The Christadelphian, February 1919

The Ecclesial Intelligence records of The Christadelphian magazine record that The Three Wellington Resolutions were adopted by all Central New Zealand ecclesias in 1919. They are still retained in the constitutions of many New Zealand ecclsias today.

“The Three Wellington Resolutions”

Intelligence

Wellington.—Victoria Hall, Adelaide Road.—... As a movement has been on foot amongst us for some time for a re-union of the ecclesias at present divided on account of the error emanating from Sydney, we considered that we could best serve the interest of the truth by setting forth a statement of our position, which we have done in the form of three propositions. Only upon the acceptance of these can we receive into fellowship those who have previously accepted the Clean Flesh Heresy, either by active support, or have received in fellowship those who have supported it.

(1) We accept the Birmingham Amended Statement of Faith as our basis of fellowship, believing and endorsing all the doctrines therein set forth, also we repudiate any belief in the “Doctrines to be Rejected” appended thereto.

(2) We refuse to fellowship any who, while accepting the Birmingham Amended Statement of Faith, have in their fellowship, those who deny any of the truths therein set forth, or receive in fellowship those that deny any of these truths.

(3) We repudiate the doctrine known as the Clean Flesh Theory (i.e., that he “Jesus, was by nature, Holy, Harmless, Undefiled, and separate from sinners. He was ‘undefiled in every sense’”). We believe that Jesus was in the days of his flesh of the selfsame nature as we are, a nature which is of its very constitution at enmity with God, a nature defiled as the result of the transgression of our first parents. That He overcame this nature with all its desires and weaknesses, and thereby overcame the Diabolos, thus setting us an example which we are asked to follow.—T. H. Rosser, Rec.”