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Will We Meet Christ In the Clouds?
Tagged with: angels, clouds of heaven, Emanuel Swedenborg, end of the world, end times, faith, God, heaven, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Paul, The Ascension, the Bible, the Rapture, the Second Coming
Posted in The Afterlife, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Afterlife, The Bible Re-Viewed
Where Does Our Soul Come From? When Does It Become Eternal?
People of all religions and spiritual paths believe that we have souls. But where does our soul come from? Is it eternal, living on after death? Has it always existed, or does it come into existence at a specific time?…
Tagged with: Aristotle, correspondences, DNA, Emanuel Swedenborg, epigenesis, human soul, mind-body problem, philosophy, physical body, plato, preformationism, reproduction, sexual reproduction, soul, spiritual body
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
The Fate of the Universe Hangs in the Balance!
Okay, so it’s a clickbait title. Sue me. But the fate of the universe is hanging in the balance! You see, in recent decades the reigning scientific cosmological theory, the Lambda cold dark matter model (Lambda-CDM for short), has suggested…
Tagged with: Big Crunch, Big Freeze, cosmology, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, heaven, limbus, nature, science, the big bang, the universe
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
The Ancestors in African Spirituality in Comparison with Swedenborg’s Experience of the Spiritual World
(Note: This post is a lightly edited version of a paper written in 2022 for an academic program at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. References for some quotations have been left in condensed academic format. For full publication…
Dethroning the Imperial god of Constantine and Calvin
(Note: This post is an edited version of a paper written for an academic program at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. It was originally written for a professor who adheres to Liberation Theology. It is therefore addressed to…
Tagged with: Allan Boesak, Black Liberation Theology, Christianity, Constantine the Great, Council of Nicaea, Emanuel Swedenborg, imperialism, John Calvin, Liberation Theology, Michael Servetus, the Bible, Trinity of Persons
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History, The Bible Re-Viewed
Did Swedenborg See Himself as a Prophet?
A recent question on Christianity StackExchange asked: The Wikipedia article on Emanuel Swedenborg mentions his revelations, but doesn’t use the term “prophet” even once. Did Swedenborg not see himself as a prophet? What is a prophet, according to Swedenborg, other…
Tagged with: correspondences, doctrine, Emanuel Swedenborg, exegesis, inspiration, prophecy, prophets, the Bible
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
A Swedenborgian in Dialog with Black Consciousness and Black Liberation Theology
(Note: This post is an edited version of a paper written for an academic program at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. References for some quotations have been left in condensed academic format. For full publication information, see the…
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
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
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