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GOD THE FATHER, AND HIS SON JESUS CHRIST

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 12, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 4.

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GOD THE FATHER, AND HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.

TITLES OF THE FATHER.

The following titles of supremacy belong alone to Him who is from everlasting to everlasting, the only wise God:
"The Eternal God." Deut. xxxiii, 27.
"Whose Name alone is Jehovah." Ps. lxxxiii, 18.
"Most High God." Mark v, 7.
"The Ancient of Days." Dan. vii, 13.
"God Alone." Ps. lxxxvi, 10.
"Lord Alone." Neh. ix, 6.
"God of Heaven." Dan. ii, 44.
"The only True God." John xvii, 8.
"Who Only hath Immortality." 1 Tim. vi, 16.
"The King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible." 1 Tim. i, 17.
"The Only Wise God." 1 Tim. i, 17.
"Lord God Omnipotent." Rev. xix, 6.
"The Blessed and only Potentate." 1 Tim. vi, 15.
"Besides Me there is no God." Isa. xlv, 6.
"God the Father." 1 Cor. viii, 6.
"The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory." Eph. i, 17.
"God and Father of all, who is above all." Eph. iv, 6.
"The Almighty God." Gen. xvii, 1.
"I Am that I Am." Ex. iii, 14.
"Lord God Almighty." Rev. iv, 8.
DECLARATIONS CONCERNING THE SON.
He is the beginning of the creation of God. Rev. iii, 14.
The first born of every creature. Col. i, 15.
The only begotten of the Father. John i, 18; iii, 18.
"The Son of the Living God." Matt. xvi, 16.
Existed before he came into the world. John viii, 58; Micah v, 2; John xvii, 5, 24.
Was made higher than the angels. Heb. i, 14.
He made the world and all things. John i, 1-3; Eph. iii, 3, 9.
Was sent into the world by God. John iii, 34.
In him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Col. ii, 9.
He is the resurrection and the life. John xi, 25.
All power is given to him in heaven and earth. Matt. xxviii, 18.
He is the appointed heir of all things. Heb. i, 2.
Anointed with the oil of gladness above his fellows. Heb. i, 9.
God has ordained him to be judge of quick and dead. Acts xvii, 31.
Reveals his purposes through him. Rev. i, 1.
The head of Christ is God. 1 Cor. xi, 3.
Jesus had power to lay down his life and take it again. John x, 18.
He received this commandment from the Father. John x, 19. God raised him from the dead. Acts ii, 24, 34; iii, 15; iv, 10; x, 40; xiii, 30, 34; xvii, 31; Rom. iv, 24; viii, 11; 1 Cor. viii, 14; xv, 15; 2 Cor. iv, 14; Gal. i, 1; Eph. i, 20; Col. ii, 12; 1 Thess. i, 10; Heb. xiii, 20; 1 Pet. i, 21.
Jesus says he could do nothing of himself. John v, 19.
That the Father which dwelt in him did the works. John xiv, 10.
That the Father which sent him, gave him a commandment what he should say and what he should speak. John xii, 49.
That he came not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him. John vi, 38.
And that his doctrine was not his, but the Father's which sent him. John vii, 16; viii, 28; xii, 49; xiv, 10, 24.
With such inspired declarations before us, ought we to say that Jesus Christ is the Self-existent, Independent, Omniscient and Only True God; or the SON of GOD, begotten, upheld, exalted and glorified BY THE FATHER?