TCR 359
. . . a person can only acquire by his own efforts natural faith,
which is a firm belief that a thing is so
because an authoritative person so declared it.
He can also acquire only natural charity,
which is working in someone's favor for the sake of some reward.
These two contain a person's self,
and there is no life as yet from the Lord.
Still a person by either of these prepares himself to receive the Lord.
In so far as he prepares himself,
so far does the Lord come in and make his natural faith spiritual,
and likewise his charity, and so make both living.
These results follow
when a person approaches the Lord as the God of heaven and earth.
Since man was created an image of God,
he was created to be a dwelling for God. Therefore the Lord says:
He who has my commandments and does them,
he it is who loves me; and I shall love him,
and come to him and make my dwelling with him.
John 14:21, 23
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