IX. HAVE WE PROVED OUR POSITION FROM THE BIBLE?
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I BELIEVE that every one who has faithfully followed our reasoning from the beginning will admit that the Scriptures do indeed appear to show that Jehovah was to come into the world, as already indicated, in the limitations of a man, and that this fulfilment has been realized in Jesus Christ; thus, if God is one, as the Scriptures claim, then Jehovah must be Jesus expressed in the terms of time and space.
In order to accept the fact of the solar system as it really exists, not as it appears, it is not necessary for us to know how the sun and our earth and the other planets are suspended in space, nor what law governs their activities. They are suspended in space; they move and act as we see them. We can demonstrate the facts. We perceive them to be unassailable.
Why did false conceptions concerning the earth and the sun exist for so many thousands of years? Why was the theory of Copernicus rejected for so long after it was demonstrated? Simply because the sun appeared to move around the earth. It did not seem reasonable to men who were governed by the apparent facts in the case that the sun was relatively standing still and the earth revolving in space.
We have demonstrated a theory, which we do not claim to be our own, to account for the fact of Jesus Christ. It shows him incontrovertibly, from the documents in the case, as well as from experience, to be God—and if God, then the only God of heaven and earth—Jehovah manifested in the flesh. In doing this we have given a visible sun to our religious solar system, and demonstrated that there is only one such solar center, not three.
Because we do not as yet perceive how Jehovah and Jesus can be the same identical being,—because we cannot as yet understand the manner in which the infinite is finited,—let us not deny the facts. The facts do not depend for their existence upon our understanding of them. We are sure that they are susceptible of rational explanation. If we know anything at all of Jesus, it is from the Bible; if we accept the statements of the Bible, confirmed by experience, he is God. If he is God, he is the only God; there is no God apart from him.