True Christianity: The Portable New Century Edition, Volume 1

ought to manage and prepare the state of our life now for the state of eternal life. The things that have been unknown are these ...

d. If we separate the Lord, goodwill, and faith, however, instead of being a form that accepts these qualities we are a form tha ...

his essence and give part of it to one person and another part to another. He gives it all. He also gives us the ability to adop ...

[ 3 ] These facts make it clear that nothing stands in the way of our being able to draw from the Lord everything good that rela ...

God is one indivisible entity that is the same from eternity to eternity. He is not the same simplething; he is the same infinit ...

As you can see on the basis of these few examples, the sun in our world, along with its heat and light, is just as present in on ...

goodwill, just as goodness is the essence of truth and truth is the form of goodness, as I said just above. [ 4 ] These two thin ...

This simile is also a perfect parallel because love, and therefore goodwill, glows red in the spiritual world due to the fire of ...

If any confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them, and they live in God. ( 1 John 4 : 15 ) We ourselves cannot be i ...

you are to love your neighbor as yourself. (Matthew 22 : 37 , 38 , 39 ; Deuteronomy 6 : 5 ) We are also capable of doing what Go ...

the human mind. He is in the first principles and beginnings of all things related to wisdom and all things related to love. No ...

partnership can be forged. The adjustment on God’s part was to become human. God is perpetually coming closer to the extent that ...

parting and a separation rather than a partnership—not on the Lord’s initiative but on our own. To allow the partnership to be r ...

There is a similar partnership between the blood and the heart, and the reverse. Blood from the whole body flows through the vei ...

explain the above examples one by one, because the explanation would fill many volumes. 372 (d) This reciprocal partnership betw ...

This can be illustrated by a comparison with wild and domesticated animals. A wild animal is a wild animal, and a domesticated a ...

effects take place in our outer self. Therefore goodwill, because it belongs to our inner self, is intending benevolence to othe ...

us as temples of God is our salvation and eternal life. Salvation and eter- nal life relate to our will, where our purpose, goal ...

that things like this happen when people merely know some ideas from the Word about goodwill and faith but do not practice them. ...

It is right for us all to appear before Christ’s judgment seat, so that each of us may carry away what we have done through our ...