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…
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According to Emanuel Swedenborg, who is the man Jesus, born of a woman, who died and then was resurrected?
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
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
What Does it Mean that Jesus was “Glorified”?
In a comment here, a reader named Duane asked: What do you mean by “the process of glorification”? This article is an edited version of the next few questions and answers in that thread. When Jesus said to Thomas (not…
Tagged with: Emanuel Swedenborg, exinanition, glorification, God, Immaculate Conception, Jesus Christ, Mary, salvation, Swedenborg, the Bible, the Divine Humanity
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
Answering the Lord’s Invitation
The kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. (Matthew 25:1)
Response to a Calvinist Critique of my article “Faith Alone Does Not Save”
In a recent comment, a reader named Robert B. asked for my response to an article by a Calvinist teacher named John Calahan. That article, which I’ll link for you in a moment, is a critique of my article, “Faith…
Tagged with: Calvinism, Christianity, faith alone, fundamentalism, John Calvin, Martin Luther, predestination, Protestantism, salvation, the Bible
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
The Extreme Weakness of Faith Alone and Penal Substitution
A recent comment on the article, “What is the biblical basis against Sola Fide (salvation by faith alone, apart from works)?” led to a multi-part question by a regular reader of this blog named Rami. You can read his comment…
Tagged with: Christianity, faith alone, flat earth theory, Jesus Christ, justification, Penal Substitution, Protestantism, R. C. Sproul, salvation, sola fide, the Bible, Thomas Schreiner
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Response to a Christian Universalist: Is There an Eternal Hell? Wouldn’t an All-Powerful God Save All People?
Christian universalism is the belief that all people will eventually be reconciled to God and be saved, and that there is therefore no eternal hell. It is not the belief that salvation is available to all people if they choose…
Tagged with: angels, Catholicism, Christian universalism, Christianity, God, heaven, hell, salvation, the Bible, The Catholic Church, the spiritual world, universalism
Posted in All About God, The Afterlife
Posted in All About God, The Afterlife
If Jesus was God, How was God Still in Heaven?
A few days ago a reader named Annie made this comment here on Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life: I am a Christian who loves Jesus and God. But what I don’t understand is that if Jesus is God, then who…
Tagged with: Advent, Christianity, Christmas, God, Immaculate Conception, Jesus Christ, Mary, salvation, the Bible, the Incarnation, Virgin Birth
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
Does John 3:18 Mean that All Non-Christians Go to Hell?
John 3:16. It’s everywhere. You even see it on placards at football games: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Then there’s…
Tagged with: belief, Christianity, damnation, faith, God, hell, Jesus Christ, non-Christians, salvation, the Bible
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Why does God Harden our Hearts, and Why are We Held Responsible?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Steve: Dear Lee, Could you help answer this for me? Romans 9:14–23 speaks of God making vessels of honour and vessels of dishonour. Also…
Tagged with: Emanuel Swedenborg, God, hardness of heart, omnipotence, salvation, spiritual meaning, spirituality, Swedenborg, the Bible, The Potter
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Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
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