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not infinite, He was not God. If He were not God, then He was not the Second Person of the Eternal Trinity. If He were not the Second Person of the Trinity, then none was. If none were, there is no triunity of God. If there be no triunity of Godhead, we are landed at the front door of Unitarianism, that bloodless, emotionless, soulless sys tem which substitutes intellect for the Spirit, and reason for faith. Prating about God, it knows Him not. Deny the Virgin Birth, and as absolutely as two and two make four, as inexorably as the arrow to the mark, you deny and reject the Trinity of God. • Do you think it a light and inconsequential thing to deny the Virgin Birth, or that it is s o m e t h i n g that matters little one way or another? Behold what takes place when you deny the Trinity. You deny and must cut out of the Bible this tremendous Scrip ture: "He through the eternal ^spirit offered himself with out spot to God" (Heb. 9:14). It is, indeed, an immense Scripture. It means the whole Godhead was engaged in the sacrifice of the cross, — the whole Godhead in the fulness of personality was engaged in the act of redemption. The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, each of them an infinite Person subsisting in the indivisible Being of God. The Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of the Father offered Himself unto God as the Father. He offered Himself through the Eternal, personal Spirit. As an infinite Person, He of fered Himself t h r o u g h the infinite personality of the Spirit to the infinite personality of God the Father: even the God and Father who though the Spirit gave Him out of His bosom that He might make this offering. Deny the Trinity of God and you deny and make impossible that Scripture. Deny and reject that Scripture, you deny and reject the sacrificial death of Christ ; you deny it in relation to the everlasting covenant and the pledge and honor of the whole Godhead. When you do that, you sweep away the foundation of Christianity as set forth in Holy Scripture from Genesis to Revelation. You deny that Scrip ture when you deny the Trinity. You deny the Trinity when you deny the Virgin Birth. To deny the Virgin Birth, and to talk about the ethical value of Christianity, is worse than childish. There are no ethics left. Instead of ethics, the whole system is buried in a moral ruin, out of whose chaos there looks the face of one illegitimate, bastard-born, a helpless sinner like the rest of us, and like the rest of us bereft of any hoped-for Saviour. Without the Virgin Birth, for us there is only a Chris tianity whose beginning is a fiction and whose ending is the substitution of an ethical for a sacrificial Christ, a sub stitution that bears the stamp of its own reason and in every promise it makes mocks the hope of our soul both for time and eternity. Without the Virgin Birth, Christianity has no author ity, neither as an ethical or doctrinal system. Without the Virgin Birth, I repeat, Christianity has no decent, moral, spiritual or intellectual basis on which to stand. He who denies the Virgin Birth denies Bible Christian ity, smites the mother of our Lord with shame, snatches the crown of deity from His brow, strips Him of His sinless humanity, makes His cross a blood-stained failure and bids us face eternity with no light in the darkness.
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