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 the man, Christ Jesus, and as to His activity or proceeding life, the Holy Spirit; but there is in these three phases or manifestations of God only one identity or personality. They say that if man was created in the image and likeness of God, then God must be as the original is to its likeness. A statuette of Abraham Lincoln, for example, should give us a fair idea of what Abraham Lincoln looked like. As we behold in man a soul, a body, and a proceeding activity of the soul operating through the body, so the inﬁnite God must be likewise soul, body, and proceeding life, and these three phases or manifestations are no more three separate personalities than our soul, body, and activity are three separate beings. They are three phases of one being.

This seems to be a perfectly rational conception of God as manifested in Jesus Christ. It is not necessary that we shall here examine into the claims of Swedenborg apart from these views. His biography can be found in any encyclopedia, and his writings can be found in any public library. We are concerned only with a correct conception of God in Jesus Christ.

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