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To: metmom; DaveMSmith; Elsie
Well, if all roads lead to God, then nobody is going to be in hell.

Swedenborgism denies the existance of the devil - hence no hell. Some have said 'borg taught that hell was just a tempral experience.

Then again - 'borg taught a great deal about “conjugal love” - hmmmmmmmm

788 posted on 11/13/2012 9:15:51 AM PST by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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To: Godzilla
Swedenborgism denies the existance of the devil - hence no hell. Some have said 'borg taught that hell was just a tempral experience.

Swedenborg denied the existence of the devil, but wrote a whole book on Heaven and Hell, so hell did have some kind of existence for him.

That's all I could find out in a few minutes, but if Swedenborg was a mystic, it would be hard to say just exactly what he did believe, since mystical or visionary writers can be read in different ways. A mystical experience doesn't always translate easily into dogma or a logical system.

The other problem is that what 21st century religions believe and what their founders believed aren't necessarily the same.

794 posted on 11/13/2012 9:32:09 AM PST by x
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To: Godzilla
See Heaven and Hell. There is no Satan individual but there is indeed a hell. Spirits choose it based on their loves - they choose it themselves.

Hell is under the Lord's kingdom - individuals there pervert His Divine Love and Wisdom into evil and falsity, as people do here. I believe hell to be eternal.

795 posted on 11/13/2012 9:33:40 AM PST by DaveMSmith (Evil Comes from Falsity, So Share the Truth)
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