Apocalypse Explained
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ISBN13: 9780217174992
Paperback|9780217174992
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: by this beast is described the -way in which those who are meant by the dragon pervert the sense of the letter of the Word by reasonings from the natural man, that they may confirm the justification and salvation by faith alone without good works; and this can not be done except by their falsifying the Word, which in each and every particular conjoins truths to goods and goods to truths, thus faith to charity and charity to faith (as shown above, n. 775). This is why falsifications of the Word are signified by blasphemy, which is said to be the name of this beast. 2] But how the Word is blasphemed by the falsification of it shall be illustrated by the following example. Those who separate faith from good works say: ? That God the Father removed and even rejected from Himself the human race on account of their evils; and for this reason His Son was sent into the world, or the Son Himself, moved by pity, came into the world, and by the punishment of extreme condemnation, which was the passion of the cross, and by His own blood upon it, and finally by His death, He reconciled mankind to the Father, by thus interceding for it. As this is among the chief things of the doctrine of those who separate faith from its life, which is charity, I will state briefly how the Divine is thereby blasphemed. It is blasphemed by this, that they believe and think that the Divine removed or rejected the human race from itself, when yet God is love itself, mercy itself, and goodness itself, and these are His Esse; evidently, therefore, it is impossible for God to remove or reject a single one of the human race, for this would be to act against His own Esse, which, as has been said, is the source of all love, all mercy, and all good. It would be impossible even for any angel or any man who is in ..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217174992 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021717499X |
| Weight | 2.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.59 In |
| List Price | $27.83 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 724 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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