Thursday, September 05, 2013

AC 7306 - falsity rejects; AC 7318 - examples of the falsification of truth

AC 7306
The reason why those who are in falsities
cannot be enlightened,
is that falsities reject and extinguish
all the light which enlightens,
which light is received solely by truths.

AC 7318
What the falsification of truth is
shall be illustrated by some examples.
-- Truth is falsified
 when from reasonings it is concluded and said
that because no one can do what is good from himself,
 therefore good effects nothing toward salvation.
-- Truth is also falsified when it is said
that all the good which a person does regards himself
and is done for the sake of recompense,
and this being so, works of charity are not to be done.
-- Truth is falsified when it is said
that because all good is from the Lord,
therefore a person ought to do nothing of good,
but should await influx.
-- Truth is falsified when it said
that truth can exist in a person
without the good which is of charity,
thus faith without charity.
-- Truth is falsified when it is said
that no one can enter into heaven
except one who is miserable and poor;
also when it is said,
unless he gives all he has to the poor,
and reduces himself to miseries. 
-- Truth is falsified when it is said
that everyone can be admitted into heaven from mercy,
no matter how he has lived.
-- Truth is still more falsified when it is said
that there has been given to man
 the power of admitting into heaven whomsoever he pleases.
-- Truth is falsified when it is said
that sins are wiped and washed away like filth by water;
and truth is still more falsified when it is said
that a person has the power of remitting sins,
and that when they have been remitted,
they are altogether wiped away,
and the person is pure.
-- Truth is falsified when it is said
that the Lord has taken all sins upon Himself,
and so has taken them away,
and that thus a person can be saved,
no matter what his life is.
-- Truth is falsified when it is said
that no one is saved except one who is within the church.
The reasonings by which such falsification is effected,
are that they who are within the church have been baptized,
have the Word, know about the Lord,
about the resurrection, life eternal, heaven, and hell,
and thus they know what the faith is
by which they can be justified.

There are countless such things as these,
for there is not a single truth which cannot be falsified,
and the falsification confirmed by reasonings from fallacies.

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