Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

Moses and in the evangelists; therefore Christ and the Father are one. To
say that Christ made all things by a delegated power from God is absurd;
because the thing is impossible. Creation means causing that to exist that
had no previous being: this is evidently a work which can be effected
only by Omnipotence. Now, God cannot delegate his omnipotence to
another; were this possible, he to whom this omnipotence was delegated
would, in consequence, become God; and he from whom it was delegated
would cease to be such; for it is impossible that there should be two
omnipotent beings.
From the first impression made by the reported miracles of Christ,
Nicodemus could say, "No man can do the miracles which thou doest,
except God be with him." And every reasonable man, on the same
evidence, would draw the same inference. But we certainly can go much
farther, when we find him, by his own authority and power, without the
invocation of any foreign help, with a word, or a touch, and in a moment
restoring sight to the blind, speech to the dumb, hearing to the deaf, and
health to the diseased; cleansing the lepers, and raising the dead. These
are works which could only be effected by the omnipotence of God. This
is incontestable. Therefore, while the cleansing of the lepers, and the
feeding to the full so many thousands of men and women with five barley
loaves and two small fishes, stand upon such irrefragable testimony as
that contained in the four evangelists, Jesus Christ must appear, in the eye
of unbiased reason, as the Author of nature, the true and only Potentate,
the Almighty and everlasting God.
"I will, be thou clean." The most sovereign authority is assumed in this
speech of our blessed Lord. I WILL. There is here no supplication of any
power superior to his own; and the event proved to the fullest conviction,
and by the clearest demonstration, that his authority was absolute, and his
power unlimited.
What an astonishing manifestation of omnific and creative energy
must the reproduction of a hand, foot, &c., be at the word or touch of
Jesus! As this was a mere act of creative power, like that of multiplying