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What Does It Mean to Sit at the Right Hand of God?

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Lee — 4 Comments

In Psalm 110, David writes: The Lord says to my lord, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.” (Psalm 110:1) And in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus quotes these words in an exchange with the…

Tagged with: divine power, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, God's right hand, Jesus Christ, power, spiritual meaning, Swedenborg, the Bible, the right hand of God
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed

Is Your Spirit Rounded or Angular?

Posted on June 17, 2017 by Lee — 4 Comments

As I was browsing headlines the other day, this title at LiveScience.com caught my attention: “A Politician’s Name & Face: Why a Good Match May Win Votes” How does someone’s name match their face, I wondered? As it turns out,…

Tagged with: angels, Emanuel Swedenborg, faces, heaven, language, names, science, spirituality, Swedenborg, the spiritual world, vowels
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, The Afterlife

If There Was No Literal Flood, What does the Ark Mean?

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Lee — 37 Comments

In his massive multi-volume work Secrets of Heaven, originally published in eight Latin volumes in London, 1749–1756, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) states that the first chapters of Genesis, up to somewhere in the genealogy in Genesis 11 that leads to the stories…

Tagged with: children, developmental psychology, Emanuel Swedenborg, Noah, Noah and the Ark, Noah's Ark, spiritual meaning, spiritual rebirth, Swedenborg, the Bible, The Great Flood
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed

Why does God Harden our Hearts, and Why are We Held Responsible?

Posted on April 30, 2017 by Lee — 11 Comments

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
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed

How Many Hells did Swedenborg Say there Are?

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Lee — 8 Comments

Question: In his essay “The Red Angel,” the British writer and literary critic G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936) wrote: If you keep bogies and goblins away from children they would make them up for themselves. One small child in the dark can invent more…

Tagged with: children, Emanuel Swedenborg, G.K. Chesterton, goblins, heaven, Heaven and Hell, hell, monsters, Swedenborg, the spiritual world
Posted in The Afterlife

Are Deaths from Natural Disasters an Unavoidable Side-Effect of God’s Creation?

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Lee — 26 Comments

As amazing and beautiful as this physical universe is, it is also filled with almost unimaginable cataclysmic violence—which commonly brings suffering, pain, and death to the living residents of our earth—plant, animal, and human. Why did God create the universe…

Tagged with: Creation, death, Emanuel Swedenborg, evil, God, heaven, natural disasters, pain, spirituality, suffering, Swedenborg
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Science Philosophy and History

Facing our Demons of Darkness, Depression, and Mental Illness – Part 2

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Lee — 10 Comments

In Part 1 we looked at the issue of mental illness through the lens of the story of Jesus healing a demon-possessed man in Mark 5:1–20. One of the points made in that article was that mental illness is not some…

Tagged with: Christianity, demon possession, Jesus Christ, mental health, mental illness, pain, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, Swedenborg, the Bible
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed

Facing our Demons of Darkness, Depression, and Mental Illness – Part 1

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Lee — 11 Comments

These days we don’t talk much about demon possession. Yes, popular horror films such as The Exorcist, with their graphic portrayals of demonic possession, do make the rounds in our culture. But most respected health professionals think that a belief…

Tagged with: demon possession, demonic possession, exorcism, Jesus Christ, mental health, mental illness, spiritual meaning, spirituality, Swedenborg, the Bible
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed

Will Happily Married Couples be Together in Heaven?

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Lee — 30 Comments

The first article in this series, “Didn’t Jesus Say There’s No Marriage in Heaven?” responded to a Spiritual Conundrum from a reader named Nita, in which she wrote: I am widow and a believer in Jesus Christ. . . .…

Tagged with: Emanuel Swedenborg, eternal marriage, heaven, love, marriage, marriage in heaven, relationships, sex, spiritual marriage, spirituality, Swedenborg
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Afterlife

What is the Source of the Belief that the Deceased become Angels?

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Lee — Leave a comment

In Heaven: A History (1995: Yale University Press) the authors, Drs. Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang, state that Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) had a pivotal role in bringing about a changed view of heaven, including the idea that angels are humans who have died and…

Tagged with: angels, Bernhard Lang, Colleen McDannell, Emanuel Swedenborg, heaven, Heaven and Hell, Heaven: A History, Swedenborg, the Bible, the spiritual world
Posted in The Afterlife

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