Tokonaki Sepitema 10, 2022
CHRIST
WILL ALWAYS BE GOD
‘OKU ‘OTUA ‘A KALAISI MA‘U AI PE
JOHN 10:30
I and the Father are one.
SIONE 10:30
Ko
au mo e Tamai ‘oku ma taha.
Solus Christus - Christ Alone - Ko Kalasi pe
If He will never cease to be the Son of God, but will ever remain the same that He was from the beginning, it follows that under the name of Father the one divine essence common to both is comprehended. And assuredly Christ descended to us for the very purpose of raising us to the Father, and thereby, at the same time, raising us to Himself, inasmuch as He is one with the Father. It is therefore erroneous and impious to confine the name of God to the Father so as to deny it to the Son.
Accordingly, John, declaring that He is the true God, has no idea of placing Him beneath the Father in a subordinate rank of divinity. I wonder what these fabricators of new gods mean when they confess that Christ is truly God, and yet exclude Him from the Godhead of the Father, as if there could be any true God but the one God, or as if transfused divinity were not a mere modern fiction.
JOHN CALVIN
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