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To: daniel1212
Swedenborg did no such thing - 'rejecting' half the Bible. He quotes it all extensively. See True Christian Religion. Our Church doesn't 'reject' half the Bible.

Swedenborg did say certain books had a continuous, internal sense. He didn't 'reject' the others.

'Led' a Church, 'Reject' books... your slander is based on false and misleading information. You really sound ignorant.

112 posted on 01/17/2014 10:30:00 AM PST by DaveMSmith (Evil Comes from Falsity, So Share the Truth)
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To: DaveMSmith
Swedenborg did no such thing - 'rejecting' half the Bible. He quotes it all extensively.

You tried this already and were exposed by more than me, yet you simply try it again. There was a reason i distinctly said he rejects half the Bible as the very word of God, for Borg rejects Biblical books that in his supreme cultic judgment have an internal sense. And as told you, quoting things from sources that affirm some truths, as Paul in quoting pagans twice, does not mean they are Scripture.

As told you before, Borg himself states in his verbose Arcana Coelestia (10325):

The books of the Word are all those which have an internal sense; and those which have not an internal sense are not the Word. [eph. mine]

The books of the Word in the Old Testament are the five books of Moses, the book of Joshua, the book of Judges, the two books of Samuel, the two books of Kings, the Psalms of David, the Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi;

and in the New Testament the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; and Revelation. - http://www.sacred-texts.com/swd/ac/ac207.htm

Consistent with this criteria by which Born rejects sacred books of the Bible, he writes,

Solomon composed the Song of Songs, a book that is not a sacred one because it does not inwardly contain heavenly and Divine matters forming a continuous train of thought, such as sacred books contain.- Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 9942 http://www.e-swedenborg.com/writings/static/d8086/9942.htm

And the Borg did and does lead a church, the "new church," as even while he did not personally establish it, yet he foretold it, prepared for it, and his words required it, and is the leader of it thru his teachings that they follow it. However, Christians follow Christ, who foretold of His church, and began it after his resurrection, and whom real believers follow thru the Scriptures. Borg is simply another deluded antiChrist. May God grant you repentance unto surrender to Christ the Lord.

"t will be seen that there is not a single genuine truth remaining in the church, and also that unless a new church shall be raised up in the place of the present one..." "...the beginning of a new church, is now at hand." " " ..there is at this day an end of the former church and the beginning of a new church.." "Also that blessed are those that come to the marriage supper of the Lamb (Rev. 19:9). This took place on the nineteenth day of June, 1770". - Swedenborg, "True Christian Religion;" http://www.sacred-texts.com/swd/tcr/tcr16.htm

You really sound ignorant.

Self application.

116 posted on 01/17/2014 3:07:14 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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