Saturday, December 29, 2007

AC 5149 - falsity comes from two origins

AC 5149 [2]
There is falsity from two origins -
falsity of doctrine, and falsity of evil.
Falsity of doctrine does not consume goods,
for a person may be in falsity of doctrine, and yet in good,
and therefore people of every doctrine, even Gentiles, are saved;
but the falsity of evil is that which consumes goods.
Evil in itself is opposite to good,
yet by itself it does not consume goods, but by means of falsity,
for falsity attacks the truths which belong to good,
because truths are as it were outworks that encompass good.
These outworks are assaulted by means of falsity,
and when these are assaulted, good is given to destruction.

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