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힘은 당신과 함께 ...

작가: New Christian Bible Study Staff (기계 번역 한국어)

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1770년 스웨덴보그의 신학 전공 논문인 "진정한 기독교 종교"라는 제목의 흥미로운 내용이 있습니다:

"실제로 주님으로부터 끊임없이 발산되는 일종의 장이 있으며, 이 장은 모든 사람을 하늘로 끌어당깁니다. 그것은 전체 영적 세계와 전체 물리적 세계를 가득 채웁니다. 그것은 마치 배를 몰래 운반하는 바다의 강한 해류와 같습니다. 주님을 믿고 그분의 계명대로 사는 모든 사람들은 그 들판이나 해류 속으로 들어와서 들어 올려집니다. 그러나 믿지 않는 사람들은 그곳에 들어가지 않으려 합니다." (참된 기독교 652)

이는 성경 요한복음에 나오는 이 짧은 구절과도 관련이 있습니다:

예수께서 이르시되, 내가 땅에서 살아나면 모든 것을 내게로 끌어들이리라. (요한 복음 12:32).

그리고 (왜 안 될까요?)... 1980년작 '제국의 역습'에서 요다가 포스에 대해 한 말과 비교해 보세요:

"나의 동맹은 포스이며, 강력한 동맹입니다. 생명은 그것을 창조하고 성장시킵니다. 그 에너지는 우리를 둘러싸고 우리를 묶어줍니다. 빛나는 존재는 이 조잡한 물질이 아니라 바로 우리입니다." (요다)

우리가 엿볼 수 있는 수준의 영적인 힘이 실제로 작용하고 있다는 인식이 널리 퍼져 있습니다. 조지 루카스의 "스타워즈"에 등장하는 선과 악의 극명한 대립은 수많은 관객의 공감을 불러일으켰습니다!

1770년 스웨덴보그에서 1980년 요다로 시선을 옮겨 2017년 세계 최고의 뇌 연구자 중 한 명인 이언 맥길크리스트 박사의 이야기로 넘어가 봅시다. 런던대학교 헤이드롭 칼리지에서 열린 세미나에서 맥길크리스트 박사는 우리를 어떤 미래로 이끄는 힘이 있을 수 있다고 주장하며 깊은 사색을 담은 동영상을 링크해 드립니다. 모두 흥미로우며, 약 45분부터 마지막까지 이어지는 부분에서는 우주에 존재할 수 있는 목적에 대해 집중적으로 설명합니다.

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성경

 

요한복음 12:32

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32 내가 땅에서 들리면 모든 사람을 내게로 이끌겠노라' 하시니

스웨덴보그의 저서에서

 

Arcana Coelestia #9378

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9378. 'And Moses alone shall come near Jehovah' means the Lord's togetherness with and presence among people achieved through the Word in general. This is clear from the meaning of 'coming near' as the Lord's togetherness with and presence among people, dealt with below; and from the representation of 'Moses' as the Word in general, dealt with above in 9372. The reason why 'Moses shall come near' means the Lord's togetherness with and presence among people achieved through the Word is that 'coming near' in the spiritual sense means being joined together through love; for those who love each other are joined together, love being spiritual togetherness. It is universally so in the next life that all are joined together according to their love of goodness and truth received from the Lord. Consequently the whole of heaven consists in such togetherness. The situation is similar with coming near or being joined to the Lord. Those who love the Lord are joined to Him, so intimately that they are said to be 'in Him' when they are in heaven. And all those people love the Lord, and are consequently joined to Him through their love, who lead a good life based on the truths of faith, since the good based on those truths emanates from the Lord, indeed is the Lord, John 14:20-21.

[2] But it should be recognized that a person is unable of himself to come near the Lord and be joined to Him; rather the Lord has to come near the person and be joined to him. Yet since the Lord draws a person towards Himself, John 6:44; 12:32, the appearance is that the person does of himself come near and join himself. This happens when the person refrains from evils, for refraining from evils is left to a person's own decision or free will. At this time good from the Lord is flowing in; and it is never lacking, for it is present within the very life a person has from the Lord. But the good accompanying that life is received only in the measure that evils have been removed. The reason why the Word is the means by which the Lord's togetherness with and presence among people is achieved is that the Word unites a person to heaven and through heaven to the Lord. For the Word is Divine Truth emanating from the Lord, and therefore those who adhere to that truth in doctrine and life, or in faith and love, adhere to what is Divine emanating from the Lord, and in so doing are joined to Him.

[3] From all this it is evident that 'Moses alone shall come near Jehovah' means the Lord's togetherness with and presence among people achieved through the Word. The reason why 'coming near' means togetherness and presence is that in the next life distances between one person and another are determined altogether by the dissimilarity and diversity of the interior things which belong to thought and affection, see 1273-1277, 1376-1381, 9104. Also every moving away from the Lord or coming near Him is determined altogether by the good of love and consequently of faith received from Him and shown towards Him. So it is that every heaven's nearness to the Lord is determined by its good and conversely every hell's remoteness from Him by its evil. From all this it is evident why it is that 'being near' and 'coming near' in the spiritual sense mean being joined together, as also in the following places: In David,

Jehovah is near to all calling on Him, who call on Him in truth. Psalms 145:18.

'Near' stands for present and joined together with. In the same author,

Blessed is [anyone] whom You choose and cause to come near; he will dwell in Your courts. Psalms 65:4.

'Causing to come near' stands for being joined together with.

[4] In the same author,

O Jehovah, come near my soul; deliver me. Psalms 69:18.

In the same author,

Jehovah is near to those broken in heart. Psalms 34:18.

In Jeremiah,

Let them cause My people to hear My words, and let them bring them back from their evil way, from the wickedness of their deeds. Am I a God near at hand, and not a God afar off? Jeremiah 23:22-23.

The words 'a God near at hand' apply, it is evident, to those who refrain from evils, and the words 'a God afar off' to those who are immersed in evils. In Moses,

Moses said to Aaron, This is what Jehovah spoke, In those who are near Me 1 I will be sanctified. Leviticus 10:3.

'Being sanctified in those who are near' means with those who have been joined to the Lord through the good of love and the truth of faith derived from the Word. In Jeremiah,

At that time their Magnificent One will be one of themselves, and their Ruler will come from their midst; and I will cause Him to come near, and He will come near Me. For who is This [who] has pledged His heart to come near Me? Jeremiah 30:21.

This refers to the Lord, who is 'the Magnificent One' and 'the Ruler'. 'Coming near Jehovah' is being united to Him, for the coming near of [Him who is] Divine to Divine [Being Itself] is nothing other than union.

각주:

1. literally, In My near ones

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