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또한 만일 네 오른손이 너로 실족케 하거든 찍어 내버리라 네 백체 중 하나가 없어지고 온 몸이 지옥에 던지우지 않는 것이 유익하니라
159. The following passages from the Word show that only the Lord possesses life.
I am the resurrection and the life. All who believe in me will live even though they die. (John 11:25)
I am the way, the truth, and the life. (John 14:6)
God was the Word: in him was life, and the life was our light. (John 1:1, 4)
The Word here is the Lord.
As the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. (John 5:26)
The following passages show that we are led and taught by the Lord alone.
Without me you cannot do anything. (John 15:5)
No one can undertake anything unless it is granted from heaven. (John 3:27)
You cannot make a single hair white or black. (Matthew 5:36)
In the Word, a hair means the slightest thing of all.
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Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.