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Io vi trarrò fuori dalla città, e vi darò in man di stranieri; ed eseguirò su di voi i miei giudizi.
Ezechiele 11:9
Doctrine of the Lord #29
29. The Lord Made His Humanity Divine from the Divine in Him, and So Was United with the Father
The doctrine of the church, accepted throughout the Christian world, is this:
...our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man.... But although He is God and man, still there are not two Christs but one, being one because the Divine took to Himself a humanity; yet still completely one, for...He is one person. For as soul and body form one person, so God and man are one Christ....
These words are taken from the doctrine of the Athanasian Creed, which has been accepted throughout the Christian world. They constitute the essential teaching there regarding the union of the Divine and human in the Lord. Everything else said in this same doctrine regarding the Lord — this we will explain in its own section.
It is apparent, clearly, from the above citation, that it accords with the Creed of the Christian Church to say that the Divine and the human in the Lord are not two entities but one, as soul and body are one person; and that it was the Divine in Him that took on the human.
[2] It follows from this that the Divine cannot be separated from the human, nor the human from the Divine, as separating them would be like separating soul and body.
The reality of this is something everyone acknowledges who reads what we have cited above in nos. 19 and 21 from the two Gospels that tell of the Lord’s birth, namely from Luke 1:26-35 and from Matthew 1:18-25. These descriptions make clear that Jesus was conceived of Jehovah God and born from the virgin Mary, thus that the Divine was present in Him and was His soul.
Now because His soul was the Divinity itself of the Father, it follows that His body or humanity became also Divine; for when one element is Divine, the other must be also.
In this way and no other are the Father and Son one — the Father being in the Son, and the Son in the Father —and all things of the Son are the Father’s, and all things of the Father are the Son’s, as the Lord Himself teaches in His Word.
[3] But how the union was formed — this we will tell point by point as follows:
1. The Lord from eternity is Jehovah.
2. The Lord from eternity, or Jehovah, assumed a humanity in order to save mankind.
3. He made His humanity Divine from the Divinity in Him.
4. He made His humanity Divine through temptations or trials that He underwent.
5. The complete union of the Divine and the human in Him was achieved by His suffering of the cross, which was the last of those temptations or trials.
6. He gradually put off the humanity received from the mother and put on a humanity from the Divinity in Him, which is the Divine humanity and the Son of God.
7. Thus God became human in final elements as well as in first ones.
Published by the General Church of the New Jerusalem, 1100 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania 19009, U.S.A. A translation of Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Domino, by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688-1772. Translated from the Original Latin by N. Bruce Rogers. ISBN 9780945003687, Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954074.
Geist
Das Leben eines jeden Menschen besteht aus zwei Aspekten. Wir könnten sie "Herz" und "Verstand" nennen, einen Teil von uns, der will und fühlt, und einen Teil von uns, der denkt und weiß. In den Schriften werden sie gewöhnlich als "Wille" und "Verstand" bezeichnet. Sie sind Spiegelbilder und Gefäße der unendlichen Liebe und der unendlichen Weisheit des Herrn.
Von beiden ist das Herz oder der Wille letztlich das Wichtigste. Wer wir tatsächlich sind, wird durch das bestimmt, was wir lieben, und die Dinge in unserem Herzen bestimmen letztendlich unseren Platz im Himmel (oder in der Hölle). Aber der Wille entzieht sich unserer Kontrolle; wir können uns nicht zwingen, etwas Gutes zu wollen oder etwas Schlechtes nicht zu wollen; wir können unsere Handlungen kontrollieren, aber nicht unsere Gefühle. Aufgrund dieser Macht arbeitet der Herr subtil und sorgfältig in unseren Herzen, auf eine Weise, die wir nicht wahrnehmen können. Die meiste Arbeit und Interaktion findet in unserem Verstand statt, und zwar durch das Wirken dessen, was die Schriften als "göttliche Wahrheit" bezeichnen, die im Wesentlichen das gesamte Wesen des Herrn ist, ausgedrückt in einer Form, die mit unserem Verstand kompatibel ist.
Wenn in der Bibel vom "Geist" des Herrn die Rede ist, steht das für das Wirken der göttlichen Wahrheit in unserem Geist, für die Art und Weise, wie er uns umarmt und uns einlädt, ihn ebenfalls zu umarmen. Und wenn die Bibel davon spricht, dass Menschen einen "Geist" haben, dann ist damit unser Verstand gemeint, wenn wir die göttliche Wahrheit annehmen, um vom Herrn zu lernen und ihm zu folgen.
(Verweise: Die Offenbarung Erklärt 183; Himmlischen Geheimnissen 5222, 9818 [2-28], 10240 [1-2])
