A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

A History of Christian Doctrine
The section titles of the remainder of the article are as
follows: “Jesus is Jehovah. He is Eternal God and Creator.
He is the Mighty God. Jesus is the True God. He is
Emmanuel—God With Us. He is Lord of Lords. He is One
With the Father. Trinity or Godhead, all in Christ. Father’s
Name Given Jesus. The Real Vision of Jesus Lost.”
In the article, Bell quoted and discussed Colossians
2:9, then dealt with the trinity, and concluded as follows:
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Now, it is a wonder how He [Jesus] could be God,
or God could dwell in Him. It is more a wonder that
the whole “Godhead” dwells in him. It is still a greater
wonder that the fulness of the Godhead dwells in him;
and a wonder on wonders how all the fulness of the
Godhead is in Jesus. But all this is declared of our glorious
Christ.
Don’t be afraid the Father and the Holy Ghost will
be left out. We all believe in God the Father and in the
blessed Holy Ghost. We can expect to continue to
speak of both, just as the Apostles do in the New
Testament, whenever occasion demands it and when
that is our subject; but just now our subject is the
wonders in Christ.
It is unreasonable, when magnifying Jesus as
Lord, to expect us to stop and mystify our readers
with the Greek mysteries about the Trinity. Anyway,
few even after years of study on the Trinity, know
much more about it than when they began. . . . So
don’t let anyone make you go into hysterics over the
mysteries of the Trinity being neglected while we are
exalting Jesus Christ. I never knew of any one being
saved by a study of the Trinity, but exalting Jesus the