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PEOPLE OF EVERY RELIGION SAVED.
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Accordingly it has been made known to me by much experience, that persons of every religion are saved, if so be, by a life of charity, they have received remains of good and of apparent truth.

The life of charity consists in man's thinking well of others, desiring their good and perceiving joy in himself at their salvation. Whereas, they have not the life of charity who are not willing that any should be saved but such as believe as they themselves do, and especially if they are indignant that it should be otherwise. This may appear from the single circumstance that more are saved from among the Gentiles than from among Christians; for such of the Gentiles as have thought well of their neighbor and lived in good-will to him, receive the truths of faith in another life better than they who are called Christians, and acknowledge the Lord more gladly than Christians do; for nothing is more delightful and happy to the angels than to instruct those who come from the earth into another life. (A. C. 2284.)

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