one; he is one person. As a soul and a body make one human being, so God
and a human being is one Christ.”
The reader said, “The creed that contains these words has been
accepted by the entire Christian world including the Roman Catholics.”
The participants said, “What more do we need? God the Father and
he are one as the soul and the body are one.”
They added, “Because this is so, we see that the Lord’s human mani-
festation is divine because it is the human manifestation of Jehovah. We
also see that we must seek help from the Lord’s divine-human manifesta-
tion. Only in this way, not in any other, can we have access to the divine
nature that is called the Father.”
The angel supported their conclusion with more passages from the
Word, among which were the following: “A Child is born to us; a Son is
given to us. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, God,Hero,
Father of Eternity,Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9 : 6 ). “Abraham did not know us
and Israel did not acknowledge us. You, Jehovah,are our Father; our
Redeemer from everlasting is your name”(Isaiah 63 : 16 ). And in John, “Jesus
said, ‘Those who believe in me believe in the One who sent me. Those
who see me see the One who sent me’” (John 12 : 44 , 45 ). “Philip said to
Jesus, ‘Show us the Father.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Those who see me see the
Father.Why then are you saying, “Show us the Father”? Do you not
believe that I am in the Father and the Fatheris in me? Believe me that I am
in the Father and the Father is in me’”(John 14 : 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ). “Jesus said, ‘I
and my Father are one’”(John 10 : 30 ). Also, “Everything the Father has is
mine and everything I have is my Father’s” (John 16 : 15 ; 17 : 10 ). And finally,
“Jesus said, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the
Father except through me’” (John 14 : 6 ).
[ 6 ] The angel reading these quotations added that the same things
the Lord says here about himself and his Father we could also say about
ourselves and our soul.
When the participants had heard this they all said with one voice and
one heart, “The Lord’s human manifestation is divine. For us to gain
access to the Father we have to go to his human manifestation, since this
is how Jehovah God put himself in the world and made himself visible to
human eyes. Through this he became accessible. Jehovah God also made
himself visible and therefore accessible in a human form to the ancients;
but back then he used an angel. Because that human form was symbolic
of the Lord who was to come, everything related to the church among
the ancients was symbolic.”
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