QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
THE GODHEAD.
Will you kindly state
through the Herald, the faith of the church on the
Godhead. Whether there is one or two personages?
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The
church has not taken formulated ground by conference action that we are aware
of. But the position may be briefly stated to be about as follows:—
There
are in the Godhead proper, two personages; God, the Father; Christ, the Son;
the Father and the Son; or God the Father, and God the Son.
The
Father is a personage of Spirit, glory, and power, in whom all perfection and
fullness of attributes dwell; the Son is a personage of tabernacle in the
likeness of the Father, and possesses a similar fullness of attributes of
glory, wisdom, love, power, and majesty, the Firstborn of the Father and
subject only to him. The Holy Spirit is sometimes called the third personage in
the Godhead; but is in reality the mind, will, and element of power of both the
Father and the Son. This Holy Spirit is the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, the
Spirit of Truth, by which all things are controlled, upheld, and sustained, by
the will and command of the Father and the Son, through which witness and
record of the Father and the Son are borne on earth and in heaven.
These
three are one in purpose, spirit, and power, and constitute the directing,
governing, and controlling power of the universe; the source of life and light,
and existence of all things that have been, are, or ever shall be; the One only
independent and self-existent head of All in All.
Every
devout believer is at liberty to enlarge upon this as the Spirit which
revealeth the things of God may give him the testimony of truth.
It is
impossible for finite minds to comprehend God, but when fully obedient and
receiving a fullness of glory, then shall man see God as he is; until then let
us follow the Son and the Spirit as they have been revealed to us, and wait the
time when where God and Christ are we may surely come.
