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connected with the doctrine, & in reference to the subject than only to say "With God, all things are possible" & secondly that Christ is the 2nd person in the trinity & truly divine & therefore truly God, but not personally identical with the Father. Permit me just briefly to review a few of the points you referred to in your letter. I perfectly agree with you in believing that Christ is the Son of God. Still that does not prevent his being equal to God. Nay the very fact that he is the Son would go to show that he was equal. As Christ himself says that men may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. You I presume will admit that there is in a sense an equality subsisting between Father & Son. -- Of course I do not suppose that Paul intends to teach that himself & Apollos are one person, neither does Christ when he says "I & my Father are one" mean to say that he & his Father are identically the same person, but he does teach it seems to me as plain as language can teach that while he & his Father are distinct persons they are equal, equal in power & glory. So to in reference for Christ's followers being one, he prays that they may be united in that intimate bond of fellowship. One in feeling. In perfect equality as himself and his father are one. In reference to the trinity I will say but little. I consider it one of the most glorious truths in the whole Bible I do not see how many pages in the Bible can be explained without it. It seems as though we had some indication of it in Genesis when God says let us make man. Although it be a principle & may appear to you to be nothing more than a Hebrew w- term In Christ's baptism do we not have three divine manifestations the voice from Heaven, the Father, Jesus the Son & the dove the Holy Ghost & then what means this solemn language baptising them in the name of the Father * Son & H.G. three persons in the Godhead equal in power & glory. I believe that Christ was while on earth both God & man, that there was in him a mysterious union of the human & divine & it is something that is not at all more wonderful the union of soul & body in man. He was the God-man. The anthropy expresses just what I mean. That Christ was am an neces? no part of count, couse? That he was God I think you ought to admit if I can show that he had the following attributes - eternal existence, immutability, omniscience, omnipotence & omnipresence. If Christ had these qualities must he not be divine. ? his eternity. Before Abraham was I am. With his glory I had with thee before the world was & c. 2nd immutability. Jesus is the same yesterday today & forever. Heb 13. 8. & 3rd Omniscience for he knew what was in man John 2 21st Lord thou knowest all things than knowest that I love thee John 21 17.4 omnipotence. I can do all things through him who strengthens me Ph. 4. 13 I am Alph & Omega, which is & was to come the Almighty. Rev. 1:8 5th omnipresence. When two or three are gathered together than am I in the midst. Mat 18, 20, the fulness of him that filleth all in all Eph 1.23 I might add on other passages but must we not from this admit that Christ is divine. I would extend my letter farther had I time. I love to dwell on the doctrines. I consider them glorious truth. I hope that the consideration of this will do us both good. Hope you will write soon. E. T. Baker