Claim. Fallen people must make conditions of restitution — indemnity conditions — to be restored to their original position. The process is called restoration through indemnity. It operates by reversing the course of the original deviation, and it is condition-fulfillment by the human portion of responsibility, not payment of a debt owed to God.
Elaboration. Per 1.1. Restoration through Indemnity: after the Fall, humans stand in the midway position between God and Satan — Satan claims them through lineage, God through creation, neither arbitrarily. “A fallen person will go to God’s side if he makes good conditions and to Satan’s side if he makes evil conditions.” Cain’s killing of Abel ceded Adam’s family to Satan; the call to believe in Jesus is the condition that returns fallen people to God.
The mechanism: “When someone has lost his original position or state, he must make some condition to be restored to it. The making of such conditions of restitution is called indemnity.” DP draws ordinary-life analogies — recovering reputation or health, reconciling after a quarrel.
The method of fulfilling a condition is reversal: “he must make an indemnity condition by reversing the course of his mistake.” The chosen people who reviled Jesus must love and bear his cross; Jesus honored God even when forsaken; criminal law punishes offenders to set conditions for social order.
Significance. Locus of indemnity is the human portion of responsibility — “we ourselves must fulfill the necessary indemnity conditions.” This places DP in sharp tension with Reformation sola-fide / sola-gratia (no meritorious human contribution) and with penal-substitution atonement (debt-payment to God). For DP indemnity is the structural way humanity exits the midway position, not punitive payment.
See also. dp-95-5-ratio-of-divine-to-human-responsibility · dp-salvation-is-providence-of-restoration