736. As for Noah, or the member of this new Church, he was such that he believed with simplicity those things which he had come to possess from the Most Ancient Church. These were items of doctrine that had been gathered together and converted into a kind of doctrinal form by those called Enoch. The disposition of the people meant by Noah however was entirely different from those before the Flood who perished, called the Nephilim. For they immersed doctrinal matters concerning faith in their own filthy desires and in this way strove after dreadful persuasions from which they were unwilling to draw back even though they were taught by others and were shown that these were falsities. This dual genius or disposition also exists among people today. The former can be regenerated easily, but the latter with difficulty.

Title: To Raise the Dead

Topic: First Coming

Summary: Is there more than one kind of deadness from which the Lord can raise us?

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References:
Matthew 11:2; 9:18, 23, 25
John 11:1, 4, 11, 14, 20, 24-25, 32, 35, 41, 43-44; 12:9, 18-19
Luke 15:24
1 Kings 17:17, 21-22, 24
2 Kings 4:18, 32, 36; 13:20
Matthew 10:1, 8
Acts of the Apostles 9:36; 20:7, 9-10
Genesis 1:2-3
Jeremiah 4:22-23