Posted on 05/22/2011 10:02:42 AM PDT by DaveMSmith
Last Judgment 28
V. THE LAST JUDGMENT IS TO BE WHERE ALL ARE TOGETHER, AND SO IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD, NOT ON EARTH
The general belief about the Last Judgment is that the Lord accompanied by angels will appear in glory in the clouds of heaven, and He will then raise up from their graves all who have ever lived from the beginning of creation, clothe their souls with a body, and, when they have been summoned to meet, judge them, sending those who have lived good lives to everlasting life or heaven, and those who lived wicked lives to everlasting death or hell.
The churches have taken this belief from the literal sense of the Word, and there was no possibility of removing it so long as it remained unknown that everything mentioned in the Word has a spiritual sense; and this sense is the real Word, the literal sense serving as its basis or foundation. Without this kind of literal sense the Word could not have been Divine, and have served both heaven and the world as a means of instruction on how to live and what to believe, and as a means of conjunction. So if anyone knows the spiritual things corresponding to natural things in the Word, he can know that the Lord's coming in the clouds of heaven does not mean His appearance there, but His appearance in the Word. The Lord is the Word, because He is Divine truth. The clouds of heaven in which He is to come are the literal sense of the Word, and the glory is its spiritual sense. The angels are heaven, from which He appears, and they are also the Lord as regards Divine truths.# This makes plain the meaning of these words, namely, that when the church comes to an end the Lord will open up the spiritual sense of the Word, and thus reveal Divine truth such as it is in itself. This will be a sign that the Last Judgment is at hand.
That there is a spiritual sense within each thing and expression in the Word, and what it is may be seen in the Arcana Coelestia. This book expounds in full detail the contents of Genesis and Exodus in accordance with their spiritual sense. Some selected passages dealing with the Word and its spiritual sense may be found in the small work About the White Horse described in Revelation.
# The Lord is the Word, because He is Divine truth in heaven (AC 2533, 2813, 2859, 2894, 3397, 3712). The Lord is the Word because the Word comes from Him and is about Him (AC 2859). It is about nothing but the Lord, especially in its inmost sense about the glorification of His Humanity, so that the Lord Himself is contained in it (AC 1873, 9357). The Lord's coming is His presence in the Word and the revelation of this (AC 3900, 4060). A cloud in the Word means the letter of the Word, or its literal meaning (AC 4060, 4391, 5922, 6343, 6752, 8106, 8781, 9430, 10551, 10574). Glory in the Word means Divine truth such as it is in heaven and in the spiritual sense (AC 4809, 5922, 8267, 8427, 9429, 10574). Angels in the Word mean Divine truths coming from the Lord, since angels are the means by which they are received, and they do not utter them of themselves but from the Lord (AC 1925, 2821, 3039, 4085, 4295, 4402, 6280, 8192, 8301). The trumpets and horns then blown by angels mean Divine truths in heaven and revealed from heaven (AC 8815, 8823, 8915).
Catholic Theology doesn't need our help. It will implode all on it's own.
I guess that means that all those people who belong to religions which teach that you have to be good enough to get God's grace are all washed up after all.
Ever the optimist, aren't you?
When God looks at us, our iniquity overrides our righteousness, but that is to be expected, as our righteousness is as filthy rags in God’s sight anyway.
That’s why we need the righteousness of Christ, which is only granted through God’s mercy and forgiveness. Being forgiven is the ONLY way to have our sin not counted against us, and Christ’s righteousness imputed to us is the only way to have the righteousness God’s justice demands.
We are TOTALLY incapable of doing any work that can cancel the debt against us under those circumstances.
But look at the people who fall for it...Are they under a spell or something???
FAIL...Regardless of the fixed meaning of the Latin, it only does you some good if Latin is your normal language...
If your English or German language keeps changing, then the definition of the Latin words change...
Back when I was in school, taking a couple of years of Latin, the instructor told us reading and writing Latin was ok, even though the sentence structure was ridiculous, but no one speaks Latin because it's about an impossible Language to speak...
While people in the Catholic religion write, read and sing Latin, I'll bet you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who actually converses in Latin...
And exactly what would be the need for an EX-CATHEDRA infallibility declaration for something that IS Scriptural? If it were already Scriptural, it wouldn't need to be authenticated in any other way. It would stand on its own.
Is that your learned opinion? You better get that out to all of the medical, science and law schools in the world. What in the heck were all of those idiots thinking?
No, but you apparently need some.
In nomine sanctae Dymphna exaudi nos Deus salutaris noster, ut Sanctam Dymphna cultor afflictos et motus animi aegritudine. Adjuva nos agi exémplo et consolari auxílium misericórdiæ ejus. Amen.
In the name of St. Dymphna, hear us, O God, Our Saviour, as we honor St. Dymphna, patron of those afflicted with mental and emotional illness. Help us to be inspired by her example and comforted by her merciful help. Amen.
Have any ideas why this might be so??
(It's ALL Greek to me!)
Thank you for the excellent post on Swedenborg. I had not heard of him, but there are a million of his kind roaming history and our present day.
Along with a lot of trash.
Golly!
Who makes the decision?
WHY do they?
Do they REALLY have the AUTHORITY to do so?
Why isn't 'tradition' give the AUTHORITY of Scripture?
An awful lot of people on this thread give a lot of weight to what James wrote...
James 1:27
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
I'll SEE your Manti and raise you 3 Nephites!
;^)
Today you will be with me in paradise.
I see now; perfectly clear.
And we are castigating others for no sources?
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