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FALSITIES ACCEPTED FOR TRUTHS.
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There are falsities and also truths with those who are in evil, and likewise falsities and truths with those who are in good. The falsities with those who are in evil are the falsities of evil, and the truths with them are truths falsified, which are dead. But the falsities with those who are in good are accepted as truths, for they receive mildness from good, and are applied to good uses; and truths with them are truths of good, which are alive. (A. C. 10,109.)

The false from evil is truly the false; whereas the false not from evil, but from ignorance of the truth, is not really such. Evil is that which is opposite to heaven, but not the false from ignorance. Indeed, if there be anything of innocence in ignorance, then that false is accepted of the Lord as truth; for they who are in such falsity, receive the truth. (A. C. 6784.)

The good of ignorance appertains to all who are principled in the good of charity, and are at the same time in ignorance of truth. This is the case with all within the Church who are principled in the good of charity, and do not know what the truth of faith is, whatever may be the cause of their ignorance, many of whom have holy thoughts about God, and are well disposed towards their neighbor.

The case is the same with all who are out of the Church, and who are called Gentiles, who are in like manner principled in the good of charity. Both these classes, although they are not principled in the truths

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