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If Swedenborg was a prophet.........
Because he has given more than a prophesy,why he is not approved by the church?
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Permalink Reply by Stephen Simons on -
I'll answer your question with another question. If Jesus was the Messiah, why was he not approved by the church?
It took a radical act of faith to follow Jesus when the entire leadership of the church was opposed to Him and even wanted Him dead. It is the same now that Christ has returned. It takes a radical act of faith to step out and follow HIm.
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Permalink Reply by Makram Max Abdelmalek Youssef on -
Now Jesus is the Messia and has his protected church by him personally,and as always was protecting the church against heresies and this is one of its main functions,i don t mean Swedenborg is a heresey at all,and as you supposed to know Vassula Ryden has gone all over the world to tell of her apparitions supported by Saint mary apparitions ,and 200 years and Swedenborg is known only by chance,it seems that this is the responsibility of his church ,because they are lazy,leaving the world either know him or not it does not matter to them,don t you see it so drastically,strange?it needs also a radical act of faith to spread this message to the whole world ,to be put in its supposed right place,i really don t know why you can t understand what i mean?if you ask christians in Egypt about Vassula they know her,but never heard about,Swedenborg.
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Permalink Reply by Stephen Simons on
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I do understand what you mean. It is extremely strange that Swedenborgians (http://www.swedenborg.org) and members of the New Church (http://www.newchurch.org) have kept the news of the return of Christ to themselves and do not feature it more strongly in their teaching and publications. I cannot explain it. For myself I can say that I tell everyone I know that Jesus has returned and appeared to Emanuel Swedenborg.
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Permalink Reply by Makram Max Abdelmalek Youssef on
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But Jesus in his 1st church was completely different that ,the disciples even died for his message,so i can understand one thing is that there is something wrong with these teatchings,don t you agree with me?and i even don t look at the great martyrs of christianity in its early age ,but look at some one like Vassula Ryden,how much she is sacrificed for her mission,doesn t the message of Swedenborg deserve even more effort?!!!!!!
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Permalink Reply by Makram Max Abdelmalek Youssef on
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i would like to add a critical question ,and please give me an answer,did Jesus tell Swedenborg to consider these revelations his second coming ,and let me read this please by my own eyes ,i think i have the right to evaluate this by myself.Thanks.
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Permalink Reply by Makram Max Abdelmalek Youssef on
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i have read today the spiritual explanation of mathew 5,i found to my astonishment its so disorganised and superficilal,as i was expecting myself will go into ecastazy,from the magnificence of the explanations,for the sake of god tell me how to explain all these conradictions,.........
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Permalink Reply by Makram Max Abdelmalek Youssef on
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i know its non repliable discussion ,because you most probably have no one,but as a message only ,even vassula is now considered suspicious of dealing with evil spirits,and anyway the bible warned us of dealing with spirits or any of the like.
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Permalink Reply by Stephen Simons on
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This is why it was so important to Emanuel Swedenborg to explain his own experience, so that it could be understood that His experience was not a spiritist, or mediumistic experience. It was an experience similar to the apostle John on the island of Patmos being taken up in the spirit, or Paul's visit to heaven. Of his own experience, Emanuel Swedenborg says, "That Jesus manifested Himself before me, His servant, and sent me to this office, that He afterward opened the eyes of my spirit and so introduced me into the spiritual world and granted me to see the heavens and the hells, and to talk with angels and spirits, and this now continuously for several years, I affirm in truth; as also that from the first day of that call I have not received anything whatever pertaining to the doctrines of that church from any angel, but from Jesus alone while I have read the Bible."
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Permalink Reply by Stephen Simons on
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What explanation of Matthew 5 were you reading?
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Permalink Reply by Stephen Simons on
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Chapter 14 of True Christian Religion: Containing the Whole Theology of the New C... is a good place to start, specifically section 779 and onwards to the end of the chapter. Also, for more detail on the fulfillment of scripture, the end times, the last judgment, and more, see his book on the subject, The Book of the Apocalypse Revealed, Uncovering the Secrets That We...
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Permalink Reply by Makram Max Abdelmalek Youssef on
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Thanks Steven ,and anyway ,i like Swedenborg ideas so much ,because its the only way of getting rid of this suffering world in hope.I will read these parts.
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Permalink Reply by Makram Max Abdelmalek Youssef on
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The explanations i read are from the bible meanings home?
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