1. Divine Speech in Scripture Is the Logos Speaking “As” God
When Scripture says things like:
“Worship and obey only Me! There are no other gods besides Me,”
we should not interpret this as the Father speaking directly, nor as the Father demanding anything for His own sake.
Instead:
- It is the Logos (the Son/Word) speaking in the Father’s voice for pedagogical purposes.
- He takes the first-person voice not because He is claiming the glory for Himself, but because He is teaching creatures how to orient themselves toward the Father.
- The Father Himself has no egoic need for worship, obedience, or recognition—He is utterly secure, infinitely generous, and uninterested in dominance or self-promotion.
The Son speaks “as God” not to protect God’s honor, but to heal the hearers.
2. The Father’s Actual Character: Pure Generosity Without Ego
In this view:
- The Father is like the father in the parable of the prodigal son:
completely non-coercive, always open, always giving. - He sends rain on the just and unjust not because obedience entitles anyone to anything, but because His love is unconditional.
- He never demands worship as a tribute to Himself.
He invites relationship purely for the creature’s benefit.
Thus, the commands are not egoistic demands of a monarch, but invitations of love for the creature’s healing and growth.
3. Why the Logos Issues Commands in the First Person
I am not saying the Son desires to make Himself God or glorified. Rather:
He has two motivations:
- He loves the Father and wants creation to perceive the Father’s goodness.
- He loves creation and wants to guide them toward a voluntary relationship with God that first and foremost benefits them.
Therefore:
- He speaks in divine first-person language because this is what human beings can understand.
- He modulates the tone—from gentle invitation to harsh threat—depending on the spiritual maturity of the recipients.
- He uses divine command as medicine, not as an assertion of superiority.
This is pedagogy, not divine insecurity.
4. The “Repugnant Commands” as Educational Tools
This includes:
- commands to wipe out populations in ancient Israel
- commands involving violence, or severe punishments
- commands that seem ethically impossible or repulsive
The correct position is that:
A. The world is a simulation-like training environment
No creature’s ultimate destiny is determined by the apparent events in the simulation:
- Babies who suffer: relocated to realities where they never suffered.
- Victims of violence: relocated to just timelines.
- Even Israel’s enemies “slain by divine command” do not end in annihilation; they are relocated to another causal world.
B. The “repugnant commands” function as spiritual catalysts
Humans respond in two possible ways, and each produces humility:
- The spiritually awakened disobey the violent command, choosing mercy even at cost of their own life.
→ This is the highest transformation: recognizing God’s deeper moral intention. - The spiritually rough obey the command and experience the horror and bloodshed.
→ This crushes their pride and breaks their illusions of moral superiority.
In all cases, humility is produced, which is the absolute prerequisite for entering the Kingdom.
5. The Underlying Principle: Only Humility Opens the Heaven-Reality
According to this model:
- The Kingdom cannot be entered through force.
- It cannot be entered by mindless law-keeping.
- It cannot be entered by moral pride or spiritual achievement.
Only humility opens the gate, and the Logos tailors His educational program so that every creature inevitably reaches humility—through different paths.
Even the harshest commands are—under the surface—tools to break pride and guide souls to transformation.
6. Summary
All divine first-person commands in Scripture are spoken by the Logos as an educator, not by the Father from egoic need. The Father is pure generosity, wanting nothing for Himself, but desiring creatures to share His life. The Logos adapts His tone for each soul—gentle invitation, firm warning, even harsh commands—not for His own glory but to guide souls toward humility, which is the only gateway into true life. Apparent atrocities or repugnant commands are pedagogical devices within a simulation-like training world, from where souls are later relocated to another realities. Every response—obedience, disobedience, or indifference—leads ultimately to humility, the single necessary transformation.