II. JESUS AS THE SPECIAL EXPRESSION OF GOD
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WE HAVE asserted that God is primal man because we are made in His image and likeness, and the original must be similar to us. In seeing man,—not merely his material form, but his intellectual and spiritual expression,—we behold what God is essentially as well as in manifestation. We have called attention to the fact that if God desired to manifest Himself to man, His creature, it would appropriately be by a projection of Himself through the human form, the highest form of His creation, and the one best adapted and most adequate to express Him.
Following out our previous method of proving the fact from the Bible and experience, let us see what Jesus says of himself as a special expression of God. In doing this it will be clearly apparent that an ordinary man could not have made these statements of himself, whereas Jesus does so, and we accept them without question.
