Let’s talk about another example. One day, I went to a farm, and it just so happened that the people there were picking pears. Someone brought Me a few. At a glance I saw that these pears were quite green and not very ripe, but I saw the person picking the pears holding a bright yellow pear and eating it, saying as he ate, “So sweet, this pear is delicious!” He kept the ripe ones for himself to eat, and the ones he picked for Me were basically all unripe. Putting aside the matter of whether the pears were ripe or not, the person picking the pears wasn’t stupid. He spent day after day by those pear trees, and he knew which ones were ripe and which were not. I just so happened to go there, and he picked the unripe pears from the tree and gave them to Me. In fact, I don’t like to eat raw fruit or fruit of a cooling nature, and I especially can’t eat unripe fruit, as it upsets My stomach. But he gave Me unripe pears, while he pulled out a ripe pear and took a bite. This incident left a deep impression on Me. I knew that he could tell the difference between unripe and ripe pears. He assumed others were stupid and couldn’t tell, and thought, “It’s good enough of me to be giving you an unripe pear. I’m even giving you several. You don’t know whether the pears are ripe or not, you don’t have that knowledge! You may preach the truth clearly and logically, but you definitely still think I’m good and that I’m treating you well after I’ve picked so many unripe pears for you.” The person who did this thought that others were stupid, and in particular that I was stupid. Did he have any awareness in his heart when he did this foolish thing? (No.) He had no awareness. He thought he had fooled others and that he was very clever. Was he clever? (No.) If he were truly clever, how could he have done such an utterly foolish thing and still have no awareness? This proved that he was not clever, and that he was instead petty-minded. He picked the unripe pears and gave them to Me to eat, while he himself held a ripe pear and ate it. Wouldn’t this action look ridiculous? I let it slide, but what he did left a deep impression on Me. The fact that this person could do this to Me—isn’t the nature of this very serious? In terms of his viewpoint, principle for handling things, and approach in this matter, what was his humanity like? Did he know that what he did was incorrect, that treating people this way was incorrect? (He didn’t know this.) He thought he was very clever. “Look how smart I am, I gave you unripe pears and you couldn’t even tell! I kept all the ripe ones for myself, and you won’t get to eat a single ripe one! If you come again, I still won’t pick ripe ones for you, I’ll just give you the unripe ones!” Just the matter of picking pears revealed him. Is this person not good for nothing? (He is.) He is good for nothing and doesn’t know what’s correct and what’s incorrect. Tell Me, what kind of humanity is this? In My view, he’s a beast, and he only has the appearance of a human, when in reality, he’s not worthy of being called human. The thing he did and this mistake he made were utterly wretched, no better than what an animal would do. People always say that humans are higher animals, but the way I see it, many people are even worse than animals! Just from what he did, from the principles and approach of his actions, besides having no humanity, he is not even as loyal as a guard dog to its master. We have a dog at home. One time, it was eating a pig’s ear, and I teased it, saying, “You’re really enjoying that, aren’t you? Why don’t you give Me a bite?” It put down the pig’s ear and pushed it toward Me, as if to say, “Go ahead.” Meat and bones are the most delicious things for a dog. Even if its pup wanted it, it wouldn’t give the pig’s ear to it, but I said I wanted to eat it, and it immediately offered it to Me. You see, when you own a dog, you can see from it what makes dogs lovely. You take care of it and treat it well, and to it, you are its family. If you ask it for the best thing it has, it will give it to you. It has affection for you. People are incapable of this—so how are they higher animals? Devils say that humans are higher animals. This is pure fallacy, it’s twisted reasoning and heresy. If a person has no humanity, living in this satanic world, they can commit any bad deed—they can be as bad as bad gets, as base as base gets, as ugly as ugly gets, and as despicable as despicable gets. If they don’t have the function of conscience and don’t know what’s correct and what’s incorrect, they can commit any bad deed, and let any incorrect words, twisted reasoning, and heresies leave their mouths. Humans are more dreadful than animals. Animals are actually not dreadful; they are very simple, very pure, and very straightforward. The little dog I own, when it was young and eating a pig’s ear, became so happy upon seeing Me that it started shaking its head and wagging its tail. It knew to make Me happy. But if I teased it and asked for its food, it wouldn’t give it to Me, and it would quickly hide and come out only after it had finished eating. Since reaching two or three years old, it has behaved differently, it’s sensible now. When I ask it for something it likes, it gives it to Me. It is being genuine when it gives it to Me, making no demands of Me or harboring ulterior motives toward Me. And when it doesn’t give it to Me, it is also being genuine, with no malice toward Me. Whether it gives it to Me or not, it is being genuine. These are its innate attributes and instincts. Animals do not have corrupt dispositions. They do not possess anything that has been processed by Satan, and their revelations are all natural, and very direct and simple. You don’t need to guess at their intentions, and you don’t need to guard against them. If an animal gives something to you, it’s giving it to you, and if it doesn’t, then it’s not. If it’s happy, it’s happy, and if it’s not, then it’s not. It won’t become controlled by its emotions, and won’t hold ill intentions toward you. People are different. People are dreadful. Wearing human skin, if they don’t possess conscience or reason, they can’t possibly be better than animals, but they can be as bad as bad gets. How bad can they be? So bad that you’ll feel you’ve seen a living demon, making you feel it’s inconceivable, shocking your conscience, striking at and afflicting the depths of your heart. When I feel these things, I sigh inwardly, thinking, “Is this something a human should do? How can people be so bad? He believes in God, how can he still do these things?” Once a person loses their conscience and reason, they can be as bad as bad gets. Not only can they be as bad as they are now, but they can grow even worse, and they can continue to degenerate. That people do not know what’s correct and what’s incorrect is the beginning of humankind’s degeneration, the beginning of humankind’s fall.

If someone doesn’t know what’s correct and what’s incorrect, they have no conscience or reason, and thus they have no humanity, and it’s possible they have a demonic nature. No matter what they reveal afterward or what they live out in their lifetime, in short, they will not be redeemed, they will never be redeemed. If someone has no conscience and no reason—to be precise, no humanity—then they’re incorrigible and cannot be redeemed. This is truly how it is. If they don’t even know what’s correct and what’s incorrect, how can they do anything that accords with conscience and reason? That would be absurd to suggest. Some people are prone to jealousy and conflict. If it is conflict with other people, you might think the nature of this is not very serious, but some people enter into conflict with Me. Who do these “believers in God” actually believe in, then? The fact that they can be in conflict with Me makes this problem serious. Some people never forget it when I point out some problem of theirs, and afterward they ponder what method they can use to find some leverage and retaliate. For instance, I once said to a person such as this, “You always cook so much, why don’t you make just the right amount?” He thought it over, “You say I don’t have a good grasp of the amount of food to make. Isn’t this implying I’m not sharp-witted, saying I’m no good? Why don’t you cook a meal, then!” After I cooked and there was also a little bit left over, he didn’t say anything out loud, but inside he thought, “You can’t cook just the right amount either, can you? I’ve found a chance to retaliate against you. You exposed my problem, so I’ll expose you too!” He was always trying to find ways to target Me. Some people say, “Is it the case that You hold a grudge against whoever targets You? So it’s okay for others to be targeted, but not You?” Are they right to say that? (No.) On another occasion, I asked someone to tidy up the table, and he said, “I wasn’t the one who made it messy!” I said, “Even if it wasn’t you, you can still tidy it up.” He said, “Even if I tidy it up, I have to make it clear that it wasn’t me who made it messy.” I asked him to tidy up the things in the cabinet, and he said, “The things in there weren’t bought by me!” I said, “You weren’t the one to buy them, but can’t you tidy them up? Why is it that when I say something, it carries so little weight? You just have to figure out who bought them before you can tidy them up?” Did he know what he was saying was correct or incorrect? He was expressing twisted reasoning, wasn’t he? (Yes.) I said that he was expressing twisted reasoning, but he remained unconvinced at heart, thinking that My special status meant others had to put up with whatever I said, as if I were throwing My weight around. Was his thinking correct? (No.) Later, I saw that he did not accept the truth at all, and no matter what I said, he would not accept it in his heart, so I no longer wasted My breath on him—he could do whatever he wanted, and I would excuse and tolerate him. Although I have this identity and status, there are too many people who do not listen to Me and oppose Me. I have personally seen many brothers and sisters who are disrespectful to Me. There are many people who are defiant toward Me and resentful of Me, many people who are jealous of Me and hate Me in their hearts, many people who look down on Me and belittle Me, many people who judge Me behind My back, and many people who ridicule and mock Me in the open. How have I treated them? In My thirty-some years of work, I have not retaliated against a single person. I have not hated anyone, nor have I tormented them after I assumed My status because they were disrespectful to Me when My identity was not openly revealed. Not even once have I done such a thing. Moreover, these people have done some rude or hurtful things to Me, and I have never held them accountable. However, I do have to fellowship on these kinds of problems by relating them to the truth to help everyone have discernment—this is beneficial to everyone. But many people have no discernment regarding the things these people have done. They don’t take such things seriously, as if they are not worth mentioning. Isn’t this a problem? So it is all too necessary to fellowship on such matters to help everyone have discernment. Since you say you believe in God, I treat you as a believer. I make demands on you based on the duty you are doing, so shouldn’t you do it? Shouldn’t you have submission? (Yes.) I have this identity, and I am making demands on you with this identity and status, so you should treat what I say with the attitude of a created being. You are doing your duty; you should not make any other remarks, you should not utter twisted reasoning, and you should not contradict Me. This is the minimum rationality and manifestation of humanity that you as a created being should have. But this person not only lacked such an attitude, but he also employed twisted reasoning. Did he know what was correct and what was incorrect? He did not. People who don’t know what’s correct and what’s incorrect are devoid of humanity, are they not? (Yes.) It can be said with certainty that they have no humanity. If an ordinary person asks you to tidy up the table and organize the cabinet, and you don’t want to do it or you feel that the other person is an ordinary person and has no right to ask you to do it, then you can choose not to do it. But the two things you said, “I wasn’t the one who made it messy!” and “The things in the cabinet weren’t bought by me!”—is this what a person with conscience and reason would say? Isn’t this being overbearingly unreasonable? (Yes.) You act defiant when an ordinary person speaks to you like this, but now it is Me speaking to you, and you still dare to employ twisted reasoning with Me and defend yourself with specious logic. What does it say about your character that you can employ twisted reasoning like this? You said, “I wasn’t the one who made it messy,” meaning, “Whoever made it messy should tidy it up; in any case, I won’t do it!” You refused to do the task you should have done, and you even employed twisted reasoning. Is this the way a person with normal humanity should handle things? If this task is what you should do, shouldn’t you not say this? For you to be able to say this, doesn’t it mean that you don’t know what’s correct and what’s incorrect? In order to refuse and not do this thing, you even vented your personal anger, saying that you weren’t the one who made a mess, nor were you the one who bought the things, so you wouldn’t tidy it up. You came up with excuses and used twisted reasoning to avoid doing it. Isn’t your reasoning too twisted? You could let such twisted reasoning escape your mouth, and you did so with brazen self-assuredness and even overbearingness. Such a person doesn’t know what’s correct and what’s incorrect, do they? They don’t have humanity, do they? (Yes.) It’s not because I have this identity and status and you targeted Me that I have characterized you like this. Even if someone else asked you to do this and you refused and tried to argue, as a bystander, I would still evaluate you in this way, because what you said is not in line with humanity, it is incorrect, it is twisted reasoning, it is heresy and fallacy. You didn’t think it was incorrect, and you even took it to be sound reasoning; this is enough to show what’s inside your humanity. You couldn’t hold it in just then and blurted it out. This is a natural revelation, and a natural revelation represents one’s humanity and essence. Why do I say it represents one’s essence? You harboring such thoughts and viewpoints is not something temporary, and they were not triggered by something I said; rather, these thoughts and viewpoints are what you’ve been thinking for a long time, for days and months—on top of this, because some things were not to your liking, you developed notions, your heart swelling with dissatisfaction and defiance. Your control slipped for a moment and the contents of your heart were exposed. What was exposed? That you have no conscience and reason, and that your humanity is too evil, too terrifying. If you were to ask the abovementioned person to accept the truth, he could not do it. If you were to ask him to know his corrupt dispositions, that would be even less possible for him. One who has no humanity is on the same level as a beast. It is not because he accidentally did something wrong to Me or said something fallacious to Me that I have characterized him this way; it’s because this is simply the nature of what he did. To characterize him this way is not unfair or unjust. Even if he had targeted someone else with these words, I would still evaluate him in this way if I saw it. This is an objective, fair statement. He could say such absurd things, utter such preposterous reasoning, and his doing so was a natural revelation. Tell Me, isn’t this an exposure of his nature essence? Isn’t this an exposure of his true humanity? This has revealed him. What has it revealed? It has revealed that he has no humanity. People with no humanity do not know what’s correct and what’s incorrect, and they can come out with any twisted reasoning and heresy, saying these things with such brazen self-assuredness. After they have spoken, they never know that their words are incorrect, and they never admit what was wrong with their words. They never reflect upon themselves or accept being pruned, and in the end, what do they say? “I didn’t say that deliberately. Wasn’t it just that I let it slip in a moment of anger?” Does it even need to have been deliberate? You have already revealed it naturally, and what your humanity is like has already been exposed. The fact that you can say it without thinking it over proves that these words have dwelt in your heart for a long time, and when you encounter this kind of environment, they are naturally revealed. This can completely represent your character. If you had thought about it before saying it, it might not necessarily be true, and it could even be a pretense, whereas this exposes your character more. People with no humanity do not know what’s correct and what’s incorrect, and they even invert right and wrong, and express twisted reasoning as if it were sound reasoning. No matter how you present the facts and reason with them, they just won’t admit that they have done wrong. “How can I be wrong? It’s you who are wrong! You look down on me, you see that I’m meek, have no gifts, and have no influence or status in society, and you bully me!” They spout a whole bunch of twisted reasoning and heresies, but never say the nature of the wrong things they did and the twisted reasoning they uttered. No matter how many wrong things they do, they don’t admit to them. Would a person with normal humanity have this kind of manifestation? We don’t even need to mention people whose conscience and reason are very sound—anyone with even a bit of conscience and reason will definitely realize that people make many mistakes in their lifetime. In particular, some people say or do some things they shouldn’t, and then feel regretful and distressed their whole lives, feeling self-accusation and self-reproach in their conscience. As they grow to an age of greater sensibility and maturity, they increasingly know what words should be said and what things should be done, and what words should not be said and what things should not be done. Their conscience and reason will constantly regulate their behavior and thoughts. Especially if a person can accept the truth, after they have accepted some truths, their conscience and reason will develop in a positive direction, and the incorrect words they once said, the fallacious viewpoints they once expressed, and the wrong things they once did will, little by little, keep appearing in their minds. They will constantly reflect upon, think about, and ponder them, and then seek God’s words and compare themselves to God’s words, and they will increasingly feel that they are just an ordinary person, that they have made many mistakes and said many incorrect words, that they have many fallacious thoughts and viewpoints, and that they have done many foolish, ignorant, and stupid things, and things people find loathsome, in the past. Without even looking at it from the level of God’s words and the truth, and just viewing it with the understanding that a person has gained from many years of experience, they can also constantly distill these problems in their humanity, and these mistakes and transgressions. This is normal, and these are the experience and gains that a person with humanity who knows what’s correct and what’s incorrect should ultimately have after reaching a certain age and accepting some truths. But those who don’t know what’s correct and what’s incorrect, even if they live to be sixty or seventy, remain such foolish, ignorant, stubborn people, and they will not change. If you expect such people to change, then you might as well be expecting a pig to fly. It will simply never happen. Such people will never change, because they don’t even know what’s correct and what’s incorrect. If you were to ask a person who doesn’t know what’s correct and what’s incorrect to accept the truth, that would be making things difficult for them, because it is simply beyond them, and they don’t know what the truth is. It is impossible for them to accept the truth. It would be like asking a color-blind person to paint a picture. Would they be able to paint a picture with normal colors? (No.) If you were to ask a tone-deaf person to sing, they would always be out of tune. No matter how they sing, they can’t sing in tune, yet they still think that their singing is in tune and that it’s others who are out of tune. Their standard of measurement is not correct, so they will never know what’s correct and what’s incorrect. Do you understand now? (Yes.)

What fact does this content that has been fellowshipped tell people? It tells them that because people who are devoid of humanity lack conscience and reason, this basic condition, they do not have the basic standard for measuring and regulating their humanity. As a result, their manifestations seem very strange to those who have conscience and reason. They are always expressing twisted reasoning and heresies, and expressing baseless views. You’re unable to understand just what’s going on. You’ve found the answer now, haven’t you? (Yes.) If this type of person reaches the point where they are impossible to get along with, then you should no longer associate with them. If they haven’t reached this point yet and you can still get along with them to a passable degree, then try to speak and converse with them as little as possible to avoid feeling fed up. Right now, there’s a heavy workload in all areas of work, with many tasks that require energy. Some people feel they are too busy and have no time to bother with these heresies and fallacies. This viewpoint is also incorrect, as it is not conducive to gaining discernment. When you hear a heresy or fallacy and feel there’s something off about it, you should make a note of it. Afterward, seek the truth so you can discern it clearly and know exactly what’s wrong with this fallacy. If you train and practice in this way, you will gain discernment. But for this type of person, there is no need to fellowship the truth with them to correct their viewpoints, because they simply cannot understand it. It’s like someone who sees an egg fall from a tree and then says that eggs grow on trees. In fact, there was a hen in the tree laying an egg. He didn’t see the hen, only the egg falling, so he came to this conclusion. No matter what you say to him, he doesn’t get it, and insists that eggs grow on trees. Isn’t this foolish? (Yes.) Can you get through to such a person? (No.) If you can’t get through to them, then don’t say any more. Don’t waste your breath. Over these years, I have seen too many absurd people. Most of these people are quite enthusiastic; they can do some duty, and are not deeply treacherous or evil. So I casually say something to them, and what’s the result? If I say a few words of truth, it’s beyond them. If I talk about external matters, they can’t stand listening. So I no longer want to say anything to these people, because talking with them is too tiring, and I have too much work to do, too many proper topics to discuss. I can’t even get through all the proper topics, so how could I have the mind to bother with these people? Now that the truth has been fellowshipped to this extent, many things have become clear, the true facts have come to light, and different types of people will truly be sorted according to their kind. For this type of absurd person, just let them be sorted and that’s it. We don’t have the time to reason with them or correct their fallacious viewpoints, right? (Yes.) Then let’s end our fellowship here for today. Goodbye!

March 16, 2024