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To: ET(end tyranny)
The quote is from Swedenborg. What I'm trying to say is his Writings describe the whys of what you found interesting. There is hidden arcana in the Word. Interpreting the meaning falsely can lead to bad feelings, etc.

From the article: "But the exact hows of the creation, the hows of his incarnation and the hows of his second coming are known only to God," What I am saying is that we believe that it was revealed to Swedenborg by the Lord the detailed internal sense of Genesis, Exodus and the Book of Revelation - and he compiled volumes on it in Latin. We have a small church (read: not main stream religion/MSR) which teaches Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior and that specific Writing of Swedenborg are the Word of the Lord. Further of the New Testament, the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Book of Revelation are the Word. The epistles are not.

As for the days/day meaning, AC89 states:

'These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when He created them, on the day in which Jehovah God made the earth and the heavens. 'The generations of the heavens and the earth' are stages in the formation of the celestial man. The fact that the formation of that man is now the subject is also quite clear from the details that follow, for example 'no plant had yet sprung up', 'there was no man to till the ground', then 'Jehovah God formed the man', and after that 'every beast and bird of the air'.* According to the previous chapter, man, beast, and bird have been formed already, which means that a different man is the subject here. This is further evident from the fact that 'Jehovah God' is now mentioned for the first time, whereas previously, when the subject has been the spiritual man, He is called simply 'God'. Also 'ground and field' are referred to now, whereas previously it was merely 'the earth'. And in the present verse 'heaven' is first of all mentioned before 'earth' and then 'earth' before 'heaven'. This is because 'earth' means the external man and 'heaven' the internal. With the spiritual man, in whom reformation is taking place, the starting point is the earth or external man; but here, where the subject is celestial man, the starting point is the internal man or heaven. * lit. bird of the heavens (or the skies)

19 posted on 01/16/2005 10:38:48 AM PST by DaveMSmith
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To: DaveMSmith

Oh yeah, I get it now. All the implications and inferences of what is NOT explicitly stated.


20 posted on 01/16/2005 10:44:54 AM PST by ET(end tyranny) (Isa:59:20-And a redeemer will come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob....)
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To: DaveMSmith
"We have a small church (read: not main stream religion/MSR) which teaches Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior and that specific Writing of Swedenborg are the Word of the Lord. Further of the New Testament, the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Book of Revelation are the Word. The epistles are not."

On what authority can your "church" make such a statement? What method do you use to determine that Romans is not the Word and that Mark is?

JM
45 posted on 01/17/2005 6:58:03 AM PST by JohnnyM
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