AC 10318, 10325 - revelation from the Divine

AC 10318
Without a revelation from the Divine,
a person cannot know anything about eternal life,
nor indeed anything about God,
and still less about love to Him and faith in Him.
For a person is born into mere ignorance,
and afterward has all things to learn from what is of the world,
from which he must form his understanding.
He is also born by heredity into all evil
that belongs to the love of self and the love of the world.
The delights from these loves reign continually,
and prompt to such things as are
diametrically contrary to the Divine.
From this then it is
that from himself a person knows nothing about eternal life;
and therefore there must needs be a revelation
from which he may know this.

AC 10325
The books of the Word
are all those which have an internal sense;
and those which have not an internal sense
are not the Word.
The books of the Word in the Old Testament are
the five books of Moses,
the book of Joshua, the book of Judges,
the two books of Samuel,
the two books of Kings,
the Psalms of David,
the Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations,
Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah,
Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah,
Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi;
and in the New Testament the four Gospels,
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John;
and Revelation.