An appeal to Scripture and tradition in defence of the Unitarian faith. [By C. A. Elton.]1818 |
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... Christians , regard such a notion of the God of Abraham as making more Gods than one ; and this is one great obstacle , and perhaps the greatest , to their conversion , in the present state of Christianity . Though so much stress is ...
... Christians , regard such a notion of the God of Abraham as making more Gods than one ; and this is one great obstacle , and perhaps the greatest , to their conversion , in the present state of Christianity . Though so much stress is ...
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... Christian opinions was may be collected from the admissions and indirect eonfessions of the Fathers of the Catholic Church . Athanasius says that the Jewish Christians of the Apostolic Age disbelieved the deity of Christ , and drew the ...
... Christian opinions was may be collected from the admissions and indirect eonfessions of the Fathers of the Catholic Church . Athanasius says that the Jewish Christians of the Apostolic Age disbelieved the deity of Christ , and drew the ...
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... Christ one : and as to his manhood , they were phan- tomists ; they thought it an illusion . Thence they were also called Docetæ . John condemns this he- resy by asserting that " Christ is come in the flesh : " or that he , who was ...
... Christ one : and as to his manhood , they were phan- tomists ; they thought it an illusion . Thence they were also called Docetæ . John condemns this he- resy by asserting that " Christ is come in the flesh : " or that he , who was ...
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... Christian men were already agitated , if they were not unsettled , by speculative refinements on the person and nature of Christ , before John wrote his Gospel ; and if we regard the aversion of the Jews to a suffering Messiah , and the ...
... Christian men were already agitated , if they were not unsettled , by speculative refinements on the person and nature of Christ , before John wrote his Gospel ; and if we regard the aversion of the Jews to a suffering Messiah , and the ...
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... Christian church were neither Trinitarians nor Arians ; that they neither held the Godhead nor the pre - existent nature of Christ ; but were , as to his person , humani- tarians , and believed only in his legatarian and elec- tive ...
... Christian church were neither Trinitarians nor Arians ; that they neither held the Godhead nor the pre - existent nature of Christ ; but were , as to his person , humani- tarians , and believed only in his legatarian and elec- tive ...
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