It is impossible to forgive people’s sins and renew, regenerate, and save
people just by giving them credit they do not deserve.
“Is it that easy to turn injustice into justice or a curse into a bless-
ing? Couldn’t God in that case turn hell into heaven and heaven into
hell? Couldn’t he turn the dragon into Michael and Michael into the
dragon to break up their fight? What else would he need to do then but
take away the faith that had been credited to one person and credit it to
another? If that were possible, we in heaven would spend eternity shak-
ing with fear!
“It is not consistent with justice or judgment for anyone who com-
mitted a crime to become guiltless, or for the crime to be wiped away, by
someone else’s taking it on. Surely this goes against all justice, both
divine and human.
“The Christian world is still ignorant that the divine design exists. It
is especially ignorant of the design that God built into the world at cre-
ation. God cannot go against that design—that would be going against
himself, for God is the divine design itself.”
[ 5 ] The priest understood what the angel had said, because the angels
above were pouring down light from heaven. The priest groaned and
said, “What can we do? Everyone today preaches this, prays it, believes it.
All mouths are saying, ‘Good Father, have mercy on us and forgive us our
sins for the sake of the blood that your Son shed on the cross for us.’ To
Christ they all say, ‘Lord, intercede for us.’ We priests add, ‘Send us the
Holy Spirit.’”
The angel said, “I have watched priests make salves from a shallow
understanding of the Word and smear those salves on eyes that have been
blinded by their faith. Either that or from the same source they make
medicated bandages to put on the wounds inflicted by their own dog-
mas; but the wounds don’t heal. They are chronic.
“Therefore go to the person who is standing there”—and he pointed
to me with his finger. “On behalf of the Lord he will teach you that the
suffering on the cross was not redemption. It was the uniting of the Lord’s
humanity with the Father’s divinity. Redemption, on the other hand, was
gaining control over the hells and restructuring the heavens. Without
these achievements, carried out while the Lord was in the world, no one
on earth or in heaven would have attained salvation. That man will also
tell you the divine design that was set up at creation for people to follow
in their lives in order to be saved. Those who live by that design are num-
bered among the redeemed and are called the chosen.”
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