Part Three
Theology Proper: 18 THE BIBLICAL VIEW OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
Theology Proper: 18 THE BIBLICAL VIEW OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
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other problem concerns the Incarnation. Jesus Christ is represented as being
the same, yesterday, today, and forever. And yet, the second Person of the
Trinity in time became a man and is now a Man at God’s right hand, which He was
not at one time. Since Christ is God, does this represent a change in God? It would
if some of the heretical views of the Incarnation were true; views like those of
Eutychus whose followers were known as Monophysites. They believed that in the
Incarnation there was a mingling of the divine and human natures into one, which
was neither human nor divine. This view involves a change in the nature of one
of the Persons of the Godhead. But Scripture does not teach this. The Incarnation
in no way changed the divine nature of the Son of God. The change concerned
only the humanity, which change may be considered in the light of dispensational
truth. God has and does change His dispensational dealings and the Son of God
has changed in His relations to humanity. In fact, dispensationalism is
concerned almost wholly with changes which God has made in His dealings with
mankind. But these in no way affect His immutability, which has to do solely
with His Being and His character.
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