DLORD 29 [2]
. . . the Divine cannot be separated from the human,
nor the human from the
Divine,
as separating them
would be like separating soul and body.
. . . Jesus was conceived of Jehovah God
and born from the virgin Mary,
thus that the Divine was present in Him
and was His soul.
Now
because His soul
was the Divinity itself of the Father,
it follows that
His body or Human
must also have become also Divine;
for when one element is
Divine,
the other must be also.
In this way and no other
are the
Father and Son one —
the Father being in the Son,
and the Son in the
Father —
and all things of the Son are the Father’s,
and all things of
the Father are the Son’s,
as the Lord Himself teaches in His Word.
DLORD 32 [7-8]
(Many quotes from the Lord's New Testament
precede this section.)
In these places,
and in all others in which He is mentioned,
the
Father means
the Divinity present in the Lord from conception,
which,
according to
the Christian world’s doctrine of faith,
was like the soul
in the body
in the case of any other person.
The Human itself
originating from that Divinity
is the Son of God.
Now because
this, too, became Divine,
and in order to keep people
from turning to
the Father alone
and so in thought, faith and their resulting worship
separating the Father
from the Lord in whom the Father is,
therefore
after the Lord taught
that the Father and He are one,
that the Father is
in Him and He in the Father,
that His followers should abide in Him,
and that no one comes to the Father
except through Him,
He taught in
addition
that people should believe in Him,
and that a person is saved
by a faith focused on Him.
Any idea
that the Human in the Lord became Divine
is impossible
for many in the Christian world
to comprehend,
chiefly because they
think of a person
in terms of his material body
and not in terms of his
spiritual one,
even though angels, who are spiritual beings,
are fully
human in form,
and everything Divine
that emanates from Jehovah God,
from the firsts of it in heaven
to the lasts of it in the world,
inclines to the human form.
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