I

What God requires of man is what should be most fundamental in a created human being; it’s not difficult at all, and it’s most practical and most realistic. People must possess true faith and absolute submission to be approved by God and be truly saved. But for those who have been profoundly corrupted, for those who despise the truth and are averse to positive things, and for those who are hostile to the truth, there is nothing more difficult than these two things! Only those who have a pure and open heart toward God, who possess humanity, reason, and conscience, and who love positive things, can achieve this.

II

Obeying God’s word and submitting to His requirements is man’s bounden duty. If God says something that doesn’t accord with man’s notions, man should not analyze or examine it. Whomever God condemns or eliminates, giving rise in however many people to notions and resistance, God’s identity, His essence, His disposition, and His status are forever unchanging. He is forever God. Since you have no doubt that He is God, the only thing you should do is to obey what He says and practice according to His word. A created being should not examine, analyze, discuss, reject, contradict, rebel against, or deny the words of God; this is loathed by God, and not what He wishes to see in man.

III

How, exactly, are God’s words to be treated? How should you practice? It is actually very simple: learn to obey them, listen to them with your heart, accept them with your heart, understand and comprehend them with your heart, then practice and implement them with your heart. What you hear and comprehend in your heart should be closely connected to your practice. Do not separate the two; what you practice, what you submit to, what you do by your own hand, everything you run around for—all these things should be correlated to God’s words, then you should practice in accordance with His words and implement them through your actions. That is what it is to submit to the words of the Creator. This is the path of practicing God’s words.

from The Word, Vol. 4. Exposing Antichrists. Excursus Three: How Noah and Abraham Obeyed God’s Words and Submitted to Him (Part Two)