Because of this, here and in what follows when we say “the Lord” we
mean Jehovah in his human manifestation.
The concept of the Lord has an excellence that surpasses all other
concepts that exist in the church or even in heaven. Therefore we need
to adhere to an orderly sequence, as in the following, to make this con-
cept clear:
1. Jehovah, the Creator of the universe, came down and took on a
human manifestation in order to redeem people and save them.
2. He came down as the divine truth, which is the Word; but he did
not separate the divine goodness from it.
3. In the process of taking on a human manifestation, he followed his
own divine design.
4. The human manifestation in which he sent himself into the world is
what is called “the Son of God.”
5. Through acts of redemption the Lord became justice.
6. Through these same acts he united himself to the Father and the
Father united himself to him, again following the divine design.
7. Through this process God became human and a human became
God in one person.
8. When he was being emptied out he was in a state of progress
toward union; when he was being glorified he was in a state of
union itself.
9. From now on, no Christians will go to heaven unless they believe in
the Lord God the Savior and turn to him alone.I need to address these statements one by one.
- Jehovah God came down and took on a human manifestation in 82
order to redeem people and save them. The belief among Christian
churches nowadays is that God, the Creator of the universe, procreated a
Son from eternity. That Son came down and took on a human manifes-
tation in order to redeem people and save them. This belief is wrong,
however. It spontaneously falls apart as long as our thinking focuses on
the fact that there is one God. To sound reason it is worse than nonsense
to think that the one God procreated some Son from eternity and that
God the Father together with the Son and the Holy Spirit, each of
whom is individually God, together make one God. This fiction com-
pletely vanishes like a shooting star in the air when the Word is quoted
to show (a) that Jehovah God himself came down and became human
and (b) that Jehovah God also became the Redeemer.
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