Claim. Re-creation requires more invested energy than original creation — the extra cost is precisely what “indemnity condition” names — because repairing something is structurally more demanding than building it from scratch.
Elaboration. SMM grounds the indemnity-cost in a re-creation principle: “In order to re-create something, you must invest even more energy than that originally invested in its creation. Since repairing something requires more effort than creation, that extra amount must be paid through a condition called indemnity” (CSG 8.4 §1.2, 133-69, 1984.7.8). The dependence on God and the spirit world is also re-creation-shaped: “You cannot walk the way of restoration alone. According to the principle of re-creation, you must walk this way in cooperation with God and the spirit world. Since the providence of salvation develops only in this way, God and the spirit world are mobilized to carry out the work of re-creation” (ibid, 100-264, 1978.10.22). The fallen-body dimension is also part of the cost: “you feel you want to burn up your body that has been defiled by Satan… we cannot kill ourselves, so we need certain conditions in order to clean ourselves from the past connected with Satan” (ibid, 22-207, 1969.2.4). Source-note: this H2 heading carries the prose-only-heading bug; citation uses file-level wikilink with |CSG 8.4 §1.2 display alias.
See also. indemnity, principle-of-creation