Compiled by
WM. C.  IRVINE

CHRISTADELPHIANISM makes a great show of appealing to Scripture. Every lover of the truth will be well content to judge this system by such an unerring standard. No seeker after light need fear the result. If it be of God, Scripture will surely be its amplest vindication; if not of God, its fullest exposure. Nor is it mere details we shall have to consider. There is not one important fundamental doctrine upon which Christendom has for ages been agreed that is not by this system denied. The book from which we cull extracts to show what they (Christadelphians) distinctly hold, and which was sent to the writer by a Christadelphian to convince him of their tenets, consists of thirty-six propositions, with about five hundred Scripture quotations. The number of Scripture quotations only proves their infatuation, for Scripture is their exposure, as we shall see. Read by the careless or ignorant, they may succeed in misleading, but once let the truth be clearly stated by Scripture, it will soon be apparent how great is the deception.

Unitarian In Belief

1. Christadelphians believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was not divine, but merely a man-thus aiming a fatal blow at the whole scheme of redemption. Let us quote their own words:-

"Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is not the 'Second Person' of an eternal Trinity of Gods, but the manifestation of the ONE ETERNAL CREATOR, who is 'above all and through all' (Eph. 4: 6) and 'out of whom are all things'² (Rom. 11: 36). This Creator is Spirit, dwelling corporeally3 and personally in heaven, yet in His Spirit-effluence filling immensity. By this Spirit-effluence He begot Jesus, who was therefore HIS SON: by the same power He anointed him and dwelt in him, and spoke to Israel through him (Heb. 1:1). Jesus Christ, therefore, in the days of his weakness, had two sides - one DEITY; the other MAN; but not as construed by Trinitarians, which make Jesus the Son Incarnate. The man was the son whose existence dates from the birth of Jesus; the Deity dwelling in him was the Father, who without beginning of days, is eternally preexistent. There were not two or three eternal persons before 'the man Christ Jesus,' but only ONE-God the Father, whose relation to the Son was afterwards exemplified in the event related by Luke (chap. 1:35), by which was established what Paul styles the 'mystery of godliness;' 'God manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up to Glory' (1 Tim. 3: 16)."