. the discussion of Iesus here is very complex since he deals with many ideas about Jesus and I am not going to take the time to go into them all here because of the rest of the Channing's main points Channing makes which I want to have time to It is not clear to me, for example, if Channing believes Jesus to be the son of God, although it is clear that Channing does not accept him as a God. He does dip into the problem of which Jesus died on the cross, the God (God normally being thought of as undying) so that the sacrifice of the God cover. was an infinite one to atone for infinite sin, or was it the who was not infinite and thus an human Jesus (who could die) didn't make a very good sacrifice. area of ideas confusing 3 "It is and God is - finds the whole Channing unscriptural. Morally Perfect because his will is irresistible, but because his will is the perfection of virtue, that we pay him allegiance." not The concepts of God advanced by the orthodox are repugnant for several reasons. Orthodoxy teaches various things, but "according to its old and genuine form, brings us into life wholly depraved, innocent features of to all us to our teaches, that God it that under the so childhood is hidden a nature adverse good and propense to all evil, a nature which exposes God's displeasure and wrath, even before we have acquired power to understand our duties, or to reflect upon 331 |
