All this took place to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet: “Behold, the virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will name him Emmanuel,” which means “God with us.” (Matthew 1:22–23) “What child…
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What Child Is This?
Tagged with: baby Jesus, Christianity, Christmas, Jesus Christ, the nativity, The Virgin Mary
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
According to Emanuel Swedenborg, who is the man Jesus, born of a woman, who died and then was resurrected?
The title is a question recently asked on the website Christianity StackExchange, here. After several quotations from Swedenborgian sources, the questioner asks: Did the Lord (God Almighty) incarnate as a human in the body of Jesus of Nazareth? Does this…
Tagged with: Emanuel Swedenborg, glorification, God, Jesus Christ, redemption, salvation, Swedenborg, the Bible, the Incarnation, The Virgin Mary
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
The Eternal Word
Your word, O Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. (Psalm 119:89) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things…
Tagged with: clouds of heaven, Jesus Christ, literal meaning, parables, Psalms, spiritual meaning, the Bible, The Word of God
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
How Can I Be Sure that My Partner will Be Waiting for Me in Heaven?
The article “Will Happily Married Couples be Together in Heaven?” has become one of the most heavily read posts here on the Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life website. Since the time it was published five years ago, it has been…
Tagged with: death, eternal marriage, heaven, love, marriage, marriage in heaven, soulmates
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Afterlife
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Afterlife
The Right and Left Agree: The Bible Oughta Be Banned!
Recently seen on Yahoo!Life: Viral photo of near-empty library shelves sends powerful message: ‘We removed every book with content that could offend someone’ The article begins: Efforts to ban books at school libraries — particularly those telling the stories of…
Tagged with: book-banning, censorship, LGBTQ, libraries, Pflugerville Texas, right vs. left, sex and violence, the Bible
Posted in Current Events, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Current Events, The Bible Re-Viewed
Marriage in Heaven: A Response to Tom Wenig
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Deeply Wounded: Hi Lee, it’s me again. I am still struggling with how I am single and alone. I saw this article and found…
Tagged with: Adam and Eve, angels, death, eternal marriage, legal marriage, marriage in heaven, Sadducees, spiritual marriage, the afterlife, the Bible
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Afterlife
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Afterlife
Swedenborg’s Solution to the Fermi Paradox
“Where is everybody?” That is the question physicist Enrico Fermi asked several of his fellow physicists over lunch one summer day in 1950. And that’s how the Fermi paradox got its name. What is the Fermi paradox? Here’s the short…
Tagged with: aliens, cosmology, Earths in the Universe, Enrico Fermi, extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrials, fermi paradox, life on other planets, Other Planets, SETI, Swedenborg, UFO
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Is the COVID-19 Vaccine the Mark of the Beast?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Ray: Is the COVID-19 vaccine the mark of the beast? I’ve heard some disturbing things like people saying they can’t feel God anymore and…
Tagged with: Catholicism, Christianity, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, COVID-19, prophecy, Protestantism, Revelation, the mark of the beast, the right hand of God, vaccines
Posted in Current Events, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Current Events, The Bible Re-Viewed
Hate Speech Says More About the Hater than the Hated
“You’re a baby!” “I know you are, but what am I?” “You’re stupid!” “I know you are, but what am I?” “You’re a jerk!” “I know you are, but what am I?” Not exactly an adult conversation. But there’s a…
Tagged with: hate speech, homophobia, homosexuality, love your enemies, racism, sexism, xenophobia
Posted in Current Events
Posted in Current Events
The Christian Church is Coming to an End
The previous article, “The Christian Church is Not Christian,” spoke of the doctrinal destruction of the Christian church. Over the centuries, the Christian church has adopted human-invented beliefs that ignore, reject, and deny the teachings of Jesus Christ and the…
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