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 all, the most important thing, and their illogical belief the best choice out of many imperfect beliefs.

There were those who, like the Patripassians, in order to defend the doctrine of Christ's essential deity, went so far as to insist that Jesus, even as to his assumed humanity from Mary, was the one and only God. They perceived that God is truly one and indivisible; hence they claimed that the human being who walked the roads of Palestine as Jesus of Nazareth was even as to his limitations Divine. God must exist in one person; hence if Jesus was God at all, he was at all times and in all places and under all circumstances and in all parts God.

These people were logical within certain limits. But they left out some of the facts, and without all the facts no correct conclusion can be obtained. They left out the obviously limited conditions of the purely human nature assumed from a human mother, the material body and its associated planes of life, which provided a temporary vehicle for the indwelling of the Divine.

They were soon brought to confusion. If their theory was correct, then God suffered on