God

God is Love Itself, and that Love is revealed in the personage of the Lord Jesus Christ, a Divinely Human God reaching out to all.

Salvation

The Lord’s universal church includes all people who live a good life according to their own religious beliefs. All people can go to heaven as long as they do what they believe is right in the sight of their God.

Freedom

People should be free to find their own spiritual path, and must not be forced to believe anything or to do anything any church teaches against their will. Individual spiritual growth and freedom go hand in hand.

Spiritual Growth

Spiritual rebirth is a process. The path to spiritual life is one of spiritual progress, not spiritual perfection. Faith, and a life according to one's faith, is a dynamic process of change and growth. Individuals who are growing in the Lord continue to grow forever.

Sacred Scripture

The Bible is the Word of God and can be read on many different levels. There is a deeper symbolic meaning to the stories in the Bible which teaches individuals about their own spiritual lives. Swedenborg calls this deeper meaning the internal sense and reveals it in his 35 volumes of text called the “Writings” or the “Heavenly Doctrines”.

Life After Death

Life after death is real, and the details about that life have been explained in the teaching of Emanuel Swedenborg's book Heaven and Hell. All people who die wake up safe in the afterlife. Those who have made their life heavenly in this world find themselves in a heavenly way of life in the next. Those who have chosen to make their life a hell in this world find this reality waiting for them in the next. People freely choose their eternal destiny.

Married Love

The love in marriage is a special gift from the Lord. When spiritual principles are applied not only to one's spiritual growth, but also to the marriage relationship, troubled times can be overcome, and that marriage will grow in friendship, mutual support, and happiness. Genuine marriage does not end with death, but continues to eternity.

Second Coming

The second coming of Christ does not mean the destruction of all of creation and a fierce judgment on humankind. The second coming is taking place right now, in a new understanding of Jesus Christ, as revealed in the teachings of the New Church, and brought to being in our individual and collective lives. This coming of the Lord is the dawn of a new age of genuine Christianity.

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