26 September 2025

The Principal Theme of the Bible

Colossians 2:9

There’s not an artist in the world could paint His picture, the characters of His face. The best I’ve ever seen is that Hofmann’s Head of Christ at Thirty-Three. That’s because that looks just like it — or pretty near, as close as it could be.

If anybody misinterprets Jesus Christ in the Bible, of not being God Himself, make Him the second person, or one God out of three, this would upset every Word in the entire Bible. It would break the first commandment, “Thou shalt not have any other god before Me.” All right. It would make the whole Christian race a bunch of pagan worshippers worshipping three different gods.

The Bible teaches that GOD WAS IN CHRIST. The BODY was Jesus. In Him dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead, BODILY. Nothing can be plainer than that. Mystery, yes. But actual truth — it can’t be plainer. So if He wasn’t three people then, He can’t be three now. ONE GOD: and this same God was made flesh.

As the eternal Logos (God) was manifest in the Son, and in Jesus dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and that Eternal One was the Father manifest in flesh, and thereby gained the title of Son — even so we, eternal in His thoughts, in our turn became the many-membered Spoken Word Seed, manifest in flesh.

WE DID NOT BECOME SEED BY THE REBIRTH, WE WERE SEED AND THEREFORE WERE REBORN, FOR ONLY THE ELECT CAN BE REBORN. Because we WERE SEED is the reason we could be quickened. In NON-SEED there is nothing to quicken.