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TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN XV CHRISTADELPHIANS Dr. John Thomas (April 12, 1805 – March 5, 1871) was the founder of the Christadelphian movement, a Restorationist, with doctrines similar in part to some 16th-century Antitrinitarian Socinians and the 16th-century Swiss-German pacifist Anabaptists. The founder of the Christadelphians (“Brethren of Christ”) was John Thomas, a physician turned Bible teacher, born in London on April 12, 1805. In 1832, during a brush with death in a shipwreck, he resolved to look into the truth about the afterlife and vowed to dedicate his life to religion if he was spared. His first experience with “Christianity” was with the often unbiblical Campbellite movement (today known as the “Church of Christ,” “Christian Church” or the “Disciples of Christ”). In 1833 Dr. Thomas had met Alexander Campbell and was influenced by his teachings. Eventually he left the Campbellites and continued studies on his own. In 1847, he claimed that he had arrived at “the truth of the gospel.” His best known works are Elpis Israel (“Israel’s Hope,” 1849) and Eureka (1862), a 2,000 page study of the book of Revelation. Both are published and used by Christadelphians today. The Christadelphian is the principal periodical of the Church. It was originally titled The Ambassador of the Coming Age and begun by Robert Roberts, one of Thomas’ earliest converts. Roberts became the leader of the Christadelphians after Thomas died in 1871. The Christadelphians meet in “Ecclesias” or local congregations. The first were established by Thomas in 1838 in Illinois and Virginia. The church was officially incorporated in 1864, being registered at the county court house in Oregon, Illinois. Today the church is scattered around the world and is principally found in the United States, Europe and Africa. 131
TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN Doctrinal Summary (https://www.jashow.org/articles/worldview/christadelphians/who-are-the-christadelphians/) God: One Person only (Unitarian) Jesus: A created being in need of redemption. Holy Spirit: The impersonal power of God. <strong>Trinity</strong>: A pagan teaching. Salvation: By faith in Christ and works of righteousness. Man: A physical being without an immortal soul. Sin: Transgression of God’s law. Satan: Synonym for sin; any adversary. Second coming: Jesus will return to reign on earth. Fall: Sexual in nature. Bible: The Word of God, the final authority for faith and practice. Death: Unconsciousness or annihilation. Hell and Heaven: Myths. Christadelphianism teaches that: Jesus was more than a man, but less than God. Jesus is not part of any <strong>Trinity</strong>. Jesus was a created being with “strength of character to right some of the most appalling wrongs of his time.” Jesus had a sinful nature and he, too, needed salvation from sin, that he was not pre-existent and did not come into existence until he was born in Bethlehem. Jesus was sinless. He “committed no sin” (1 Peter 2:22); “in him is no sin” (1 John 3:5); He “had no sin” (2 Corinthians 5:21); He was “tempted in every way… yet was without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). Jesus was pre-existent is evident from such passages as John 1, where He (the Word) was “in the beginning with God” (v. 2) and that all things that were created “were created through him” (v. 3) Jesus “became flesh and dwelt among us” (v. 14). (A. Hayward, in Great News for the World) Christadelphians believe that God is the creator of all things and the father of true believers, that he is a separate being from his son, Jesus Christ, and that the Holy Spirit is the power of God used in creation and for salvation. They also believe that the phrase Holy Spirit sometimes refers to God's character/mind, depending on the context in which the phrase appears, but reject the view that we need strength, guidance and power from the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life. They believe Jesus is the Son of Man, in that he inherited human nature (with its inclination to sin) from his mother, and the Son of God by virtue of his miraculous conception by the power of God. Although he was tempted, Jesus committed no sin, and was therefore a perfect representative sacrifice to bring salvation to sinful humankind. They believe that God raised Jesus from death and gave him immortality, and he ascended to Heaven, God's dwelling place. Christadelphians believe that he will return to the earth in person to set up the Kingdom of God in fulfilment of the promises made to Abraham and David. This includes the belief that the coming Kingdom will be the restoration of God's first Kingdom of Israel, which was under David and Solomon. 132
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