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Why Does God Require our Love, Worship, and Praise? Is God Insecure?
Tagged with: Christianity, Creation, Emanuel Swedenborg, glory, God, love, praise, spirituality, Swedenborg, the Bible, worship
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Why Is Life So Hard? Why are there So Many Struggles?
Inner struggles are a part of our process of spiritual rebirth. There are many words used to describe these spiritual struggles: Temptation. The dark night of the soul. Spiritual anguish. Depression. The book of Revelation calls these dark and troublesome…
Tagged with: born again, depression, Emanuel Swedenborg, inner struggles, spiritual rebirth, spiritual storms, Swedenborg, temptation, the dark night of the soul
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Spiritual Growth
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Spiritual Growth
What is the Relationship between Head and Heart in Swedenborg’s Theology?
According to the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), the universe and everything in it is quite literally created from and built around the interplay between what is colloquially known as “head and heart,” or between love and wisdom, in the more abstract language that Swedenborg commonly…
Tagged with: Emanuel Swedenborg, head and heart, head heart hands, heaven, Noah's Ark, regeneration, rest from labor, salvation, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, Swedenborg, The Great Flood
Posted in Spiritual Growth
Posted in Spiritual Growth
If Jesus Christ is the One God, Why Did He Talk and Pray to the Father?
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) rejected the traditional Christian doctrine of a Trinity of Persons in God (see: “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”). But, traditional Christians commonly ask, if Jesus and the Father are not different persons of God, then why do…
Tagged with: Christianity, Emanuel Swedenborg, glorification, God, Immaculate Conception, Jesus Christ, Mary, Swedenborg, the Bible, the Trinity, Virgin Birth
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Was Jesus Christ Human from Mary, or Human from God?
(Note: This is an edited version of a response I recently wrote to some questions on an LDS (Mormon) discussion site here.) God is human. In fact, God is the only truly and fully human being. Genesis 1:26-27 says: Then God said, “Let us…
Tagged with: Christianity, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, Jesus Christ, Mary, redemption, Swedenborg, the Divine Humanity, the Father, the Incarnation
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
The Swedenborg Foundation’s Heaven and Hell Community on Facebook
The Swedenborg Foundation sponsors a very popular Heaven and Hell Community on Facebook. Here is a description from its About page: An ongoing exploration of this life and the next through videos and posts inspired by Emanuel Swedenborg. The title…
Tagged with: Emanuel Swedenborg, facebook, Heaven and Hell, spiritual perspectives, spirituality, Swedenborg, Swedenborg Foundation, videos
Posted in Books and Literature
Posted in Books and Literature
offTheLeftEye Swedenborg Foundation videos on YouTube
offTheLeftEye is a YouTube video channel sponsored by the Swedenborg Foundation. Here is a description from its About page: offTheLeftEye looks at life and death through the uplifting spiritual perspectives provided by eighteenth-century scientist, theologian, and mystic, Emanuel Swedenborg. We post…
Tagged with: Curtis Childs, Emanuel Swedenborg, offTheLeftEye, spiritual perspectives, spirituality, Swedenborg, Swedenborg Foundation, videos, YouTube, YouTube video
Posted in Books and Literature
Posted in Books and Literature
What is the Wrath of God? Why was the Old Testament God so Angry, yet Jesus was so Peaceful?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Garret: One question that I don’t think you addressed sufficiently in the articles I have seen so far is this: How do you explain…
Tagged with: anger, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, Jesus Christ, love, punishment, spirituality, the Bible, the wrath of God, WPLongform, wrath
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
What is the Biblical basis for disbelief in the doctrine of the Trinity?
The theological basis for this article This answer is based on the Bible interpretations and Christian theology put forth by Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772). This theology is not unitarian as that is usually defined, because Swedenborg stated that the Father, Son, and…
Tagged with: Arianism, Athanasian Creed, Christianity, doctrine of the Trinity, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, Jesus Christ, modalism, the Bible, the Trinity, trinitarianism, Trinity of Persons, unitarianism
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
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