I

After God expresses His words, He tells people the most important thing in belief in God is that they should submit to the truth and God's words. But regarding whether you submit and how you submit, what is God's attitude? You have free will, you have the right to choose. In these matters, God doesn't do anything extra. He doesn't warn you, threaten you, or force you, making you pay the price or punish you for it. God doesn't act that way.

II

During the period when God is saving people, when He's expressing words to provide for humans, God allows them to make mistakes, to take the wrong path, and to rebel against Him. But through His words and some of His working methods, God gradually lets people understand what His requirements are, what the truth is, and what is right and what is wrong, what God's requirements really are, what position humans should assume, and what people should practice. While making you understand, He also gives you a choice.

III

If you are rebellious and willful, and you don't want to choose what's right or be loyal, then ultimately, you are responsible for your own destination and outcome. You have to take responsibility for your actions and pay the price; God does not do anything in this regard. God is fair and righteous. If you act according to His requirements and are a person who submits to God, or, if you do not act according to God's requirements and are not a person who submits to God, then, in both cases, your destination has been determined by God far in advance. God needn't do anything extra.

IV

God requires people to submit simply to let them understand the truth about submission; there is no element of "compulsion." If you act according to God's words, you will gradually understand the truth more and more, and your condition before God will continue to improve— you will always maintain a good condition; God will also enlighten you in aspects of daily life that you do not understand. God does not force people; that is what Satan does. God doesn't work that way. The submission God speaks of is where, based on understanding the truth, a person willingly practices God's words out of conscience and reason. This is the inherent meaning of submission. This is the inherent meaning of submission.

from The Word, Vol. 4. Exposing Antichrists. Item Six: They Behave in Devious Ways, They Are Arbitrary and Dictatorial, They Never Fellowship With Others, and They Force Others to Obey Them