The Divine Oneness

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 16, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 32.

The Divine Oneness

GOD was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself,” says the Word of the Spirit in 2 Cor. 5:19. Men are sometimes prone to ascribe one character to God, and another to Christ. God the Father is to them just and exacting, Christ tender and merciful. But the apostle declares that God was in Christ in the great work of reconciliation. Says Jesus to His disciples, “He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?” John 14:9.

Whatever we see in Christ that is loving, pitiful, tender, compassionate, self-sacrificing, such is the Father. Whatever we have revealed of the justice, the integrity, the absolute perfectness and holiness of God, such is Christ. “I and My Father are one,” says our Lord — one in character, one in purpose, one in thought; and Christ is the manifestation of the Godhead to us. Through Him came the Word; for He is the Word Incarnate, the Way, the Truth, the Life. “For it pleased the Father that in Him should all the fulness dwell.” God is one; His Word is one; His people are one, but only in Him.