DP 279 Evils Are Forgiven To The Extent They Are Removed

Divine Providence # 279 Explaining point 3 from this chapter’s outline. It’s an error of the age to think people can be changed in an instant…
Translated by N. Bruce Rogers for the General Church
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DP 278 Evils Cannot Be Removed Unless They Appear

Divine Providence # 278 Explaining point 2 from this chapter’s outline “Evils cannot be removed unless they appear”
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DP 277(b) Where the Tree Falls, There It Lies

Divine Providence # 277-B “If evil is not removed in the world, therefore, it cannot be removed thereafter” (Numbering is repeated but it’s a new passage)
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DP 277 Every Person Is Impelled By Evil, And must be Led Away From Evil To Be Reformed

Divine Providence # 277 Explaining point 1 from this chapter’s outline.
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DP 274 Some doubt Providence because Christians haven’t known details of life after death (No #266-273)

Divine Providence # 274 (There is no #266-273) “(4) That a doubt may arise against Divine Providence from the fact that Christians have previously not known that a person lives as a person after death, and that this has not been disclosed before”
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DP 265 Why Christians have previously not known what the essence of Christian religion is

Divine Providence # 265 “(3) That a doubt may arise against Divine Providence from the fact that Christians have previously not known that to refrain from evils as sins is the essence of Christian religion”
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DP 264 Some may doubt because Christians haven’t known about the spiritual sense of everything in the Word

Divine Providence # 264 “(2) That a doubt may arise against Divine Providence from the fact that Christians have previously not known of the existence of a spiritual meaning in every particular of the Word, and that this meaning is the reason for its holiness”
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