#137 Omnipresence
Од страна на Jonathan S. Rose
Title: Omnipresence
Topic: Trinity
Summary: We look at what Scripture says about God's omnipresence and how it is that God can be everywhere, and yet seem absent or distant.
Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.
References:
Psalms 46; 139:8, 10
Jeremiah 1:4; 23:23-24
Amos 9:1-2
Acts of the Apostles 17:27-28
Ephesians 4:9-10
John 8:58; 12:37, 39
Psalms 5:6-8
Leviticus 26:11-12
Ezekiel 34:20, 25, 30
John 12:26; 14:1
2 Corinthians 6:16
1 John 4:16
Revelation 21:3
Jonah 1:1, 15, 17; 2:9-10, 3
Heaven and Hell #561
561. The deeper levels of the thoughts and affections of people who love themselves above all are turned toward themselves and the world - and are turned away, therefore, from the Lord and heaven. This is why such people fall prey to all kinds of evil and why the divine nature cannot flow in. It is because the moment it does flow in, it is submerged in thoughts about self and polluted, and is saturated with evils that arise from their self-centeredness. This is why they all look away from the Lord in the other life, toward the gloom that occupies the site of our world's sun there and is directly across from heaven's sun, which is the Lord (see 123 above). Darkness means evil, and our world's sun means self-love. 1
Фусноти:
1. [Swedenborg's footnote] Our world's sun means love for oneself: Arcana Coelestia 2441. How "worshiping the sun" [Deuteronomy 4:19; 17:3] means worshiping things that are contrary to heavenly love and the Lord: 441, 10584. The warming sun [Exodus 16:21] means the rising up of cravings for evil: 8487.