AC 8093 [2], AC 8094 - Why Choose Faith Alone; AC 8099 - Being Delivered from Infestations

AC 8093 [2] - Choosing Faith Alone

The opinion concerning faith alone or separate
is not new, or of this time only,
but existed in the ancient churches,
and came into use together with evil of life.

AC 8094

How it is to be understood
that the opinion concerning faith separate or alone
first comes up, shall be briefly told.
Evil of life is attended with its own falsity,
which falsity lies hidden in the person who is in evil of life,
and sometimes he is not aware that it is in him;
but as soon as he thinks about the truths of the church,
and especially when he thinks about salvation,
then this falsity comes forth and clearly shows itself,
and if it cannot deny the truth itself
in respect to its general statement,
it explains it in favor of its own evil, and thus falsifies it;
consequently, when he is thinking about faith and charity,
which are the essentials of the church and of salvation,
faith at once comes up, but not charity,
because charity is opposite to evil of life;
and therefore he also sets charity aside,
and chooses faith alone.

AC 8099 [2] - Being Delivered from Infestations

. . . those who are being delivered from infestations . . .
are so protected by the Lord
that not the slightest evil can touch them,
still less anything of damnation,
for they are encompassed with a column of angels,
with whom the Lord is present:
this was represented by the passage
of the sons of Israel through the sea Suph.