Faith AND Charity - What is this man saying ?
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 7:10 pm
Would anyone care to interpret this quote and comment on its validity ?
"It is very evident from their Epistles that it never entered the mind of any of the Apostles that the church of this day would separate faith from charity by teaching that faith alone justifies and saves apart from the works of the law, and that charity therefore cannot be conjoined with faith, since faith is from God, and charity, so far as it is expressed in works, is from man. But this separation and division were introduced into the Christian church when it divided God into three persons, and ascribed to each equal Divinity."
- Emmanuel Swedenborg, "True Christian Religion", section 355
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg
http://www.swedenborgdigitallibrary.org ... tcrtc.html
"It is very evident from their Epistles that it never entered the mind of any of the Apostles that the church of this day would separate faith from charity by teaching that faith alone justifies and saves apart from the works of the law, and that charity therefore cannot be conjoined with faith, since faith is from God, and charity, so far as it is expressed in works, is from man. But this separation and division were introduced into the Christian church when it divided God into three persons, and ascribed to each equal Divinity."
- Emmanuel Swedenborg, "True Christian Religion", section 355
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg
http://www.swedenborgdigitallibrary.org ... tcrtc.html