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…
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Is the COVID-19 Vaccine the Mark of the Beast?
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
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…
The Christian Church is Not Christian
The Christian Church is not Christian There, I’ve said it. And it needs to be said. Religions and churches are distinguished from each other primarily by their beliefs, and by the way their adherents live as guided by those beliefs.…
Tagged with: Christian beliefs, Christianity, Council of Nicaea, faith alone, Penal Substitution, Satisfaction Theory, sola fide, the Bible, Trinity of Persons
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
What about 2 Corinthians 5:21? Didn’t God make Christ to be sin for us?
Note: This post will be a little more technical than most of our articles here on Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life. That is necessary in order to deal with a common objection to the Christian beliefs we present here. In…
Tagged with: atonement, Christianity, Jesus Christ, Paul, Penal Substitution, sacrifice, salvation, Satisfaction Theory, sin, sin offering, the Bible
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Two New Online Swedenborg Discussion Groups
Are you looking for a place to discuss the Bible, Swedenborg, and issues of spiritual life with other people in an open format? If so, please check out these two new online Swedenborg discussion groups: New Church Discussion Group Swedenborgian…
Tagged with: chatroom, Christianity, Discord server, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, Jesus Christ, online chat, religion, spirituality, the Bible
Posted in Current Events
Posted in Current Events
Who is Emanuel Swedenborg? Did He Start a New Church?
Dear Readers, Since Annette and I began this blog in 2012, we have received many expressions of surprise and excitement about the beliefs and ideas presented here. Perhaps it would be helpful, then, to provide more specific information about the…
Spiritual Insights Volume 1: God and Creation, by Lee Woofenden
Volume 1 of articles reprinted from Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life is now available in paperback and Kindle formats: This hefty 507 page tome offers a selection of 53 articles organized into three parts: Part 1: Who is God? Part 2:…
Tagged with: books, Christianity, Creation, doctrine of the Trinity, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, Jesus Christ, Swedenborg, the Bible, the Holy Spirit, the problem of evil
Posted in All About God, Books and Literature
Posted in All About God, Books and Literature
Why Isn’t Paul in Swedenborg’s Canon?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Luca: Paul’s letters have a central role in Christian doctrine, yet Swedenborg does not mention them. Why? Thanks. Thanks for the good question, Luca.…
Tagged with: biblical canon, Christianity, Emanuel Swedenborg, faith alone, Jesus Christ, Paul, spiritual meaning, Swedenborg, Swedenborg's canon, the Bible, the Epistles
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Was Adam Anatomically in God’s Image?
God is human in the New Testament God the Father, which is the divine soul, is non-material, and therefore does not have a physical body made out of physical matter as we do. God the Son, which is the divine…
Tagged with: Adam, anatomy, Christianity, Creation, God, Jesus Christ, the Bible, the human body
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
Is it Right to Call Jesus “Father”?
In a comment posted here, a reader named Duane asked (in an edited version): Why is Jesus never referred to as “the Father,” aside from that Isaiah prophecy? Is it incorrect to call Jesus “Father” or “Abba”? This article is…
Tagged with: Christianity, doctrine of the Trinity, Father, glorification, God, Jesus Christ, the Bible, the Father, Trinity, Trinity of Persons
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
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