Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all people, a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory…
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The Infant Lord
Tagged with: glorification, Haran, inner life of Jesus, Jesus Christ, love, Simeon, The Call of Abram, The Fertile Crescent, Ur of the Chaldeans
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
The Divine Birth
For the day of vengeance was in my mind, and the year for my redeeming work had come. I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one gave support. So my own arm worked…
Tagged with: divine love, Jesus Christ, Son, the Incarnation, the nativity, the Trinity, The Virgin Mary, Trinity of Persons
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
What Child Is This?
All this took place to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet: “Behold, the virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will name him Emmanuel,” which means “God with us.” (Matthew 1:22–23) “What child…
Tagged with: baby Jesus, Christianity, Christmas, Jesus Christ, the nativity, The Virgin Mary
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
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
The Eternal Word
Your word, O Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. (Psalm 119:89) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things…
Tagged with: clouds of heaven, Jesus Christ, literal meaning, parables, Psalms, spiritual meaning, the Bible, The Word of God
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in 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
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
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