Anything you receive in the form of spiritual information needs to be scrutinised by you first, otherwise you won't know whether you receive truth or error, in which case the spiritual knowledge will be of little use to you. And you can only ever make this test after heartfelt prayer for spiritual enlightenment and by comparing it with the divine Word which is conveyed to you from above. Only when they recognisably correspond to each other can you unhesitatingly accept and dwell on it. But this correspondence must be recognisable, otherwise it is not of divine origin and you may reject it. Anyone who thus turns to God Himself for support by appealing to Him for enlightenment of thinking need not fear being deceived, for his thinking will be guided such that he will notice every contradiction and recognise it as error. But the adversary works with much cunning and trickery and does not shy away from shrouding himself in the garment of an angel in order to delude people, for he is an enemy of truth. He knows that the truth shows a correct image of God and motivates people to love Him. And that is what he aims to prevent and therefore provides a distorted image of God, Who can only be feared but not loved. And the first thing you should watch out for is whether God's love is clearly recognisable or whether God as a merciless judge merely awakens fear in people. In that case, such teaching can be safely rejected as not coming 'from God'.... Then the adversary's activity manifests itself so clearly, that it is not difficult to clarify it. God is a God of love and of mercy.... He wants to be recognised as a Father, thus love must also be plainly evident, and he may not be portrayed as an avenging or punishing God. If, however, God's love is doubtful, then the spiritual information, which portrays God such that love cannot be recognised, should also be doubted. Yet you should not accept any spiritual knowledge without scrutinising it, for God's adversary exerts his influence wherever he can, and often he especially tries to deceive the bearers of truth, so that they themselves begin to doubt the truth, which is exactly what he intends. He hates the truth because it reveals him and his activity and because the truth invariably leads back to God, which he tries to prevent by using every available means. And it will always be and remain a battle between truth and lie, between light and darkness.... God's adversary will always try to influence a person such that it can be difficult for him to differentiate between truth and lie, but a sincere prayer to God for spiritual enlightenment will always protect him from accepting or supporting error. For if the strength from God is desired it will also be effective, it grants the human being a brightly shining light.... for God is love and love does not deny itself.... God Himself protects His living creations from the darkness if they desire to be enlightened....
Amen
TranslatorŠto god vam je od duhovnih sadržajā dostavljeno, to prvo morate ozbiljno provjeriti, inače ne znate da li primate Istinu ili krivu nauku, i onda će ta nauka za vas biti od male koristi. A provjeru uvijek možete poduzeti tek nakon iskrene molitve za prosvjetljenje duha i poređenjem sa Božjom Riječju koja vam je dostavljana odozgor (Objavama Čiste Istine dakle). Tek kad se podudaraju, možete bez brige prihvatiti i tumačiti ga. Ali ta podudarnost mora biti prepoznatljiva, inače se ne radi o Božanskom porijeklu i možete ga odbiti.
A tko Boga Samoga zamoli za potporu, tko Ga moli za prosvjetljenje svoga razmišljanja, taj se ne mora plašiti da će biti prevaren, jer njegovo razmišljanje biti će tako upravljano da mu svaka proturječnost postane očita i on to može prepoznati kao krivo. No protivnik radi s puno lukavštine i podmuklosti, i ne libi se prerušiti u anđela svjetla kako bi ljudima donio neistinu, jer on je neprijatelj Istine. On zna da Istina daje pravu sliku Boga i ljude pokreće na to da Boga ljube.
A on se trudi to spriječiti i stoga donosi iskrivljenu sliku Boga, od Kojega se može samo strašiti, ali ne i voljeti Ga. I samo na to morate paziti, da li je Ljubav Božja jasno prepoznatljiva ili Bog kao nemilosrdni sudac kod ljudi budi samo strah. A tada takvo učenje može nesumnjivo biti odbijeno kao ne-“od Boga” .... Tada djelovanje Božjeg protivnika nastupa tako jasno da razjašnjenje nije teško. Bog je Bog Ljubavi i Milosrđa .... i On želi biti prepoznat kao Otac, dakle Ljubav mora biti jasno prepoznatljiva, i On ne smije biti predstavljan kao osvetnički ili kažnjavajući Bog. No ako je Ljubav Božja dvojbena, tad je i duhovno učenje sumnjivo, pošto daje sliku Boga u kojoj se ne može prepoznati Ljubav.
No neprovjereno ne trebate prihvatiti nikakav duhovni nauk, pošto Božji protivnik djeluje gdje god može, a trudit će se često zavarati baš nositelje Istine, s namjerom da oni sami počnu dvojbiti čak i Istinu. Jer on mrzi Istinu, pošto Ona njega i njegovo kretanje razotkriva i pošto Istina neopozivo vodi nazad k Bogu, a to se protivnik trudi svim sredstvima spriječiti. I uvijek će biti i ostati borba između Istine i laži, između svjetla i tame ....
I uvijek će se protivnik Boga na čovjeka truditi djelovati tako da će ovome moći teško pasti da razluči neistinu od Istine, no ozbiljna molitva Bogu, za prosvjetljenje duha, uvijek će ga štititi od toga da prihvati neistinu ili da je zastupa. Jer žudi li se za snagom iz Boga, tad ona i djeluje, ona čovjeku daruje svjetlo koje žarko svijetli .... Jer Bog je Ljubav, a Ljubav se ne uskraćuje .... Sam Bog od tame čuva Njegova stvorenja koja žude za tim da su na svjetlu ....
AMEN
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