True Christianity: The Portable New Century Edition, Volume 1
This is how it is for everything in the physical world and everything in the spiritual world. Everywhere there is a primary comp ...
self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of your cup and plate, so that the outside may be clean as well.” (Matth ...
[ 5 ] Since this is the nature of the Word in its literal meaning, it follows that if we have divine truths and we have faith th ...
the truth. As a result, whenever precious stones are named in the Word, in the spiritual meaning they stand for truths. We are t ...
they are to make a breastplate of judgment in the same fashion as the ephod. You will cover it with settings for stones. There w ...
stones mean truths made translucent by goodness, like the truths in the Word’s literal meaning. Because these truths are meant b ...
while the tabernacle meant the heaven where the heavenly angels are. Spiritual angels have wisdom because of the Word. Heavenly ...
The Nazirites represented the power of the Word in its outermost form. 223 In the book of Judges we read about Samson. He was a ...
sound in someone’s ear. Actually, truth and goodness are the origin of all things in both worlds, the spiritual and the physical ...
[ 4 ] You can see from this that the power of divine truth is indescrib- able. Since the Word that the Christian church has is a ...
contents. Therefore in the literal meaning divine truths are rarely naked; instead they are clothed and are called apparent trut ...
is the One, the Christ” (Matthew 23 : 8 , 9 , 10 ). Without a body of teach- ing we might think we were forbidden to call anyone ...
I have seen angels examining people like this and discovering that they were capable of using the Word to support whatever they ...
truth itself, as I showed in the chapter on the Lord. Loving the Lord is liv- ing by his divine truths, that is, doing useful th ...
that they could become respected leaders of the church. Others were motivated to study by love for the world so as to increase t ...
passage above [§§ 214 – 224 ]. The connection to the Lord is not apparent to us; it exists in our love for the truth and our per ...
“committing adultery” to mean contaminating the good things taught by the Word and falsifying its truths. A heavenly angel takes ...
In its letter the Word is like a case that has precious stones, pearls, and 238 gems laid out in a pattern inside. When we regar ...
7 The Word Exists throughout the Heavens; It Is the Source of Angelic Wisdom 240 Up until now people have not known that the Wor ...
[ 2 ] Because the angels have writing like this, the names of people and places are replaced in their Word by special markings. ...
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