Why I accept the Dutch Thesis
So, I've been profiting from this long break from intensive lay preaching to go deeper into the Latin Testament. The overall structure of the Third Testament is interwoven with numerous encounters with angels and devils and spirits of various kinds to mirror the God Man's gradual glorification and our gradual regeneration. While it is certainly true that our own encounters with angels, devils and spirits of various kinds are not so visually dramatic as those recounted by Swedenborg; yet are these occurring in the form of the fluctuations in our feelings and our thoughts. We cannot feel or think without its being in relation to other people in a community, whether visible or not. All feeling and thought involves you in relationships. And the Latin Word contains an elegant series of expressions of these feelings, thoughts, and their interactions in a best fit taxonomy. Since we have both good and evil desires, and true and false thoughts, the Latin Word, like the Hebrew ...