and it is for this reason that men today are beginning to worship the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour with a fulness and completeness that they never did before.
It was infinitely better that men should look upon Jesus as the Son of God, as subordinate to the Father, if in this way they regarded him as truly Divine, rather than that they should reject him altogether because of their inability to accept as the very God of heaven and earth one whom they had known intimately as a teacher and companion. There can be little doubt that his disciples, even though they perceived the fact of his Divineness from experience and teaching, and later gave their lives in defense of this belief, would have rejected the fact altogether in view of their Jewish ideal of Jehovah if Jesus had demanded that they accept him as the Father. He plainly told them the fact, but when he saw they could not receive it, he allowed them to continue to think of him merely as the Son of God.
It was essential to the salvation of men that they should look upon Jesus as somehow God, and certainly Saviour. "Except ye believe that I am he, ye shall die in your sins." It is
