Article September 6, 1930 Issue

Again replying to "Corlic," let me say that I have never...

Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,—Scotland

Greenock Telegraph

Again replying to "Corlic," let me say that I have never denied in any of my letters that God is "a living Being." God is infinite Being, the source, cause, origin, or divine Principle of all that really exists. He is conscious of His own infinitude and all that that includes. The most modern scholarship acknowledges that the correct rendering of the statement in John 4:24 is, "God is Spirit." Since God is infinite, there can be only one Spirit.

All students of the Scriptures agree that there are various concepts of God in the Bible. The New Testament reveals the highest sense of God as infinite Love. What a contrast this is to the concept of God as a tribal Jehovah dispensing affliction, pestilence, and destruction on those whom He was supposed to hate! It is only by recognizing God as infinite Love that one can understand that He is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever, "with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."

Christ Jesus, after the resurrection, said, "A spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have." He appeared in fleshly form to his disciples; it was not until the ascension that he laid off the flesh. Our critic's quotation from Psalms 8:5, to the effect that man is "a little lower than the angels," in the Revised Version reads, "For thou hast made him but little lower than God, and crownest him with glory and honour." This, of course, refers to man in the image and likeness of God, as stated in the first chapter of Genesis. Our critic mistakes mortal man, who is temporal and material, for immortal man, who is eternal and spiritual. It is spiritual man who is God's image and likeness, and is one's real selfhood.

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