IV. THE GOLDEN KEY
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IF WE realize that Jehovah and Jesus are identical, do we not have a golden key to unlock the Word? Its difficulties and apparent contradictions then disappear. Indeed, in no other way can we understand the Scriptures. Without this understanding we are perplexed, for we seem to see two separate identities as God, which makes two Gods—an obvious impossibility. With this new idea in our minds there is no confusion of thought.
Let us apply this golden key to the familiar fourteenth chapter of John. I contend that, if we do not look upon the Father and the Son as one, as soul and body are one, it has no meaning, but if we do so interpret it, or indeed any other part of the New Testament, we shall find no difiiculties whatever.
We recall its reassuring opening, one that has given untold comfort to the followers of Jesus in every age:
