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You have made and drawn your own conclusions on my beliefs. I asked you a question that you didn't quite answer - I want your understanding. When Swedenborg called the Word in those works, he was referring to what is described in John 1 - the Word made flesh. They have a continuous internal sense that links directly to the Lord. We study the Bible as a whole in these classes - how can you assert it is not our canon?

Job and the Wars of Jehovah mentioned in Scripture were from the Ancient Word.

You seem to be arguing the because Borg quoted from Paul or referred to it as the Word, then he was calling them Scripture, just as the writings of Isaiah were.

However, church ancients also referenced books which they rejected as being part of the canon, and sometimes even called some of them Scripture, but not in the formal sense, versus those which were to be used in the church.

And 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.

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. (www.sacred-texts.com/swd/ac/ac207.htm

When Swedenborg called the Word in those works, he was referring to what is described in John 1 - the Word made flesh.

It is very clear from the Borg that he didn't have a biblical understanding what John 1 was stating from the very beginning - that the Word was WITH God and the Word WAS God. The Triunity of God from the start.

Yet you refuse to produce the follow-up revelation from the Borg that added the remaining books back!!! Since the Borg is throughly on record as rejecting half of the books of the bible - with no revelation I can find, how can you assert the bible is you canon. Particularly when you hold the Borg's writings as canon too.

BTW, ALL books of the bible make that linkage - yet the Borg rejected half of them. Again, what Borg writings placed them all back together again Dave.

You have made and drawn your own conclusions on my beliefs.

He has QUOTED from your 'beliefs' teachings, and the CHANGING nature of your religion has been noted.

Swedenborgism has been weighed in the balance and found wanting.

No amount of protesting of UNFAIR! will change the facts.