DP 320 If a person were to believe, as is the truth, that…

Divine Providence #320 Explaining point 4 from this chapter’s outline: “If a person were to believe, as is the truth, that all goodness and truth originate from the Lord, and all evil and falsity from hell, he would not assign goodness to himself and make it deserving of merit, nor assign evil to himself and make himself guilty of it”
Translated by N. Bruce Rogers for the General Church
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DP 319 Everything Affirmed By Both Will and Intellect Remains To Eternity

Divine Providence #319
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DP 318 Falsity Is Easier To Defend Than Truth, And 5 Other Points About Persuasive Thinking

Divine Providence #318
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DP 317 Every persuasion and conviction remains in a person as something his own

Divine Providence #317 Explaining point 3 from this chapter’s outline: “Every persuasion and conviction remains in a person as something his own”
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DP 316 Such a one is not a steward, but a thief (There is no 315)

Divine Providence #316
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DP 312 Man persuades himself that all good and truth originate from himself

Divine Providence #312 Full heading: “A person’s own prudence leads him to persuade himself and affirm within him that all goodness and truth originate from him and in him, and likewise all evil and falsity”
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DP 311 Those who say, “How can anyone be wise or do good of himself?”

Divine Providence #311
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DP 310 One’s Own Prudence Vs. Prudence NOT One’s Own

Divine Providence #310 Explaining point 1 from this chapter’s outline.
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