May 19, 2019

Brief Sketch of the Doctrinals of the New Church

Selection from Conjugial Love ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
The Doctrinal Ideas
of The Church which is meant by
The 'New Jerusalem'
(1) There is one God, in whom is the Divine Trinity, and He is the Lord Jesus Christ.
(2) Saving faith is to believe in Him.
(3) Evils are to be shunned as sins, because they are of the devil and from the devil.
(4) Goods are to be done, because they are of God and from God.
(5) They are to be done by a man as of himself; yet he must believe that they are from the Lord with him and through him.
(from Conjugial Love 82)