What other outcome could this concept have but the destruction of
the entire Christian church? The church is based entirely on worshiping
Jehovah in human form; it is based on the Human God. The Lord states
in many places that no one can see the Father, recognize him, come to
him, or believe in him except through his human manifestation.
If people do not do this, all the church’s precious seeds turn into
seeds of little value. Olive seeds turn into pine seeds; seeds from an
orange, a lemon, an apple, and a pear turn into seeds from a willow, an
elm, a linden, and a holly; seeds from a grapevine turn into seeds from a
swamp rush; and wheat and barley turn into chaff. In fact, all forms of
spiritual food become like the dust that snakes eat. Our spiritual light
then becomes nature’s light; and in the long run it becomes the light of
our physical senses, which is in reality a faint, deceptive light. Then we
become like a bird that used to fly high but then its wings were cut off
and it fell to earth; now as it walks around it does not see more than what
lies at its own feet. Then when we think about the church’s spiritual
teachings that are necessary for our eternal life, our thoughts about them
are no more than the thoughts of a jester. All this is what happens when
we regard the Lord God, the Redeemer and Savior, as no more than the
Son of Mary, a mere human being.95 5. Through acts of redemption the Lord became justice.Christian churches
nowadays say and believe that merit and justice belong to the Lord alone
because of the obedience he gave in this world to God the Father and espe-
cially because of his suffering on the cross. They suppose, however, that
the Lord’s suffering on the cross was the act of redemption itself. That was
not in fact an act of redemption; it was an act of glorification of his human
nature (see the discussion of redemption under the next subheading
[§§ 114 – 137 ]). The acts of redemption through which the Lord made him-
self justice were these: carrying out the Last Judgment, which he did in the
spiritual world; separating the evil from the good and the goats from the
sheep; driving out of heaven those who had joined the beasts that served
the dragon [Revelation 13 ]; assembling a new heaven of the deserving and
a new hell of the undeserving; bringing both heaven and hell back into the
divine design; and establishing a new church. These acts were the acts of
redemption through which the Lord became justice. Justice is following
the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine
design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine
design itself.