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Consequences of not recognizing an entity of God....

The more stubbornly man persists in his view that creation certainly betrays a natural power but is not the working of an exceedingly perfect being, the more the spiritual in him seeks to detach itself from the all-sustaining power, and the will to distance itself also reduces the supply of strength, so that this spiritual remains unredeemed. Not wanting to recognize an essential deity is a rejection of the strength which God wants to impart to people. The human being has lost all sense of belonging to God, despite his long earthly life he is still in the most blatant rejection of Him; he denies Him because his spirit does not want to acknowledge Him, which is now expressed through a completely erroneous view of the work of creation and its origin. Whoever believes himself to be completely independent of the creating power, i.e., whoever does not feel closely connected to this power, is also not so insofar as he deprives himself of the supply of strength which results in spiritual realization. Denying God must result in spiritual decline, for the human being exalts himself if he believes that he can shape his earthly life completely independently.... God's adversary will always support such people by trying to reinforce this erroneous opinion and thus want to determine the human being to rebel against the assumption that an essential deity rules the universe and determines the fate of the individual person. This person then perceives such a thought as a burden and oppression and therefore rejects it and believes that he can free himself from the deity if he rejects It. And he sins against God anew because he does not utilize the grace of embodiment as a human being, thus he can hardly establish the connection with God and thus lives his earthly life in vain....

Amen

POSLJEDICE NEPRIZNAVANJA BOŽANSTVA KAO BICA....

Što je covjek uporniji u svom gledištu da svemir otkriva prirodnu silu, a ne djelovanje jednog sasvim savršenog bica, utoliko više se duhovno u njemu nastoji osloboditi od te odvojiti od te sve-održavajuce sile, a volja za udaljavanjem umanjuje i dotok sile, tako da to duhovno ostaje nespašeno. Ne željeti priznati Božanstvo kao bice predstavlja odbijanje snage koju Bog želi prenijeti ljudima.

Covjek je izgubio svaki osjecaj srodnosti i pripadnosti Bogu, on je i pored svojeg ranijeg dugog zemaljskog prolaza [[ (kroz materiju) ]] još u najstrašnijoj odbojnosti prema Njemu; on Ga ne priznaje, zato što Ga njegov duh ne želi priznati, što onda nalazi svoj izražaj u potpuno krivom mišljenju o djelu stvaranja [[ (svemiru, svijetu) ]] i njegovom nastanku. Onaj tko se smatra potpuno nezavisan od stvaralacke sile, što znaci, tko se ne osjeca usko povezan sa tom silom, on to i nije, kad si prokocka dotok snage koja kao rezultat ima duhovnu spoznaju.

Nijekati Boga mora za sobom povlaciti duhovno propadanje, pošto se covjek uzoholi [[ (tj. previše pouzda u sebe,) ]] ako vjeruje da može potpuno nezavisno oblikovati svoj zemaljski život.... Božji ce protivnik takve ljude neprestano podupirati, time što se trudi takve krive stavove još potkrijepiti i ucvrstiti i time dakle covjeka želi opredijeliti da se opire protiv mišljenja da Bog kao Bice upravlja svemirom i odreduje sudbinu pojedinca. Takav covjek dakle takvu misao doživljava kao teret i tlacenje, pa je zato odbija i vjeruje da se od Božanstva može osloboditi, ako Ga odbija. I on se iznova ogrješuje protiv Boga, jer ne koristi milost utjelovljenja kao covjek, i dakle teško da može uspostaviti vezu sa Bogom, i time dakle uzaludno živi svoj zemaljski život.

AMEN