Eternity Revealed – Adolph Saphir

The follow is an excerpt from Adolph Saphir’s book Christ and the Church, written in the 1800s. You can read the book here: https://standingbeforegodblog.wordpress.com/the-works-of-adolph-saphir/

Jesus, by the name of God, reveals to us eternity. Not a lonely, quiescent God, as neither mind can conceive nor affection grasp, but a God in whom, from all eternity, there was fulness of life and love and blessedness, the Father loving the Son, and the Spirit knowing the depths of the Godhead.

Yet if it be said, It is mysterious, I answer: It is the mystery of light, and not of obscurity; the mystery of life and motion, and not the unhomely mystery of blank abstraction and vagueness; the blessedness. mystery of grandeur, but of ineffable peace and The God of the Unitarians, Mohammedans, and of the unbelieving Synagogue, a cold, abstract unity, is a mysterious conception; still more colourless and lifeless, and without love, is that impersonal All or Nothing into which the wisest heathen nations, and many modern thinkers, resolve the thought of Deity. But our God is Life, is Love, is Blessedness…