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Will – Grace .... (Objection Philippians 2 – 13)

Spiritual standstill sets in when the human being’s will is too weak to overcome obstacles. No further progress can be made anymore. Although everything depends on God’s grace, the human being must participate in order to become richly blessed, he must use his will and appeal for strength, then he will strive towards ascent. No way exists which excludes the human being’s will, and thus he must activate his will first. No person can be released from this. Were God’s grace designated to come first, the human being would be released from actively using his will. And this is an error which, in turn, results in further errors. God’s grace and mercy certainly take hold of a person by providing him with every opportunity for his final deliverance. For it is an inconceivable grace on the part of God that the human being may travel the path of earthly life in order to return to Him again .... But in the stage of free will, only free will is decisive as to whether or not he will receive further blessings; otherwise life on earth would not be a probationary period which the human being has to pass. God wants to convey the pure truth to earth. Thus He must clarify where people are mistaken or have erred. He must rectify that which hitherto has been misunderstood, for He wants to separate the truth from the untruth. If the human being resists God’s effort to guide him into truth he also actively uses his will but in a God-opposing way and he can never become enlightened. God gave the human being the ability to think things through and to make a free decision. This is God’s grace again, nevertheless, the free decision depends on the human being’s will in turn, thus a person must want God’s grace to take effect in him .... His will opens the heart to become receptive for God’s grace, and his will must also make use of God’s grace .... It is this clear realisation which lets a person develop a sense of responsibility in the first place, whereas the hitherto wrong attitude that the human being is incapable of doing anything without divine grace .... that this motivates the human will in the first place .... weakens his urge to be active. In that case one could not speak of a person’s free will, if God Himself were to influence this will by conveying His grace. Unlimited means of help are certainly at a person’s disposal, thus it is made easy for him to let his will become active, yet the latter must be done by the person himself of his own accord. The actual purpose of life is for a human being to make a decision for or against God of his own free will .... Consequently, God will never precipitate this decision by determining the human being’s will, for this would truly defeat the purpose of life on earth. This is why people are repeatedly informed so that they will pay attention and release themselves from that which is mistaken, and from those human ideas and human interpretations which became erroneous without consciously intending to spread error. Yet precisely this interpretation, that God Himself determines the human being’s will, carries much weight for it leads to wrong thinking. Neither the Deity can be properly recognised nor does it strengthen the human being’s sense of responsibility .... He will ultimately only rely on divine grace, which seizes the person depending on divine will .... which flows to him, providing that God has intended to bestow grace upon him. But in that case he could not be held accountable if he does not reach the goal given to him at the beginning of his embodiment. The crucial point can only be found in free will; however, anyone who argues the human being’s free will regards himself as a puppet which is always and forever guided by a higher Power without taking any kind of active part in it. God’s wisdom and love prevents a restriction of will, otherwise higher development would be impossible for the human soul and the long process on earth would be unnecessary if God’s will were to select the aspirants for God’s kingdom by conveying His grace to them, which people would subsequently seize and thus be safely guided by it into the kingdom of heaven.

Amen

VOLJA – MILOST.... (Primjedba na Filipljane 2:13)....

Dolazi do duhovnog zastoja kada je volja ljudskog bica preslaba da nadvlada prepreke. Nikakav daljnji napredak se više ne može napraviti. Premda sve ovisi o Božjoj milosti, ljudsko bice mora sudjelovati kako bi postao bogato blagoslovljen, on mora koristiti njegovu volju i uputiti molbu za snagom, onda ce on stremiti spram uzlaza. Nikakav put ne postoji koji iskljucuje volju ljudskog bica, i stoga on najprije mora aktivirati njegovu volju. Ni jedna osoba ne može biti oslobodena od ovog. Da je Božja milost bila namijenjena doci prva, ljudsko bice bi bilo oslobodeno od toga da aktivno koristi njegovu volju. I ovo je pogreška koja, zauzvrat, rezultira u daljnjim pogreškama. Božja milost i milosrde sasvim izvjesno zahvacaju osobu tako što mu osiguravaju svaku priliku za njegovo konacno izbavljenje. Jer to je nezamisliva milost s Božje strane da ljudsko bice može putovati stazom zemaljskog života kako bi Mu se iznova povratio.... Ali u stadiju slobodne volje, jedino slobodna volja je odlucujuca u pogledu toga da li on hoce ili nece primiti daljnje blagoslove; inace život na Zemlji ne bi bio probni period [[ (za iskušavanje njegove volje) ]] kojeg ljudsko bice mora proci. Bog želi dostaviti na Zemlju Cistu Istinu. Stoga On mora razjasniti gdje su ljudi u krivu ili su pogriješili. On mora korigirati ono što je do sada bilo krivo shvaceno, jer On želi razdvojiti Istinu od neistine. Ako se ljudsko bice opire Božjem naporu da ga uvede u Istinu on takoder aktivno koristi njegovu volju ali na Bogu-protivan nacin i nikada ne može postati prosvijetljen. Bog je dao ljudskom bicu sposobnost da detaljno promišlja o stvarima i da donosi slobodnu odluku. Ovo je opet Božja milost, unatoc tome, slobodna odluka zavisi zauzvrat o volji ljudskog bica, stoga osoba mora željeti da Božja milost ostvari ucinak u njemu.... Njegova volja otvara srce da postane prijemciv za Božju milost, i njegova volja mora takoder iskoristiti Božju milost.... Ovo jasno shvacanje je ono što dozvoljava osobi da razvije osjecaj odgovornosti na prvom mjestu, dok dosad krivi stav da je ljudsko bice nesposobno uciniti bilo što bez Božanske milosti.... da ova motivira ljudsku volju na prvom mjestu.... slabi njegov poriv da bude aktivan. U tom slucaju se ne bi moglo govoriti o slobodnoj volji covjeka, ako bi Bog Osobno utjecao na ovu volju dostavljajuci Njegovu milost. Neogranicena sredstva pomoci su zasigurno na covjekovu raspolaganju, stoga je njemu olakšano dopustiti njegovoj volji da postane aktivna, ipak potonje mora biti ucinjeno od strane same osobe samovoljno [[ (bez utjecaja drugog) ]]. Stvarna svrha života je za ljudsko bice da donese odluku za ili protiv Boga njegovom vlastitom slobodnom voljom.... Posljedicno, Bog nece nikada pospješiti ovu odluku odredujuci volju ljudskog bica, jer ovo bi doista osujetilo svrhu života na Zemlji. To je zašto su ljudi opetovano obaviješteni tako da ce obratiti pažnju i osloboditi sebe od onog što je pogrešno, i od onih ljudskih ideja i ljudskih tumacenja koja su postala pogrešna bez da se svjesno naumilo raširiti pogrešku. Ipak baš ovo tumacenje, da Bog Osobno odreduje volju ljudskog bica, nosi veliku težinu jer vodi do pogrešnog razmišljanja. Niti Božanstvo može biti pravilno prepoznato niti ono snaži osjecaj odgovornosti ljudskog bica.... On ce se naposlijetku jedino oslanjati na Božansku milost, koja obuzima osobu zavisno o Božanskoj volji.... koja tece ka njemu, pod uvjetom da mu je Bog naumio podariti milost. Ali u tom slucaju on ne bi mogao biti smatran odgovornim ako ne postigne cilj dan mu na pocetku njegovog utjelovljenja. Presudna pojedinost se može jedino pronaci [[ (tj. ‘poenta ili bit svega je’) ]] u slobodnoj volji; medutim, svatko tko spori slobodnu volju ljudskog bica smatra sebe za lutku koja je uvijek i zauvijek vodena od strane više Sile bez da u tome uzima ikakvog aktivnog sudjelovanja. Božja mudrost i Ljubav sprijecavaju ogranicavanje volje, inace bi viši razvoj bio nemoguc za ljudsku dušu i dug proces na Zemlji [[ (kroz tvorevine tri kraljevstva prirode) ]] bi bio nepotreban ako bi Božja volja odabrala stremitelje za Božjim kraljevstvom dostavljajuci im Njegovu milost, koju bi ljudi naknadno dohvatili i tako sigurno bili vodeni njome u nebesko kraljevstvo.

AMEN