III. THE FORCE OF FACTS
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THE obvious impossibility of dividing the Infinite enables us to perceive the force of the Unitarian point of view. If we regard Jesus as a semi-Divine being or only a man as other men, in either case possessing a life independent of the Father, then he is not God in any special sense, and they are correct. The weakness of their case is the assumption that God cannot manifest Himself as a man, except as He manifests Himself through all men. It is true that we cannot divide the Infinite; but it is not necessarily true that God cannot temporarily limit Himself in manifestation and still be God.
The weakness of the Trinitarian position is that they base their religion upon the assumption that the duality of personality in the Father and the Son which is suggested in the Old Testament and appears more definitely in the New Testament is a fact, and not an appearance. We maintain that if this duality of per-
