"WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST?"

What think ye of Christ?.....Does it really matter?

CHAPTER 2.

"One Lord".....Misguided?..... God's Oneness in the Old Testament..... God's Oneness in the New Testament.... .Difficult to harminze..... Apostolic Teaching..... "One means One"....."Mono - Theos....."I and my Father are one"....."These three are one"......Occurrence of three words together...... Thrice repeated phrases.....No biblical authority.....Contradiction and confusion..... No mystery..... A revealed secret.....

CHAPTER 3.

No man at any time has seen God..... God manifestation..... The Name..... Titles of Deity..... El...... "The only Potentate"..... God's power - Basis of all matter..... Totally dependant on God..... Not a temporary phase..... God raised Him from the dead..... Important Christian confession..... "El" in other names..... God manifest in human flesh.....

CHAPTER 4.

Elohim - God - Angels..... The chariots of God..... "Elohim" is God in family relationship..... The evidence..... More examples...... Yahweh - Elohim..... Plurality in unity..... Many god's in heaven..... Plural pronouns.....

CHAPTER 5.

"My Name is in Him"..... The Angel was not Jesus..... A difficulty..... Another difficulty..... The messenger of the covenant.....

CHAPTER 6.

Abraham's three visitors..... Gabriel?...... Abraham saw Christ's day.....Back to the three men..... New Testament confirmation.....

CHAPTER 7.

The Holy Spirit..... The Hebrew concept..... Ruach - Pneuma.......The Spirit is power..... Not a person..... No personal name..... Never addressed in prayer..... Not included in Apostolic salutations.... The Comforter..... Another thought...... Does it really matter?.....

CHAPTER 8.

"I said you are Gods"..... Other examples..... "Thou being a man, make yourself God"..... "Thy throne O God" ....."My Lord and my God"...... "He shall be called - The Mighty God"..... "To whom will you make me equal?"..... Jesus never claimed equality..... Jesus denied Omniscience..... Highly exalted but not equal....."Thought it not robbery to be equal".....

CHAPTER 9.

The everlasting Father..... Various applications of "Father"..... "He who sees me sees the Father".....Jesus came in his Father's name..... Joseph a type..... No mere man....."The Lord said unto my Lord"..... A distinct loss..... Rule in the strenght of Yahweh..... The brightness of His glory - Express image.....

CHAPTER 10.

The history of the Trinity..... The cause of Sin..... Absolutely fundamental.....Departure of the Faith..... The Cross of Christ - a stumbling block.....The Gnostics...... The beginning of the Trinity..... Theophilus - First to use word "Trinity".... Irenaeus..... Tertulian..... Clement and Origen.....Hippolytus..... The council of Nicaea..... Acknowledged by various theologians..... The biggest weakness...... Greek and Roman Metaphysics.....

THE "PRE-EXISTENCE OF CHRIST"

CHAPTER 11.

The Pre-existence of Christ.....Does it really matter?..... It nullifies Mary's conception.....It nullifies Sonship..... It negates all hereditary connections..... It denies that Jesus was "the same " as us.....It makes Christ's death artificial.....It makes Christ's resurrection superflous.....It makes a farce of Christ's exaltation.....Bible teaching .....Tradition.....

CHAPTER 12.

Sent from God.....Biological facts..... "Neither came I of myself"..... "Therefore" - Son of God..... Sent by God....Commissioned by God....Came down from Heaven..... Bread of God from Heaven..... Ascend up where he was before..... Important to notice..... The Spirit quickens - The flesh profits nothing..... Cometh from above..... He has seen and heard.....Another reason..... What he sees the FATHER do..... He hath seen the Father.....The joy set before him...

CHAPTER 13.

"Whose goings forth have been from old".....Abraham's seed.....The promise to Mary..... The Apostles..... "If he committ iniquity..... Goings forth from of old.....

CHAPTER 14.

"In the beginning was the Word .....The Word became flesh..... His name is called the Word of God..... Some examples....."Was with God - "Was God"..... Proverbs chapter eight..... Spirit of Christ in the prophets..... He was before me.....Alpha and Omega - Beginning and ending..... Neither beginning of days.....Before Abraham was I am..... I am that I am.....Chronological error.....

CHAPTER 15.

Predestination.....Eamples.....All live unto Him.....Speaking of non-existents as though they existed..... Before the foundation of the world.....Isaiah saw His glory.....

CHAPTER 16.

The first born of every creature .....Special honours and privileges.....Could forfeit position.....Two sons of God.....

CHAPTER 17.

"Thought it not robbery to be equal"....."Being"..... "Christ Jesus"..... The form of God....The form of a servant.....Three-fold temptation..... Thought it not robbery to be equal..... Harpagmos.....Always subordinate - never equal.....Another difficulty.....Made Himself of no reputation.....Took upon him the form of a servant.....Made in the likeness of men.....Took part of the same.....And being found in fashion as a man.....Became obedient.....Highly exalted.....Considerable difficulties.....Rich yet poor for your sakes.....Another thought......

CHAPTER 18.

One Father created us..... Other examples...... The world was made through Christ.....Through Him all ages have been constituted..... Col.1v16-17......In Him dwells the fulness of the Godhead.....