Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 24
? 17 a table at that time, and a pencil was lying there before me. I put it to him that in case he wanted to pick up the pencil what would people think of him, if he called to his help me and his companions and his waiter and his cook and his neighbours and when all the people of the locality had collected, required of them to lift the pencil from the table and hand it over to him? He asked me back what I was driving at. I wanted to know if it would be considered rational on his part and how people would react to it. He answered back that they would take him for a lunatic. Then addressing him, I asked whether God, the Father, had, independently, the power to create the world. He said He had. Next, I asked him if God, the Son, had independently the power to create the world. He affirmed that he had. Then I asked him if God, the Holy Ghost, had likewise similar power to create the universe. He said he too had. Then I observed that all this looked very much like the lifting of the pencil from the table in the manner mentioned above. When all three had equal power and could do the creative work equally well, they were wasting their time; as they could well bring very the world into being individually. Then I asked him if he could tell me of a particular job which, God the Father could do but God the Son could not, which again God the Son could, but God the Holy Ghost could not, or God the Holy Ghost could, but God the Father could not, or, God the Son, could, but God the Father could