Scripture Proofs and Scriptural Illustrations of Unitarianism (Classic Reprint)

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Holy Ghost, are merely relative - that the persons in the Trinity did not exist under these characters from all eter nity - that there is no precedence amongst them, either in time, order, or dignity. Others, whose professed standard is the creed attributed to Athanasius, believe that the Father, whom they designate the first person in the God head, is alone the Source or Fountain of the Deity; that the Son, who, according to them, is the second person, was begotten Of the Father and that the Holy Ghost, the third person, proceeded from the Father and the Son and yet that these three persons are co-equal, co-essential, and cc eternal. Some, again, have been Of opinion, that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, are not three persons, but three modes, characters, or relations; and that only one and the same agent is meant by the sacred writers, whether they treat Of the Father, the Son, or the Spirit: while, on the other hand, some have employed language concerning the three persons in the Godhead, unequivocally expressing the notion Of three distinct Gods. The maintainers Of these different opinions agree, that Christ was perfect man, as well as perfect God; and they are generally distinguished by the appellation Of trinitarians, but sometimes called, according to their peculiar views, Athanasians Sabellians, or Nominalists Tritheists, or believers in three distinct, infinite minds, or intelligences.

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