OCTOBER 31ST, 1911

^[p. 106] OCTOBER 31ST, 1911

My Dear Brother, — Yours of September 13th reached me in London last week, also the papers you sent. As I am much pressed for time I am unable to write at length, but I wish to say at once I have no sympathy with what I have seen in extracts and quotations from C. W———. As to our Lord’s Person he says somewhere that God has no equal. This and all it represents in Mr. W———’s mind is shocking, both as derogatory to the Lord’s Person and the opposite to what Scripture states (Philippians 2 and John 1). It may be said that Philippians 2: 6 is before incarnation, which is true, but the fact remains that a Person is there said to be equal with God, and this Person remains unchanged in incarnation, the same yesterday, today and forever. Besides in John 5, the Lord formally insists on His equality with the Father as Son in this world, the Jews said “making himself equal with God;” they understood well what the Lord meant. If Mr. W——— had been there, he would have had to correct them, but the Lord did not, although the Jews would have stoned Him for what He said. Much may be said, if we are spiritual enough for it, as to the wonderful downstooping of the Lord to carry out God’s will, but “the Son” is a term which covers His Person and to say that the Son is inferior to God or the Father is blasphemy outright, and should be refused at every point. Mr. W——— has allowed his mind to work in the matter and has been misled. I am truly sorry for him.

He incidentally holds the Lord’s Deity, and there is hope for him, but we have to deal with his words, “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned” (Matthew 12: 37).

Affectionately yours in Christ,

James Taylor.