AC 7779
[2] Falsified truths in the first place
are those which are acknowledged as essentials,
such as these:
-- that faith saves howsoever a person has lived;
-- that it saves a person in the last hour of his life;
-- and that he then is pure from sins;
-- thus that sins are wiped away in a moment,
like the uncleanness of the hands by water;
which insist that there is faith without charity,
-- and that in respect to a person's salvation
the life effects nothing,
-- also that a man-devil can in a moment
be made an angel of God.
Such and the like are falsified truths in the first place.
[3] That such and the like are falsified truths of faith,
is very evident;
for who does not know, if he thinks justly,
that the life of faith causes a person to be spiritual,
but not faith
except insofar as it has been implanted in the life.
The life of person is his love,
and that which he loves he wills and intends,
and that which he wills and intends, he does.
This is the being of a person,
but not that which he knows and thinks and does not will.
This being of a person
cannot in any wise be changed into another being
by thinking about mediation and salvation;
but by regeneration anew,
which is being effected during a great part of his life;
for he must be conceived, born, and grown up anew;
and this is not effected by thinking and speaking,
but by willing and acting.
Sunday, September 29, 2013
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