True Christianity: The Portable New Century Edition, Volume 1

You are our Father.Abraham did not know us and Israel did not acknowledge us. You are our Father;our Redeemer from everlasting i ...

like a mother to it. The marriage of the sun as a father and the earth as a mother produces all the growth that adorns the surfa ...

In a broader earthly meaning, murdering includes hostility, hatred, and revenge, which involve longing for someone’s death. Murd ...

In the heavenly meaning,killing refers to being angry with the Lord 311 for no good reason, hating him, and wanting to get rid o ...

The Sixth Commandment You Are Not to Commit Adultery 313 In its earthly meaning,this commandment covers not only committing adul ...

They have acted foolishly in Israel. They have been promiscuous, and have spoken my Word falsely.(Jeremiah 29 : 23 ) They were p ...

What makes us chaste is abstaining from wantingto do something that we could in fact do, because doing it would be sinful. For e ...

est, and collect funds; also fraud in paying taxes and fees and in repay- ing loans. Workers transgress against this commandment ...

is true. There are also people who use errors to support false religious beliefs and lead people astray. These people can be com ...

In a broader earthly sense, this commandment applies to political lies and hypocrisies of every kind that have an evil intent, a ...

Lord is truth itself, and so is the Word. On the other hand, in this sense “testifying” means speaking the truth and “testimony” ...

maid or his ox or his donkey or anything that is your neighbor’s.” Because these two commandments are united and form just a sin ...

of it. The “wife,” who is mentioned next, comes before everything on the rest of the list after that, for she is the woman in ch ...

The cravings of the flesh are like stables that hold donkeys, goats, and pigs, while the desires of the spirit are like stables ...

Therefore the evil attributes we have from hell have to be removed first before we are able to want good attributes that come fr ...

and I will love them and manifest myself to them, and we will make a home with them.” (John 14 : 21 , 23 ) The “commandments” me ...

evils for any other reason than because they are sins, we are not abstaining from them, but merely making them invisible to the ...

these gifts and endowments of mine as your own and you will be puri- fied.” And so on. The need for the outer self to be cleanse ...

the light cast from it that took the shape of these images were in fact sym- bolic of these people’s judgments—they reflected th ...

discovered by angels of heaven. Because these judges do not see justice at all, we in heaven view them not as human beings but a ...