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Article: (Bill) Phipps and the divinity of Jesus.

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January 1, 1998
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Ottawa - The remarks of the moderator of the United Church of Canada that Jesus is not divine and that heaven and hell are not real (see C.I. Dec. '97) have reverberated in newspapers across Canada. The Ottawa Citizen was the first to report the news and then printed the full interview with its editorial board on November 2, 1997.

Critics from within the United Church have pointed out that Phipps contradicts two thousand years of faith as well as the Church's own 1925 Articles of Union. Wrote Rev. Allen Churchill of Ottawa: "Jesus is...the Word made flesh and this Word is God" (John 1:1,14) and "In him the whole fullness of God was pleased to dwell" (Colossians ...

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