Fraternal-Divine-Bond Doctrine
The doctrine that each divine quality — light, goodness, love, power, wisdom, beauty, justice — poured itself upon man at creation specifically to form its “brother” in that quality, constituting a fraternal bond between each divine attribute and the creature as its created kin; the bond maintained through the DW as its sole operative instrument (“My qualities feel ashamed to remain bound as brothers and sisters with her” when the human will departs from the divine) and consummated as “fraternal bonding of joy, beatitude, and perennial happiness” in the Celestial Fatherland; distinct from ADG-1 (which tracks Adam’s prelapsarian endowment and glory) in that FDB-1 tracks the relational ontology of the bond itself — the mutual kinship between each divine attribute and the creature as its created brother, not merely the content of what was given. (E)
Anchors: Hebrews 2:11-12; Romans 8:29; Genesis 12:1-3; Exodus 19:5-6; Jeremiah 31:33; Hebrews 8:10 — Appearances: 3. Full Registry entry.