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Comment on Did Jesus get His message mixed-up? by thegodguy

thegodguy — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:02:15 +0000

Dear Herb,

Good catch! Both Jesus’ statements are in conflict with Jehovah’s Fourth Commandment of honoring father and mother. It is anti-intuitive that the Lord would say something in conflict with spiritual love. So a literal interpretation of Scripture still leaves us with a real theological conundrum. Swedenborg’s teaching’s that the Lord God’s Holy Word contains higher levels of meaning helps us to make sense of Jesus’ odd comments.

Now I have to go back and revise the post. Thanks for the heads-up tip! I think I am experiencing intellectual fatigue.

Spiritually yours,
TheGodGuy

P.S. I have revised the above post!

Comment on Did Jesus get His message mixed-up? by Herb Ziegler

Herb Ziegler — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:38:05 +0000

Luke 14:26 says if you hate not your family you cannot be Jesus’ disciple. This seems to agree with Matthew 10:35,36. Both passages, of course, then conflict with honoring father and mother, and family love expressed elsewhere in the Bible.

Comment on Can dysfunctional families lead to cannibalism? by thegodguy

thegodguy — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:11:23 +0000

Dear Carla,

Provocative titles are the price of entry. Goodness gives the message staying power that provides spiritual sustenance.

Spiritually yours,
TheGodGuy

Comment on Can dysfunctional families lead to cannibalism? by Carla

Carla — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:59:42 +0000

Your titles are very provocative but i am always delighted with the goodness the blog itself expresses. Carrying on with the eating metaphor… always they are food for thought. Your Cannibalism blog reminds me that “pretzel” logic combined with “twisted evil intentions” will not “feed” us spiritually ad are not “worth their salt.”

Comment on Spiritual Complexity Theory by thegodguy

thegodguy — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:44:07 +0000

Dear harriedmystic,

Yes, Swedenborg and Piere Teilhard De chardin had similar insights. However, Swedenborg is the first to address complexity in the non-material spiritual world and its inhabitants using a new theology that lends itself to scientific language.

Existence is relationship – which is an analog of LOVE.

Swedenborg showed how their could be living structure and action (from spiritual beings) abstracted from, and totally removed from, physical time and space.

I am happy that you will revisit these ideas!

Spiritually yours,
TheGodGuy

Comment on Spiritual Complexity Theory by harriedmystic

harriedmystic — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:22:33 +0000

Thoroughly enjoyed your post.

Swedenbourg has much in common theologically with Piere Teilhard De chardin who spoke of the cosmic evolution toward the hypothetical Omega Point of final convergence in the Godhead, the process of pleromenization (or the tendency toward fullness in the natural world) and complexification.

He took this notion of complexification to the point of describing love and the union of disparate parts to form a greater, stronger new whole: two atoms forming a molecule, molecules forming protein chains, and onward. He suggested as well that relationships among people add further heightened energy to the process whereas divorce and disaffection represents a “miscarriage” of opportunity and potentiality.

Thanks for the stimulus to revisit these ideas.

Comment on Are heaven’s angels in agreement with quantum physics? by thegodguy

thegodguy — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:25:41 +0000

Dear Carla,

Thank you for your positive response! God and science are one! The world of human thought is about to experience a grand paradigm shift.

Spiritually yours,
TheGodGuy

Comment on Are heaven’s angels in agreement with quantum physics? by Carla

Carla — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:09:37 +0000

“non- material” and “non-physical” but very substance-tial that force of Love! And very formative and timely that “pre-structure” and “pre-geometric” force of Wisdom! I like your post.

Comment on Happy New Year and a Happy New Jerusalem! by thegodguy

thegodguy — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:03:09 +0000

Dear Jessica,

Thank you for your positive response. In fact, “Quarts Crystal” symbolizes the clarity of TRUTH!

Spiritually yours,
TheGodGuy

Comment on Happy New Year and a Happy New Jerusalem! by Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:38:48 +0000

Thank you for a beautiful blog post. I passed it along to a friend who lives in New York. She said “the ball is the largest Quartz Crystal ball in the World! So those energies and gifts are being Magnified!”