Show the unitarian views of christ in the united states courtroom sanday evening the rev divid david utter of salt lake city preached from the text what think ye of christ unitarians believe be baid said in the simple humanity of jesus of nazareth and it seems strange to us that anybody in this nineteenth century can believe any thing else but the christian church as a whole may be said to identify jesus with god the eternal father the creator of the world it seems probable that in their real thought most christians believe in two gode in god the father as an all believe and then in an other god not quite the equal of the first called the son soil of god and bearing beating in some sense the relation to the father that any eon son does to his parent and yet though this is their real thought they must bay that they believe in only one god who is at once father and son did the almighty personally come down to this earth and take the human form and spend thirty years in playing at be inz a man oan or was he really a man with our conception of god as omnipresent besent and as operating and manifesting n ig himself eternally in all the laws and forces of the universe such an idea of an n incarnate god is too unreasonable for belief there is a sense in which god I 1 is a in every man but this ancient idea that ue ile came down just once and walked about in syria for awhile as a man I 1 fure ly cannot long command the assent of intelligent men some unitarian unitarians said the speaker g bold that jesus fulfilled the jewish prophecies and that he be was the true jewish messiah but I 1 cannot eee fee that any of those prophecies were ever fulfilled we cannot deny that the writers of the gospels shaped their narratives with the definite intention of proving that jesus did fulfill the messianic prophecies and that be he was the messiah that the jews ought to have been expecting pec ting but when we examine reexamine re those old prophecies for ourselves we find no euch such micaiah as jesus described there are one or two chapters in isaiah that describe the man alan of sorrows the suffering servant of jehovah and the description accords well with our ideal christ but in those chapters the author is not professing to describe the messiah at all he ile is simply drawing an ideal picture of a good man describing what sort of character any truo true servant of jehovah must have when any prophet described the messiah be pictured him as a king and not as a meek non resisting good man and the jews were right if they trusted in their prophets in looking for a king ma g 41 jesus e us was a great teacher and reformer and the founder of the greatest religion of the world but bat even if we take the gospel histories as accurate in all particulars we shall find more to show as us that he was simply and entirely human than we can find to show that be was god mr utters subject on next sunday evening will be the evolution of christianity t |