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1494 Erroneous thinking of God-denying people....

June 27, 1940: Book 24

The train of thought of a man who denies God can never lead to a right result because all preconditions are missing. The evil beings are connected to such a person through the same attitude, since they also rebel against God. The power of such beings who reject God is now likewise active and tries to express itself where the same attitude and the same will exist and is also accepted there without resistance. But the thinking of those beings is wrong, for correct realization would also lead them towards God, make them love Him and be submissive to His will. Consequently, this wrong thinking must also be transferred to the human being.... The truth, however, can only be experienced by beings turned towards God. A being united with God is in the light, i.e. in the realization of truth, and therefore only hands out truth. Dark beings, on the other hand, are in error and can also only spread error. And thus the truth can only be found through God, since God Himself is the truth and thus He Himself has to be desired or regocnized in order to be in purest truth and deepest knowledge. Therefore, it is impossible that an unbelieving, God-rejecting or God-denying human being can ever solve the great problem that the whole of creation is for mankind. To solve it, man must be a believer.... He must seek God in order to be guided to the truth about the eternal deity. The adversary apparently works with the same means. He, too, tries to influence people's thoughts and to awaken in them the conviction that they have come close to the truth, and the consequence of this is people's self-assured attitude, who are without faith and try to explain everything in creation in a completely opposite sense to the truth. They are without any knowledge but so imbued with their opinion that they believe themselves to be completely superior and reject every instruction a believer wants to give them about God and His working. The former expresses the arrogance that separates everything impure and imperfect from God.... However, pure truth can only be attained through humility, for standing in the truth is a great gift of grace from God, which can only be given to the humble, for he regocnizes his distance from God and longs to return to Him, and his desire is fulfilled by being given light.... And light is knowledge.... light is truth.... Thus the true believer need not be put off if counter-objections are made to him by unbelievers, for no matter how convincingly they are put forward they cannot correspond to the truth, because the originators of these thoughts are themselves the greatest opponents of the truth; because they fight everything that signifies light and because they are opposed to God Himself and therefore can never stand in the truth....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers