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15. Do Spiritualists deny the existence of the historic Jesus?
No. The vast body of Spiritualists, including all their representative writers, accept Jesus as an historical character. They do not deny his miracles, though they hold it is impossible to make certain to human minds the happenings of two thousand years ago. Spiritualists as a body venerate the name and character of Jesus and regard him as the world’s great Teacher and Exemplar.
16. Do Spiritualists believe in the divinity of Jesus?
Most assuredly. They believe in the divinity of all men. Every man is divine in that he is a child of God, and inherits a spiritual (divine) nature. Just as a man develops his intellectual and spiritual nature and expresses it in life, he is “God manifest in the flesh.” Since Jesus attained to and manifested in a very unusual degree the divine attributes of spirit no spiritualist would question his divinity.
17. Does Spiritualism recognize Jesus as one person of the Trinity, co-equal with the Father, and divine in a sense in which divinity is unattainable by other men?
No. Spiritualism accepts him as one of many Saviour Christs, who at different times have come into the world to lighten its darkness and show by precept and example the way of life to men. It recognizes him as a world Saviour but not as “the only name” given under heaven by which men can be saved.