A Reasonable Faith Author:Francis Frith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GOD MANIFEST IN THE FLESH. " God made His highest Revelation to man, not through a philosophy, or a code of laws, or a book ; but through a human life. The Tr... more »uth was lived in and by Christ. The Life was the Light of Men."— Farrak. Monotheism is the key-stone of true religion. The grossest and most immoral superstitions that have held the human race in bondage have been developed not only under, but by, the blindness that has failed to recognise the Divine Unity. The monotheistic element of Mohammedanism, notwithstanding all the falsities with which it was associated, gave new life and vigour to half the mediaeval world. So far, then, as the scholastic dogma of the Trinity, in its common acceptation, tends in any degree to undermine or confuse the idea of pure monotheism, it becomes a grave danger to the Christian Church. The true Christian conception of the threefold manifestation of God, which has acquired the title of "the Trinity,"—so much at least of this infinite subject as can be grasped by the finite mind of man,— may perhaps be presented thus: In order to adapt theneedful revelation of Himself to the nature of man the Most High has manifested Himself in nature, in history, and in the human heart; that is to say, besides the ordinary evidences of His supreme power and Godhead in creation, He has made two special manifestations of Himself : one temporary and visible —God manifest in the flesh; and the other eternal and not cognisable to the outward senses—God manifest in the spirit. The scriptural revelation, then, is not so much that of a Trinity as of a Unity—a term which does not necessarily infringe in the least upon the essential Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ, the character and purpose of whose wonderful revelation of God the Father we now proceed to ...« less