283. Those therefore within the church who do not acknowledge the Lord and His divinity cannot be linked with God, and so cannot have any part with the angels in heaven. For no one can be linked with God except by the Lord and in the Lord. The Lord teaches in John that no one can be linked with God except by the Lord:
No one has ever seen God. The only-begotten Son, who is in the Father's bosom, he has revealed him. John 1:18.
In the same book:
You have never heard the Father's voice, nor have you seen his appearance. John 5:37.
In Matthew:
No one knows the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son has chosen to reveal him. Matt. 11:27.
And in John:
I am the way, truth and life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6.
The reason why no one can be linked with God except in the Lord is that the Father is in Him, and they are one, as He also teaches in John:
If you know me, you also know my Father. He who sees me sees the Father. Philip, do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? Believe me, I am in the Father, and the Father is in me. John 14:7-11.
And in the same book:
The Father and I are one,...so that you may know and believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. John 10:30, 38.
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