Saving Faith is to Believe in Him

Selection from Conjugial Love ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

The Doctrinal Ideas
of The Church which is meant by
The 'New Jerusalem'
(pt. 3)

[2] Saving faith is to believe in Him.

     • This is the will of the Father, that all who believe in the Son shall have everlasting life (John vi. 40).
     • God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John iii. 16).
     • He that believeth in the Son hath everlasting life; but he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the anger of God abideth on him (John iii. 36).

(from Conjugial Love 82)

He is The God of Heaven and Earth

Selection from Conjugial Love ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

The Doctrinal Ideas
of The Church which is meant by
The 'New Jerusalem'
(pt. 2)

[1] There is one God, in whom is the Divine Trinity, and that He is the Lord Jesus Christ

Is not God one and indivisible? is there not a Trinity? If God is one and indivisible, is He not one Person? if one Person, is not the Trinity in that Person? That He is the Lord Jesus Christ, I demonstrate by the following:

     • He was conceived of God the Father (Luke 1:34, 35);
     • as to His soul He is God, and hence, as He himself says, that the Father and He are one (John 10:30);
     • He is in the Father and the Father in Him (John 14:10, 11);
     • he that sees Him and knows Him, sees and knows the Father (John 14:7, 9);
     • no one sees and knows the Father save He who is in the bosom of the Father (John 1:18);
     • all things of the Father are His (John 3:35; 16:15);
     • He is the way, the Truth, and the Life, and no man comes to the Father save by Him (John 14:6)
thus by Him because He is in Him
     • according to Paul, that in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Col. 2:9).

Furthermore we are taught that He has power over all flesh (John 17:2). and that He has all power in heaven and on earth (Matt. 28:18).

From these passages it follows that He is the God of heaven and earth.

(from Conjugial Love 82)

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)