Refutation of the Divinity of Christ — Page 32
32 shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the mem- bers of an harlot? God forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. ’ Their Seventh Argument— ‘He that hath seen me hath seen the Father’ THE Seventh ARGUMENT— In John 14:9–11 we have: He that hath seen me hath seen the Father for I am in the Father, and the Father in me. Rebuttal—The First Response— Respected Christian Priests! In this also there is no distinctiveness of Christ because in this same Chapter 14 of John, verse 20, it is written: ‘At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. ’ From verse 20 it becomes clear that just as Christ is in the Christians, and the Christians are in Christ, so similarly was Christ in God and God in Christ. Rebuttal—The Second Response— Additionally, the verses that form the basis of the Christian arguments, appear to prove that the receptacle is what it contains, and also that the con- tent of the receptacle is, for that very receptacle, a vessel. And on the basis of the tenets of the Christian faith there is, in Christ, between God and the physical body, no connection to the corre- spondence or entering into, of the vessel and its contents.