128. The worldly and bodily-minded man says at heart, Unless I am taught about faith and about things that belong to faith by means of sensory evidence so that I see for myself, that is, by facts so that I understand for myself, I am not going to believe. And he confirms himself in this attitude from the consideration that natural phenomena cannot be at variance with spiritual. Consequently it is from sensory evidence that he wishes to learn about heavenly and Divine matters. But this is no more possible than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. The more he wants by this method to become wise, the more he blinds himself, until in the end he believes nothing, not even in the existence of anything spiritual or in eternal life. This arises out of the basic assumption he makes. This is eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And the more he eats of it, the more dead does he become. But the person who wishes to be made wise not from the world but from the Lord says at heart that he must believe the Lord, that is, those things the Lord has spoken in the Word, because they are truths. This is the basic assumption of his thinking. He confirms himself by means of rational, factual, sensory, and natural evidence. And things that are not confirmatory he sets aside.

Title: Not Killing

Topic: Salvation

Summary: We look at a number of passages about murder and killing, and look for the divine love that lies behind them.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Genesis 2:17; 4:2, 8-9, 15
Exodus 20:13
Joshua 8:24
1 Samuel 15:18
1 Kings 21:17
Psalms 34:18, 21-22
Isaiah 13:9, 11
Jeremiah 4:31; 7:8, 11
Ezekiel 9:5-6
Hosea 6:4
Amos 9:1
Matthew 5:21, 26; 15:11
Mark 15:7
Luke 19:22; 20:9
Acts of the Apostles 3:14-15; 9:1-2
Romans 1:28, 32
John 10:7-10
James 4:1, 7, 10
1 John 3:10-11, 1_John 3:45
Revelation 9:20-21
John 8:44