Edward Snowden has become a household name as the famous or infamous National Security Agency (NSA) document leaker and whistleblower. He notoriously outed the mass surveillance of ordinary American citizens and people around the world by the United States and…
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Heaven in a Snowbot
Tagged with: BeamPro, Edward Snowden, Emanuel Swedenborg, heaven, National Security Agency, science, Snowbot, surveillance, Swedenborg, technology, the spiritual world
Posted in Current Events, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Current Events, Science Philosophy and History
God, Forgiveness, Freedom, and Hell – Part 4
(Note: This article is the last of a four-part series. The first three parts were edited versions of a series of questions by a reader named Rami, and my answers, in the comments section of the article, “What is the…
Tagged with: Christianity, Emanuel Swedenborg, evil, God, heaven, hell, judgment, punishment, sin, the spiritual world
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife
God, Forgiveness, Freedom, and Hell – Part 1
(Note: This article is the first of a four-part series. The first three parts are edited versions of a series of questions by a reader named Rami, and my answers. The original versions appear in the comments section of the…
Tagged with: Christianity, Emanuel Swedenborg, evil, forgiveness, freedom, God, hell, salvation, spirituality, Swedenborg
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth
What is the Meaning of the Hyssop Used to Help Satisfy Jesus’ Thirst on the Cross?
Good Friday is the day Christians traditionally commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus. The story of Jesus’ crucifixion is told in all four Gospels, each offering its own variation on the main theme. In narrating the event of Jesus’ death, three…
Tagged with: Christianity, crucifixion, Emanuel Swedenborg, evangelization, Good Friday, hyssop, Jesus Christ, salvation, Swedenborg, the Bible
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Why Does God Require our Love, Worship, and Praise? Is God Insecure?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Cat: I am really puzzled by why God would require that Christians must love and worship him. I understand his requirement for us to…
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
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