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How does the Swedenborgian Church interpret Psalm 110:1 and Mark 15:34?

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This question is about two passages: Psalm 110:1 and Mark 15:34. In Psalm 110:1, King David wrote, according to the KJV : > The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make > thine enemies thy footstool. ...and here according to the American Standard Version : > Jehovah saith unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, Until I make > thine enemies thy footstool. When on earth, Jesus applied this passage to himself in Matthew 22:41-45 (ASV) : > 41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a > question, 42 saying, What think ye of the Christ? whose son is he? > They say unto him, The son of David. 43 He saith unto them, How then > doth David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying, 44 The Lord said unto > my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I put thine enemies > underneath thy feet? 45 If David then calleth him Lord, how is he his > son? The passage in Mark 15:34, on another hand, records Jesus' expression when near death (here according to the KJV ): > And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, > Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, > why hast thou forsaken me? According to the answer to this other question , the Swedenborgian view of the relationship between Jesus and God is that God (i.e. his Father) is his soul within him. To the question about whom Jesus was talking to when praying, the answer states: > Jesus was talking to himself, and specifically, to his own soul, which > was the Father within him. **The questions I would like to ask are:** 1. If God is a component inside Jesus, then how is the command to sit "at God's right hand" to be interpreted? 2. How is the notion of God as a component inside Jesus reconciled with the seeming authority structure in Psalm 110:1 (describing an invitation from a higher authority to a lower authority to sit at his right hand)? 3. How is the notion that God is the soul within Jesus reconciled with Jesus' expression that apparently indicated that God had at that point "abandoned" him?
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Jun 2, 2017, 02:05 AM
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