Article June 16, 1917 Issue

A local evangelist is credited with the following statement:...

Robert S. Ross

Auburn (N. Y.) Advertiser-Journal

A local evangelist is credited with the following statement: "The Christian Scientist and the Unitarian rob Jesus Christ of his deity, and hence man is robbed of the possibility of salvation." If Jesus believed himself to be God, he must have indicated it in his teaching. It would therefore be interesting to have the critic point out a single passage in the gospels to warrant the commonly accepted view that Jesus was Deity.

That Jesus did not believe himself to be God is indicated by his own words. At times he referred to God as his Father, and to himself as the Son. At the feast of dedication in Jerusalem certain of the Jews sought to stone him. When Jesus asked for what cause, they cried: "For blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God." Answering them, Jesus did not deny that he was a man, but he did deny that he was God, in the words, "I said, I am the Son of God."

Jesus' sayings indicated that it was the birthright of every man to stand in the same relation to God in which he stood, for he referred to others as the sons or children of God, and assured his followers that where he was, they might be also, by living the Christ-life and becoming at-one with God. The spiritual origin of Jesus gave him a clearer understanding of the Christ than that possessed by other men, but he gave God, not himself, credit for the works that he did, indicating that his demonstrations were the result of the operation of spiritual law based on divine Principle, which he understood.

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