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原作者: 伊曼纽尔斯威登堡

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1. Religion Is All about How We Live, and the Religious Way to Live Is to Do Good.

EVERYONE who has any religion knows and acknowledges that people who lead a good life are saved and people who lead an evil life are damned. That is, they know and acknowledge that if we lead a good life we think good things not only about God but also about our neighbor, which is not the case if we lead an evil life.

What we love constitutes our life, and whatever we love we not only do freely but also think freely. So we say that life is doing good things because doing good things is inseparable from thinking good things. If this doing and this thinking are not working together in us, then they are not part of our life. This, though, needs to be explained in what follows.

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