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VOLJA SE VREDNUJE PRI CEREMONIJALNIM POSTUPCIMA....

Bog ljude obdaruje u skladu s njihovom vjerom.... To se treba razumjeti tako da si ljudi duhovno prisvajaju ono što ih uči njihova vjera, pa će tako i ispunjavati sve što se putem vjere od njih zahtijeva. Pri tom ispunjavanju Bog vrednuje volju čovjeka, koja je dakle dobra, jer se ona priklanja Bogu... Čovjek želi činiti ono što je Bogu milo, čemu ga uči vjera. I kad ta Bogu naklonjena volja određuje njegovo razmišljanje i postupanje, to je Bogu i milo, čak i ako se čovjek ne nalazi u Istini, ako je dakle bio naučen krivoj vjeri.

Tako da će i oni ljudi kojima nedostaje prava vjera postati blaženi, samo ako se pred Bogom trude postići ispravan način života i uvijek čine ono što im se pred Bogom čini ispravno. Doduše, uvijek će im biti dana mogućnost da prihvate pravu vjeru, biti će im približena Čista Istina. No ako čovjek vjeruje da ju ne može prihvatiti, budući da sâm vjeruje da je u Istini, a opet vodi ispravan način života, Bogu mio, i on će biti priznat pred Bogom, pošto taj čovjek želi dobro, pošto želi ispuniti Božju volju. Tako da će svaki postupak koji on izvodi biti vrjednovan s obzirom na njegovu volju.... I svaka ceremonija, koja je sama po sebi bezvrijedna, će putem volje da se time služi Bogu postati postupkom koji je Bogu mio.

Dakle dobar čovjek se Bogu može omiljeti putem svakog postupka, samo ako ga izvodi Bogu na slavu, ako time vjeruje da služi Bogu, iako ta akcija sama po sebi nema dublje vrijednosti. No nasuprot tome, neki ceremonijalni postupak je bezvrijedan ako nije utemeljen u toj Bogu-naklonjenoj volji. A isto tako, čovjek može bez takve ceremonije svom svojom voljom težiti Bogu, i ta volja će biti isto tako visoko cijenjena od Boga, pa čak Bogu može biti daleko bliže onaj čovjek koji zapostavi sve vanjsko, a svjesno želi služiti Bogu.

No kakva je čovjekova vjera, tako će i djelovanje Boga na njemu biti izraženo, pošto Bog neće razočarati čovjekovu vjeru, dok god ona nije usmjerena protiv Boga. Ali krivo je pretpostavljati da Bogu-ugodno živi samo onaj čovjek koji strogo ispunjava sve vanjsko. Ništa od onoga što je na van prepoznatljivo ne odlučuje pravu vrijednost pred Bogom nego jedino volja, koju Bog vidi, skroz svejedno da li čovjek izvodi akcije koje su putem vjere od njega zahtijevane....

AMEN

The will is valued in ceremonial acts....

God considers people according to their faith.... This is to be understood in such a way that people take spiritual ownership of what their faith teaches them and thus also fulfil everything that is demanded of them through faith. In this fulfilment God values the will of man, which is therefore good, because he leans towards God.... Man wants to do what is pleasing to God, what faith teaches him. And if this God-centred will determines his thoughts and actions, this is also pleasing to God, even though the person is not in the truth, i.e. he has been instructed in a false faith. This is why people who lack the right faith will also be blessed if they only strive for a way of life that is right before God and always do what seems right to them before God. They will always be given the opportunity to accept the right faith, the pure truth will be made accessible to them. However, if he believes that he cannot accept it because he believes himself to be in the truth, he will nevertheless lead a right, God-pleasing way of life and this will be recognized before God because the person wants what is good, because he wants to fulfil God's will. And so every action he performs will also be recognized according to his will.... And every ceremony, which in itself is completely worthless, becomes an act pleasing to God through the will to serve God with it. Thus, a good person can gain God's favour through any act as soon as he performs it for God's glory, as soon as he believes he is serving God with it, even though the act itself has no deeper value. On the other hand, a certain ceremonial act is worthless if it is not based on this God-centred will. And likewise, a person can strive towards God with all his will without such a ceremony, and this will is valued just as highly by God, that person can even be far closer to God who disregards all outward appearances but consciously wants to serve God. But just as man's faith is, so too will God's work appear in him, because God will not let man's faith be put to shame as long as it is not directed against God. However, it is wrong to assume that only the person who strictly fulfils all outward appearances lives in a manner pleasing to God. Nothing externally recognizable determines the right value before God, only the will that God sees, regardless of whether the person carries out the actions that are demanded of him through faith....

Amen