Notebook Leaflets from the Elmshaven Library, vol. 1

Fanciful Theories Regarding God

Be careful what you teach. Those who are learners of Christ will teach the same things that He taught. 1NL 123.6

The religious bodies all over Christendom will become more and more closely united in sentiment. They will make of God a peculiar something in order to escape from loyalty to Him who is pure, holy, and undefiled, and who denounces all sin as a production of the apostate. Christ came to counterwork the theories of the great deceiver. In His life, no sin appeared. He could say to His enemies, Which of you convinceth Me of sin? He was in a world of sinful human beings, yet He “did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth.” 1NL 123.7

No requirement is laid upon man that Christ has not obeyed. We can overcome as He overcame, if we will avail ourselves of the help of the three great powers of heaven, who are waiting to answer the demand made upon them by God's people for power to defeat satanic agencies. 1NL 124.1

“Sanctify them through Thy truth; Thy Word is truth.” Christ's teachings are truth. Those who surrender their wills to the divine guidance will be protected from Satan's snares. Draw nigh to God in your helplessness, and He will draw nigh to you. He will lift up for you a standard against the enemy. 1NL 124.2

“As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.” 1NL 124.3

Let not the theory be presented that God would dwell in the soul-temple of a wicked man. No greater falsehood could be presented. 1NL 124.4

“Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through their word; that they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us.” 1NL 124.5