The Person Of Christ Is To Me

Calvinism Emphasizes Divine Sovereignty And Free Grace; Arminianism Emphasizes Human Responsibility. The One Restricts The Saving Grace To The Elect; The Other Extends It To All Men On The Condition Of Faith. Both Are Right In What They Assert; Both Are Wrong In What They Deny. If One Important Truth Is Pressed To The Exclusion Of Another Truth Of Equal Importance, It Becomes An Error, And Loses Its Hold Upon The Conscience. The Bible Gives Us A Theology Which Is More Human Than Calvinism And More Divine Than Arminianism, And More Christian Than Either Of Them.

The Resurrection Of Christ Is Therefore Emphatically A Test Question Upon Which Depends The Truth Or Falsehood Of The Christian Religion. It Is Either The Greatest Miracle Or The Greatest Delusion Which History Records.

Those Who Make Pictures Of The Savior, Who Is God As Well As Man In One Inseparable Person, Either Limit The Incomprehensible Godhead To The Bounds Of Created Flesh, Or Confound His Two Natures Like Eutyches, Or Separate Them, Like Nestorius, Or Deny His Godhead, Like Arius; And Those Who Worship Such A Picture Are Guilty Of The Same Heresy And Blasphemy.

To Give Up Faith In Christ Is To Give Up Faith In Humanity; To Believe In Christ Is To Believe In The Redeption And Final Glorification Of Men; And This Faith Is The Best Inspiration To A Holy And Useful Life For The Good Of Our Race Of The Glory Of God.

If Christians Are Ever To Be United, They Must Be United In Christ, Their Living Head And The Source Of Their Spiritual Life.