Excerpt from The Trinity and the Incarnation Most of those who profess and call them selves Christians, both in this country and in the rest of the world, are in the habit of saying that Jesus Christ is God. This is the current opinion; it is taught by the Church; it is laid down in the Creeds. But if you come to examine the average English man, you will find that he holds this opinion in rather a vague and loose sort of way. He has not thought out exactly what he means by it, nor considered just what it involves. If you asked him whether God is our Heavenly Father, he would almost cer tainly answer 'yes.' If you then asked, Well, then, is jesus Christ our Heavenly Father P he would certainly say No.' But if you went on, Are there, then, two Gods?' he would entirely repudiate the suggestion. So that he carries about with him in his mind these four propositions z - (i jesus Christ is God God is our Heavenly Father' 'jesus Christ is not our Heavenly Father There are not two Gods.' Yet he has never considered how to reconcile these four separate opinions of his together; it probably has not occurred to him that they are inconsistent with one another. His teachers have various methods of harmonising the four opinions, all four of which have been taught to him by them - methods satisfactory or unsatisfactory. But the average English man has not troubled himself with the matter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.