Clarification

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On page 79 of the April issue we called attention to the two-fold error of Mrs. E. G. White's, saying that the Lord Jesus had "the sins of a guilty world" upon Him AT His BAPTISM, and that He took upon Him "our fallen nature" when He became a man. These both are false, and strike at the very foundation of the gospel, for they affect the Person of our blessed Savior. He did not take a fallen nature; He was absolutely "holy." He had no sins upon Him at His baptism, or at any other time in His life, except during the three hours of darkness on the cross. The Father looked down upon His Son at His baptism and expressed His complete delight in Him; He did likewise at the transfiguration scene. But when the Lord Jesus as the spotless Victim was bearing sins on the cross, God turned His face from Him. He was then forsaken of God. It was God as God dealing with sin and sins, and the Lord Jesus cried out at the end of the three hours, "My God, My God, why halt Thou forsaken Me?" It was the only time that the Lord ever addressed Him as God. We would, however, guard the fact that it was the will of God that He should come and thus suffer. Another point that might be mentioned is that the Scripture never says that the FATHER forsook HIS SON.