121、与爱或仁分离之信就像冬光，其中地上的万物都蛰伏，不开花，不结果，也不产出庄稼；与爱或仁一起的信则像春夏之光，其中万物都开花、结果（2231，3146，3412，3413节）。当光从天堂流入时，冬光，也就是与仁分离之信的光，就会转化为幽暗；那些持守这信的人就变得盲目而愚蠢（3412，3413节）。那些在教义和生活上将信与仁分离的人会陷入黑暗，因而陷入对真理的无知，以及虚假之中，因为这些构成（属灵的）黑暗（9186节）。他们把自己扔进虚假，因而扔进邪恶之中（3325，8094节）。他们把自己所扔进的错误和虚假（4721，4730，4776，4783，4925，7779，8313，8765，9224节）。圣言向他们关闭（3773，4783，8780节）。他们看不见或不注意主如此频繁地论到爱和仁，以及它们的果子，也就是善行的一切话，包括例子（1017，3416节）。他们也不知道何为良善，因而不知道何为天堂之爱，或何为仁爱（2417，3603，4126，9995节）。
与仁分离之信根本不是信（654，724，1162，1176，2049，2116，2343，2349，3419，3849，3868，6348，7039，7342，9783节）。这种信在来世会消亡（2228，5820节）。当人们认为唯独信是最重要的原则时，他们所拥有的真理就被他们作为出发点或原则的虚假败坏了（2435节）。这些人不让自己被说服，因为这违背他们的基本信念（2385节）。唯信的教义毁灭仁（6353，8094节）。那些将信与仁分离的人由该隐，含，流便，埃及人的长子和非利士人来代表（3325，7097，7317，8093节）。那些认为唯信得救的人会给邪恶的生活找借口；而那些过着邪恶生活的人则没有信，因为他们没有仁（3865，7766，7778，7790，7950，8094节）。他们从内心充满自己的邪恶之虚假，尽管他们没有意识到这一点（7790，7950节）。这意味着良善无法与他们结合（8981，8983节）。在来世，他们反对良善，反对那些处于良善的人（7097，7127，7317，7502，7545，8096，8313节）。那些心思简单，其实有智慧的人知道何为生活的良善，因而知道何为仁爱，但不知道何为分离之信（4741，4754节）。
教会的一切都与良善和真理，因而与仁和信有关（7752，7753，7754节）。在真理被植入人的生活，因而变成仁之良善之前，教会并不存在于他里面（3310节）。构成教会的是仁，而不是与仁分离之信（809，916，1798，1799，1834，1844节）。教会的内在或核心是仁（1799，7755节）。因此，哪里没有仁，哪里就没有教会（4766，5826节）。如果所有人都从仁的角度来观看，无论他们在信之教义和敬拜的仪式上如何不同，那么教会将合而为一（1285，1316，1798，1799，1834，1844，2385，2982，3267，3451节）。如果仁被视为第一位，信被视为第二位，教会将何等良善（6269，6272节）。每个教会都是从仁开始的，但随着时间推移都偏向了信，最终转向唯信（1834，1835，2231，4683，8094节）。教会的末期没有信，因为没有仁（1843节）。对主的敬拜在于仁爱的生活（8254，8256节）。敬拜的性质取决于仁爱的性质（2190节）。构成外在教会的人若处于仁，就拥有一个内在（1100，1102，1151，1153节）。古代教会的教义是生活的教义，也就是仁之教义，而不是分离之信的教义（2385，2417，3419，3420，4844，6628，7259-7262节）。
当主使人重生时，祂就将真理播种到并植入他的仁之良善（2063，2189，3310节）。否则，种子，就是信之真理无法扎根（880节）。然后，良善和真理就照着所接受的仁的质和量而增长（1016节）。重生之人的新光并非来自信，而是通过信来自仁（854节）。当人重生时，信之真理与情感的快乐一起变成人的一部分，因为他喜欢实行真理；后来这些真理就与这种情感一起再现，因为真理和情感是结合在一起的（2487，3040，3066，3074，3336，4018，5893节）。
那些处于对主之爱和对邻之仁的人永远不会失去任何东西，因为他们与主结合；但那些处于分离之信的人则不然（7506，7507节）。在人里面成为永久的性质是其仁之生命的性质，而不是其分离之信的性质（8256节）。那些过着仁爱生活之人的快乐的一切状态在来世都会返回，并大幅增长（823节）。天上的幸福从主流入仁，因为它流入人的真正生命，但不流入无仁之信（2363节）。在天上，所有人都基于仁来进行评估，无一基于与仁分离之信来进行评估（1258，1394节）。在天上，所有人都照着他们的爱而与他人交往（7085节）。没有人获准通过单单思想良善进入天堂，而是通过意愿良善进入（2401，3459节）。除非行善与意愿良善和思想良善相结合，否则没有救恩，也没有内在人与外在人的任何结合（3987节）。在来世，只有那些处于仁爱的人才接受主和对祂的信（2343节）。
良善不停地渴望并努力与真理结合；因此，仁不停地渴望并努力与信结合（9206，9207，9495节）。仁之良善承认自己的信之真理，信之真理承认自己的仁之良善（2429，3101，3102，3161，3179，3180，4358，5807，5835，9637节）。因此，信之真理与仁之良善有一个结合，包括进一步的细节（3834，4096，4097，4301，4345，4353，4364，4368，5365，7623-7627，7752-7762，8530，9258，10555节）。它们的结合就像婚姻（1904，2173，2508节）。婚姻的律法就如主的圣言所说，二人要合为一体（162，10168，10169节）。信与仁也是如此（1904，2173，2508节）。这意味着真正为信的信本质上是仁（2228，2839，3180，9783节）。正如良善是一个事物的存在，真理是由此而来的显现，仁也是教会的存在，信是由此而来的显现（3049，3180，4574，5002，9144节）。信之真理从仁之良善获得自己的生命，这意味着照信之真理生活就是仁（2571，4070，4096，4097，4736，4757，4884，5147，5928，9154，9667，9841，10729节）。信只能存在于仁里面，若不存在于仁里面，这信里面就没有任何良善（2261，4368节）。当人只知道并思想信的事物时，信在人里面不是活着的；但当他意愿它们，并出于意愿实行它们时，信就活过来了（9224节）。
得救不是通过信，而是通过照信之真理的生活，这种生活就是仁（379，389，2228，4663，4721节）。那些出于教会的教义认为唯信得救的人若为了公义而行公义，为了良善而行良善，就得救了，因为他们实际上仍处于仁爱（2442，3242，3459，3463，7506，7507节）。如果只是思想信就能得救，那么所有人都会得救（2228，10659节）。构成人里面的天堂的，是仁，而不是无仁之信（3513，3584，3815，9832，10714，10715，10721，10724节）。在天上，所有人都基于仁，而不是基于信进行评估（1258，1394，2364，4802节）。主通过照信之真理的生活，而不是通过信与人结合（9380，10143，10153，10310，10578，10645，10648节）。主是“生命树”（创世记2:9；3:22，24；启示录2:7；22:2，14），它的“果”是仁之良善，它的“叶”是信（3427，9337节）。信是“小光”，爱是“大光”（创世记1:16；30-38节）。
主的属天国度的天使不知道什么叫信，他们甚至不提信；而主的属灵国度的天使谈论信，因为他们推理真理（202，203，337，2715，3246，4448，9166，10786节）。主的属天国度的天使只说“是，是”，或“不是，不是”；但主的属灵国度的天使当谈论属灵真理，也就是信的事物时，会推理某事是否如此（2715，3246，4448，9166，10786节），这些章节解释了主的这句话：
你们的话，是，就说是；不是，就说不是；若再多说，就是出于那恶者。（马太福音5:37）
属天天使之所以是这样，是因为他们将信之真理直接应用于生活，而不是像属灵天使那样先把它们存储在记忆中；因此，属天天使对信的一切事物拥有一种更高的洞察力（202，597，607，784，1121，1387，1398，1442，1919，5113，5897，6367，7680，7877，8521，8780，9995，10124节）。
在显著意义上被称为得救之信的信靠或信心只出现在那些在生活上处于良善的人身上，因而只出现在那些处于仁爱的人身上（2982，4352，4683，4689，7762，8240，9239-9245节）。很少有人知道什么叫信心（3868，4352节）。
相信来自神的真理和实际信神之间的区别（9239，9243节）。知道是一回事，承认是另一回事，拥有信仰又是一回事（896，4319，5664节）。信有事实的一面，理性的一面和属灵的一面（2504，8078节）。信的第一个阶段是承认主（10083节）。从主流入人的一切都是良善（1614，2016，2751，2882，2883，2891，2892，2904，6193，7643，9128节）。
有一种说服性的信仰，然而，它根本不是信（2343，2682，2689，3417，3865，8148节）。
从各种推理来看，似乎信在仁之前，但这是一个错觉（3324节）。仅凭理性之光就能得知，良善，因而仁是第一位的；真理，因而信是第二位的（6273节）。良善或仁，实际上是第一位的，或是教会的第一要素；而真理，或信是第二位的，或是教会的第二要素，尽管表面上看不是这样（3324，3325，3330，3336，3494，3589，3548，3556，3570，3576，3603，3701，3995，4337，4601，4925，4926，4928，4930，5351，6256，6269，6272，6273，8042，8080，10110节）。古人也争辩教会的第一要素或长子是信还是仁（367，2435，3324节）。
121、与爱或仁慈分离的信仰就像是冬天的光，在此光中大地上万物休眠，无花，无果，无收成。但是有爱或仁慈的信仰就像是春天或夏天的光，在此光中万物欣欣向荣，硕果累累 （2231，3146，3412，3413）。脱离了仁爱的信仰就是冬天之光，会把照进的天堂之光转变成浓厚的黑暗。持有此种信仰之人会变成瞎子和蠢人 （3412，3413）。
人若在教义上和生活中把信仰与仁爱分离，他就处于黑暗中。他不知何为真理，且深陷谬误之中，这就是灵性的黑暗 （9186）。他们投身于谬误之中，从而行为邪恶 （3325，8094）。在谬误中不可自拔 （4721，4730，4776，4783，4925，7779，8313，8765，9224）。圣言对他们是关闭的 （3773，4783，8780）。对于主经常教导的关于爱和仁慈、人的行为就是他所结的果子等，他们毫不在意，视若无睹 （1017，3416） 他们既不知道何为良善，也不知道何为属天之爱，何为仁爱 （2517，3603，4136，9995）。
与仁爱分离的信仰就不是信仰 （654，724，1162，1176，2049，2116，2343，2349，2417，3849，3868，6348，7039，7342，9783）。在来世这样的信仰将消亡 （2228，5820）。当人仅仅把信仰作为唯一重要的原则时，这起点上的谬误就败坏了他持有的真理 （2335）。这样的人不接受任何劝导，因为违背他所信奉的原则 （2385）。唯独信仰的教义败坏仁爱 （6353，8094）。该隐、含、流便、埃及的长子和非利士人，就代表把信仰和仁爱分离之人 （3325，7097，7317，8093）。
认为唯靠信仰就能得救的人，会为邪恶的生活找借口。生活邪恶之人并没有信仰，因为他们没有仁爱 （3865，7766，7778，7790，7950，8094）。他们的内在被来自邪恶的谬误念头啃噬，却不自知 （7790，7950）。因此良善与他们无法结缘 （8981，8983）。在来世，他们既反对良善，又对抗行为良善之人 （7097，7127，7317，7502，7545，80196，8313）。心地单纯又明智之人，知道何为良善的生命，并因而知道何为仁爱，却不知道脱离了仁爱的信仰是何光景 （4741，4754）。
教会的一切事物都与良善和真理有关，因此与仁爱和信仰有关 （7752-7754）。在真理植入人的生命，并从仁爱之心发出良善行为以前，教会不在他里面 （3310）。仁爱，而不是与仁爱分离的信仰构成教会 （809，916，1798，1799，1834，1844）。教会的核心是仁爱 （1799，7755）。因此没有仁爱之处就没有教会 （4766，5826）。如果从仁爱出发去看待一切，而不纠缠在信仰教义的内容和敬拜仪式的差异上，教会就会合一 （1285，1316，1798，1799，1834，1844，2385，2982，3267，3451）。如果仁爱被置于首位，而信仰位于其次，教会将会何等良善？（6269，6272）。每个教会都始于仁爱，但是随着时间的推移逐渐转向信仰，最后变得只有信仰 （1834，1835，2231，4683，8094）。末期教会没有信仰，因为没有了仁爱 （1843）。敬拜主在于过仁爱的生活 （8254，8256）。敬拜的实质取决于仁爱的性质 （2190）。
外在教会的人若虔心仁爱，就会开通他的内在 （1100，1102，1151，1153）。古教会的教义是生活的教义，也是仁爱的教义，不是分隔仁爱唯独信仰的教义 （2385，2417，3419，3420，4844，6628，7259-7262）。
当主更新人的时候，主在他的良善和仁爱中播种并植入真理 （2063，2189，3310）。否则信仰真理的种子不能扎根 （880）。于是依照人受纳仁爱的性状和量度，良善和真理也相应增长 （1016）。被更新之人经历的光不是发自信仰，而是发自仁爱照亮信仰的路途 （854）。当人被重生时，信仰的真理被人欣然接受，心旷神怡，因为他喜悦如此。随后真理伴着同样的感受再次临到，因为信仰真理已经融入人的情感 （2484，2487，3040，3066，3074，3336，4018，5893）。
生命中爱主并仁爱友邻的人，在永生里一无所缺，因为他们与主联结。但是只有信仰却与仁爱分离之人，结局就大不一样 （7506，7507）。能与人永远同在的，是他仁爱的生命特性，若只有信仰就不是这样 （8256）。过着仁爱生活的人，在来世沐浴在幸福喜乐之中，且有增无减 （823）。天堂的祝福从主流入仁爱，也就是人鲜活的生命中；却不流入没有仁爱的信仰 （2363）。天堂里，所有人的价值都以仁爱来衡量，而绝非离开了仁爱的信仰 （1258，1394）。天堂里的所有人，皆以爱来与他人联结 （7085）。没有人仅仅靠思考良善就被天堂接纳，他必须乐意行出良善才可以 （2401，3459）。行为良善若不与意愿良善和思考良善相谐和，就没有救赎，其内在之人与外在之人也没有融通 （3987）。只有奉行仁爱和对主的信仰之人，才在来世被主接纳 （2343）。
良善永远渴望并努力将自己与真理融合，仁爱也同样渴望并竭力与信仰融合 （9206，9207，9495）。仁爱的良善认识它自己的信仰真理，信仰真理也认识它自己的仁爱的良善（2429，3101，3102，3161，3179，3180，4358，5807，5835，9637）。结果，每一条信仰的真理必有一项仁爱的良善与之配合 （3834，4096，4097，4301，4345，4353，4364，4368，5365，7623-7627，7752-7762，8530，9258，10555）。它们的配合就像婚姻 （1904，2173，2508）。根据主的圣言，婚姻的法则是合二为一（10130，10168，10169）。信仰和仁爱也是如此 （1094，2173，2503）。因此，凡是真信仰，它必以仁爱为基础 （2228，2839，3180，9783）。由于良善是每个事物的实相，真理则是此实相的美好表达；相应的，仁爱是教会的实质，信仰就是良善在教会的彰显 （3409，3180，4574，5002，9145）。信仰的真理从植根于仁爱的良善获得生命；意思是，仁爱就是按照信仰的真理去生活 （1589，1947，2571，4070，4096，4097，4736，4757，4884，5147，5928，9154，9667，9841，10729）。只有在仁爱里的信仰才有生命。一个信仰若不奉献仁爱，这信仰里就没有良善 （2261，4368）。人若只是知道和思考信仰，他的信仰就没有生命。但是当人向往信仰并真正行动时，信仰就进入他的生命 （9224）。
仅凭信仰没有拯救；获得拯救要按照信仰的真理去生活，这样的生活是仁爱 （379，389，2228，4663，4721）。虽然在教会中人被教导唯信就可得救，但他如果仍然因正义而行正义，因良善而行良善，他就能得救。因为实际上他在奉行仁爱 （2442，3242，3459，3463，7506，7507）。如果仅靠对信仰的钻研深思就能获救，那么所有人都能获救 （2361，10659）。
仁爱构建人内在的天堂，没有仁爱的信仰则不能 （3513，3584，3815，9832，10714，10715，10721，10724）。在天堂里，一切都依据仁爱来评价，而不是根据信仰 （1258，1394，2361，4802）。信仰不能使人与主联结，与主联结是通过活出信仰教导的真理 （9380，10143，10153，10310，10578，10645，10648）。主是生命树，出自仁爱的善行是果子，信仰是树叶（译者：生命树，果子，树叶的出处见创世记2:9；3:22，24；启示录2:7；22:2，14） （3427，9337）。信仰是“小光”，良善是“大光” （译者：指创世记1:16的大光与小光）（30-38）。
主的属天国度的天使不知道何为信仰，因此他们从不提及信仰；但是主的属灵国度的天使谈论信仰，因为他们推论真理的内涵 （202，203，337，2715，3246，4448，9166，10786）。主的属天国度的天使只说是，是或不，不；但是，当讨论关于信仰内容的属灵真理时，主的属灵国度的天使，会对它们的是与否进行推论 （2715，3246，4448，9166，10786）。这就解释了主下面的话：
你们的话，是，就说是；不是，就说不是；若再多说，就是出于那恶者（马太福音5:37）
属天天使如此做为的原因，是因为他们即刻将信仰真理纳入他们的生命，而不是像属灵天使那样，先把它们存储在记忆里。因此，属天天使对信仰的所有事物，有更高的觉察能力 （202，585，597，607，784，1121，1387，1398，1442，1919，5113，5897，6367，7680，7877，8521，8780，9936，9995，10124）。
信靠或信心，很显然这里指的是拯救的信仰，仅仅见于那些在生命中践行良善，也因此具有仁爱的人 （2982，4352，4683，4689，7762，8240，9239-9245）。很少人知道这种信心是什么 （3868，4352）。
相信来自主的真理和相信主的区别 （9239，9243）。知道一些真理是一回事，认可它们是另一回事，建立对其的信仰更是另一回事 （896，4319，5664）。信仰分事实层面，有理性层面，还有属灵层面 （2504，8078）。信仰的第一阶段是承认主 （10083）。从主流入并与人同在的一切都是良善（1614，2016，2751，2882，2883，2891，2892，2904，6193，7643，9128）。
因为劝说而接受的信仰，不是信仰 （2343，2682，2689，3427，3865，8148）。
由于种种原因，看起来好像信仰位于仁爱之先，但这是一个错觉 （3324）。仅仅通过理性之光就可看出，良善（因而仁爱），是第一位的；真理 （因而信仰），是第二位的 （6273）。良善或者仁爱事实上位于首位，或者说是教会的首位要素；真理或者信仰是第二位的，或者说是教会的次位要素，尽管看上去不是这样 （3324，3325，3330，3336，3494，3539，3548，3556，3570，3576，3603，3701，3995，4337，4601，4925，4926，4928，4930，5351，6256，6269，6272，6273，8042，8080，10110）。在古教会有过同样的争论，就是信仰和仁爱何者为先，或者说何者为教会的长子 （367，2435，3324）。
121. Faith separated from love or caring is like the light of winter, in which everything in the earth is dormant and no flower, fruit, or harvest is produced; but faith together with love or caring is like the light of spring and summer, in which everything blooms and bears fruit: 2231, 3146, 3412, 3413. The light of winter, which is the light of faith separated from caring, turns into deep darkness when light flows in from heaven; and people devoted to that faith become blind and stupid: 3412, 3413. People who separate faith from caring in the teachings they accept and in the lives they lead are in darkness; they do not know what truth is and are mired in falsities, and these constitute [spiritual] darkness: 9186. They plunge themselves into false convictions and therefore into evil practices: 3325, 8094. The errors and false convictions into which they plunge themselves: 4721, 4730, 4776, 4783, 4925, 7779, 8313, 8765, 9224. The Word is closed to them: 3773, 4783, 8780. They do not pay attention to or even see all the many things the Lord said about love and caring and about their fruits, which are good actions: 1017, 3416 (which include examples). They do not know what goodness is, and therefore they do not know what heavenly love is or what caring is: 2417, 3603, 4126, 9995.
[2] Faith separated from caring is no faith at all: 654, 724, 1162, 1176, 2049, 2116, 2343, 2349, 3419, 3849, 3868, 6348, 7039, 7342, 9783. In the other life this kind of faith perishes: 2228, 5820. When people make faith alone the most important principle, the truths they have are corrupted by the falseness of their starting point: 2435. Yet they will not let themselves be convinced otherwise, because it goes against their fundamental belief: 2385. The teachings concerning faith alone are destructive of caring: 6353, 8094. People who separate faith from caring are represented by Cain, Ham, Reuben, the firstborn of the Egyptians, and the Philistines: 3325, 7097, 7317, 8093. People who regard faith alone as ensuring salvation say that it is all right to live an evil life; yet those who devote themselves to leading evil lives actually have no faith, because there is no caring in them: 13865, 7766, 7778, 7790, 7950, 8094. Inwardly, they are consumed with false thoughts caused by their evil, although they do not realize this: 7790, 7950. This means that goodness cannot be joined to them: 8981, 8983. In the other life they are opposed to what is good and opposed to people who are engaged in doing anything good: 7097, 7127, 7317, 7502, 7545, 8096, 8313. People who are simple-hearted (and are therefore actually wise) know what it is to lead a good life and therefore know what caring is, but they cannot comprehend what faith would be apart from that: 4741, 4754.
[3] Everything about the church goes back to goodness and truth and therefore goes back to caring and faith: 7752, 7753, 7754. The church does not exist within us until truths have been planted in our lives and in this way have turned into good actions done from a caring heart: 3310. Caring, and not faith separated from caring, is what constitutes the church: 809, 916, 1798, 1799, 1834, 1844. Caring is the heart of the church: 1799, 7755. Therefore there is no church where there is no caring: 4766, 5826. If all people were viewed from a perspective of caring no matter how they differed in the teachings of their faith and in the forms of their worship, the church would be unified: 1285, 1316, 1798, 1799, 1834, 1844, 2385, 2982, 3267, 3451. How good the church would be if caring were seen as first in importance and faith as second: 6269, 6272. Every church is initially devoted to caring, but with the passage of time turns instead toward faith and eventually to faith alone: 1834, 1835, 2231, 4683, 8094. In the last times of a church there is no faith because there is no caring: 1843. Worship of the Lord consists of a life of caring: 8254, 8256. The nature of our devotion depends on the nature of our caring: 2190. People who constitute the outer church nevertheless have an inner dimension if they have devoted themselves to caring: 1100, 1102, 1151, 1153. The body of teaching of the ancient church consisted of teachings about how to live one's life and was focused on caring, not on faith separated from caring: 2385, 2417, 3419, 3420, 4844, 6628, 7259-7262.
[4] As the Lord regenerates us, he sows and implants truth in our goodness and caring: 2063, 2189, 3310. Otherwise the seed, which is the truth that belongs to religious faith, could not take root: 880. The amount of goodness and truth within us then grows in proportion to the nature and extent of the caring we have allowed ourselves to feel: 1016. The new light experienced by those who are being reborn does not come from faith but from the way caring illuminates faith: 854. As we are being regenerated, the truths that belong to religious faith become a part of us, along with a feeling of pleasure because we love to do them; and later those truths come back to us with that same feeling again, because the truths and the feeling are joined together: 2487, 3040, 3066, 3074, 3336, 4018, 5893.
[5] When people have devoted their lives to loving the Lord and caring about their neighbor, throughout all eternity they lose nothing, because they are joined to the Lord; the outcome is different, though, for people devoted to a faith separated from caring: 7506, 7507. The nature that becomes permanent within us is the nature of our life of caring, not the nature of our faith by itself: 8256. If we have lived a life devoted to caring, all our states of pleasure return to us in the other life and are immensely amplified: 823. Heavenly bliss flows from the Lord into our caring because it flows into our active life, and not into any faith we might have apart from caring: 2363. In heaven we are all evaluated on the basis of our caring; no one is evaluated on the basis of faith separated from caring: 1258, 1394. For all who are in the heavens, what they love is what brings them into association with others: 7085. No one gets into heaven for merely thinking about goodness; we must actually want to do some good: 2401, 3459. If doing what is good is not joined to willing to do what is good and thinking what is good, there is no salvation for us and no joining of our inner self and our outer self: 3987. In the other life the only people who are receptive to the Lord and to faith in him are the ones who have been devoted to caring: 2343.
[6] Goodness ceaselessly longs and strives to join itself to truths; therefore caring ceaselessly longs and strives to join itself to faith: 9206, 9207, 9495. Each type of goodness or caring recognizes the truth that goes with it from among those that belong to religious faith; and each type of truth that belongs to religious faith recognizes the type of goodness or caring that goes with it: 2429, 3101, 3102, 3161, 3179, 3180, 4358, 5807, 5835, 9637. As a result a bond forms between a given truth that belongs to religious faith and a given type of goodness that comes from caring: 3834, 4096, 4097, 4301, 4345, 4353, 4364, 4368, 5365, 7623-7627, 7752-7762, 8530, 9258, 10555 (which include further details). This bond is like a marriage: 1904, 2173, 2508. The law of marriage, as the Lord's Word says, is that two should become one [Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5-6; Mark 10:7]: 162, 10168, 10169. Faith and caring therefore should become one: 1904, 2173, 2508. This means that in order to be genuine, faith must have caring as its essence: 2228, 2839, 3180, 9783. As goodness is the reality underlying a thing and truth is how that thing becomes manifest from goodness, so caring is the reality underlying the church, and faith is how [the church] becomes manifest from goodness: 3049, 3180, 4574, 5002, 9144. The truth that belongs to religious faith gets its life from good actions that embody caring, which means that to care is to lead a life in accord with the truth that belongs to religious faith: 2571, 4070, 4096, 4097, 4736, 4757, 4884, 5147, 5928, 9154, 9667, 9841, 10729. Faith can exist only in the context of caring. If a given kind of faith is not devoted to caring, then there is nothing good in that faith: 2261, 4368. Faith is not alive in us when all we do is know about faith and think about it. Rather, faith comes to life when we will to do, and when we actively do, what it teaches: 9224.
[7] There is no salvation through faith, but there is salvation through a life in accord with the truths that faith teaches, which is a life of caring: 379, 389, 2228, 4663, 4721. People who have been taught by their church to think that faith alone saves, but who nevertheless do what is right because it is right and do what is good because it is good, are saved, because they are in fact devoted to caring: 2442, 3242, 3459, 3463, 7506, 7507. If having thoughts about faith were all that were required for salvation, everyone would be saved: 2228, 10659. Caring creates a heaven within us; faith apart from caring does not: 3513, 3584, 3815, 9832, 10714, 10715, 10721, 10724. In heaven all are evaluated on the basis of their caring, not their faith: 1258, 1394, 2364, 4802. Our faith does not join us to the Lord; what joins us to the Lord is living by the truths that faith teaches: 9380, 10143, 10153, 10310, 10578, 10645, 10648. The "tree of life" [Genesis 2:9; 3:22, 24; Revelation 2:7; 22:2, 14] is the Lord, its "fruits" are good actions that come from caring, and its "leaves" are faith: 3427, 9337. Faith is "the lesser light" and love is "the greater light" [Genesis 1:16]: 30-38.
[8] Angels of the Lord's heavenly kingdom do not know what faith is, so much so that they do not even mention it; but angels of the Lord's spiritual kingdom talk about faith because they reason about matters of truth: 202, 203, 337, 2715, 3246, 4448, 9166, 10786. Angels in the Lord's heavenly kingdom say only "Yes, yes" or "No, no"; but angels from the Lord's spiritual kingdom discuss whether something is so or not when they are talking about spiritual truths, which are matters of faith: 2715, 3246, 4448, 9166, 10786 (these passages deal with the interpretation of the Lord's words "Let your communication be ‘Yes, yes; no, no. ' Whatever is more than these comes from evil" [Matthew 5:37]). The reason heavenly angels are like this is that they put the truths that belong to religious faith directly into their lives, rather than putting them first into their memories the way spiritual angels do; and as a result heavenly angels have a higher perception of everything that has to do with faith: 202, 597, 607, 784, 1121, 1387, 1398, 1442, 1919, 5113, 5897, 6367, 7680, 7877, 8521, 8780, 9995, 10124.
[9] The trust or assurance that is called "saving faith" in the most valid sense is found only in people whose lives are devoted to doing what is good, people therefore who are devoted to caring: 2982, 4352, 4683, 4689, 7762, 8240, 9239-9245. Few people know what this assurance is: 3868, 4352.
[10] The difference between believing the truth that comes from God and actually believing in God: 9239, 9243. It is one thing to know about some truth, another thing to acknowledge it, and still another thing to have faith in it: 896, 4319, 5664b. Faith has a factual aspect, a rational aspect, and a spiritual aspect: 2504, 8078. The first phase of faith is to acknowledge the Lord: 10083. Everything that flows into us from the Lord is good: 1614, 2016, 2751, 2882, 2883, 2891, 2892, 2904, 6193, 7643, 9128.
[11] A faith that you have talked yourself into is no faith at all: 2343, 2682, 2689, 3417, 3865, 8148.
[12] For various reasons it seems as though faith comes before caring, but this is an illusion: 3324. We can know simply from the light of reason that goodness (and therefore caring) comes first and that truth (and therefore faith) comes second: 6273. Goodness (and therefore caring) is actually primary and is the first element of the church; while truth (and therefore faith) is actually secondary and is the second element of the church, even though it may not seem that way: 3324, 3325, 3330, 3336, 3494, 3589, 3548, 3556, 3570, 3576, 3603, 3701, 3995, 4337, 4601, 4925, 4926, 4928, 4930, 5351, 6256, 6269, 6272, 6273, 8042, 8080, 10110. Among the ancients as well there was disagreement as to whether faith or caring was the first element or firstborn of the church: 367, 2435, 3324.
Footnotes:
1. One of the problems Swedenborg saw as arising out of the doctrine of faith alone was that it could be used to justify antinomianism. Though the term antinomianism is sometimes used in a milder, technical sense to refer to Christian freedom from the laws of Moses, in its extreme form antinomianism holds that Christians, having received the grace of God and having won salvation, are not required to observe any moral law; in other words, having been "saved" already, Christians remain saved no matter what moral wrongs they commit, even to the point of outright atrocities. The rationale, though not the term, has an ancient history: the apostle Paul (died between 62 and 68 C. E.) mentions that he was accused of holding to it (Romans 3:8). It reemerged occasionally after Paul's time, including in Reformation Europe, and was sufficiently problematic then that Luther condemned it in the Smalcald Articles:
Some fanatical spirits might arise [and] perhaps some already are present . . . who maintain that all who once have received the Spirit or the forgiveness of sin or have become believers, should they sin after that, would still remain in the faith, and such sin would not harm them. They shout, "Do what you will! If you believe, then nothing else matters. Faith blots out all sin," etc. . . . Therefore it is necessary to know and teach that when holy people . . . somehow fall into a public sin . . . at that point faith and the Spirit have departed. (Kolb and Wengert 2000, 318. 42-319. 45)
Though antinomianism was sometimes associated with distinct Protestant groups such as the Anabaptists in Germany and the so-called Ranters in Britain, Swedenborg does not attack antinomianism as a separate movement within Christianity; he sees it rather as an error into which Christians of any denomination who believe in faith alone may readily fall. It would seem that a full survey of antinomianism in the history of Christianity has yet to be written, though its influence in some periods and places has been discussed. For a brief overview of the contentions over antinomianism in Luther's time, see Wengert 1996, 51-53, which contains further resources on the subject in that era. For reaction to specifically Lutheran antinomianism in later times, see Mann 2003. On antinomianism in England in the 1600s, see Huehns 1951 and Como 2004. [SS]
121. Not translated.
121. Faith separate from love or charity is like the light of winter, in which all things on the earth are torpid, and nothing belonging to harvest, to fruits and blossoms, is produced; but faith [conjoined] with love or charity is like the light of spring and summer, in which all things blossom and are produced, Arcana Coelestia 2231, 3146, 3412, 3413. The wintry light which is that of faith separated from charity is changed into thick darkness when light from heaven flows in; and those who are in that faith then come into blindness and stupidity, Arcana Coelestia 3412, 3413. Those who separate faith from charity, in doctrine and life, are in darkness, and consequently in ignorance of truth, and in falsities, for these are darkness, Arcana Coelestia 9186. They cast themselves into falsities, and from them into evils, Arcana Coelestia 3325, 8094. The errors and falsities into which they cast themselves, Arcana Coelestia 1108, 4721, 4730, 4776, 4783, 4925, 7779, 8313, 8765, 9224. The Word for them is closed up, Arcana Coelestia 3773, 4783, 8780. They do not see, and do not attend to, all those things which the Lord so often spake concerning love and charity, and concerning their fruits, that is, goods in act, concerning which, Arcana Coelestia 1017, 3416. Neither do they know what good is, nor consequently what heavenly love is, nor what charity is, Arcana Coelestia 2417, 3603, 4136, 9995.
Faith separate from charity is no faith, Arcana Coelestia 654, 724, 1162, 1176, 2049, 2116, 2343, 2349, 3419, 3849, 3868, 6348, 7039, 7342, 9783. Such a faith perishes in the other life, Arcana Coelestia 2228, 5820. When faith alone is accepted as a principle, truths are contaminated by the falsity of the principle, Arcana Coelestia 2435. Such persons also do not suffer themselves to be persuaded, because it is against their principle, Arcana Coelestia 2385. Doctrinals concerning faith alone destroy charity, Arcana Coelestia 6353, 8094. Those who separate faith from charity were represented by Cain, Ham, Reuben, by the first-born of the Egyptians, and the Philistines, Arcana Coelestia 3325, 7097, 7317, 8093. Those who make faith alone saving, excuse an evil life, and those who lead an evil life have no faith, because they have no charity, Arcana Coelestia 3865, 7766, 7778, 7790, 7950, 8094. They are inwardly in the falsities of their evil, although they are not aware of it, Arcana Coelestia 7790, 7950. Wherefore good cannot be conjoined to them, Arcana Coelestia 8981, 8983. In the other life they are opposed to good, and opposed to those who are in good, Arcana Coelestia 7097, 7127, 7317, 7502, 7545, 8096, 8313. The simple in heart and yet wise, know what the good of life is, and thus what charity is, but not what a separated faith is, Arcana Coelestia 4741, 4754.
All things of the Church have relation to good and truth, and consequently to charity and faith, Arcana Coelestia 7752-7754. The Church is not with a man until truths are implanted in his life, and thus have become the good of charity, Arcana Coelestia 3310. Charity constitutes the Church, and not faith separated from charity, Arcana Coelestia 809, 916, 1798, 1799, 1834, 1844. The Internal of the Church is charity, Arcana Coelestia 1799, 7755. Wherefore there is no Church where there is no charity, Arcana Coelestia 4766 Arcana Coelestia 4766[1-4], 5826. The Church would be one, if all were looked upon from charity, although men might differ as to the doctrinals of faith and the rituals of worship, Arcana Coelestia 1285, 1316, 1798, 1799, 1834, 1844, 2385, 2982, 3267, 3451. How much good there would be in the Church if charity were regarded in the first place, and faith in the second, Arcana Coelestia 6269, 6272. Every Church begins from charity, but in process of time turns aside to faith, and at length to faith alone, Arcana Coelestia 1834, 1835, 2231, 4683, 8094. At the last time of the Church there is no faith, because there is no charity, Arcana Coelestia 1843. The worship of the Lord consists in a life of charity, Arcana Coelestia 8254, 8256. The quality of worship is according to the quality of charity, Arcana Coelestia 2190. The men of the external Church have an Internal, if they are in charity, Arcana Coelestia 1100, 1102, 1151, 1153. The doctrine in the Ancient Churches was the doctrine of life, which is the doctrine of charity, and not the doctrine of a separated faith, Arcana Coelestia 2385, 2417, 3419, 3420, 4844, 6628, 7259-7262.
The Lord inseminates and implants truth in the good of charity when He regenerates a man, Arcana Coelestia 2063, 2189, 3310. Otherwise the seed, which is the truth of faith, cannot take root, Arcana Coelestia 880. Goods and truths then increase, according to the quality and quantity of the charity received, Arcana Coelestia 1016. The light of a regenerate person is not from faith, but from charity through faith, Arcana Coelestia 854. When a man is being regenerated, the truths of faith enter with the delight of affection, because he loves to do them; and they are reproduced with the same affection, because the two cohere, Arcana Coelestia 2487, 3040, 3066, 3074, 3336, 4018, 5893.
Those who live in love to the Lord, and in charity towards the neighbour, lose nothing to eternity, because they are, conjoined to the Lord; but it is otherwise with those who are in a separated faith, Arcana Coelestia 7506, 7507. A man remains such as is his life of charity, not such as his separated faith is, Arcana Coelestia 8256. All the states of delight of those who have lived in charity, return in the other life, and increase immensely, Arcana Coelestia 823. Heavenly blessedness flows from the Lord into charity, because into the very life of a man; but not into faith without charity, Arcana Coelestia 2363. All are regarded in heaven from charity, and no one is regarded from a separated faith, Arcana Coelestia 1258, 1394. All in the heavens are also associated according to their loves, Arcana Coelestia 7085. No one is admitted into heaven by thinking good, but by willing it, Arcana Coelestia 2401, 3459. Unless doing good is conjoined with willing good and thinking good, there is no salvation; nor is there any conjunction of the internal man with the external, Arcana Coelestia 3987. In the other life none receive the Lord and faith in Him, except those who are in charity, Arcana Coelestia 2343.
Good is in a perpetual desire and effort therefrom of conjoining itself with truths, and consequently of conjoining charity with faith, Arcana Coelestia 9206, 9207, 9495. The good of charity acknowledges its own truth of faith, and the truth of faith, its own good of charity, Arcana Coelestia 2429, 3101, 3102, 3161, 3179, 3180, 4358, 5807, 5835, 9637. Hence there is a conjunction of the truth of faith and the good of charity, concerning which see Arcana Coelestia 3834, 4096, 4097, 4301, 4345, 4353, 4364, 4368, 5365, 7623, 7627, 7752, 7762, 8530, 9258, 10555. Their conjunction is like a marriage, Arcana Coelestia 1904, 2173, 2508. The law of marriage is for two to become one according to the Word of the Lord, Arcana Coelestia 10130, 10168, 10169. Consequently also faith and charity, Arcana Coelestia 1904, 2173, 2508. Wherefore faith which is faith, as to its essence is charity, Arcana Coelestia 2228, 2839, 3180, 9783. As good is the Esse of a thing, and truth the Existere from it, so also charity is the Esse of the Church, and faith the Existere from it, Arcana Coelestia 3049, 3180, 4574, 5002, 9154. The truth of faith lives from the good of charity; consequently, a life according to the truths of faith is charity, Arcana Coelestia 1589, 1947, 2572, 4070, 4096, 4097, 4736, 4757, 4884, 5147, 5928, 9154, 9667, 9841, 10729. There can be no faith except in charity, and if faith is not in charity, there is no good in it, Arcana Coelestia 2261, 4368. Faith with a man is not living, when he only knows and thinks the things belonging to faith; but when he wills them and from willing does them, Arcana Coelestia 9224.
There is no salvation by faith, but by a life according to the truths of faith, which life is charity, Arcana Coelestia 379, 389, 2228, 4663, 4721. Those are saved who from the doctrine of the Church think that faith alone saves, if they do what is just for the sake of justice, and what is good for the sake of good; for thus they are still in charity, Arcana Coelestia 2442, 3242, 3459, 3463, 7506, 7507. If a mere faith of the thought would save, all would be saved, Arcana Coelestia 2228, 10659. Charity constitutes heaven with a man, and not faith apart from it, Arcana Coelestia 3513, 3584, 3815, 9832, 10714, 10715, 10721, 10724. In heaven all are regarded from charity, and not from faith, Arcana Coelestia 1258, 1394, 2401, 4802. The Lord's conjunction with a man is not by faith, but by a life according to the truths belonging to faith, Arcana Coelestia 9380, 10143, 10153, 10310, 10578, 10645, 10648. The Lord is the tree of life, the goods of charity are the fruits, and faith the leaves, Arcana Coelestia 3427, 9337. Faith is the lesser luminary, and good the greater, Arcana Coelestia 30-38.
The angels from the Lord's celestial kingdom do not know what faith is, so that they do not even name it; but the angels from the Lord's spiritual kingdom speak of faith, because they reason concerning truths, Arcana Coelestia 202, 203, 337, 2715, 3246, 4448, 9166, 10786. The angels in the Lord's celestial kingdom say only, Yea, yea, or Nay, nay; but the angels of the Lord's spiritual kingdom reason whether a thing is so or not so, when the conversation is concerning the spiritual truths which belong to faith, Arcana Coelestia 2715, 3246, 4448, 9166, 10786; where the Lord's words are explained: "Let your discourse be, Yea, yea, Nay, nay; what is beyond these is from evil" (Matthew 5:37). The celestial angels are of such a quality because they apply the truths of faith immediately to the life, and do not first store them in the memory, as is done by the spiritual angels; for this reason the celestial angels are in the perception of all things belonging to faith, Arcana Coelestia 202, 585, 597, 607, 784, 1121, 1387, 1398, 1442, 1919, 5113, 5897, 6367, 7680, 7877, 8521, 8780, 9915, 9995, 10124.
The trust or confidence, which in an eminent sense is called saving faith, exists only with those who are in good as to life, consequently, with those who are in charity, Arcana Coelestia 2982, 4352, 4683, 4689, 7762, 8240, 9239-9245. Few know what that confidence is, Arcana Coelestia 3868, 4352.
What difference there is between believing those things which are from God, and believing in God, Arcana Coelestia 9239, 9243. It is one thing to know, another to acknowledge, and still another to have faith, Arcana Coelestia 896, 4319, 5664. There are things of faith which are scientific, things of faith which are rational, and things of faith which are spiritual, Arcana Coelestia 2504, 8078. The first thing is the acknowledgment of the Lord, Arcana Coelestia 10083. All which flows in with a man from the Lord is good, Arcana Coelestia 1614, 2016, 2751, 2882, 2883, 2891, 2892, 2904, 6193, 7643, 9128.
There is a persuasive faith, which nevertheless is not faith, Arcana Coelestia 2343, 2682, 2689, 3427, 3865, 8148.
From various chains of reasoning it appears as though faith were prior to charity, but this is a fallacy, Arcana Coelestia 3324. From the mere light of reason it may be known that good, and consequently charity, is in the first place, and truth and consequently faith, in the second, Arcana Coelestia 6273. Good and thus charity, is actually in the first place, that is, is the first thing of the Church; and truth, and thus faith is in the second place, that is, is the second thing of the Church, although it appears otherwise, Arcana Coelestia 3324, 3325, 3330, 3336, 3494, 3539, 3548, 3556, 3570, 3576, 3603, 3701, 3995, 4337, 4601, 4925, 4926, 4928, 4930, 5351, 6256, 6269, 6272, 6273, 8042, 8080, 10110. Among the ancients also they disputed concerning the first, that is, concerning the first-born of the Church, whether it is faith or charity, Arcana Coelestia 367, 2435, 3324.
121. Faith separate from love or charity is like the light of winter, in which all things on earth are torpid, and no harvests, fruits, or flowers, are produced; but faith with love or charity is like the light of spring and summer, in which all things flourish and are produced (n. 2231, 3146, 3412, 3413). The wintry light of faith separate from charity is changed into dense darkness when light from heaven flows in; and they who are in that faith then come into blindness and stupidity (n. 3412, 3413).
They who separate faith from charity, in doctrine and life, are in darkness, thus in ignorance of truth, and in falsities, for these are darkness (n. 9186). They cast themselves into falsities, and into evils thence (n. 3325, 8094). The errors and falsities into which they cast themselves (n. 4721, 4730, 4776, 4783, 4925, 7779, 8313, 8765, 9224). The Word is shut to them (n. 3773, 4783, 8780). They do not see or attend to all those things which the Lord so often spoke concerning love and charity, and concerning their fruits, or goods in act, concerning which (n. 1017, 3416). Neither do they know what good is, nor thus what celestial love is, nor what charity is (n. 2517, 3603, 4136, 9995).
Faith separate from charity is no faith (n. 654, 724, 1162, 1176, 2049, 2116, 2343, 2349, 2417, 3849, 3868, 6348, 7039, 7342, 9783). Such a faith perishes in the other life (n. 2228, 5820). When faith alone is assumed as a principle, truths are contaminated by the falsity of the principle (n. 2335). Such persons do not suffer themselves to be persuaded, because it is against their principle (n. 2385). Doctrinals concerning faith alone destroy charity (n. 6353, 8094). They who separate faith from charity were represented by Cain, by Ham, by Reuben, by the firstborn of the Egyptians, and by the Philistines (n. 3325, 7097, 7317, 8093).
They who make faith alone saving, excuse a life of evil, and they who are in a life of evil have no faith, because they have no charity (n. 3865, 7766, 7778, 7790, 7950, 8094). They are inwardly in the falsities of their own evil, although they do not know it (n. 7790, 7950). Therefore good cannot be conjoined with them (n. 8981, 8983). In the other life they are against good, and against those who are in good (n. 7097, 7127, 7317, 7502, 7545, 8096, 8313). Those who are simple in heart and yet wise, know what the good of life is, thus what charity is, but not what faith separate is (n. 4741, 47 4754).
All things of the church have relation to good and truth, consequently to charity and faith (n. 7752-7754). The church is not with man before truths are implanted in his life, and thus become the good of charity (n. 3310). Charity constitutes the church, and not faith separate from charity (n. 809, 916, 1798, 1799, 1834, 1844). The internal of the church is charity (n. 1799, 7755). Hence there is no church where there is no charity (n. 4766, 5826). The church would be one if all were regarded from charity, although men might differ as to the doctrinals of faith and the rituals of worship (n. 1285[1-3], 1316, 1798, 1799, 1834, 1844, 2385, 2982, 3267, 3451). How much of good would be in the church if charity were regarded in the first place, and faith in the second (n. 6269, 6272). Every church begins from charity, but in process of time turns aside to faith, and at length to faith alone (n. 1834, 1835, 2231, 4683, 8094). There is no faith at the last time of the church, because there is no charity (n. 1843). The worship of the Lord consists in a life of charity (n. 8254, 8256) The quality of the worship is according to the quality of the charity (n. 2190). The men of the external church have an internal if they are in charity (n. 1100, 1102, 1151, 1153). The doctrine of the ancient churches was the doctrine of life, which is the doctrine of charity, and not the doctrine of faith separate (n. 2385, 2417, 3419, 3420, 4844, 6628, 7259-7262).
The Lord inseminates and implants truth in the good of charity when he regenerates man (n. 2063, 2189, 3310). Otherwise the seed, which is the truth of faith, cannot take root (n. 880). Then goods and truths increase, according to the quality and quantity of the charity received (n. 1016). The light of a regenerate person is not from faith, but from charity by faith (n. 854). The truths of faith, when man is regenerated, enter with the delight of affection, because he loves to do them, and they are reproduced with the same affection, because they cohere (n. 2484, 2487, 3040, 3066, 3074, 3336, 4018, 5893).
They who live in love to the Lord, and in charity towards the neighbor, lose nothing to eternity, because they are conjoined to the Lord; but it is otherwise with those who are in separate faith (n. 7506, 7507). Man remains such as is his life of charity, not such as his faith separate (n. 8256). All the states of delight of those who have lived in charity, return in the other life, and are increased immensely (n. 823). Heavenly blessedness flows from the Lord into charity, because into the very life of man; but not into faith without charity (n. 2363). In heaven all are regarded from charity, and none from faith separate (n. 1258, 1394). All are associated in the heavens according to their loves (n. 7085). No one is admitted into heaven by thinking, but by willing good (n. 2401, 3459). Unless doing good is conjoined with willing good and with thinking good, there is no salvation, neither any conjunction of the internal man with the external (n. 3987). The Lord, and faith in Him, are received by no others in the other life, than those who are in charity (n. 2343).
Good is in the perpetual desire and consequent endeavor of conjoining itself with truths, and charity with faith (n. 9206, 9207, 9495). The good of charity acknowledges its own truth of faith, and the truth of faith its own good of charity (n. 2429, 3101, 3102, 3161, 3179, 3180, 4358, 5807, 5835, 9637). Hence there is a conjunction of the truth of faith and the good of charity, concerning which (n. 3834, 4096, 4097, 4301, 4345, 4353, 4364, 4368, 5365, 7623-7627, 7752-7762, 8530, 9258, 10555). Their conjunction is like a marriage (n. 1904, 2173, 2508). The law of marriage is that two be one, according to the Word of the Lord (n. 10130, 1 0168, 10169). So also faith and charity (n. 1094, 2173, 2503). Therefore faith which is faith, is, as to its essence, charity (n. 2228, 2839, 3180, 9783). As good is the esse of a thing, and truth the existere thence, so also is charity the esse of the church, and faith the existere thence (n. 3409, 3180, 4574, 5002, 9145). The truth of faith lives from the good of charity, thus a life according to the truths of faith is charity (n. 1589, 1947, 2571, 4070, 4096, 4097, 4736, 4757, 4884, 5147, 5928, 9154, 9667, 9841, 10729). Faith cannot be given but in charity, and if not in charity, there is not good in faith (n. 2261, 4368). Faith does not live with man when he only knows and thinks the things of faith, but when he wills them, and from will does them (n. 9224).
There is no salvation by faith, but by a life according to the truths of faith, which life is charity (n. 379, 389, 2228, 4663, 4721). They are saved who think from the doctrine of the church that faith alone saves, if they do what is just for the sake of justice, and good for the sake of good, for thus they are still in charity (n. 2442, 3242, 3459, 3463, 7506, 7507). If a mere cogitative faith could save, all would be saved (n. 2361, 10659). Charity constitutes heaven with man, and not faith without it (n. 351 3, 3584, 3815, 9832, 10 714, 10715, 10721, 10724). In heaven all are regarded from charity, and not from faith (n. 1258, 1394, 2361, 4802). The conjunction of the Lord with man is not by faith, but by a life according to the truths of faith (n. 9380, 10143, 10153, 103 10310, 10578, 10645, 10648). The Lord is the tree of life, the goods of charity the fruits, and faith the leaves (n. 3427, 9337). Faith is the "lesser luminary," and good the "larger luminary" (n. 30-38).
The angels of the Lord's celestial kingdom do not know what faith is, so that they do not even name it, but the angels of the Lord's spiritual kingdom speak of faith, because they reason concerning truths (n. 202, 203, 337, 2715, 3246, 4448, 9166, 10786). The angels of the Lord's celestial kingdom say only yea, yea or nay, nay, but the angels of the Lord's spiritual kingdom reason whether it be so or not so, when there is discourse concerning spiritual truths, which are of faith (n. 2715, 3246, 4448, 9166, 10786), where the Lord's words are explained:
Let your discourse be yea, yea, nay, nay; what is beyond these is from evil (Matt. 5:37).
The reason why the celestial angels are such, is, because they admit the truths of faith immediately into their lives, and do not deposit them first in the memory, as the spiritual angels do; and hence the celestial angels are in the perception of all things of faith (n. 202, 5 85, 597, 607, 784 1 121, 1387, 1398, 1442, 1919, 5113, 5897, 6367, 7680, 7877, 8521, 8780, 9936, 9995, 10124).
Trust or confidence, which in an eminent sense is called saving faith, is given with those only who are in good as to life, consequently with those who are in charity (n. 298 2982, 4352, 4683, 4689, 7762, 8240, 9239-9245). Few know what that confidence is (n. 3868, 4352).
What difference there is between believing those things which are from God, and believing in God (n. 9239, 9243). It is one thing to know, another to acknowledge, and another to have faith (n. 896, 4319, 5664). There are scientifics of faith, rationals of faith and spirituals of faith (n. 2504, 80 8078). The first thing is the acknowledgment of the Lord (n. 10083). All that flows in with man from the Lord is good (n. 1614, 2016, 2751, 2882, 2883, 2891, 2892,2904, 6193, 7643, 9128).
There is a persuasive faith, which nevertheless is not faith (n. 2343, 2682, 2689, 3427, 3865, 8148).
It appears from various reasonings as though faith were prior to charity, but this is a fallacy (n. 3324). It may be known from the light of reason, that good, consequently charity, is in the first place, and truth, consequently faith, in the second (n. 3324-6273). Good, or charity, is actually in the first place, or is the first of the church, and truth, or faith, is in the second place, or is the second of the church, although it appears otherwise (n. 3324, 3325, 3330, 3336, 3494, 3539, 3548, 3556, 3570, 3576, 3603, 3701, 3995, 4337, 4601, 4925, 4926, 4928, 4930, 5351, 6256, 6269, 6272, 6273, 8042, 8080, 10110). The ancients disputed concerning the first or primogeniture of the church, whether it be faith or whether it be charity (n. 367[1-2], 2435, 3324).
121. Quod fides separata ab amore seu charitate, sit sicut lux hiemis, in qua omnia telluris torpent, et nihil messis, fructus, et floris producitur; at quod fides cum amore seu charitate sit sicut lux veris et aestatis, in qua omnia florent et producuntur (Arcana Coelestia 2231, 3146, 3412, 3413).
Quod lux hiemalis, quae est fidei separatae a charitate, vertatur in densas tenebras, cum influit lux e caelo; et quod illi qui in ea fide sunt, tunc in caecitatem et stupiditatem veniant (Arcana Coelestia 3412, 3413).
Quod qui fidem a charitate separant doctrina et vita, in tenebris sint, ita in ignorantia veri, et in falsis, nam haec sunt tenebrae (Arcana Coelestia 9186).
Quod se conjiciant in falsa et inde mala (Arcana Coelestia 3325, 8094).
Errores et falsa, in quae se conjiciunt (Arcana Coelestia 4721, 4730, 4776, 4783, 4925, 7779, 8313, 8765, 9224).
Quod Verbum illis sit occlusum (Arcana Coelestia 3773, 4783, 8780).
Quod non videant et attendant ad omnia illa quae Dominus toties locutus est de amore et charitate, deque eorum fructibus seu bonis actu (de quibus, Arcana Coelestia 1017, 3416).
Quod nec sciant quid bonum, ita nec quid caelestis amor, et quid charitas (a. 2507, [2517?], 3603, 4136, 9995).
Quod fides separata a charitate sit nulla fides (Arcana Coelestia 654, 724, 1162, 1176, 2049, 2116, 2340, [2343?], 2349, 2419 (2417, 3419?), 3849, 3868, 6348, 7039, 7842, [7342?], 9782, [9783?],.
Quod talis fides in altera vita pereat (Arcana Coelestia 2228, 5820).
Quum pro principio ponitur sola fides, quod vera contaminentur falso principii (Arcana Coelestia 2433, [2435?],).
Quod nec persuaderi se patiantur, quia contra principium (Arcana Coelestia 2385).
Quod doctrinalia de sola fide destruant charitatem (Arcana Coelestia 6353, 8094).
Quod illi qui fidem separant a charitate, repraesentati sint per Cainum, per Chamum, per Reubenem, per Aegyptiorum primogenitos, et per Philisthaeos (Arcana Coelestia 3325, 7097, 7317, 8093).
Qui solam fidem salvificam faciunt, quod vitam mali excusent; et quod illis qui in vita mali sunt, sit nulla fides quia non charitas (Arcana Coelestia 3865, 7766, 7778, 7790, 7950, 8094).
Quod illi intus in falsis sui mali sint, tametsi hoc non sciunt (Arcana Coelestia 7790, 7950).
Quod ideo illis non possit conjungi bonum (Arcana Coelestia 8981, 8983).
Quod etiam in altera vita sint contra bonum, et contra illos qui in bono sunt (Arcana Coelestia 7097, 7127, 7317, 7502, 7945, [7545?], 8096, 8313).
Quod simplices corde, et usque sapientes, sciant quid bonum vitae, ita quid charitas, et non quid fides separata (Arcana Coelestia 4741, 4754).
Quod omnia ecclesiae se referant ad bonum et verum, ita ad charitatem et fidem (Arcana Coelestia 7752-7754).
Quod non prius ecclesia sit apud hominem quam cum vera implantata sunt vitae, et sic facta bonum charitatis (Arcana Coelestia 3310).
Quod charitas faciat ecclesiam, et non fides separata a charitate (Arcana Coelestia 809, 916, 1798, 1799, 1894, [1834?], 184).
Quod internum ecclesiae sit charitas (Arcana Coelestia 1899, [1799?], 775).
Inde quod non ecclesia sit ubi non charitas (Arcana Coelestia 4766, 5826).
Quod una ecclesia foret si spectarentur omnes ex charitate, tametsi quoad doctrinalia fidei, et quoad cultus ritualia, differrent (Arcana Coelestia 1286, [1285?], 1316, 1798, 1799, 1834, 1844, 2385, 2982, 3267, 3451).
Quantum boni in ecclesia, si charitas spectaretur primo loco, et fides secundo (Arcana Coelestia 6269, 6272).
Quod omnis ecclesia incipiat a charitate, sed quod temporis successu deflectat ad fidem, et tandem ad solam fidem (Arcana Coelestia 1834, 1835, 2231, 4683, 8094).
Quod nulla fides ultimo tempore ecclesiae sit, quia nulla charitas (Arcana Coelestia 1843).
Quod cultus Domini consistat in vita charitatis (Arcana Coelestia 8254, 8256).
Quod quale cultus sit secundum quale charitatis (Arcana Coelestia 2190).
Quod externae ecclesiae homines internum habeant, si sint in charitate (Arcana Coelestia 1100, 1102, 1151, 1153).
Quod doctrina in antiquis ecclesiis fuerit doctrina vitae, quae est doctrina charitatis, et non doctrina fidei separatae (Arcana Coelestia 2385, 2417, 3419, 3420, 4844, 6628, 7259-7262).
Quod Dominus inseminet et implantet verum bono charitatis, cum regenerat hominem (Arcana Coelestia 2663, [2063?], 2189, 3310).
Quod aliter semen, quod est verum fidei, non radicem agere possit (880).
Quod bona et vera dein crescant secundum charitatis receptae quale et quantum (Arcana Coelestia 1016).
Quod lumen regenerati non sit ex fide, sed ex charitate per fidem (Arcana Coelestia 854).
Quod vera fidei, cum regeneratur homo, intrent cum jucundo affectionis, quia amat facere illa, et quod reproducantur cum eadem affectione, qua cohaerent (, 2487, 3040, 3066, 3074, 3336, 4018, 5893).
Quod qui in amore in Dominum, et in charitate erga proximum, vivunt, nihil perdant in aeternum, quia conjuncti Domino; aliter qui in fide separata (Arcana Coelestia 7506, 7507).
Quod homo talis maneat qualis ejus vita charitatis, non qualis ejus fides separata (Arcana Coelestia 8256).
Qui in charitate vixerunt, quod eorum omnes status jucundi redeant in altera vita, ac immensum augeantur (Arcana Coelestia 823).
Quod beatitudo caelestis influat a Domino in charitatem, quia in ipsam vitam hominis, et non in fidem absque charitate (Arcana Coelestia 2363).
Quod in caelo spectentur omnes ex charitate, et nullus ex fide separata (Arcana Coelestia 1258, 1394).
Quod etiam omnes in caelis consocientur secundum amores (Arcana Coelestia 7085).
Quod nemo in caelum admittatur per cogitare, sed per velle bonum (Arcana Coelestia 2401, 3459).
Nisi facere bonum sit conjunctum cum velle bonum et cum cogitare bonum, quod nulla salvatio, nec conjunctio hominis interni cum externo (Arcana Coelestia 3987).
Quod Dominus, et quod fides in Ipsum, non ab aliis recipiatur in altera vita, quam ab illis qui in charitate sunt (Arcana Coelestia 2340, [2343?],).
Quod bonum in perpetuo desiderio et inde conatu sit se conjungendi cum veris, ita charitas cum fide (Arcana Coelestia 9206, 9207, 9495). Quod bonum charitatis agnoscat suum verum fidei, ac verum fidei suum bonum charitatis (Arcana Coelestia 2429, 3101, 3102, 3161, 3179, 3180, 4358, 5407, [5807?], 5835, 9637).
Quod inde conjunctio veri fidei et boni charitatis (de qua, Arcana Coelestia 3834, 4096, 4097, 4301, 4345, 4353, 4364, 4368, 5365, 7623-7627, 7752-7762, 8530, 9258, 10555).
Quod conjunctio illorum sit instar conjugii (Arcana Coelestia 1094 (1904, 2173, 2053, [2508?],.
Quod lex conjugii sit quod duo unum sint, secundum Verbum Domini (Arcana Coelestia 10130, 10168, 10169).
Ita fides et charitas (Arcana Coelestia 1094, 2173, 2503).
Quod ideo fides quae fides quoad essentiam suam sit charitas (Arcana Coelestia 2228, 2839, 3180, 9783).
Quod sicut bonum est esse rei, ac verum existere inde ita 1charitas sit esse ecclesiae, ac fides existere inde (Arcana Coelestia 3049, 3180, 4574, 5002, 9144, [9145?],).
Quod verum fidei vivat ex bono charitatis, ita quod vita secundum vera fidei sit charitas (Arcana Coelestia 1589, 1947, 2579, [2571?], 4070, 4096, 4097, 4736, 4757, 4884, 5147, 5928, 9154, 9667, 9841, 10729).
Quod fides non dari queat nisi in charitate; si non in charitate quod in fide non sit bonum (Arcana Coelestia 2261, 4368).
Quod fides non vivat apud hominem, cum modo scit et cogitat illa quae fidei sunt, sed cum vult illa et ex velle facit illa (Arcana Coelestia 9224).
Quod nulla salvatio sit per fidem, sed per vitam secundum vera fidei, quae vita est charitas (Arcana Coelestia 379, 389, 2228, 4663, 4721).
Quod salventur qui ex doctrina ecclesiae cogitant quod sola fides salvet, si justum faciunt propter justum, et bonum propter bonum, nam sic usque in charitate sunt (Arcana Coelestia 2442, 3242, 3459, 3463, 7506, 7507).
Si solum fides cogitativa salvaret, quod omnes salvarentur (Arcana Coelestia 2364, [2361?], 1065).
Quod charitas faciat caelum apud hominem, et non fides absque illa (Arcana Coelestia 3513, 3584, 3815, 9832, 10714, 10715, 10721, 10724).
Quod spectentur omnes ex charitate in caelo, et non ex fide (Arcana Coelestia 1258, 1394, 2364, [2361?], 480).
Quod conjunctio Domini cum homine non sit per fidem, sed per vitam secundum vera quae fidei sunt (Arcana Coelestia 9380, 10143, 10153, 10310, 10578, 10645, 10648).
Quod Dominus sit arbor vitae, bona charitatis fructus, et fides folia (Arcana Coelestia 3427, 9337).
Quod fides sit "luminare minus," et amor "luminare majus" (Arcana Coelestia 30-38).
Quod angeli ex regno caelesti Domini non sciant quid fides, usque adeo ut ne quidem nominent illam; at quod angeli ex regno spirituali Domini loquantur de fide, quia ratiocinantur de veris (Arcana Coelestia 202, 203, 337, 2215, [2715?], 3246, 4448, 9166, 10786).
Quod angeli in regno caelesti Domini dicant modo, Ita ita, vel Non non; at quod angeli e regno spirituali Domini ratiocinentur num ita sit vel non ita, quando sermo est de veris spiritualibus, quae sunt fidei (Arcana Coelestia 2715, 3246, 4448, 9166, 10786, ubi explicantur Domini verba,
"Esto sermo vester, Ita ita, Non non; quod ultra haec est ex malo est" (Matthaeus 5:37):
Quod angeli caelestes tales sint, est quia vera fidei statim in vitam immittunt, et non sicut angeli spirituales prius in memoriam; et quod angeli caelestes inde in perceptione omnium quae fidei sint (Arcana Coelestia 202, 585, 597, 607, 784, 1121, 1387, 1398, 1442, 1919, 5113, 5897, 6367, 7680, 7877, 8521, 8780, 9935, [9936?], 9995, 10124).
Quod fiducia seu confidentia, quae in eminenti sensu vocatur fides salvans, non detur nisi quam apud illos qui in bono sunt quoad vitam, ita apud illos qui in charitate (Arcana Coelestia 2982, 4352, 4683, 4689, 7762, 8240, 9239-9245).
Quod pauci sciant quid confidentia illa (Arcana Coelestia 3868, 4352).
Quae differentia est inter credere illa quae a Deo, et credere in Deum (Arcana Coelestia 9239, 9243).
Quod aliud sit scire, aliud agnoscere, et aliud fidem habere (Arcana Coelestia 896, 4319, 5664(1/2)).
Quod sint scientifica fidei, rationalia fidei, et spiritualia fidei (Arcana Coelestia 2504, 8076, [8078?],).
Quod primum sit agnitio Domini (Arcana Coelestia 10083).
Quod omne id sit bonum, quod influit a Domino apud hominem (Arcana Coelestia 1614, 2016, 2751, 2882, 2883, 2891, 2892, 2904, 6193, 7643, 9128).
Quod detur fides persuasiva, quae usque non est fides (Arcana Coelestia 2340, [2343?], 2682, 2689, 3417, [3427?], 3865, 8148).
Quod ex variis ratiociniis appareat sicut fides sit prior charitate, sed quod sit fallacia (Arcana Coelestia 3324).
Quod ex solo lumine rationis sciri possit quod bonum sit primo loco, ita charitas, et verum secundo, ita fides (Arcana Coelestia 6273).
Quod bonum, ita charitas, sit actualiter primo loco, seu primum ecclesiae, ac verum, ita fides, secundo loco, seu secundum ecclesiae, tametsi aliter apparet (Arcana Coelestia 3324, 3325, 3330, 3336, 3494, 3589, [3539?], 3548, 3556, 3570, 3576, 3603, 3701, 3995, 4337, 4610, [4601?], 4925, 4926, 4928, 4930, 5351, 6256, 6269, 6272, 6273, 8042, 8080, 10110).
Quod apud antiquos etiam disceptatum fuerit de primo seu primogenito ecclesiae, num sit fides vel num charitas (Arcana Coelestia 367, 2435, 3324).
Footnotes:
1. charitas pro "quod charitas"