8858. A person's whole character is determined by the nature of whatever dominates his life; this is what marks him off from others. His heaven is formed in accordance with it if he is good, or his hell if he is bad. For it constitutes his true will and so the true being of his life, which is unchangeable after death. From all this one may see what the life is like in a person who has been regenerated, and what it is like in one who has not been regenerated.
Isaiah 57:3-5
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"But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.
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Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,
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you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
