Minister’s Blog
Jesus points out is that there is something within us that has an unavoidable connection to cause and effect. Good trees and bad trees symbolize the state of our mind that is directly related to the quality of our actions.
God granted the priesthood to Aaron and his sons with the ritual of atonement. This was the removal of all their sins and transgressions, meaning there is no sin that is unremovable, according to the Bible
The story about the serpent and the woman is about our struggle to rise above our physically-oriented perception of reality and our desire to make things our own.
As the original material from the man for the creation of the woman was a rib, which protects his heart, the creation of the woman symbolized God granting humanity what they desire the most in their hearts: a certain sense of ownership of their life…
Humans serve the grand design of the Creator by simply living a full life as it is given to them, because their existence itself supports the interconnectedness and interdependence of spiritual reality and physical reality.
God does not resemble us, but we resemble God. There is a significant difference between who resembles who.
Of course, Creator God wishes humans to choose the light and thus eventually become light. Yet, darkness remains because that is where we began our journey…
How many of us find ourselves making resolutions for 2026 that we had already made in prior years? What happened with those? Thankfully, our biblical tradition brings with it some guidelines for orienting ourselves…
John the Baptist proclaimed, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29) But many biblical scholars in the modern world agree that the very phrase “takes away the sin of the world” might have been added by evangelists later.
Why would God care about the quality of human lives so much? Could it be simply because God loves humans? Or is there a deeper mystery involved? According to Swedenborg, the answer to these questions is yes to all.