Don’t make THIS mistake … “I must now also discuss the Divine Trinity, a subject familiar to Christian people, yet, actually one they know nothing about. … From (a correct idea of God) hangs the whole body of theology, like a chain
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Noticing the link between three words in the Bible.
Based upon The Lord the Redeemer, chapter 2 of Emanuel Swedenborg’s True Christian Religion. “Redemption and the passion on the cross must be thought of as two distinct events; otherwise men’s minds will ground like a ship on sandbanks or rocks and
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From True Christian Religion: “There are two things which make up the essence of God – love and wisdom; …, as I have shown above, love and wisdom are one in God. It is love which wills these things, wisdom that puts
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Don’t we all love a happy ending?! IF YOU GO TO THE MOVIES – we expect all the troubles and conflicts that made the story interesting, get neatly tied up, the protagonists living a life of peace and harmony for the rest
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This is a very personal one for me, answering the question, Why do I believe what Swedenborg wrote? Much of what Swedenborg has written has subsequently been verified by others, Near Death Experiences being one such example. But as I have thought
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Zechariah – means, lit. “Jehovah remembers” Date of writing, see Zechariah 1:1 – “In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet …”
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Perhaps the most relevant of the minor prophets to us, here and now. Haggai speaks directly to our own experience today, we can easily see parallels between the circumstances Haggai addresses and our own. We set Haggai in time with the help
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There’s a very strange saying right at the end of the book of Haggai: “‘In that day,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘I will take you, Zerubbabel My servant, the son of Shealtiel,’ says the Lord, ‘and will make you like a
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