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that would cause any alteration of the doctrine I put before you. If you do find such a passage please write to me,
and I will gladly consider it in The Berean Expositor.
APPENDIX
(Extracted from a Series of Articles in Volumes 2 and 3 of The Berean Expositor, entitled `The Doctrine of Christ').
THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST
`God is not a man that He should lie'
It is our desire to lay before the reader the testimony of the Scriptures to the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. We
shall seek grace to refrain as far as possible from comment, preferring to let the whole responsibility rest upon the
inspired Word of God.
The first thing we would do is to draw attention to the marked difference everywhere observable between man,
the creature, and God, the Creator.
The Scriptural Testimony
As to man
As to God
`Thou art from everlasting'
`We are but of yesterday, and
know nothing, because our days
(Psa. 93:2).
upon earth are a shadow' (Job
`High and lofty One that
8:9).
inhabiteth eternity' (Isa. 57:15)
`And forgettest the LORD thy
`Who art thou, that thou
Maker, that hath stretched forth
shouldest be afraid of a man that
the heavens, and laid the
shall die, and of the son of man
foundations of the earth' (Isa.
which shall be made as grass'
51:13).
(Isa. 51:12).
`Happy is he that hath the God
`Put not your trust in princes, nor
of Jacob for his help, whose
in the son of man, in whom there
hope is in the LORD his God:
is no help. His breath goeth
which made heaven, and earth,
forth, he returneth to his earth; in
the sea, and all that therein is:
that very day his thoughts perish'
which keepeth truth for ever'
(Psa. 146:3,4).
(Psa. 146:5,6).
`The thoughts of man ... are
`The counsel of the LORD
vanity' (Psa. 94:11).
standeth for ever, the thoughts
of His heart to all generations'
(Psa. 33:11).
`How much less in them that
`The heaven and heaven of
dwell in houses of clay, whose
heavens cannot contain thee'
foundation is in the dust, which
(1 Kings 8:27).
are crushed before the moth?'
`The Lord God Omnipotent'
(Job 4:19).
(Rev. 19:6).
`All flesh is grass, and all the
`The glory of the LORD shall
goodliness thereof is as the
endure for ever' (Psa. 104:31).
flower of the field' (Isa. 40:6).
`A man that shall die' (Isa.
`Who only hath immortality'
51:12)
(1 Tim. 6:16).