Saturday, August 05, 2006

AE 714a - knowing and living

AE 714a [2]
... one who knows the things taught in the Word or in doctrine or by a preacher, and does not live according to them, however learned and erudite he may appear, is nevertheless not spiritual but natural, and even sensual, for knowledge and the ability to reason do not make man spiritual, but life itself.

... to love truths and from love to will them and from that will to do them is from heaven, that is, through heaven from the Lord, and is in its nature celestial and Divine....

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