from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Teachings #15

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15. Since the joining together of goodness and truth is like a marriage, we can see that anything good loves what is true and that correspondingly anything true loves what is good. Each longs to be joined to the other. People in the church who do not have this love and this longing are not participating in the heavenly marriage. This means that the church is not yet in them, because the joining together of goodness and truth is what makes the church.

  
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John 8:34

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34 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.