@GratefulDisciple Surely there's gotta be a chapter on pneumatology? Paul says a lot of important stuff about the Spirit.

@Zenon Sorry, but that sounds like a baseless speculation that doesn't belong on this site. It could be true. It could be false. No one could say anything definitive about it.

@LeeWoofenden Once again you are insisting with zero evidence what Trinitarians are thinking, despite what they actually say. This site is not an appropriate place for doing that. If you want to assert what other people believe and think, write on your blog. If you want to participate on this site or in this chat room, you need to listen when people tell you your understanding of their beliefs is wrong.

@LeeWoofenden Repetition doesn't make this true. Please stick to explaining Swedenborgism rather than misleading people about what Trinitarianism teaches.

@curiousdannii It has an entry HOLY SPIRIT : 1) The Sources of Paul's Conception of the Holy Spirit (OT, 2nd Temple, Early Christian & Pauline Experience); 2) Pauline Usage of Pneuma (and Pneumatikos), 3) The Identity of the Spirit: God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit (which includes Trinitarian Formulations), 4) The Activity of the Spirit and the Christian's New Life (Children of God, Spirit of Life, Empowering Spirit), 5) The Holy Spirit and Eschatology, 6) The Holy Spirit and the Kingdom of God

Of course it has separate entries for FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT and GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT.

@PeterTurner I really like the EWTN Coming Home Network journeys of faith interviews. Finished listening to the interview with Mallory Smyth who was devoted Catholic until she met a non-denominational Baptist Calvinist in college, loving it, upset at the Catholic church, but then came back and became FOCUS missionary for 5 years. @LukeHill

The interview focuses on what is it that Protestants do good (unsurprisingly: sermons and reaching out during church instead of being able to slip away unnoticed during mass) and how Catholics have a different tradition of being fiery for Jesus (i.e. through sacraments and adoration). She shares her approach to rekindle under-catechized Catholics and those critical of the Church's teaching on sex: sharing her own experience and journeying with them, just like a good evangelical witness :-).

She wrote her experience in Rekindled: How Jesus Called Me Back to the Catholic Church and Set My Heart on Fire published by Ave Maria Press. What's endearing to me is how she could re-purpose language commonly heard more among evangelicals in the framework of Catholic spirituality.

Secondly how she re-purposed evangelical's emphasis on "God love you first" and consequently you do commandments in the Catholic context where on the surface (especially seen by ignorant evangelicals) it seems that Catholics do it backwards: do religion to love God when in fact in Adoration it's obvious that God loves us first.

Thirdly, another evangelical trope about listening to God, she also had Jesus "almost audibly speaking to [her]" after an Adoration service (min 27:00):

> I just prayed "Lord, I love you so much, I would go anywhere for you, I would do anything, but I know that .... I have to be all in and I'm Protestant and I'm going for it OR I'm going Catholic and I'm going for that. What do you want for my life?"

> And it's the most audible I've ever heard the Lord speaks to me in my life, I heard it loud and clear and He said: "Mallory, I have raised you in this church. In many cases, My people do not know Me, so why are you looking for a different mission field?"

Fourthly, how she now sees how the Catholic church is not authoritarian, but a wise guardian (she uses the example of the unpopular Catholic church teaching against contraception and cited 4 warnings from Pope Paul VI which 25 years later became true).

Another CHN episode I just started is Lisa Cooper, a baptized Catholic whose parents were deep into the Word of Faith movement. As I have a friend who is deep into this heresy, this will be very interesting.

@PeterTurner Have you heard of FOCUS? BTW, in the interview there are 2 Chesterton references, one by the host, one by Mallory.

@curiousdannii People here tell me that my beliefs are wrong. I tell them that their beliefs are wrong. Looks about even to me.

@LeeWoofenden Not at all. No one says you're misrepresenting Swedenborgism. We listen to you and learn when our misconceptions of Swedenborg are wrong. You need to do the same for others