Improvement Era

Excerpt from Improvement Era: April, 1909 The common notion concerning the Trinity as set forth in orthodox creeds is an utter impossibility. It is said to be composed of three persons who are each distinct and yet are one sub stance, and are as such omnipresent, equal and eternal, yet one of them is the Father, another his Son, and another neither the Father nor the Son, and yet it is affirmed that one is not before the other nor after the other that the whole Deity is without body, parts or passions, and yet that it has three parts, and one of those parts has a body and passions. Then it is declared, Such as the Father is, such is the Son and such is the Holy Ghost. To sum it all up, it is announced that this being is 'immaterial and incomprehensible. That is a god of heathen invention and mod ern Christian adoption. It is not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, nor of Moses and the prophets, nor of Jesus Christ and: his apostles. It springs from the vain philosophy of this world, and to worship it is sheer idolatry. 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.