Towards the end of my earlier article, “Why did God take 14 Billion Years to Create the Physical World?” I said: The development of complex, rational, spiritually aware beings under material-universe conditions is a long, complex task that had to…
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Why did God take 14 Billion Years to Create Human Beings?
Tagged with: cars, computers, God, human brain, International Space Station, Large Hadron Collider, life in the universe, organelles, pale blue dot, science, the human body, the universe
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Hebrew, Greek, and Swedenborg’s Explanation of Propitiation
Note: This article is an even more technical follow-up to my earlier article, “How did Swedenborg interpret 1 John 2:2: ‘He is the propitiation for our sins’?” Both articles were originally responses to questions posted on Christianity StackExchange. See the…
Tagged with: Ark of the Covenant, atonement, Emanuel Swedenborg, Greek, Greek New Testament, Hebrew, Hebrew Bible, Jesus Christ, mercy, mercy seat, propitiation, Septuagint, the Bible
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Was Jesus a Literalist?
Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables; without a parable he told them nothing. (Matthew 13:34) With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it; he did not speak to…
Tagged with: Biblical literalism, Christianity, Creation, Creationism, fundamentalism, Jesus, Jesus Christ, literalism, spiritual meaning, the Bible, typology, young Earth creationism
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Can I Ask God to Extinguish My Consciousness?
We are created so that our inner self cannot die. We can believe in God and love God, which means we can have a relationship with God through faith and love. And having a relationship with God is living to…
Tagged with: angels, animal afterlife, animals, annihilationism, death, eternal now, eternity, heaven, hell, the afterlife, time and space
Posted in The Afterlife
Posted in The Afterlife
How Did the People of Eden Live?
In a question posted on Christianity StackExchange a few years ago, a person named Ambrosia asked: I’ve lately been interested in the life of the people in Eden. According to Emanuel Swedenborg, how separated is it from the life we…
Tagged with: Adam, Adam and Eve, Emanuel Swedenborg, Garden of Eden, humanity, innocence, love, marriage, peace, spiritual marriage, spiritual meaning, the Bible
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Bible Re-Viewed
A Divine Rescue Mission
So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived. (Genesis 19:29) Tales of brave rescue from the clutches of evil and…
Tagged with: angels, Jesus Christ, Lot, mercy, rescue, Sodom, Sodom and Gomorrah
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
How Can We Believe What the Gospels Say about Jesus?
Recently a reader named Gary submitted a Spiritual Conundrum to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life in which he asked, among other things: I want to understand how you, from a Swedenborgian perspective, conclude that Jesus’ stories are true. How do…
Tagged with: God, Jerusalem, Jesus, material reality, resurrection, Revelation, spiritual meaning, spiritual reality, Swedenborg, the Bible, the empty tomb
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Swedenborgian Thoughts on Vedic Philosophy
Recently a reader from Germany named Michelle submitted a Spiritual Conundrum to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life asking for my thoughts on some Vedic (Hindu) ideas quoted from an article by Swiss poet and thinker Armin Risi. Michelle began by…
Tagged with: Armin Risi, dualism, duality, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, good and evil, Hinduism, peace, polarity, Vedic Philosophy, war
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Can We Trust Anything Near-Death Experiencers Say?
Not long ago a reader named David submitted a Spiritual Conundrum to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life asking about near-death experiences (NDEs), why they’re so contradictory, and whether we can trust anything near-death experiencers (NDEers) say. He is also struggling…
Tagged with: angels, Christian beliefs, Emanuel Swedenborg, hell, hellfire, near-death experiences, reincarnation, spiritualism, the afterlife, the spiritual world, the world of spirits
Posted in The Afterlife
Posted in The Afterlife
The Christian Church is in its End Times. What Comes Next?
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of…
Tagged with: ancient Judaism, Christianity, end times, faith, Israel, Jesus Christ, love, new Jerusalem, obedience, service, the Bible, The New Jerusalem
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
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