Thus said Jehovah, your Redeemer:“I, Jehovah, am the maker of all
things. I alone [stretch out the heavens. I extend the earth] by myself.”
(Isaiah 44 : 24 )
Thus said Jehovah, the King of Israel and its Redeemer, Jehovah
Sabaoth:“I am the First and the Last, and there is no God except me.”
(Isaiah 44 : 6 )
Jehovah Sabaothis his name, and your Redeemer,the Holy One of Israel.
He will be called God of all the earth.(Isaiah 54 : 5 )
Behold, the days are coming when I will raise up for David a righteous
offshoot who will reign as king. And this is his name: Jehovah is our Jus-
tice.(Jeremiah 23 : 5 – 6 ; 33 : 15 – 16 )
In that day, Jehovah will be king over the whole earth; in that day there
will be one Jehovah, and his name will be one.(Zechariah 14 : 9 )[ 4 ] With the support of all these passages, the clergy sitting in the
chairs unanimously stated that it was Jehovah himself who took on the
human manifestation, and that he did so in order to redeem and save
humankind.
At that point, though, we heard a voice from Roman Catholics who
had hidden behind the altar. The voice said, “How could Jehovah God
become human? He is the Creator of the universe!”
One of the clergy sitting in the second row of chairs said, “Who then
was the human manifestation?”
The man who had been behind the altar before, but was now stand-
ing beside it, said, “The Son from eternity.”
He received this reply: “In your confession the eternally begotten Son
is the same as the Creator of the universe. What is a Son and an eternally
begotten God? How could the divine essence, which is one indivisible
thing, be separated? How could one part of it come down and not the
whole essence at once?”
[ 5 ] The second issue for discussion related to the Lord: “Surely then
the Father and he are one as the soul and the body are one.”
They said that this would follow, because his soul was from the
Father.
Then one of the clergy sitting in the third row of chairs read the fol-
lowing words from the statement of faith known as the Athanasian
Creed: “Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is both God and a
human being. Yet still he is one Christ, not two. In fact, he is completely
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