The gentiles wonder why in the Christian world adultery and fornication are considered by many, in fact by most people, as allowable, although their religion from the Word of either Testament condemns such to hell. But the reason was given that few live in accordance with their religious belief, but they have embraced the doctrine that faith saves, and thus that it is thinking, not living, which saves; and because truth is thus conjoined with evil, as a result of the consequent influx from hell adulteries are loved, and accepted; and they also excuse them. For with them the influx of hell is stronger than the influx of heaven. The sphere of adultery also closes heaven, and when heaven is closed hell is opened; so the origin is from the falsity of their religions. It is different with those who treat religion as being expressed in life and at the same time in doctrine.