God whom he felt most comfortable referring to as "Father." He felt that the Creator was higher on a scale of values, but that God must also be personal enough to interact in a direct relationship with people. Weatherhead understood that God cared for humankind, but that some would find this difficult (since suffering exists in the world). If "God is love" it would be difficult to deny God's Providence. Weatherhead's concept of the divinity of Christ was merely that Jesus stood in a special relationship with God and "indeed an incarnation of God in a fuller sense than any other known Being." Despite many texts such as John 1, John 14, Philippians 2, Colossians 1, Titus 3, 2 Peter 1, Revelation 5 etc, Weatherhead claimed that the New Testament never teaches that Jesus is God, nor that Jesus taught this, observing that Jesus preferred to refer to himself the Son of Man. Despite John 1 and John 3, Weatherhead taught that the idea of Jesus being "the only begotten son" of God is impossible - and that such information is not presently available. The virgin birth was not an issue for Weatherhead, having (in his view) never been a major tenet for being a follower of Christ. Moreover, he claimed that the New Testament traces Jesus' lineage through his father Joseph, not Mary, to show that he descended from the house of David. Weatherhead claimed that Jesus never said he was sinless. He comments that Jesus sometimes showed anger, especially to false teachers, that he cursed a fig tree because it didn't produce fruit and rebuked Peter, one of his closest disciples, which Weatherhead interprets as Jesus calling Peter Satan. Weatherhead taught that many theologians assumed Jesus' sinlessness because of his moral superiority, but that Jesus never made that claim for himself. Despite the frequent teaching of Old and New Testaments about the need for blood sacrifice, Weatherhead apparently agreed with Nathaniel Mickelm, whom he quoted, that the blood sacrifice of Jesus was unnecessary for forgiveness of sins. For Mickelm (and subsequently for Weatherhead), it was a perversion of God to suppose that "God did not and could not forgive sins apart from the death of Christ." According to Weatherhead, that sacrifice merely revealed something of God's nature that made one want to be forgiven. As for the Holy Spirit, Weatherhead confessed agnosticism. "Few Christians, whom I know, think