NOT "GOD-WITH-US."

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jan 17, 1900

NOT "GOD-WITH-US."

This is a Roman Catholic statement of the doctrine of the "Incarnation of Christ," as given by Archbishop Riordan, of San Francisco, as reported in the daily press some time ago:—

"God, who came to save, did not incorporate Himself into our human nature capable of sin, the human nature that does all base and ignoble things and sometimes sinks to the lowest degradation. No; He was born of a sacred woman, and this is the Immaculate Conception. He assumed human nature as it was before the fall. He was the High Priest of the new law without shame and without sin."

Is this so? What does the Word of God say? Christ was made "in the likeness of sinful flesh." Rom. 8:3.

He was "made of the seed of David according to the flesh." Rom. 1:3. Everybody knows what sins David, his ancestry, and his posterity were guilty of. Jesus took their flesh with all its heritage.

"He [God] hath made Him [Christ] to be sin for us." 2 Cor. 5:21.

"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same." Heb. 2:14.

"Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His brethren." Heb. 2:17.

He "was in all points tempted like as we are." Heb. 4:15.

Yes, praise God, He was one with us. But He conquered all for us; and His victory enables us to conquer all in Him.