The Father is in me and I am in the Father

Jer 20,10-13; Ps 17; Jn 10,31-42
12 APRIL

If it is the truth that the universe was created by God, by the true God, who is the Lord of all visible and invisible things, it cannot be true that it is the fruit of blind evolution, because that is how the fruit of a self-creation should be. But nobody can create himself. Not even God can be created. Nothingness cannot give life to everything. If it is true that man has been made by God in his image and likeness, never might it be true that he is the fruit of a journey of cells in history. Also because matter cannot create spirit and the soul is immortal spirit. So even if Christ Jesus is the only God, the only Son of God for the eternal generation of the Father, in the communion of the Holy Spirit, who became flesh to accomplish first the atonement of the sin of the world and then to shed the blood and the water for the new creation and new regeneration of man, we cannot affirm that all religions are the way of salvation and that they lead to God. Truth compels the truth. There cannot be two truths of which one denies the other. Either God is the Creator or He is not the Creator. Either man is immortal or he is not immortal. Either he was created by God in his image and likeness or he was not created. If a Christian professes his faith in Christ, in the Father and in the Holy Spirit, he cannot at the same time profess another opposite and contrary thing, that denies his truth. Man is forced to the truth.

But there is a second principle that Jesus focuses quite well. From a visible truth necessarily one must arrive to an invisible truth. Let us go to Egypt. If Moses performs works in the name of his God that attest that in him there is all the government of creation, immediately the magicians of Egypt recognize that the God of Moses is superior to the their many gods. None of them is equal to that of Moses. Otherwise they too would succeed in the works of Moses. If Jesus does such great works that no man has ever accomplished, out of necessity of truth it must be concluded that God is with him, more than how he was with Moses and with all the others that preceded him. But if God is with Jesus, Jesus is also with God. If God is in Jesus, Jesus is also in God. If Scripture calls children of God those to whom the Word was revealed, why must Jesus be accused of blasphemy because he declares himself son of God and son of the Father? If Scripture is true, his sonship is also true. He is in the truth, not in blasphemy.

The Jews again picked up rocks to stone him. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these are you trying to stone me?” The Jews answered him, “We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God.” Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods”‘? If it calls them gods to whom the word of God came, and scripture cannot be set aside, can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I do not perform my Father’s works, do not believe me; but if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may realize (and understand) that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”  (Then) they tried again to arrest him; but he escaped from their power. He went back across the Jordan to the place where John first baptized, and there he remained. Many came to him and said, “John performed no sign, but everything John said about this man was true.” And many there began to believe in him.

If truth compels us to the truth and from a visible truth we arrive to an invisible truth, why are people obstinate in falsehood? Jesus said it. The life of the soul, of the spirit and of the body is in his Word. The Word is rejected, one is in the death of the soul and of the spirit and also of the body. You have eyes and you do not see. You have a mouth and do not speak. You have ears and do not hear. You have a mind you do not think. You have a will, but it is a prisoner and slave to sin. In the death of the soul and spirit one becomes an enemy, hostile and contrary to the truth even the one most visible and manifest. When one comes out of the Word, he enters the abyss of falsehoods. Light is given. But it is rejected because of sin.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, do not allow sin to consume us in falsehood.