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TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN influx intersect in my vicinity. I have to say "in my vicinity" rather than "in me," precisely because I have no way of telling where the boundary is between me and others in this realm of ideas. If that sounds a little odd, listen to the following from Heaven and Hell (n. 203). To the extent that we are in the form of heaven . . . we are involved in intelligence and wisdom. In fact, . . . all the thinking of our discernment and all the affection of our intentionality reach out into heaven on all sides, according to its form, and communicate marvelously with the communities there, and they with us. There are people who believe that thoughts and affections do not really reach out around them, but occur within them, because they see their thought processes inside themselves, and not as remote from them; but they are quite wrong. As eyesight has an outreach to remote objects, and is influenced by the pattern of things seen "out there," so too that inner sight which is discernment has an outreach in the spiritual world, even though we do not perceive it. There was a spirit who believed that he thought independently-- that is, without any outreach beyond himself and consequent communication with outside communities. To let him know that he was wrong, he was deprived of communication with his neighboring communities. As a result, he not only lost [the power of] thought, he even collapsed, virtually lifeless-- just able to flail his arms about like a newborn infant. After a while, the communication was restored to him, and bit by bit as it was restored, he returned to his thinking state. This is a graphic illustration from Swedenborg's experience of the basic principle that all our thoughts and feelings flow into us, and that they are in some way also happening outside of us. We are not life, we are just recipients of life. In terms of our wave properties, we don't originate anything, and there is nothing we can legitimately call our own in any exclusive sense. Swedenborgianism Churches • General Church of the New Jerusalem • Lord's New Church Which Is Nova Hierosolyma • Swedenborgian Church of North America 119
TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN XII MODERN MOVEMENTS ONENESS PENTECOSTALISM (also known as Apostolic or Jesus' Name Pentecostalism and often pejoratively referred to as the "Jesus Only" movement in its early days) This is a category of denominations and believers within Pentecostalism which adhere to the nontrinitarian theological doctrine of Oneness. The movement first emerged in America around 1914 as the result of doctrinal disputes within the nascent Pentecostal movement and claims an estimated 24 million adherents today. Advocating a non-traditional view of God, Oneness Pentecostals find in modalistic monarchianism of the fourth century a historical predecessor that affirmed the two central aspects of their own convictions: 1. there is one indivisible God with no distinction of persons in God’s eternal essence, and 2. Jesus Christ is the manifestation, human personification, or incarnation of the one God.[5] 120
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