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 OF JESUS CHRIST, GOD INCARNATE

Dear F. F.                                                                                                       January 13, l988

        ...The primal issue, however, is whether Jesus Christ is God incarnate. If He is not divine, any time Christians profess to worship Him they are guilty of base idolatry and blasphemy.

Dear F. F.                                                                                                     February 14, 1990

       I appreciated your comments on Proverbs 30:4. The reason I said, "King Solomon asks" is because these are the Proverbs of Solomon. I would not fault you that the passage is by Agur, the son of Jakeh, but some men maintain that he is none other than Solomon himself, and that he calls himself "Agur" which signifies "a gatherer" as he called himself "Koheleth", or "the preacher." Among those who hold this view are Jarchi and Gersom, both Jews.

     You are also right about it being a discourse on the preeminence of God, but you ignore his reference to His "Son." Perhaps it is because this shows that he had a knowledge of the Son of God. Notice also Nebuchadnezzar's confession in Daniel 3:25.

     Regarding the reference to Wisdom in Proverbs 8:22-30, Christ Jesus is our Wisdom (I Corinthians 1:30). It is true the writer graphically personifies Wisdom here, but, like with prophecy, there is an obvious meaning, and a completed meaning.

     The reason for the feminine gender being used in Proverbs 8 is two-fold: first, in Hebrew, as in most languages, wisdom is considered to be in the feminine gender. This being a personification is as you say rhetorical. The second reason for the use of the feminine gender is in contradistinction to the harlot of chapter 7.

    In Jesus Christ dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Colossians 2:9).

Dear J. F. R.                                                                                                          June 9, 1994

     I was very disturbed by your editorial that appeared in the Augusta Chronicle this past Saturday. It is a very serious thing if we err, but when we teach others error, it is a far, far more serious thing. This is the reason James declared, "Be not many masters knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation" (James 3:1).

       If your Lord and Saviour is merely a man, you are not a Christian. To deny the Deity of Christ is to show a lack of comprehension of the nature of sin, as well as of the Godhead.

      The positions you espoused in our newspaper are not Pauline in theology, but are the same as the Jehovah Witnesses teach. ... I pray that you are reachable, and that you have not sinned away the day of grace.

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