114 The Fundamentals again there is no mistaking the teaching of Millennial Dawn. Before Christ appeared in human form among men He was a spirit being of a very high rank, but a creature. When He became a man His spirit nature was somehow dropped; it was not united with the human, it was not even merged into the human, it was “changed” into the purely and distinctively human nature, so that while on earth and during the whole period of His earthly life He was a man, only a man, per fect indeed, but a man with nothing superhuman or super natural in Him or about Him. The spirit being ceased to be. The book asserts with a positiveness that error always as sumes, that in Jesus Christ “there was no mixture of natures”. The vital doctrine of the incarnation of the Son of God, the second Person of the Trinity, is denied, and Christ is degraded to the level of Adam before his sin and fall. In short, the book virtually affirms that there was no incarnation whatever. I t appears needless to point out how completely and thoroughly the Word of God contradicts this false and de grading view of our Lord’s blessed Person. Let but a few texts be cited as evidence that Christ did actually assume our human nature, sinless of course, but true and genuine human nature. John 1:14: “And the Word was made [became, R. V.] flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth”. Mark the prominent features of this great Scripture: (a). The Word, Christ, became flesh; He did not cease to be the Word in doing so; His incarnation was neither self-ex tinction, nor was He changed into a mere man. (b). He still remained the Word after He had assumed the human nature, for we are assured that “He dwelt among us”, ob viously the Word dwelt among us, for the pronoun He has the Word for its antecedent, (c). The term “dwelt” literally is “tabernacled”, an allusion to the tabernacle of the wilder ness. God said, “And let them make me a sanctuary that I
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