the human mind. He is in the first principles and beginnings of all
things related to wisdom and all things related to love. No partnership is
possible between those first principles and us. Therefore if he were to
come near us or we were to go near him, we would be consumed and
liquefied like a piece of wood at the focus of a huge burning mirror; or
better yet like a carved statue thrown into the sun itself. This is why
Moses, who longed to see God, was told that we cannot see God and live
(Exodus 33 : 20 ).
[ 2 ] The passages that I just quoted make it clear that we form a
partnership with God the Father through the Lord. It was not the
Father, it was the only begotten Son who is close to the Father’s heart
and has seen the Father, who disclosed and revealed the things that are
of God and from God. The following passages also show that we form
a partnership with God the Father through the Lord: “On that day
you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me and I am in
you” (John 14 : 20 ). “The glory that you gave me, I have given them so
that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me” (John
17 : 22 , 23 , 26 ). Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through me.” Then Philip wanted to see
the Father, but the Lord replied, “Those who see me also see the
Father, and those who know me also know the Father” (John 14 : 6 , 7 ,
and following). Elsewhere we read, “Those who see me see the One
who sent me” (John 12 : 45 ).
In addition, the Lord says that he is the door, and that those who
enter through him are saved, but those who climb up some other way are
thieves and robbers (John 10 : 1 , 9 ). He also says, “Those who do not live
in me will be thrown out and put in the fire like a withered branch”
(John 15 : 6 ).
[ 3 ] The reason is that the Lord our Savior is Jehovah the Father him-
self in human form. Jehovah came down and became human so that he
could come close to us and we could come close to him, and a partner-
ship could be forged, through which we could have salvation and eternal
life. When God became human and then a human became God, he
became able to draw near us in this adapted form and, as a human God
and a divine Human, forge a partnership with us.
There are three stages to this that follow in sequence: adjusting to one
another, coming closer together, and then forging a partnership. The
adjustment has to happen before the two parties can come closer together,
and both the adjustment and the coming closer have to happen before a
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