of the Holy Spirit as a separate Person," he said. Disagreeing with the historic Christian creeds, he taught that such a view would equate to worshiping two gods instead of one. His view of the church was an idealistic one. The church on earth should copy the divine original, in which all who loved Christ would be joined together to "worship and move forward to the unimaginable unity with God which is his will." Virgin Birth Reformed minister Ian Paisley, later Lord Bannside, denounced Weatherhead in a 1969 sermon as "the man that said that Jesus Christ was the bastard son of Zechariah (John the Baptist's father) – and Mary, who was a prostitute of the temple.... That is about as vile a thing as anybody could say." He called Weatherhead "an arch-apostate", whose place was "in hell". In his own view, Weatherhead had made every effort to present Mary as a very pure and sincere (if immature) young maiden—who had simply misinterpreted the Angel's Annunciation as a divine instruction to go and stay for three months with her cousin's husband, Zechariah—and that was when Jesus was conceived. Weatherhead considered it significant that the Gospels do not record that Jesus saying his mother had conceived him without a human father. Weatherhead's theory that Jesus was the son of Zechariah later became part of the teachings of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. Encountering it in Weatherhead's The Christian Agnostic, Unificationist theologian Young Oon Kim adopted it as the best explanation of the birth of Jesus in her work Unification Theology, a standard textbook of the church. Christian author Ruth A. Tucker comments in her book Another Gospel: "Kim's Christology is a prime example of liberal theology.... By diminishing the role of Jesus, Kim paves the way for the exaltation of Sun Myung Moon." Scripture Weatherhead taught that the Bible is merely a collection of works that progressively reveal man's search for and understanding of God, culminated in the best representation of God's true nature in Jesus Christ. He was critical of many passages, including some from Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, that he claimed went against Jesus teaching, stating that "some of the passages of Browning are of far superior spiritual value." Weatherhead insisted on rejecting anything in the Bible, including Jesus' own words about God's judgment and the reality of eternal punishment, that did not coincide with Weatherhead's view of 'the