Refutation of the Divinity of Christ — Page 30
30 Their Fifth Argument— ‘ Ye are from Beneath; I am from Above’ THE Fifth ARGUMENT— In John 8:23, it is written: ‘Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. ’ And, indeed, God alone is from above. Rebuttal— There is no distinctiveness in Christ on account of this. Every virtuous and righteous person who is oblivious to the world is from above. And the people from below are those who seek the world and the people of the world and wrongdoers. See John 15:19—‘If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world’, and John 17:14—‘because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ’ Their Sixth Argument— ‘I and My Father are One’ THE Sixth ARGUMENT— I and [my] Father, both are one— John 10:30. Thus, having united with the Father, the being of Christ became one with God and, therefore, in his being he was God. Rebuttal— Absolute unity is also incorrect in the view of the Christians because the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit are all three separate as well. Moreover, the unity that is recorded in