True Christianity: The Portable New Century Edition, Volume 1
earth turns away from the sun. When we turn away from wisdom’s true perspective we are like the earth turning away from the sun ...
that design into us. Three: He created our rational minds in imitation of the divine design in the whole spiritual world, and ou ...
[ 4 ] At that the satan’s face changed. It went from white to a sickly yellow; then it soon turned completely black, and with a ...
justice to whomever he wants, whenever he wants, and sends his Holy Spirit to give the rewards of that justice. This belief has ...
his laws in the Word as we are bound by ours. But what does that make divine omnipotence, if it is restricted by laws? It takes ...
way. God makes an unceasing effort to regenerate us and save us, but he cannot do it unless we prepare ourselves as a vessel, le ...
obliged to follow, our preconceived ideas about omnipotence are jarred, like a hand on a broken walking stick.” [ 2 ] When the c ...
dwelling for God in us, as there is for all things on earth, all things in heaven, and even for the things that are in hell. Fro ...
He unites the communities of heaven so that they are like one person before him. Likewise he brings the hordes of hell together ...
In the physical world, these two comparable things, the heat and the light, that radiate from this sun are material and are call ...
sequence. Now, however, we see that the universe is too large to have hatched in this way. There was another idea stuck in our m ...
surround those prior atmospheres the way a nutshell surrounds a kernel or the inner bark of a tree surrounds the wood. Finally, ...
not far from me who were aggressively debating about God and nature. The flashes of light like lightning and the rumble in the a ...
satan who hears the truth can in fact understand it as well as an angel can; but the satan does not retain it, because evil eras ...
[ 5 ] I could see and hear the two angels and the satans because they were standing not far from me. To my surprise, around them ...
I looked around and I saw birds of gorgeous colors. Some were flying, some were sitting on trees, and some were down in the mead ...
spondences of the qualities of his love and wisdom are found everywhere in the physical world. In our world, called the spiritua ...
existence, hellish things came into existence on earth. Hell consists of peo- ple who turned away from God and became devils and ...
sun was like an ocean of fire. In order not to set fire to the earth it pulled little shining flames out of itself and allotted ...
basis of all this we conclude that the soul, where thinking happens, is part of nature.” [ 6 ] Other philosophers among them did ...
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