Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar, and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelech king…
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Rationality and Faith
Tagged with: Arcana Coelestia, Christianity, head and heart, intellectualism, Jesus, Jesus Christ, rationality, reason, religion, Secrets of Heaven, the Bible
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Is there a Biblical Basis for Swedenborg’s Teaching on What Happens After Death?
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) makes no claim that his descriptions of the afterlife are drawn from the Bible. On the title page of his best-known book, Heaven and Hell—a book in which he provides a comprehensive description of heaven, hell, and…
Tagged with: Emanuel Swedenborg, heaven, Heaven and Hell, hell, Jesus, judgment, physical body, spiritual body, the afterlife, the world of spirits
Posted in The Afterlife, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Afterlife, The Bible Re-Viewed
What Does “Purification for Sins” Mean in Hebrews 1:3?
He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the…
Tagged with: atonement, evil, glorification, God's right hand, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Mary, purification from sin, regeneration, sin, spiritual rebirth
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Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Superficial Religion
So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. (Genesis 19:36) With this article in our series on Genesis, mercifully, we complete the sorry tale of Genesis 19. If the Bible skeptics want a chapter to turn to in…
Tagged with: Ammon, corruption, Lot, Moab, Scribes and Pharisees, Sodom, Sodom and Gomorrah
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
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
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Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
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
Sodom and Gomorrah
Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities, and also the vegetation in the…
Tagged with: bible, Christianity, Consider the Consequences, evil, Genesis, God, homosexuality, salvation, selfishness, sin of Sodom, Sodom, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Bible
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Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
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Great Truths on Great Subjects
By Jonathan Bayley
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