Martineau wrote, " No seeming inspiration can establish anything contrary to reason; that the last appeal, in all researches into religious truth, must be to the judgments of the human mind; that against these judgments Scripture cannot have any authority, for upon its authority they themselves decide." (Freedom and Truth, p. 7).
It has been abundantly seen in our brief review of Unitarianism there must be the necessity of the denial of the inspiration of Scripture. This falls in line with all anti-Christian religions. With them Scripture is either set at naught, or praised—set at naught when its teaching is contrary to their beliefs; praised when they think it supports their peculiar views. Of course Scripture never supports views that are not in accordance with God's revelation to man.
In view of what has been already put forward in this pamphlet, it will be seen in what an illogical and utterly foolish position Unitarian beliefs places its followers. Our Lord claimed to be God when He said to the Pharisees, " Before Abraham was I AM " (John 8:5858Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. (John 8:58)), thus asserting His Godhead. (See Ex. 3:1414And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. (Exodus 3:14)). Again He said, " Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am; that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me: for Thou lovedst Me BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD." (John 17:2424Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. (John 17:24)). The Unitarians say these claims are false.
If false, they would constitute blasphemy of the very worst kind. If false, our Lord could rightly be branded as the most contemptible deceiver the world has ever known. If false, and presented in apparently pious language, the greater the deception. " The poison of heretical doctrine is never more dangerous than when served in clean cups and washed dishes." So wrote Fuller of Bartholomew Legate, the last anti-Trinitarian to be burnt at Smithfield in the reign of King James I in 1612. With one breath the Unitarian makes our Lord to be a blasphemer, and with another exalts Him as a great moral teacher. Is this not inconsistency of a most glaring nature? Whether Martineau was ever aware of his inconsistency we cannot say. Conscious or unconscious, he was in the hands of Satan responsible for the spiritual destruction of multitudes. To present poison in a wrapping of piety is ever Satan's plan. So attacking the true Being of the Godhead brought with it in its train the denial of our Lord's Deity, of the Deity of the Holy Spirit, of the fall, of the atoning character of the death of our Lord, of Scripture as inspired of God, and with that the exaltation of human
reason above God's revelation to man, the Scriptures of truth. What of vital Christianity is left? Nothing! We are bereft of the solid foundation of God's revelation to man, and offered in exchange the shifting sands of man's human reason. To accept Unitarian teaching we should have to throw overboard our Bibles, a bitter price to pay. The ship of our soul, journeying through the stormy waters of this tempestuous life, would be without captain, rudder and compass were we to listen to human reason. What would be the end of such a journey, but to be wrecked on the shores of a Christ-less eternity in utter despair, without God and without hope.