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Confused thinking – Unbelief.... Faith – Grace....

The explanation for their unbelief rests in people’s confused thinking. When people join a school of thought, which can be called utterly wrong in comparison to the pure teaching of Christ, it is misguided thinking, and the less it corresponds to the truth, the more serious are the consequences. Thoughts which are opposite to the truth must, understandably, detract from true belief and prepare the ground for unbelief. However, a person will be unable to grasp a clear thought but will disjointedly believe one moment this and another that, i.e. he will deem it to be the truth. And thus his train of thought is confused, he will hardly recognise what is right as truth and this state is scarcely satisfactory. It cannot result in a person’s spiritual progress but instead will cause him constant anxiety and he will keep insisting on his point of view for a long time. He will walk past the pure truth because he excludes God. Hence he will try, by way of his own thinking, his own strength, to fathom what is incomprehensible to him, and his thoughts will therefore be led astray. Or his will for truth is not strong, consequently, it cannot be offered to him either, whereas the person who desires knowledge for its own sake will receive brightest wisdom. Belief and unbelief are based on opposite conditions. In order to have faith, the human being must have a childlike relationship with God. He must totally hand himself over to the eternal Deity.... he must consider himself small and insignificant and recognise in the eternal Deity a Being of profound perfection.... For this is faith.... The atheist, however, negates everything, he deems himself intelligent and wise and no instruction gets through to him. He will never subordinate himself to a higher Being because he denies His existence. Thus he is high and mighty; consequently, the preconditions are entirely different.... the believer’s thoughts are clear and righteous, while the thoughts of the unbeliever lack order and therefore cannot reach a correct conclusion either. Spiritual clarity can never be given to an arrogant person since he does not pray for grace, therefore he cannot receive it. Without divine grace, however, the human being cannot think correctly. But the human being’s will is frequently too weak in order to seek help from God Himself, and thus he will live in ignorance until he prays for spiritual clarity and then humbly waits for divine grace....

Amen

ZBUNJENO RAZMIŠLJANJE – NEVJEROVANJE.... VJERA – MILOST....

Objašnjenje za njihovo nevjerovanje počiva u ljudskom zbunjenom razmišljanju. Kada se ljudi pridruže školi razmišljanja koja može biti nazvana potpuno pogrešnom poredbeno sa čistim učenjem Krista, to je obmanjujuće razmišljanje, i što manje se ona podudara sa Istinom, to su ozbiljnije posljedice. Misli koje su protivne Istini, moraju, razumljivo, oduzimati od istinitog vjerovanja i pripremiti tlo za nevjerovanje. Međutim, osoba će biti nesposobna razumjeti jasnu misao već će napreskok vjerovati jedan trenutak ovo a drugi ono, to jest on će to smatrati za Istinu. I stoga je njegov slijed razmišljanja pobrkan, on će teško prepoznati ono što je ispravno kao Istinu i ovo stanje je jedva zadovoljavajuće. Ono ne može rezultirati u čovjekovom duhovnom napretku nego će mu namjesto toga uzrokovati neprestanu tjeskobu i on će nastaviti inzistirati na njegovom gledištu jedno dugo vrijeme. On će mimoići Čistu Istinu budući isključuje Boga. Otud će pokušati, pomoću njegova vlastitog razmišljanja, njegove vlastite snage, dokučiti što je za njega neshvatljivo, i njegove će misli prema tome biti zavedene. Ili njegova volja za Istinom nije snažna, posljedično tome, ona mu isto tako ne može biti ponuđena, dok će osoba koja žudi znanje samog znanja radi primiti najblistaviju mudrost. Vjerovanje i nevjerovanje su utemeljeni na suprotnim uvjetima. Kako bi imao vjeru, ljudsko biće mora imati dječji odnos sa Bogom. On mora sebe totalno izručiti vječnom Božanstvu.... on mora sebe vidjeti kao malenog i beznačajnog i prepoznati u vječnom Božanstvu Biće vrlodubokog savršenstva.... Jer to je vjera.... Ateist, međutim, niječe sve, on smatra sebe inteligentnim i mudrim i nikakva poduka se ne probija do njega. On neće nikada sebe podrediti višem Biću budući niječe njegovo postojanje. Time on je ohol; posljedično tome, preduvjeti su u potpunosti drugačiji.... vjernikove misli su jasne i ispravne, dok mislima nevjernika nedostaje reda i prema tome ne može isto tako doći do ispravnog zaključka. Duhovna jasnoća nikada ne može biti dana arogantnoj osobi budući on ne moli za milost, prema tome ju on ne može primiti. Bez Božanske milosti, međutim, ljudsko biće ne može razmišljati ispravno. Ali volja ljudskog bića je često preslaba kako bi tražio pomoć od Boga Osobno, i stoga će on živjeti u neznanju sve dok ne moli za duhovnu jasnoću i onda ponizno čeka na Božansku milost.

AMEN