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knoweth us not because it knew him not." "Him" can only mean Goci the Father, for there is no possible antecedent or other noun to which the pro noun could refer. John identified Jesus as the one who came into the world butwhomtheworlddidnotknowthat"Hewasintheworld andtheworld was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto His own, and his own received Him not" (John 1:10-11). I John 3:2, goes on to say
again without introducing any other antecedent, "Beloved, now are we the som o God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be- but we know that,
when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." e ere must refer back to God, our Father, manifested in the flesh, whose
sons we are. Yet elsewhere John described Jesus as the one who will appear
T 11^ "^^hold, he Cometh with clouds; and every eye
^ ^ which pierced him..." (Revelation 1:7). Johnhas recor e Jesus saying, "...for if ye believe not that 1am he, ye shall die in
understood not that he spake to them of the Father" Gobri »• also Isaiah 43:10-11; 25:9; 45:21-25.)
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saying, "... the church of God, which he has
^0:28). "To wit, that God was m the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses Committed unto us the word of reconciliation" (H Colossians 1:13; 2:12.) For this reason I John 2:23
y ' osoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that ac now e geth the Son hath the Father also" (John 15:23-24).
Tesusrhrici the Father to failure Tnna aan
distinct persons, it would be theoreti-
acknowledge one without the other. For example, while the Jewish religious leaders tried to acknowledge
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Christ the Son of Cod. All such efforts are doomed "^au'^sted Himself in His Son (in the flesh).
had prophesied, "Why do the heathen rage, and the
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people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the
^gether, against the LORD, and against his anointed,
ulthM cff^l bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. sion" (Psalm2-i"4)^^ heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in deri-
y that Christ is the Son of God, God manifested in the flesh, then
ruerely rejected a second person called Son, but we have reject- e t e at er Himself. The Father has chosen to manifest Himself in His Son. On the other hand, if we acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God manifested in the flesh, we do not then have to acknowledge/ meet, an become acquainted with one or two additional divine persons.
Why. Because we have the Father also; the Father manifested himself in