So that they would no longer remain in ignorance about the Son sit-
ting at the right hand of the Father, I raised my hand and asked that the
participants lend their ears to a few things I desired to say on the subject.
Because they agreed, I said, “Don’t you know from the Word that the
Father and the Son are one, and that the Father is in the Son and the Son
in the Father? The Lord openly says so in John chapter 10 , verse 30 , and
chapter 14 , verses 10 and 11. If you don’t believe these statements you
divide God into two. Once you have done that, you cannot help think-
ing about God in a way that is earthly, limited to your senses, and even
materialistic. This type of thinking has been occurring in the world ever
since the Council of Nicaea, which introduced the idea of three divine
persons from eternity. With that idea, the Council turned the church
into a stage with painted drop curtains where actors perform new plays.
“Surely everyone knows and acknowledges, however, that there is one
God. If you acknowledge this in your heart and your spirit, all the ideas
you uttered a moment ago will spontaneously disperse and bounce off
you into the air like nonsense off the ear of a wise person.”
[ 4 ] Many of them blazed with anger when they heard that. They had a
burning desire to twist my ears and demand silence from me. Instead the
leader of the gathering said indignantly, “This is not a discussion about
unity and plurality in God. We believe in both. This discussion concerns
the meaning of the fact that the Son sits at the right hand of his Father. If
you know anything about this, say it.”
“I will,” I answered, “but please stop all the noise. Sitting at the right
handdoesn’t mean literally sitting at the right hand! It means the omnipo-
tence God has through the human manifestation he took on in the world.
Through that human manifestation God became the same on the lowest
level as he is on the highest. Through that human manifestation he entered
the hells, dismantled them, and gained control over them. Through that
human manifestation he restructured the heavens. It was through that
human manifestation, then, that he redeemed both people and angels, a
redemption that will last forever.
“If you consult the Word, and you are in a condition that allows for
enlightenment, you are going to perceive that the right handthere means
omnipotence. For instance in [Isaiah and] David: ‘My hand foundedthe
earth, and my right handhammered out the heavens’ (Isaiah 48 : 13 ). ‘God
has sworn by his right handand by the arm of his strength’ (Isaiah 62 : 8 ).
‘Your right handsustains me’ (Psalms 18 : 35 ). ‘Pay attention to the Son
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