Continuing our series, Things you can get wrong reading the Bible. Today, Creation. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit
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The claim that the Bible predicts the future – and that future is ALWAYS IMMANENT – is shouted most STRONGLY when we’re facing difficult times, debates and contentions. BUT DOES IT HOLD UP? “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and
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Based on the books: Paradoxes of Group Life, by Kenwyn and Berg, and The Brain that Changes Itself, by Norman Doidge Audio available here: https://soundcloud.com/swedenborgcommunity/the-paradox-of-creativity-and-destruction From Heavenly Secrets, paragraph 9723, by Emanuel Swedenborg, on Exodus 27: ‘And you shall make [its] pans
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WHY ARE THE RULES IMPORTANT? BUT WHAT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING? IMAGINE IF THERE WERE NO RULES? IMAGINE IF SOMEONE DIDN’T WANT TO PLAY ACCORDING TO THE RULES? Jesus was often accused of breaking the rules (the Law). But he said, “Do
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Is it true that, “… a perfect and omnipotent God could, should, and would see to it that such problems did not exist in a book which s/he had inspired.” (https://infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/contradictions.html)? And what is the contradiction inherent in adhering to the theory
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Readers of Swedenborg are often accused of a reliance upon another source of truth than the Word. But what we see in Swedenborg is not a replacement of the Word, but an understanding of WHY the Word is regarded as holy, quite
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