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دانيال 4:11

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11 فكبرت الشجرة وقويت فبلغ علوها الى السماء ومنظرها الى اقصى كل الارض.

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An Invitation to the New Church # 21

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21. The whole of Theology at the present day is nothing but Divine omnipotence. Thus it is asserted: 1. that God gives faith where and to whom He will;

2. that He remits sins;

3. that He regenerates;

4. that He sanctifies;

5. that He imputes and saves;

6. that He will raise the dead bodies from the graves; that He will cause the skeletons to live, and will put into them their former souls;

7. that He will destroy the world, together with the sun, the stars, the planets, the earths, and will create a new universe;

8. Since omnipotence is everything, and is the order which God is, and which is from God in the whole world, it follows that the man of the Church can imagine whatever he will; that he can raise himself even above what is eternal, that is, above reason; and that, wherever he pleases, he can go counter to reason, and simply declare, "reason must be kept under obedience to our faith. For is not God omnipotent? Who is able, or dares, to reason against His omnipotence?" Such are all things of the present-day faith, etc.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.